60 acast.com Shade https://www.shadepodcast.co.uk/episode-1/ en Lou Mensah Lou Mensah Conversations with art visionaries Shade Media was founded in 2019 by photographer Lou Mensah to create a space for Black artists and creative practitioners to talk about their work in their own way. This critically acclaimed podcast features interviews with artists, critics, writers and visionaries including John Akomfrah, Amy Sherald, Lauren Michele Jackson and Ekow Eshun. It's host Lou has been nominated as Best Arts and Culture Producer and also for the Grassroots Production Award in the 2024 AudioUK awards. She was named Producer of the Year by the UK Audio Network in 2024. Shade Podcast further garnered the Best Art Podcast gong at the 2021 British Podcast Awards. Shade Art Review, which debuted in September 2023, is a biweekly arts and culture magazine on Substack. 


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]]> Shade Media was founded in 2019 by photographer Lou Mensah to create a space for Black artists and creative practitioners to talk about their work in their own way. This critically acclaimed podcast features interviews with artists, critics, writers and visionaries including John Akomfrah, Amy Sherald, Lauren Michele Jackson and Ekow Eshun. It's host Lou has been nominated as Best Arts and Culture Producer and also for the Grassroots Production Award in the 2024 AudioUK awards. She was named Producer of the Year by the UK Audio Network in 2024. Shade Podcast further garnered the Best Art Podcast gong at the 2021 British Podcast Awards. Shade Art Review, which debuted in September 2023, is a biweekly arts and culture magazine on Substack. 


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]]> false Lou Mensah hello@shadepodcast.co.uk 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef shadepodcast https://rss.acast.com/shadepodcast episodic https://assets.pippa.io/shows/62874922a6361b1a8d8dddba/1770382346950-fc800600-846b-4beb-b3ed-74f1233bba98.jpeg https://www.shadepodcast.co.uk/episode-1/ Shade https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef Unreadability in South Asian Photography Unreadability in South Asian Photography Sat, 24 Jan 2026 04:00:00 GMT 12:30 6973aa41283ec80e15f4e990 false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/unreadability-in-south-asian-photography 6973aa41283ec80e15f4e990 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef unreadability-in-south-asian-photography Umrao Singh Sher-Gil, Sutapa Biswas, Al-An deSouza: a Shade Art Review audio essay full In today's episode, I'm reading an essay by Eleanor Sanghara Güstard, published in Shade Art Review today.

Eleanor inherited an old Nikon F50 from her late father. When the lens cracked, she kept shooting through it. Those "poor images" became a methodology for navigating her position between Britain and India, whiteness and brownness. In her essay, Eleanor traces a lineage of South Asian photographers who use technical strategies, from blur and opacity to degradation, to work against the colonial demand for clarity. From Umrao Singh Sher-Gil's pioneering work from the 1890s through the mid-20th century to Sutapa Biswas and Al-An deSouza's contemporary practice, she shows us how unreadability becomes a site of autonomy.


Shade Art Review

@shade_podcast

@eleanor.sanghara

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]]> In today's episode, I'm reading an essay by Eleanor Sanghara Güstard, published in Shade Art Review today.

Eleanor inherited an old Nikon F50 from her late father. When the lens cracked, she kept shooting through it. Those "poor images" became a methodology for navigating her position between Britain and India, whiteness and brownness. In her essay, Eleanor traces a lineage of South Asian photographers who use technical strategies, from blur and opacity to degradation, to work against the colonial demand for clarity. From Umrao Singh Sher-Gil's pioneering work from the 1890s through the mid-20th century to Sutapa Biswas and Al-An deSouza's contemporary practice, she shows us how unreadability becomes a site of autonomy.


Shade Art Review

@shade_podcast

@eleanor.sanghara

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]]> Who Gets to Show Up in the Art World? Who Gets to Show Up in the Art World? Sat, 06 Dec 2025 04:00:00 GMT 9:53 69330eb4aef2c71c1dd92466 false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/who-gets-to-show-up-in-the-art-world 69330eb4aef2c71c1dd92466 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef who-gets-to-show-up-in-the-art-world full Shade Podcast closes out 2025 by returning to the Shade Art Review archives. This episode adapts "Oh God It's Frieze Week Again," an article I wrote in October 2023, asking: Who gets to show up in the art world? As Art Basel Miami Beach wraps the year's art fair circuit and we await next week's Turner Prize announcement, I explore the barriers disabled artists and arts workers face during heightened art world moments—from navigating packed art fairs to participating in gallery openings and museum events.

Nnena Kalu's historic Turner Prize nomination—the first learning-disabled artist shortlisted in the prize's 41-year history—raises urgent questions about who the art world has traditionally welcomed into its most prestigious spaces. I reflect on what accessibility actually means.

Featuring thoughts on our right to retreat, the pressure for disabled artists to always be visible and what deep collaboration with disabled and neurodivergent communities could actually look like. What would it look like if retreating was considered an essential part of showing up?

Read the full article at Shade Art Review here. Contact: lou@shadepodcast.co.uk | Instagram: @shade_podcast. Shade is an independent, one-person operation. If this podcast resonates, please share and subscribe.



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]]> Shade Podcast closes out 2025 by returning to the Shade Art Review archives. This episode adapts "Oh God It's Frieze Week Again," an article I wrote in October 2023, asking: Who gets to show up in the art world? As Art Basel Miami Beach wraps the year's art fair circuit and we await next week's Turner Prize announcement, I explore the barriers disabled artists and arts workers face during heightened art world moments—from navigating packed art fairs to participating in gallery openings and museum events.

Nnena Kalu's historic Turner Prize nomination—the first learning-disabled artist shortlisted in the prize's 41-year history—raises urgent questions about who the art world has traditionally welcomed into its most prestigious spaces. I reflect on what accessibility actually means.

Featuring thoughts on our right to retreat, the pressure for disabled artists to always be visible and what deep collaboration with disabled and neurodivergent communities could actually look like. What would it look like if retreating was considered an essential part of showing up?

Read the full article at Shade Art Review here. Contact: lou@shadepodcast.co.uk | Instagram: @shade_podcast. Shade is an independent, one-person operation. If this podcast resonates, please share and subscribe.



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]]> <![CDATA[Deana Lawson's Photography Divides Critics. And I'm Here For It]]> Sat, 29 Nov 2025 04:00:00 GMT 10:34 692a20d15cace2e2a5ef8a4e false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/deana-lawson-divides-critics-and-im-here-for-it 692a20d15cace2e2a5ef8a4e 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef deana-lawson-divides-critics-and-im-here-for-it Questions about critical freedom and honest engagement, from the Shade Art Review archives full I'm reading "Deana Lawson's photography divides critics and I'm here for it" from the Shade Art Review archives, asking questions about critical freedom, backlash culture, and when we lost the ability to be honest about art.

