Volcanoes and Utopias: an audio performance by artists Kate Liston and Tess Denman-Cleaver Kate Liston and Tess Denman-Cleaver's podcast is a poetic performance on volcanoes, parliamentary architecture, Norse mythology, Quaker design, pease pudding, the current lack of gossip, and the function of utopias. Volcanoes and Utopias is a collection of work-in-progress extracts from Town Hall Meeting of the Air, which will be presented at Baltic 39 in January 2021. Town Hall Meeting of the Air...

In this BALTIC Podcast Dr Paolo Fortis, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Durham University, explores Abel Rodriguez’ exhibition. Paolo Fortis is a social anthropologist with research interests in the relations between art, ontology, notions of the person and alterity among Central and South American indigenous peoples. You can view the exhibition at BALTIC, online here: http://balticplus.uk/abel-rodriguez-e785/ You can read a transcript of the podcast here:...

In this BALTIC Podcast exploring BALTIC exhibitions, Alessandro Boussalem explores Imran Perretta's The Destructors. Alessandro Boussalem is a human geographer. His research is on the intersections of gender, sexualities, and race/ethnicities in contemporary Europe. He is a PhD candidate at Newcastle University with a project on the experiences of LGBTQ people from a Muslim background living in Brussels, Belgium. You can view The Destructors online here while BALTIC is currently closed:...

In this BALTIC Podcast exploring BALTIC exhibitions and research, art historian Victoria Horne examines Judy Chicago, specifically Femininity, Art and the Home. Horne discusses the role of labour within the home, which was often at the fore of questioning within second-wave feminism and the Women's Art Movement. Horne also highlights the amplified and indistinct roles between domestic and paid labour that many may find present in their homes currently, while including reference to historical...

Animalesque with Daisy Hildyard Wednesday 1 April 2020 Across three 5-minute sessions, writer Daisy Hildyard offers readings from selected texts in response to the exhibition Animalesque / Art Across Species and Beings at BALTIC. These extracts resonate with the exhibition by inviting us to re-think human's position in the world, their relationship to the natural world and to the various complex ecologies that bond beings together. Images here:...

Animalesque with Daisy Hildyard Wednesday 1 April 2020 Across three 5-minute sessions, writer Daisy Hildyard offers readings from selected texts in response to the exhibition Animalesque / Art Across Species and Beings at BALTIC. These extracts resonate with the exhibition by inviting us to re-think human's position in the world, their relationship to the natural world and to the various complex ecologies that bond beings together. Images here:...

Animalesque with Daisy Hildyard Wednesday 1 April 2020 Across three 5-minute sessions, writer Daisy Hildyard offers readings from selected texts in response to the exhibition Animalesque / Art Across Species and Beings at BALTIC. These extracts resonate with the exhibition by inviting us to re-think human's position in the world, their relationship to the natural world and to the various complex ecologies that bond beings together. Images here:...

Alessandro Vincentelli in conversation with Filipa Ramos, curator of the exhibition Animalesque: Art Across Species and Beings. 14 November 2019. The podcast begins and ends with recordings made by Chris Watson from his 1998 work Outside the Circle of Fire, which he revisited for this exhibition. First we hear a Hippopotamus emerging from the River Mara; Masai Mara, Kenya and to end the podcast we hear Mozambique nightjar; banks of the River Zambezi, Zimbabwe. Courtesy the artist.