Beth Bate (Dundee Contemporary Arts), Sepake Angiama (Iniva), and Nigel Prince (Artes Mundi) join Kirsteen MacDonald for a roundtable discussion sharing strategies for navigating the decentralisation project.

These guests represent three UK arts organisations that were founded or re-developed around the new millennium with core missions to serve historically under-resourced and overlooked communities. Whilst the ideas, assets and personnel that comprise our public infrastructure are tested anew by austerity thinking, this discussion offers distinct and overlapping models for cultivating an outward-looking cultural infrastructure.

Art after Devolution is hosted by Marcus Jack, a curator and writer based between Exeter and Glasgow. His research looks for counternarratives in visual culture through analyses of infrastructure, statehood and socio-economics, with particular emphasis on artists’ film. He lectures in Contemporary Art and Curation at the University of Exeter. Follow him on socials @marcusfjack or online at MarcusJack.com

TIMESTAMPS

2:11 – Introductions

5:42 – Consideration of state funding across the UK

24:34 – Cultural value and the wider arts ecology

Read the episode transcript here: https://britishartnetwork.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Transcript-Art-after-Devolution-Episode-Three.pdf

GUEST INFORMATION:

Sepake Angiama – @iniva_arts

Beth Bate – @dcadundee

Kirsteen Macdonald

Nigel Prince – @ArtesMundi

The image in our graphic is Balaclava Bust by Ursula Burke, used with her kind permission.

Music is Too Many To Count by Comfort from their 2023 album ‘What’s Bad Enough?’ Check them out wherever you listen to music. Thanks to Natalie McGhee for the permission to include it.

This podcast has been audio produced by Clare Lynch

Art after Devolution is a British Art Network (BAN) podcast supported by the Paul Mellon Centre and Tate. Membership of the British Art Network is free and open to anyone with an active engagement in curating, researching and interpreting British art. To join, just visit britishartnetwork.org.uk

BAN is supported financially by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Tate, with additional public funding provided by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

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Abigail Gilmore traces the ways in which macro-level shifts in politics have altered the terrain for culture at a local level by tracing the arc of devolution since the late 1990s.

Art after Devolution is hosted by Marcus Jack, a curator and writer based between Exeter and Glasgow. His research looks for counternarratives in visual culture through analyses of infrastructure, statehood and socio-economics, with particular emphasis on artists’ film. He lectures in Contemporary Art and Curation at the University of Exeter. Follow him on socials @marcusfjack or online at MarcusJack.com

TIMESTAMPS:

1:39 – Interview with Abigail Gilmore

4:48 – Current state of devolution and cultural governance

13:08 – Historical context of regionalisation

24:33 – Data collection and evidence in cultural policy

32:00 – Future directions

Read the episode transcript here: https://britishartnetwork.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Transcript-Art-after-Devolution-Episode-Two.pdf

GUEST INFORMATION:

Abigail Gilmore – @abi_gilmore

The image in our graphic is Balaclava Bust by Ursula Burke, used with her kind permission.

Music is Too Many To Count by Comfort from their 2023 album ‘What’s Bad Enough?’ Check them out wherever you listen to music. Thanks to Natalie McGhee for the permission to include it.

This podcast has been audio produced by Clare Lynch

Art after Devolution is a British Art Network (BAN) podcast supported by the Paul Mellon Centre and Tate. Membership of the British Art Network is free and open to anyone with an active engagement in curating, researching and interpreting British art. To join, just visit britishartnetwork.org.uk

BAN is supported financially by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Tate, with additional public funding provided by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Maria Fusco, Ursula Burke, and Michelle Hannah join Marcus Jack to explore how the complex and often violent societies produced by devolution have functioned as both a subject and working context for artists.

Art after Devolution is hosted by Marcus Jack, a curator and writer based between Exeter and Glasgow. His research looks for counternarratives in visual culture through analyses of infrastructure, statehood and socio-economics, with particular emphasis on artists’ film. He lectures in Contemporary Art and Curation at the University of Exeter. Follow him on socials @marcusfjack or online at MarcusJack.com

TIMESTAMPS

2:42 – Maria Fusco, reading an extract from Who Does Not Envy With Us Is Against Us

6:59 – Interview with Ursula Burke

34:52 – Michelle Hannah, performance of Burnout

WORKS OF ART MENTIONED:

15:50 – Ursula Burke, Balaclava Bust, 2014

18:18 – Ursula Burke, Embroidery Frieze - The Politicians, 2016

18:46 – Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784

19:08 – The Bayeux Tapestry, 11th century

19:14 – Parthenon Frieze, designed by Phidias, c.447-32 BC

30:50 – Ursula Burke, Truncheon, 2019

Read the episode transcript here: britishartnetwork.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Transcript-Art-After-Devolution-Episode-One.pdf

GUEST INFORMATION:

Maria Fusco – MariaFusco.net / @fuscowriting

Ursula Burke – UrsulaBurke.com / @burke.ursula

Michelle Hannah – MichelleHannah.net / @m_h_a_n_n_a_h

The image in our graphic is Balaclava Bust by Ursula Burke, used with her kind permission.

Music is Too Many To Count by Comfort from their 2023 album ‘What’s Bad Enough?’ You can hear more of their work wherever you listen to music. Thanks to Natalie McGhee for the permission to include it.

This podcast has been audio produced by Clare Lynch – linktr.ee/clarelynchred

Art after Devolution is a British Art Network (BAN) podcast supported by the Paul Mellon Centre and Tate. Membership of the British Art Network is free and open to anyone with an active engagement in curating, researching and interpreting British art. To join, just visit britishartnetwork.org.uk

BAN is supported financially by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Tate, with additional public funding provided by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.