This one asks: when did bland takes become the safest option? And who does this serve?

Questions I'm still asking about art criticism, fear, and the freedom to feel something.


Links mentioned in this episode:

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw's essay "The Many Problems with Deana Lawson's Photographs" (Hyperallergic, May 2021): https://hyperallergic.com/the-many-problems-with-deana-lawsons-photographs/

Tina Campt on Deana Lawson (New York Times, 2021): https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/magazine/deana-lawson.html

Tina Campt's book "A Black Gaze" (MIT Press): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Gaze-Artists-Changing-How/dp/0262045877

"What happened to all the anti-racists after Black Lives Matter" (Metro, 2022):https://metro.co.uk/2022/08/13/what-happened-to-all-the-anti-racists-after-black-lives-matter-17172834/

Lou Mensah on star ratings in art criticism (Plaster Magazine, 2025): https://plastermagazine.com/features/star-rating-exhibition-reviews-art-critics/

Read the full piece and more in Shade Art Review: https://shadepodcast.substack.com/


Shade Website

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]]> I'm reading "Deana Lawson's photography divides critics and I'm here for it" from the Shade Art Review archives, asking questions about critical freedom, backlash culture, and when we lost the ability to be honest about art.

This one asks: when did bland takes become the safest option? And who does this serve?

Questions I'm still asking about art criticism, fear, and the freedom to feel something.


Links mentioned in this episode:

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw's essay "The Many Problems with Deana Lawson's Photographs" (Hyperallergic, May 2021): https://hyperallergic.com/the-many-problems-with-deana-lawsons-photographs/

Tina Campt on Deana Lawson (New York Times, 2021): https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/magazine/deana-lawson.html

Tina Campt's book "A Black Gaze" (MIT Press): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Gaze-Artists-Changing-How/dp/0262045877

"What happened to all the anti-racists after Black Lives Matter" (Metro, 2022):https://metro.co.uk/2022/08/13/what-happened-to-all-the-anti-racists-after-black-lives-matter-17172834/

Lou Mensah on star ratings in art criticism (Plaster Magazine, 2025): https://plastermagazine.com/features/star-rating-exhibition-reviews-art-critics/

Read the full piece and more in Shade Art Review: https://shadepodcast.substack.com/


Shade Website

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]]> Where is the Black Nan Goldin? Where is the Black Nan Goldin? Sat, 22 Nov 2025 04:00:00 GMT 8:18 6920b4b49d16465c900d9743 false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/where-is-the-black-nan-goldin 6920b4b49d16465c900d9743 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef where-is-the-black-nan-goldin On the visibility of Black intimacy in documentary photography full Shade Podcast is back. After months away, I'm returning to what we were at the beginning—intimate, unedited conversations, just me and you. This episode adapts an article I wrote in February 2024 for Shade Art Review, asking: Where is the Black Nan Goldin? Where is the documentary photography showing Black intimacy—real, unguarded, not staged, celebrated in major exhibitions or published by prominent publishers? 22 years after I viewed Nan Goldin's The Devil's Playground at Whitechapel Gallery, I explore why I haven't seen a Black photographer gain the same recognition for work depicting intimacy with the same unflinching honesty.

This isn't about replicating what Goldin did. It's about wondering why Black artists working in this space haven't emerged to the foreground with the same institutional support. As Black people, we move through the world with vulnerability. Our bodies have been mistreated and misrepresented throughout history. So maybe there's a reason why not all is being revealed.


This article led to an exciting collaboration I'll share more about when I can.


Read the full article at Shade Art Review: https://shadepodcast.substack.com/

Contact: lou@shadepodcast.co.uk | Instagram: @shade_podcast

Shade is an independent, one-person operation. If this resonates, please share and subscribe.

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]]> Shade Podcast is back. After months away, I'm returning to what we were at the beginning—intimate, unedited conversations, just me and you. This episode adapts an article I wrote in February 2024 for Shade Art Review, asking: Where is the Black Nan Goldin? Where is the documentary photography showing Black intimacy—real, unguarded, not staged, celebrated in major exhibitions or published by prominent publishers? 22 years after I viewed Nan Goldin's The Devil's Playground at Whitechapel Gallery, I explore why I haven't seen a Black photographer gain the same recognition for work depicting intimacy with the same unflinching honesty.

This isn't about replicating what Goldin did. It's about wondering why Black artists working in this space haven't emerged to the foreground with the same institutional support. As Black people, we move through the world with vulnerability. Our bodies have been mistreated and misrepresented throughout history. So maybe there's a reason why not all is being revealed.


This article led to an exciting collaboration I'll share more about when I can.


Read the full article at Shade Art Review: https://shadepodcast.substack.com/

Contact: lou@shadepodcast.co.uk | Instagram: @shade_podcast

Shade is an independent, one-person operation. If this resonates, please share and subscribe.

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]]> Hospital Rooms Hospital Rooms Tue, 18 Mar 2025 05:00:00 GMT 30:14 67d8636fd1082558c5e45128 false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/hospital-rooms 67d8636fd1082558c5e45128 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef hospital-rooms Lou in conversation with artists Ken Nwadiogbu, Sarah Dwyer and Dr. Sophie Bagge full Hospital Rooms has been bringing world-class contemporary art into NHS mental healthcare units since 2016. Today, we focus on their most ambitious work to date at Hellesdon Hospital, part of the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. This project embodies both successes and challenges – from the triumph of commissioning fifteen incredible artists to create site-specific works, to the complex realities of working within a healthcare setting that has faced its own struggles in recent years. Joining me are three remarkable individuals who have been integral to the transformation of the Hellesdon spaces: Ken Nwadiogbu, a multidisciplinary artist from Lagos whose journey from civil engineering to fine art has led him to this transformative project, alongside the artist Sarah Dwyer who places drawing at the heart of her practice. We are also joined by Dr. Sophie Bagge, the Lived Experience Lead at the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, who brings invaluable perspective as someone with personal and professional insights. Throughout this episode, you'll hear a sound composition by Mark Jennings titled Wards Extended, 2025 - created from recordings made in two psychiatric facilities – one abandoned and awaiting demolition, the other newly built and preparing to open.


Shape, Shift, an exhibition of artworks from this project opens at The Fitzrovia Chapel in London, from March 13-25, 2025.

This episode was supported by Hospital Rooms.


