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ART FICTIONS

ART FICTIONS

By: Jillian Knipe
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ART FICTIONS is a monthly, contemporary art meets literature programme, created by artist Jillian Knipe. Each guest artist selects a piece of fiction, which we both explore, then use as a lens through which to view their artwork. We delve into the book‘s themes, context and characters, which opens up and steers a rich conversation about the artist‘s practice. The podcast bounces back and forth between art and text, all the while focussing on the ideas which govern both. It is a way of talking alongside art, rather than directly at it, getting close and personal with the origins of artistic ideas. Hosting is shared amongst a small group of artists, critics and curators, and artists are selected based on each host's area of specific interest.

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Episodes
  • Catch Up with ALICE BROWNE
    39 mins
  • Reconfigured Memories and Watery Connections (ALINE MOTTA)
    Oct 22 2025

    Guest artist ALINE MOTTA

    joins PELUMI ODUBANJO to discuss her work via 'Water is a Time Machine' by the artist herself. Originally published in Brazilian Portuguese by Fósforo Editora and Luna Parque Edições in 2022, the text reconfigures memories by using a non-linear perception of time and is part of a multi-layered project including video and performance. It includes personal documents that belong to the artist's mother, her calendars and journals from the 1970s and an account of her death in 2011, which is the central piece and backbone of the work.

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    Aline and Pelumi discuss the book's stories around the artist's family members and their lives in Rio de Janeiro at the turn of the 20th century, a time of political turmoil which immediately followed the abolition of slavery. Their conversation encompasses floating, bombs, bridges, tuberculosis, mistranslation, iconography, submerging, chemotherapy, prayer, breathing, stoicism, Catholicism, time machines, interracial marriage, film school, personal archives, double images, direct communication, permanent connections, exchanging cells, changing organs, fraught connections, Congolese traditions, disciplinarian mothers, avoiding sugarcoating, intentional disorientation, umbilical cords, oral histories, heavy heartedness, Yoruba influences, colonial erasure, speculative studies, layers of time, writing in fragments, metaphors of motherhood, constructing new narratives, sleeping in hammocks, foundations of thought, clothes being archives, abolition of slavery, lineage as language, contradictions in relationships, the beginning of the Republic, the way histories are told in (black) families, trying to find reasons for a person's death, the magic of making someone breath under water, using words to make maps, connecting personal history with collective history, envisioning new pasts to free us from old narratives and manifest new futures, plus a recipe to treat bruises.

    ALINE MOTTA

    alinemotta.com

    @1alinemotta

    'A água é uma máquina do tempo' / 'Water is a time machine'

    '(Outros) Fundamentos' / '(Other) Foundations'

    'Pontes sobre Abismos' / 'Bridges over the Abyss'

    INSTITUTIONS

    Bienal de São Paulo 2023 'Choreographies of the Impossible'

    Buenos Aires, Palermo Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Centre Pompidou, France

    MALBA Museo de Arte Lanoamericano de Buenos Aires / Latin American Art Museum of Rietberg Museum, Zurich

    ARTISTS + FILM + WRITERS

    'BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions' 2025

    John Akomfrah 'Vertigo Sea' 2015

    Kathleen Collins 'Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?' 2016

    Kahlil Joseph

    'Losing Ground' 1982 Machado de Assis 'Father Against Mother' 1906

    Professor Stuart Hall (1932-2014)

    Rosana Paulino

    Saidiya Hartman 'Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route' 2006

    'The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy' 1980

    PLACES

    Angola

    Australia

    Bahia

    Bahia

    Brazil

    Burma

    Cachoeira

    Congo

    Germany

    Ghana

    Guanabara Bay

    Myanmar

    Niterói

    Nigeria

    Portugal

    Rio de Janeiro

    São Paulo

    Sierra Leone

    Torres Strait Islands

    TERMS + CULTURAL GROUPS

    ase/ashe

    Bantu languages

    capoeira martial art movement

    Kimbundu/Mbundu language

    maracatu dance

    ori

    orishas

    oyinbo/oyibo

    samba dance

    Yoruba

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Wild's Eye and Archiving Obsessions (AYO AKINGBADE)
    Sep 1 2025

    Guest artist AYO AKINGBADE

    joins ELIZABETH FULLERTON to discuss her work via 'In the Eye of the Wild' by Nastassja Martin. Published in 2021, the story follows the aftermath of a French anthropologist's gruesome attack by a bear, while she is living with the Evan people on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

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    Ayo and Elizabeth's conversation encompasses healing, hostility, joy, architecture, nepotism, romance, underdogs, irony, phobias, animism, neglect, transformation, swimming, analogue, memoir, disfigurement, hopefulness, multifaceted, strong women, self-centring, turning points, arthouse niche, tarot reading, anthropological study, defence mechanisms, shared fearlessness, spiritual guides, questioning society's expectations, power in names, thinking the worse, colonisation of microbes, French new wave and the rewards of positive thinking.

    AYO AKINGBADE

    ayoakingbade.com

    'Keep Looking' 2024, 14 minute film

    'Head of Idoani Girl' 2024, giclee print

    'Show Me the World Mister' 2023, publication

    'Faluyi' 2022, 14 minute film

    'The Fist' 2022, 24 minute film

    'Jitterbug' 2022, 24 minute film

    'Dear Babylon' 2019, 21 minute film

    'Tower XYZ' 2017 3 minute film

    BOOKS WRITERS

    Derek Walcott 'The First'

    Franz Kafka 'The Trial'

    Fred Moten

    FILM ARTISTS

    Agnès Varda

    Alfred Hitchcock

    Alice Rohrwacher 'La Chimera'

    Chantal Akerman 'Family Business'

    Chris Marker 'Sans Soleil'

    David Lynch

    Harun Farocki 'Workers Leaving the Factory' 1995

    Mark Dion

    Jacques Rivette

    Jean-Luc Godard

    Jim Jarmusch

    Julian Schnabel 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'

    Lumière Brothers 'Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon' 1895

    Roni Horn

    Stanley Kubrick 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'

    Steve McQueen 'Caribs' Leap / Western Deep' 2002

    Steven Spielberg

    Quentin Tarantino 'Inglorious Bastards'

    Werner Herzog 'Grizzly Man'

    ARCHITECTURE

    Dora Boatemah

    Le Corbusier

    ART INSTITUTIONS

    Artangel London

    Chisenhale Gallery

    Cinereach

    Institute of Contemporary Art

    John Hansard Gallery

    London Film Festival

    London LCC

    Spike Island

    The Baltic Gateshead

    The Whitworth

    PERFORMERS

    Ebenezer Obey 'The Only Condition to Save Nigeria'

    Josh O'Connor

    Kate Bush

    Okwui Okpokwasili

    Sade Adu

    ART FICTIONS MUSIC Griffin Knipe

    ART FICTIONS LOGO Joanna Quinn

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    1 hr and 17 mins
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