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  • 2: Jasleen Kaur - Gut Feelings Meri Jaan

    2: Jasleen Kaur - Gut Feelings Meri Jaan
    Nov 6 2021
    In this, the second episode of The Up Podcast, join us in the town of Rochdale in Greater Manchester as our host Hettie Judah visits Jasleen Kaur’s Gut Feeling Meri Jaan exhibition, on the day of its launch. A fascinating series of artworks created by Kaur, through a collaboration with a group of local women and those who identify as gender non-conforming, it is presented by Touchstones Rochdale. 

    Gut Feelings Meri Jaan responds to the local archives held at Touchstones by fore-grounding the voices of migrant communities within Rochdale's social history, voices which have historically been marginalised and misrepresented. This episode features Jasleen Kaur in conversation with Hettie, as well as collaborator and cinematographer Alina Akbar, and Touchstone's Lisa Allen.
    The UP Podcast is presented by Hettie Judah and generously supported by Arts Council England. It was audio produced and directed by Arsalan 
    Mohammad and creatively produced by UP Projects.

    About Hettie Judah

    Hettie Judah is senior art critic on the British daily paper The I, and contributor to Frieze, The Guardian, Vogue, The New York Times, Art Quarterly, Numéro Art and other publications with 'art' in the title. Her recent books include Art London (ACC Art Books, 2019), Lives of the Artists: Frida Kahlo (Laurence King, 2020) and Caroline Walker: Janet (2020.) Her forthcoming book on stone Lapidarium will be published next year by John Murray. A campaigner for the rights of artist parents, she is currently working on a book on art and motherhood.


    About Jasleen Kaur

    Jasleen Kaur (b.1986, Glasgow, Scotland) is an artist based in London. Her work is an ongoing exploration into the malleability of culture and the layering of social histories within the material and immaterial things that surround us. Her practice examines diasporic identity and hierarchies of history, both colonial and personal. She works with sculpture, video and writing. Recent and upcoming commissions include Wellcome Collection, UP Projects, Glasgow Women’s Library, Market Gallery, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Eastside Projects and Hollybush Gardens. Her work is part of the permanent collection of Touchstones Rochdale, Royal College of Art and Crafts Council.

    Presented by Hettie Judah 

    Produced by Moira Lascelles and Lili-Maxx Hager at UP Projects www.upprojects.com
    Audio production and editing by Arsalan Mohammad

    The UP Podcast is generously supported by the Arts Council England

    Podcast graphics by Studio Workshop http://www.wrkshp.de/

    With thanks to everyone at Touchstones
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    33 min
  • 1: Shezad Dawood - The Terrarium

    1: Shezad Dawood - The Terrarium
    Oct 14 2021
    In this, the very first episode of The UP Podcast, author and critic Hettie Judah visits a dystopian underwater landscape set 300 years in a possible future, The Terrarium, an immersive virtual-reality art piece by the artist Shezad Dawood, commissioned by UP Projects and on show as part of the Folkestone Triennale until 2 November 2021.
    In this episode, we join Hettie on a visit to Shezad’s London studio, to experience The Terrarium for herself and ask the artist about the key themes that inspired the work and how he created it. We also meet a couple of Shezad’s collaborators on The Terrarium - Dr Louise Firth, from Plymouth University, a marine ecologist who specialises in the relationship between humans and coastal ecosystems and the award-winning composer Graham Fitkin,  whose ambient soundscapes shift and mutate throughout the project and indeed, this episode of the podcast. 
    The Terrarium is part of a wider, ongoing series by Dawood, called Leviathan, a major five-year multifaceted project that examines the relationships between what Shezad calls "three of the most urgent issues of our time: climate change, migration and mental health."  This podcast will immerse you in its strange, surreal and beautifully-imagined world.
    Presented by Hettie Judah 

    Produced by Moira Lascelles and Lili-Maxx Hager at UP Projects www.upprojects.com
    Shezad Dawood’s work can be seen at www.leviathan-cycle.com
    Audio production and editing by Arsalan Mohammad

    The UP Podcast is generously supported by the Arts Council England

    Podcast graphics by Studio Workshop http://www.wrkshp.de/

    With thanks to Shezad Dawood, Inês Geraldes Cardoso, Dr Louise Firth and Graham Fitkin
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    33 min