Executive Produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Shade Podcast Instagram

Music King Henry IV original composition for Shade Podcast by Brian Jackson

Edit & Mix by Tess Davidson

Podcast design Joel Antoine-Wilkinson

Bi-monthly art magazine Shade Art Review

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]]> Hospital Rooms has been bringing world-class contemporary art into NHS mental healthcare units since 2016. Today, we focus on their most ambitious work to date at Hellesdon Hospital, part of the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. This project embodies both successes and challenges – from the triumph of commissioning fifteen incredible artists to create site-specific works, to the complex realities of working within a healthcare setting that has faced its own struggles in recent years. Joining me are three remarkable individuals who have been integral to the transformation of the Hellesdon spaces: Ken Nwadiogbu, a multidisciplinary artist from Lagos whose journey from civil engineering to fine art has led him to this transformative project, alongside the artist Sarah Dwyer who places drawing at the heart of her practice. We are also joined by Dr. Sophie Bagge, the Lived Experience Lead at the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, who brings invaluable perspective as someone with personal and professional insights. Throughout this episode, you'll hear a sound composition by Mark Jennings titled Wards Extended, 2025 - created from recordings made in two psychiatric facilities – one abandoned and awaiting demolition, the other newly built and preparing to open.


Shape, Shift, an exhibition of artworks from this project opens at The Fitzrovia Chapel in London, from March 13-25, 2025.

This episode was supported by Hospital Rooms.


Executive Produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Shade Podcast Instagram

Music King Henry IV original composition for Shade Podcast by Brian Jackson

Edit & Mix by Tess Davidson

Podcast design Joel Antoine-Wilkinson

Bi-monthly art magazine Shade Art Review

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]]> Visualise the future Visualise the future Tue, 19 Nov 2024 04:30:05 GMT 24:55 673b85699f811261045e6d6e false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/visualise-the-future 673b85699f811261045e6d6e 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef visualise-the-future In conversation with Carey Robinson. Deputy Director, Learning and Public Programmes at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. full 12 5 This series of conversations with art educators expand on the ideas presented by Visualise: The Runnymede Trust and Freelands Foundation 2024 report on Race & Inclusion in Secondary School Art Education. In this episode 'Visualise the Future' we are joined by Carey Robinson, Deputy Director, Learning and Public Programmes at The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. She has formerly held strategic, curatorial, and creative producer roles at leading cultural institutions including Tate, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the South London Gallery, and The Courtauld. Carey and I reflect and expand on the reports recommendations for the future and imagine a new direction for art education in the U.K.


Carey's referenced the following resources in our conversation:


Anti-Racism Framework for Initial Teacher Training/Education

https://indd.adobe.com/view/ffcc4fdd-e948-41fc-bb21-fca9e82b6b91

 

Centre for Creative Explorations (Dr Clare Stanhope)

https://centreforcreativeexplorations.weebly.com/

 

Dr Claire Stewart-Hall (constructions of race in education)

https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/staff/associate-staff/claire-stewart-hall/

 

Centre for Race, Education and Decoloniality (CRED)

https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/research/centre-for-race-education-and-decoloniality/

 

My Primary School is at the Museum

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/resources/reports/161107-primary-at-museum-report-stage-7-visual-interactive.pdf

 

https://paradigmproject.co.uk/


Read the report Freelands Foundation Visualise report here.


Executive producer and host Lou Mensah

Shade Podcast Instagram

Shade Podcast Website

Music King Henry IV original composition for Shade Podcast by Brian Jackson

Edit & Mix by Tess Davidson

Editorial support Dale Berning Sawa

Podcast design Joel Antoine-Wilkinson

Shade Art Review

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]]> This series of conversations with art educators expand on the ideas presented by Visualise: The Runnymede Trust and Freelands Foundation 2024 report on Race & Inclusion in Secondary School Art Education. In this episode 'Visualise the Future' we are joined by Carey Robinson, Deputy Director, Learning and Public Programmes at The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. She has formerly held strategic, curatorial, and creative producer roles at leading cultural institutions including Tate, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the South London Gallery, and The Courtauld. Carey and I reflect and expand on the reports recommendations for the future and imagine a new direction for art education in the U.K.


Carey's referenced the following resources in our conversation:


Anti-Racism Framework for Initial Teacher Training/Education

https://indd.adobe.com/view/ffcc4fdd-e948-41fc-bb21-fca9e82b6b91

 

Centre for Creative Explorations (Dr Clare Stanhope)

https://centreforcreativeexplorations.weebly.com/

 

Dr Claire Stewart-Hall (constructions of race in education)

https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/staff/associate-staff/claire-stewart-hall/

 

Centre for Race, Education and Decoloniality (CRED)

https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/research/centre-for-race-education-and-decoloniality/

 

My Primary School is at the Museum

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/resources/reports/161107-primary-at-museum-report-stage-7-visual-interactive.pdf

 

https://paradigmproject.co.uk/


Read the report Freelands Foundation Visualise report here.


Executive producer and host Lou Mensah

Shade Podcast Instagram

Shade Podcast Website

Music King Henry IV original composition for Shade Podcast by Brian Jackson

Edit & Mix by Tess Davidson

Editorial support Dale Berning Sawa

Podcast design Joel Antoine-Wilkinson

Shade Art Review

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]]> The Art of Teaching The Art of Teaching Tue, 12 Nov 2024 05:30:13 GMT 25:20 672e037ba42e23dc4ba509ea false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/the-art-of-teaching 672e037ba42e23dc4ba509ea 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef the-art-of-teaching Teaching as an artistic practice, with Shepherd Manyika full 4 This series of conversations with art educators, practitioners and makers expands on the ideas presented by Visualise: The Runnymede Trust and Freelands Foundation 2024 report on Race & Inclusion in Secondary School Art Education. In this episode 'The Art of Teaching' we are joined by Shepherd Manyika, an artist and educator based in London. Shepherd graduated from Central Saint Martins with a BA in Fine Art and an MA in Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communications and has since gone on to work and exhibit with Spike Island, Iniva, Camden Arts Centre and Tate. Shepherd joins me today to discuss teaching as an artistic practice. 


Freelands Foundation works to broaden access to art education and the visual arts across the UK. They work with teachers and educators to develop diverse and ambitious approaches to art education. Read the report Visualise report here.


Executive producer and host Lou Mensah

Shade Podcast Instagram

Shade Podcast Website

Music King Henry IV original composition for Shade Podcast by Brian Jackson

Edit & Mix by Tess Davidson

Podcast design Joel Antoine-Wilkinson

Shade Art Review

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]]> This series of conversations with art educators, practitioners and makers expands on the ideas presented by Visualise: The Runnymede Trust and Freelands Foundation 2024 report on Race & Inclusion in Secondary School Art Education. In this episode 'The Art of Teaching' we are joined by Shepherd Manyika, an artist and educator based in London. Shepherd graduated from Central Saint Martins with a BA in Fine Art and an MA in Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communications and has since gone on to work and exhibit with Spike Island, Iniva, Camden Arts Centre and Tate. Shepherd joins me today to discuss teaching as an artistic practice. 


