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(inactive account; find me on Instagram @empirelinespodcast) producer, curator, writer, researcher art ✏culture

Joined May 2020
*EMPIRE LINES - NEW EPISODE* Artist Zineb Sedira records cultural and postcolonial connections between Algeria, France, Italy, and the UK from the 1960s, featuring radical films from her personal archive, in Dreams Have No Titles (2022). listen+follow 🔊 pod.link/1533637675/episode/…
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kind words from Cornwall, to @crystalbennes in Edinburgh, for Professor Paul Gilroy's episode on The Black Atlantic. listen on all podcast platforms🔊 pod.link/1533637675/episode/… find more on Instagram, @empirelinespodcast 📷instagram.com/p/C37nMfRoZsC/… start ↓ teapaw.org/jelsofron/status/17654…
🗣️Improvising is like a sailing voyage. Professor Paul Gilroy talks about the role of folk music in his work, why people 'crushed by the attention economy' cannot listen carefully, and finding hope in the face of contemporary environmental crises. on the EMPIRE LINES podcast ↓
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from his 'solo' exhibition at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, Pio details why he shows his work with others like the Filipino American artist and art historian Carlos Villa, plus the role of family in his practice, delving into the archives, collections, and textiles of Pacita Abad ↓
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‘The process of the work includes the physicality of walking.’ see Diorama Map Dundee (2023), Sohei Nishino’s commission for Photo City at the V&A, then hear more on historicity Tokyo 🔈pod.link/1640089187/episode/… @soheinishino @VADundee @AshmoleanMuseum #podcast #audiowalkingtours
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*EMPIRE LINES - NEW EPISODE* Artist and archivist Pio Abad draws out lines between Oxford, the Americas, and the Philippines, reconstructing networks of trafficking, tattooing, and 20th century dictatorships via Giolo’s Lament (2023). listen+follow🔊pod.link/1533637675/episode/…
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how have artists in the Arctic region subverted ‘ethnographic’ representations, performing with traditional objects, and resisting their historic othering with contemporary, conceptual photography? @kw_berlin’s Sofie Krogh Christensen uncovers The Three Graces, Pia Arke (1993)❄️
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tracing Yugoslav/diaspora artists in the UK often means scanning archives, bookshelves, and captions for names ending 'ic'. on a too-brief research trip to Ireland - for IMMA's superb Self-Determination exhibition - I was surprised to find mine, at The Library Project in Dublin!
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it’s also the final day to see Michelle Williams Gamaker’s Our Mountains Are Painted On Glass at DCA, before it travels to @theBluecoat. go behind-the-scenes - and find Candice Lin, a fellow Gasworks artist, in Scotland - on the EMPIRE LINES Instagram 📷 instagram.com/stories/empire…
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*EMPIRE LINES - NEW EPISODE* Curators Ros Carter and Sofie Krogh Christensen chart Pia Arke’s photo-activism across the Arctic region, Indigenous and Inuit experiences in the 20th century, and reconstruct the artist’s camera obscura. listen+follow🔊pod.link/1533637675/episode/…
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recorded at Griselda's recent HackelBury Fine Art exhibition, this episode looks at Coral Woodbury's Revised Edition, now on view. she layers Janson's History of Art with the women omitted from the book's first printings - like Lubaina Himid (@1lubaina), of the last EMPIRE LINES.
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