Points of Entry is a conversation with artists, curators, and activists from across the globe about who they are, what they do, and how we can collectively (re)imagine the roles of cultural organisations in a rapidly changing world.
Lučka Kajfež Bogataj : “Creativity is how we will survive on our planet.”
In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Lučka Kajfež Bogataj, an esteemed climatologist from Slovenia who’s served on the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They talk about why arts organisations should measure their environmental impact, the importance of setting concrete goals, and the relationship between creativity and survival. This episode was co-commissioned by On the Move and the Motovila Institute, produced with the support of the French Ministry of Culture...
19 Jun 2023
Bochra Triki : “My queerness is about questioning norms and opening new possibilities.”
In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Bochra Triki – a queer activist, feminist curator, and artist based in Tunis. They talk about what it was like for her to live through the Tunisian Revolution, how she feels about going into international spaces as a North African non-binary woman, and how a new generation of activists and artists in Tunisia is mobilising for queer visibility and freedom. This episode was commissioned by On the Move, produced with the support of the French...
3 Nov 2022
Hettie Judah : “Artists often feel they need to hide their parenthood from the art world.”
In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Hettie Judah, a journalist and critic based in London who’s authored a new book: How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and Other Parents). They talk about how discrimination against parenthood in the arts is an international issue, what artists with care-taking responsibilities might need when they travel for their work, and what cultural organisations could do to be more parent-friendly. This episode was commissioned by On the Move, produced...
8 Jul 2021
Ogutu Muraya : “Absence as protest”
In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Ogutu Muraya, a Nairobi-based writer and a theatre maker whose artistic work focuses on orature and the politics of memory. They talk about internal and external mobility, the challenges of maintaining mental wellness during the creative process, epistemicide as an (often) unacknowledged legacy of colonial history, and why he decided to stop participating in the European Union’s “undeniably discriminatory visa system.” This episode was com...
16 Dec 2020
Christophe Meierhans : “Art is not the default way of doing things for me anymore”
In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Brussels-based, participatory theatre maker Christophe Meierhans about money, radical trust, the ideology of individualism in the art world, being freaked out about the future, and why he paused his personal creative practice for more than a year to fully devote himself to the international civil disobedience movement Extinction Rebellion (XR). mentioned in this episode : A Hundred Wars to World Peace (2015)https://www.hiros.be/e...
3 Sept 2020
Françoise Vergès : “The art world thinks of itself as progressive, but there are structural problems"
In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Françoise Vergès - co-founder and president of the Paris-based collective Décoloniser les Arts - about her life at the intersection of art, activism and scholarship. They talk about her formative early years in Réunion and Algeria, the fight against racism and misogyny in the French cultural sector, and the complex politics of (in)visibility. mentioned in this episode : Françoise Vergès on Twitter & Facebookhttps://twitter.co...
2 Jul 2020
Lucy Neal : “Artists are foundational to the systemic change needed in every sphere of our lives”
In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with London International Festival of Theatre co-founder Lucy Neal about the moral and social responsibility of art in a world inalterably changed by the burning of fossil fuels, about what climate justice could mean for internationally-focused arts organisations in wealthy countries, and about why the culture sector should publicly declare that we’re in an ecological emergency. mentioned in this episode : Lucy Neal http://www.lu...
3 Jun 2020
Michelle Millar Fisher : “What would it mean to plant and sow things outside our institutions ?”
In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Michelle Millar Fisher, a Scotland-born design curator and co-founder of the grassroots collective Art + Museum Transparency. They talk about her experience working in the USA, her independent projects on the social histories of design for women, her outspokenness against unjust labor practices in museums, and her perspective on what cultural organisations should be focusing on during a global public health crisis. mentioned in this episod...
7 May 2020
Mallika Taneja : "Taking risks can lead to beautiful things"
In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Mallika Taneja, a theatre maker and independent artist from New Delhi. They talk about how trauma has informed her work, the importance of walking to her artistic practice, the various ways she’s created in and with community, and why she doesn’t consider herself an activist. follow Mallika and her work : https://www.instagram.com/goodgirlfromgoodfamily the Zanana Ensemble viral video : https://www.thequint.com/news/india/hawaon-...
20 Mar 2020
Andy Horwitz : “Don’t wait for money and don’t wait for permission”
In this inaugural “Points of Entry” episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with culturebot.org founder Andy Horwitz about economic shame and labor advocacy in the arts world, the intersection of counterculture and online technology, the patience required to effect change in large institutions and what it’s like to experience parenthood for the first time at the age of 50. mentioned in this episode : Andy Horwitzhttp://www.andyhorwitz.com “The Future, Revisited: ‘The Mother o...
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