Freelands Foundation works to broaden access to art education and the visual arts across the UK. They work with teachers and educators to develop diverse and ambitious approaches to art education. Read the report Visualise report here.


Executive producer and host Lou Mensah

Shade Podcast Instagram

Shade Podcast Website

Music King Henry IV original composition for Shade Podcast by Brian Jackson

Edit & Mix by Tess Davidson

Podcast design Joel Antoine-Wilkinson

Shade Art Review

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]]> Art Outside the Classroom Art Outside the Classroom Tue, 05 Nov 2024 04:00:36 GMT 30:38 67291a23d95ef82dfa3b792e false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/art-outside-the-classroom 67291a23d95ef82dfa3b792e 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef art-outside-the-classroom Art as play, with Dr Sadegh Aleahmad full 3 This series of conversations with art educators, practitioners and makers expands on the ideas presented by Visualise: The Runnymede Trust and Freelands Foundation 2024 report on Race & Inclusion in Secondary School Art Education. In this episode 'Art Outside the Classroom' we are joined by Dr Sadegh Aleahmad, an Iranian-born multi-disciplinary artist, facilitator and lecturer based in London. Sadegh's practice explores dynamics of his diasporic identity by experimenting with mirrors and voice. Today, we discuss Sadegh's art education work beyond the classroom, enabling new ways of thinking, creating and coming together in community.


Freelands Foundation works to broaden access to art education and the visual arts across the UK. They work with teachers and educators to develop diverse and ambitious approaches to art education. Read the report Visualise report here.


Executive producer and host Lou Mensah

Shade Podcast Instagram

Shade Podcast Website

Music King Henry IV original composition for Shade Podcast by Brian Jackson

Edit & Mix Tess Davidson

Editorial support Dale Berning Sawa

Podcast design Joel Antoine-Wilkinson

Shade Art Review

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This series of conversations with art educators, practitioners and makers expands on the ideas presented by Visualise: The Runnymede Trust and Freelands Foundation 2024 report on Race & Inclusion in Secondary School Art Education. In this episode 'Art Outside the Classroom' we are joined by Dr Sadegh Aleahmad, an Iranian-born multi-disciplinary artist, facilitator and lecturer based in London. Sadegh's practice explores dynamics of his diasporic identity by experimenting with mirrors and voice. Today, we discuss Sadegh's art education work beyond the classroom, enabling new ways of thinking, creating and coming together in community.


Freelands Foundation works to broaden access to art education and the visual arts across the UK. They work with teachers and educators to develop diverse and ambitious approaches to art education. Read the report Visualise report here.


Executive producer and host Lou Mensah

Shade Podcast Instagram

Shade Podcast Website

Music King Henry IV original composition for Shade Podcast by Brian Jackson

Edit & Mix Tess Davidson

Editorial support Dale Berning Sawa

Podcast design Joel Antoine-Wilkinson

Shade Art Review

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Classroom Portraits Classroom Portraits Tue, 29 Oct 2024 04:00:28 GMT 29:04 671a1b525b0217f4c461712a false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/transforming-the-art-curriculum-with-exodus-crooks 671a1b525b0217f4c461712a 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef transforming-the-art-curriculum-with-exodus-crooks Transforming the art curriculum with Exodus Crooks full 2 This series of conversations with art educators, practitioners and makers expands on the ideas presented by Visualise: The Runnymede Trust and Freelands Foundation 2024 report on Race & Inclusion in Secondary School Art Education. In this episode 'Classroom Portraits' we are joined by Exodus Crooks, a Birmingham-based multi-disciplinary artist and educator who works with installation, film-making and text. Through their practice they explore ideas of self-determination, religion and spirituality at the intersection of education, using their role as a teacher to re-imagine Western pedagogy. Exodus has previously exhibited with Iniva, Ikon Gallery and the National Gallery, among others. Today they’ll be joining me to discuss their experience as both an educator and former student, and how we can transform the art curriculum within the classroom.


Freelands Foundation works to broaden access to art education and the visual arts across the UK. They work with teachers and educators to develop diverse and ambitious approaches to art education. Read the report Visualise report here.


Executive producer and host Lou Mensah

Shade Podcast Instagram

Shade Podcast Website

Music King Henry IV original composition for Shade Podcast by Brian Jackson

Edit & Mix by Tess Davidson

Editorial support from Anne Kimunguyi

Podcast design Joel Antoine-Wilkinson

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This series of conversations with art educators, practitioners and makers expands on the ideas presented by Visualise: The Runnymede Trust and Freelands Foundation 2024 report on Race & Inclusion in Secondary School Art Education. In this episode 'Classroom Portraits' we are joined by Exodus Crooks, a Birmingham-based multi-disciplinary artist and educator who works with installation, film-making and text. Through their practice they explore ideas of self-determination, religion and spirituality at the intersection of education, using their role as a teacher to re-imagine Western pedagogy. Exodus has previously exhibited with Iniva, Ikon Gallery and the National Gallery, among others. Today they’ll be joining me to discuss their experience as both an educator and former student, and how we can transform the art curriculum within the classroom.


Freelands Foundation works to broaden access to art education and the visual arts across the UK. They work with teachers and educators to develop diverse and ambitious approaches to art education. Read the report Visualise report here.


Executive producer and host Lou Mensah

Shade Podcast Instagram

Shade Podcast Website

Music King Henry IV original composition for Shade Podcast by Brian Jackson

Edit & Mix by Tess Davidson

Editorial support from Anne Kimunguyi

Podcast design Joel Antoine-Wilkinson

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]]> Broad Canvas Broad Canvas Tue, 22 Oct 2024 03:00:01 GMT 29:18 67167c3be16fb75ed51043de false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/a-new-series-on-representation-in-visual-art-education-with- 67167c3be16fb75ed51043de 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef a-new-series-on-representation-in-visual-art-education-with- full 1 This new weekly, five part series of conversations with art educators, practitioners and makers expands on the ideas presented by Visualise: The Runnymede Trust and Freelands Foundation 2024 report on Race & Inclusion in Secondary School Art Education. These conversations aim to support educators in providing a more diverse art curriculum. In today's episode 'Broad canvas' I talk with Henry Ward, an artist, educator and the Director of Freelands Foundation and Shabna Begum, CEO of the Runnymede Trust who give an overview of the UK arts education ecosystem.


Freelands Foundation works to broaden access to art education and the visual arts across the UK. They work with teachers and educators to develop diverse and ambitious approaches to art education. Read the report Visualise report here. Apologies for the disruption to sound quality in this episode.


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]]> This new weekly, five part series of conversations with art educators, practitioners and makers expands on the ideas presented by Visualise: The Runnymede Trust and Freelands Foundation 2024 report on Race & Inclusion in Secondary School Art Education. These conversations aim to support educators in providing a more diverse art curriculum. In today's episode 'Broad canvas' I talk with Henry Ward, an artist, educator and the Director of Freelands Foundation and Shabna Begum, CEO of the Runnymede Trust who give an overview of the UK arts education ecosystem.


Freelands Foundation works to broaden access to art education and the visual arts across the UK. They work with teachers and educators to develop diverse and ambitious approaches to art education. Read the report Visualise report here. Apologies for the disruption to sound quality in this episode.


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]]> London Sculpture Week symposium London Sculpture Week symposium Tue, 08 Oct 2024 14:49:06 GMT 1:14:00 67054662d649b24958f5c74e false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/london-sculpture-week-symposium 67054662d649b24958f5c74e 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef london-sculpture-week-symposium A conversation on the unique role that public art plays in our cities full Enjoy our special episode which captures and reflects on a discussion on new approaches to sculpture outdoors which took place at the inaugural London Sculpture Week symposium at London Metropolitan University on 25th September 2024.

 

The discussion features contributions from the following speakers:

Jo Baxendale, Visual Arts Project Manager Fourth Plinth, Greater London Authority 

Sarah Carrington, Deputy Director, The Line 

Dr Libby Heaney, Artist, Frieze Sculpture 

Stella Ioannou, Artistic Director, Sculpture in the City and Founding Director, Lacuna

Katie Schwab, Artist, The Line 

Vanessa da Silva, Artist, Sculpture in the City 

Dr Jacek Ludwig Scarso, Moderator and Deputy Director, CREATURE

Fatoş Üstek, Independent writer and curator, Frieze Sculpture 

 

The LSW symposium was developed by The Line in collaboration with CREATURE at London Metropolitan University and supported by Arts Council England and Bloomberg Connects, the official digital partner for London Sculpture Week.

This episode is sponsored by Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app. The app gives access to over 550 free guides of museum, galleries, sculpture parks, gardens, and other art spaces around the world. Bloomberg Connects is the official digital guide for London Sculpture Week and presents free content for Frieze Sculpture, The Line, Sculpture in the City and the Fourth Plinth. Download the app to discover more.

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]]> Enjoy our special episode which captures and reflects on a discussion on new approaches to sculpture outdoors which took place at the inaugural London Sculpture Week symposium at London Metropolitan University on 25th September 2024.

 

The discussion features contributions from the following speakers:

Jo Baxendale, Visual Arts Project Manager Fourth Plinth, Greater London Authority 

Sarah Carrington, Deputy Director, The Line 

Dr Libby Heaney, Artist, Frieze Sculpture 

Stella Ioannou, Artistic Director, Sculpture in the City and Founding Director, Lacuna

Katie Schwab, Artist, The Line 

Vanessa da Silva, Artist, Sculpture in the City 

Dr Jacek Ludwig Scarso, Moderator and Deputy Director, CREATURE

Fatoş Üstek, Independent writer and curator, Frieze Sculpture 

 

The LSW symposium was developed by The Line in collaboration with CREATURE at London Metropolitan University and supported by Arts Council England and Bloomberg Connects, the official digital partner for London Sculpture Week.

This episode is sponsored by Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app. The app gives access to over 550 free guides of museum, galleries, sculpture parks, gardens, and other art spaces around the world. Bloomberg Connects is the official digital guide for London Sculpture Week and presents free content for Frieze Sculpture, The Line, Sculpture in the City and the Fourth Plinth. Download the app to discover more.

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]]> Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker. A major survey exhibition at Spike Island Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker. A major survey exhibition at Spike Island Fri, 12 Jul 2024 03:30:01 GMT 26:24 669036cb5d66becbc6fba3bc false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/spike-island-presents-a-major-survey-exhibition-of-late-brit 669036cb5d66becbc6fba3bc 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef spike-island-presents-a-major-survey-exhibition-of-late-brit Lou in conversation with the curators Robert Leckie and Nicole Yip. full 11 3 Donald Rodney (b. 1961, West Bromwich; d. 1998, London) worked across sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, and digital media, experimenting with new materials and technologies throughout his life. His work is known for being incisive, acerbic, and evocative in its analysis of the prejudices and injustices surrounding racial identity, Black masculinity, chronic illness, and Britain's colonial past. Rodney was also co-founding member of the BLK Art Group: an association of young Black artists formed in Wolverhampton in 1982.


Visceral Canker is the major survey of the artist’s work at Spike Island, bringing together all of Rodney's surviving works. This includes large-scale oil pastels on X-rays, kinetic and animatronic sculptures, and restaged installations, as well as sketchbooks and rare archive materials, spanning 1982 to 1997. Also on display is Autoicon (1997–2000), an interactive digital artwork initiated by Rodney and finalised by a group of his close friends after he died from sickle cell anaemia in 1998. The exhibition is curated by Robert Leckie, Spike Island’s former Director, and Nicole Yip - the gallery’s new director. Today, I am joined by both Nicole and Robert, to discuss the life and work of Donald Rodney, the ambitions of the exhibition and the complexities involved in interpreting an artist’s work once they are no longer with us. The exhibition will tour at Nottingham Contemporary from 28 September 2024 to 5 January 2025 and at Whitechapel Gallery from 12 February to 18 May 2025.


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]]> Donald Rodney (b. 1961, West Bromwich; d. 1998, London) worked across sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, and digital media, experimenting with new materials and technologies throughout his life. His work is known for being incisive, acerbic, and evocative in its analysis of the prejudices and injustices surrounding racial identity, Black masculinity, chronic illness, and Britain's colonial past. Rodney was also co-founding member of the BLK Art Group: an association of young Black artists formed in Wolverhampton in 1982.


Visceral Canker is the major survey of the artist’s work at Spike Island, bringing together all of Rodney's surviving works. This includes large-scale oil pastels on X-rays, kinetic and animatronic sculptures, and restaged installations, as well as sketchbooks and rare archive materials, spanning 1982 to 1997. Also on display is Autoicon (1997–2000), an interactive digital artwork initiated by Rodney and finalised by a group of his close friends after he died from sickle cell anaemia in 1998. The exhibition is curated by Robert Leckie, Spike Island’s former Director, and Nicole Yip - the gallery’s new director. Today, I am joined by both Nicole and Robert, to discuss the life and work of Donald Rodney, the ambitions of the exhibition and the complexities involved in interpreting an artist’s work once they are no longer with us. The exhibition will tour at Nottingham Contemporary from 28 September 2024 to 5 January 2025 and at Whitechapel Gallery from 12 February to 18 May 2025.


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]]> Maja Wismer Head of Contemporary Art Kunstmuseum Basel: in conversation with Anne Kimunguyi Maja Wismer Head of Contemporary Art Kunstmuseum Basel: in conversation with Anne Kimunguyi Fri, 05 Jul 2024 02:30:37 GMT 16:55 6686b0cc694c62c6d95aa1ef false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/maja-wismer-head-of-contemporary-art-kunstmuseum-basel-in-co 6686b0cc694c62c6d95aa1ef 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef maja-wismer-head-of-contemporary-art-kunstmuseum-basel-in-co full 11 2 Enjoy our special episode from the exhibition When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting at Kunstmuseum in Basel recorded by Anne Kimunguyi. Many of you know Anne from her Shade Art Review. features.


Our guest is Head of Contemporary Art at Kunstmuseum Basel, Maja Wismer. As part of her role, she specialises in art of the late 20th and early 21st century, having previously held the role of Curatorial Fellow at the Busch Reisinger Museum of the Harvard Art Museums. Based at the Kunstmuseum, her previous work has seen the realisation of the exhibition ‘Kara Walker. A Black Hole is Everything a Star Longs to be’, as well as projects involving the move of the works of Joseph Beuys from the newly created space – Museum fur Gegenwarsknust, a museum dedicated exclusively to contemporary art in 1980. 


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]]> Enjoy our special episode from the exhibition When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting at Kunstmuseum in Basel recorded by Anne Kimunguyi. Many of you know Anne from her Shade Art Review. features.


Our guest is Head of Contemporary Art at Kunstmuseum Basel, Maja Wismer. As part of her role, she specialises in art of the late 20th and early 21st century, having previously held the role of Curatorial Fellow at the Busch Reisinger Museum of the Harvard Art Museums. Based at the Kunstmuseum, her previous work has seen the realisation of the exhibition ‘Kara Walker. A Black Hole is Everything a Star Longs to be’, as well as projects involving the move of the works of Joseph Beuys from the newly created space – Museum fur Gegenwarsknust, a museum dedicated exclusively to contemporary art in 1980. 


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]]> Matthew Krishanu: in conversation with Lou Mensah Matthew Krishanu: in conversation with Lou Mensah Fri, 21 Jun 2024 04:00:36 GMT 23:03 667486befcc9a9001340a1ea false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/matthew-krishanu-in-conversation-with-lou-mensah 667486befcc9a9001340a1ea 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef matthew-krishanu-in-conversation-with-lou-mensah full 11 1 Matthew Krishanu (b.1980, Bradford, UK) paints atmospheric, pared-back compositions including scenes from the artist’s life, particularly his childhood years in Bangladesh growing up with his brother, and their parents—a British Christian missionary and an Indian theologian. In the paintings, seemingly familiar narratives are alluded to but destabilised. The viewer’s own projections are called upon to fulfil the interpretive loop, raising questions about childhood, religion, race, power, and the legacies of empire.


The Bough Breaks is showing at Camden Art Centre until June 23. Krishanu's forthcoming solo exhibition will show at Tanya Leighton L.A., in the autumn.


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]]> Matthew Krishanu (b.1980, Bradford, UK) paints atmospheric, pared-back compositions including scenes from the artist’s life, particularly his childhood years in Bangladesh growing up with his brother, and their parents—a British Christian missionary and an Indian theologian. In the paintings, seemingly familiar narratives are alluded to but destabilised. The viewer’s own projections are called upon to fulfil the interpretive loop, raising questions about childhood, religion, race, power, and the legacies of empire.


The Bough Breaks is showing at Camden Art Centre until June 23. Krishanu's forthcoming solo exhibition will show at Tanya Leighton L.A., in the autumn.


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]]> Venice Biennale Special: Aindrea Emelife interview Venice Biennale Special: Aindrea Emelife interview Tue, 23 Apr 2024 03:30:01 GMT 13:06 6622ab3a0b12320012ad5ec4 false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/venice-biennale-special-aindrea-emelife-interview 6622ab3a0b12320012ad5ec4 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef venice-biennale-special-aindrea-emelife-interview Curator of Nigeria Imaginary at the Nigeria Pavilion full Welcome to the second of our episodes from the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia.


I am delighted to welcome back Aindrea Emelife as my guest. Aindrea is a curator and art historian of modern and contemporary art, whose practise specializes in colonial and decolonial African histories and the politics of representation. Aindrea is the curator of Nigeria Imaginary at the Nigeria Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, which sees the country participating in the festival for the second time. The pavilion will show projects made in collaboration with the Museum of West African Art, where Aindrea is also a curator. Today, we will be getting an exciting introduction into this year’s Nigeria Pavilion and

hearing a bit more about the participating artists, their works and the curatorial thinking behind this year’s exhibition.


Enjoy a review, including images of Nigeria Imaginary written by Anne Kimunguyi in today's special edition of Shade Art Review.


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]]> Welcome to the second of our episodes from the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia.


I am delighted to welcome back Aindrea Emelife as my guest. Aindrea is a curator and art historian of modern and contemporary art, whose practise specializes in colonial and decolonial African histories and the politics of representation. Aindrea is the curator of Nigeria Imaginary at the Nigeria Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, which sees the country participating in the festival for the second time. The pavilion will show projects made in collaboration with the Museum of West African Art, where Aindrea is also a curator. Today, we will be getting an exciting introduction into this year’s Nigeria Pavilion and

hearing a bit more about the participating artists, their works and the curatorial thinking behind this year’s exhibition.


Enjoy a review, including images of Nigeria Imaginary written by Anne Kimunguyi in today's special edition of Shade Art Review.


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]]> Venice Biennale Special: Sir John Akomfrah interview Venice Biennale Special: Sir John Akomfrah interview Sun, 21 Apr 2024 03:00:34 GMT 30:57 66228eec35f9560013971be7 false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/venice-biennale-special-sir-john-akomfrah-interview 66228eec35f9560013971be7 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef venice-biennale-special-sir-john-akomfrah-interview full Welcome to the first of our episodes from the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia.


Today, I am delighted to hand the mic to my dear friend the arts writer Dale Berning Sawa, who met with John Akomfrah at the preview of The British Council commission Listening All Night To The Rain. You'll also hear from me in this episode and Dale shares a reflection on her first Venice experience and conversation with the artist on this special occasion. You can also enjoy Dale's review of Listening All Night To The Rain and images from the exhibition, in Shade Art Review. today.


Listening All Night To The Rain continues artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah’s investigation into themes of memory, migration, racial injustice and climate change with a renewed focus on the act of listening and the sonic. The exhibition, conceived as a single installation with eight interlocking and overlapping multi-screen sound and time-based works, is seen as a manifesto that encourages the idea of listening as activism and positions various progressive theories of acoustemology: how new ways of becoming are rooted in different forms of listening. Encouraging visitors to experience the British Pavilion’s 19th century neoclassical building in a different way, Akomfrah’s commission interprets and transforms the fabric of the space in order to interrogate relics and monuments of colonial histories.


John Akomfrah initially came to prominence in the early 1980s as part of the Black Audio Film Collective (BAFC), a collective founded in 1982. An early film by BAFC, titled Handsworth Songs (1986), explored the events around the 1985 riots in Birmingham and London. In recent years, Akomfrah’s work has evolved into ambitious, multi-channel installations presented in galleries and museums worldwide. In 2017, he won the Artes Mundi prize, the UK’s biggest award for international art. He has previously participated in the 58th Venice Viennale with Four Nocturnes, commissioned for the inaugural Ghana Pavilion in 2019, and Vertigo Sea (2015) as part of the 56th International Art Exhibition. The British Council commission Listening All Night To The Rain at the Venice Biennale 2024 runs from Saturday 20 April to Sunday 24 November 2024.


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]]> Welcome to the first of our episodes from the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia.


Today, I am delighted to hand the mic to my dear friend the arts writer Dale Berning Sawa, who met with John Akomfrah at the preview of The British Council commission Listening All Night To The Rain. You'll also hear from me in this episode and Dale shares a reflection on her first Venice experience and conversation with the artist on this special occasion. You can also enjoy Dale's review of Listening All Night To The Rain and images from the exhibition, in Shade Art Review. today.


Listening All Night To The Rain continues artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah’s investigation into themes of memory, migration, racial injustice and climate change with a renewed focus on the act of listening and the sonic. The exhibition, conceived as a single installation with eight interlocking and overlapping multi-screen sound and time-based works, is seen as a manifesto that encourages the idea of listening as activism and positions various progressive theories of acoustemology: how new ways of becoming are rooted in different forms of listening. Encouraging visitors to experience the British Pavilion’s 19th century neoclassical building in a different way, Akomfrah’s commission interprets and transforms the fabric of the space in order to interrogate relics and monuments of colonial histories.


John Akomfrah initially came to prominence in the early 1980s as part of the Black Audio Film Collective (BAFC), a collective founded in 1982. An early film by BAFC, titled Handsworth Songs (1986), explored the events around the 1985 riots in Birmingham and London. In recent years, Akomfrah’s work has evolved into ambitious, multi-channel installations presented in galleries and museums worldwide. In 2017, he won the Artes Mundi prize, the UK’s biggest award for international art. He has previously participated in the 58th Venice Viennale with Four Nocturnes, commissioned for the inaugural Ghana Pavilion in 2019, and Vertigo Sea (2015) as part of the 56th International Art Exhibition. The British Council commission Listening All Night To The Rain at the Venice Biennale 2024 runs from Saturday 20 April to Sunday 24 November 2024.


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]]> Legacy Russell: in conversation with Lou Mensah Legacy Russell: in conversation with Lou Mensah Thu, 18 Apr 2024 03:30:08 GMT 36:31 661faf1c36f6b9001716e8da false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/legacy-russell-in-conversation-with-lou-mensah 661faf1c36f6b9001716e8da 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef legacy-russell-in-conversation-with-lou-mensah full 10 5 Legacy Russell is Executive Director & Chief Curator of the experimental arts institution The Kitchen, one of New York's oldest non-profit spaces. She is writer, curator and author of the critically acclaimed Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto. I am delighted to have Legacy join me to talk about Black Meme, which is due to be published on May 7th. Black Meme focuses on the history and production of the ‘Meme’ – tracing through Black visual culture from its first appearance in the early 20th century all the way through to present times. It is a critical dissection of race, class, and gender as performed online and offline and emphasizes the central role that Black contributions have played in the development of digital culture.  


On the ‘Meme’, Legacy says:’ I want to talk about the economy and engine of this and perhaps push further a discussion about how we can hold ourselves accountable to how this material is produced and circulated.”

 

Black Meme is available to purchase online and in stores from May 7th.

Here is a link to Legacy's talk on The New Bend exhibition, as mentioned in Lou's intro.


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]]> Legacy Russell is Executive Director & Chief Curator of the experimental arts institution The Kitchen, one of New York's oldest non-profit spaces. She is writer, curator and author of the critically acclaimed Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto. I am delighted to have Legacy join me to talk about Black Meme, which is due to be published on May 7th. Black Meme focuses on the history and production of the ‘Meme’ – tracing through Black visual culture from its first appearance in the early 20th century all the way through to present times. It is a critical dissection of race, class, and gender as performed online and offline and emphasizes the central role that Black contributions have played in the development of digital culture.  


On the ‘Meme’, Legacy says:’ I want to talk about the economy and engine of this and perhaps push further a discussion about how we can hold ourselves accountable to how this material is produced and circulated.”

 

Black Meme is available to purchase online and in stores from May 7th.

Here is a link to Legacy's talk on The New Bend exhibition, as mentioned in Lou's intro.


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]]> Ibrahim Mahama: in conversation with Lou Mensah Ibrahim Mahama: in conversation with Lou Mensah Thu, 11 Apr 2024 02:30:43 GMT 16:39 66164f739882b8001628b6ad false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/ibrahim-mahama-in-conversation-with-lou-mensah 66164f739882b8001628b6ad 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef ibrahim-mahama-in-conversation-with-lou-mensah Purple Hibiscus commission for the Barbican full 10 4 Ibrahim Mahama is an installation artist who works with textiles, material production and found objects to create large-scale public interventions. He initially garnered widespread attention for his open-air installations made of stitched-together jute sacks that were draped on or over architectural structures, such as libraries, an airport, and a museum, in the cities of Accra and Kumasi, where he is based. His practise involves a collaborative process of sourcing, collecting, reproducing and installing the often-textile based materials he works with. His pieces speak to ideas around historical memories, traditional belief systems, local economies and the democratisation of art. 


Ibrahim’s works have been shown in various group and solo shows, including The Norval Foundation in Cape Town, The White Cube in London and Hong Kong and has been a part of the Ghana Pavilion for 2019 Venice Biennale, among many others. In this episode, Ibrahim and I discuss his new large-scale public commission at the Barbican, the process behind creating this work and his hopes for its reception.


Ibrahim Mahama Purple Hibiscus runs at the Lakeside Terrace at the Barbican from April 10 - 18 August 2024 and is free to the public.


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]]> Ibrahim Mahama is an installation artist who works with textiles, material production and found objects to create large-scale public interventions. He initially garnered widespread attention for his open-air installations made of stitched-together jute sacks that were draped on or over architectural structures, such as libraries, an airport, and a museum, in the cities of Accra and Kumasi, where he is based. His practise involves a collaborative process of sourcing, collecting, reproducing and installing the often-textile based materials he works with. His pieces speak to ideas around historical memories, traditional belief systems, local economies and the democratisation of art. 


Ibrahim’s works have been shown in various group and solo shows, including The Norval Foundation in Cape Town, The White Cube in London and Hong Kong and has been a part of the Ghana Pavilion for 2019 Venice Biennale, among many others. In this episode, Ibrahim and I discuss his new large-scale public commission at the Barbican, the process behind creating this work and his hopes for its reception.


Ibrahim Mahama Purple Hibiscus runs at the Lakeside Terrace at the Barbican from April 10 - 18 August 2024 and is free to the public.


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]]> Michael Ohajuru: in conversation with Lou Mensah Michael Ohajuru: in conversation with Lou Mensah Thu, 04 Apr 2024 02:00:57 GMT 18:44 660d8367088d5100152e7325 false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/michael-ohajuru-in-conversation-with-lou-mensah 660d8367088d5100152e7325 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef michael-ohajuru-in-conversation-with-lou-mensah John Blanke Project: artists advocating for a more inclusive and equitable understanding of history full 10 3 Michael Ohajuru is a London-based art historian who returns to the podcast to discuss the John Blanke project, a large gathering of artists and historians who have come together to re-imagine John Blanke, the black trumpeter to the courts of Henry 7th and Henry 8th and the first person of African descent in British history that we have both a visual and written record of. The participating artists include Keith Piper, Wole Lagunju, Phoebe Boswell, Paul Dash and Larry Achiampong.


David Olusoga Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester says of the project:

"The John Blanke Project redefines historical exploration by merging practical scholarship with innovation and critical imagination. Anchored in social justice, it reveals the overlooked narratives of Black Tudor England, enriching our grasp of diversity and British identity. By blending art and history, it encourages a deeper, empathetic engagement with our shared past, advocating for a more inclusive and equitable understanding of history."


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]]> Michael Ohajuru is a London-based art historian who returns to the podcast to discuss the John Blanke project, a large gathering of artists and historians who have come together to re-imagine John Blanke, the black trumpeter to the courts of Henry 7th and Henry 8th and the first person of African descent in British history that we have both a visual and written record of. The participating artists include Keith Piper, Wole Lagunju, Phoebe Boswell, Paul Dash and Larry Achiampong.


David Olusoga Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester says of the project:

"The John Blanke Project redefines historical exploration by merging practical scholarship with innovation and critical imagination. Anchored in social justice, it reveals the overlooked narratives of Black Tudor England, enriching our grasp of diversity and British identity. By blending art and history, it encourages a deeper, empathetic engagement with our shared past, advocating for a more inclusive and equitable understanding of history."


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]]> Joy Gregory: in conversation with Lou Mensah Joy Gregory: in conversation with Lou Mensah Thu, 28 Mar 2024 03:00:15 GMT 21:34 6604129afdb45400167a6f0f false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/joy-gregory-in-conversation-with-lou-mensah 6604129afdb45400167a6f0f 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef joy-gregory-in-conversation-with-lou-mensah Heathrow Terminal 4 commission 2024 full 10 2 Joy Gregory (b. 1959. Bicester, UK). Born in the UK to Jamaican parents, Joy Gregory’s work explores the impact of colonialism on global perceptions of beauty, memory, botany, health and traditional knowledge. As a photographer, Gregory has worked over decades in various media, including video, digital and analogue photography, film installation, Victorian print processes and more recently textiles; exploring photography as technology and as mode of artistic expression. She is interested in understanding how individuals and communities remember and interpret their history, particularly in relation to their connection to the land.


Joy & Lou discuss the themes of process and practice as they have developed throughout the artist’s four decade career. In June, Art on the Underground will unveil a new series of Joy’s artworks at Heathrow Terminal 4 Underground station - envisaging Heathrow as a portal of entry and exit. I spoke with Joy in February, as she embarked on her partnership with Hillingdon-based charity Refugees in Effective and Active Partnership (REAP) facilitating a series of photographic workshops with asylum seekers living in hotels in the Heathrow area, as well as a community group for Afghan women in Hayes and Harlington. These workshops will inform the creation of her artwork for Heathrow Terminal 4, giving space to the stories of newly arrived Londoners, displaced people whose realities are increasingly maligned and misrepresented. The work will offer an indelible trace of the cultures, languages and hopes which coalesce in London.


In the Autumn of 2025, Whitechapel Gallery will stage Joy’s first monographic exhibition, surveying a four-decade practice.


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]]> Joy Gregory (b. 1959. Bicester, UK). Born in the UK to Jamaican parents, Joy Gregory’s work explores the impact of colonialism on global perceptions of beauty, memory, botany, health and traditional knowledge. As a photographer, Gregory has worked over decades in various media, including video, digital and analogue photography, film installation, Victorian print processes and more recently textiles; exploring photography as technology and as mode of artistic expression. She is interested in understanding how individuals and communities remember and interpret their history, particularly in relation to their connection to the land.


Joy & Lou discuss the themes of process and practice as they have developed throughout the artist’s four decade career. In June, Art on the Underground will unveil a new series of Joy’s artworks at Heathrow Terminal 4 Underground station - envisaging Heathrow as a portal of entry and exit. I spoke with Joy in February, as she embarked on her partnership with Hillingdon-based charity Refugees in Effective and Active Partnership (REAP) facilitating a series of photographic workshops with asylum seekers living in hotels in the Heathrow area, as well as a community group for Afghan women in Hayes and Harlington. These workshops will inform the creation of her artwork for Heathrow Terminal 4, giving space to the stories of newly arrived Londoners, displaced people whose realities are increasingly maligned and misrepresented. The work will offer an indelible trace of the cultures, languages and hopes which coalesce in London.


In the Autumn of 2025, Whitechapel Gallery will stage Joy’s first monographic exhibition, surveying a four-decade practice.


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]]> Tiona Nekkia McClodden: in conversation with Lou Mensah Tiona Nekkia McClodden: in conversation with Lou Mensah Thu, 21 Mar 2024 10:25:47 GMT 31:06 65f9aeb22201590017867d34 false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/tiona-nekkia-mcclodden-in-conversation-with-lou-mensah 65f9aeb22201590017867d34 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef tiona-nekkia-mcclodden-in-conversation-with-lou-mensah full 10 1 This evening, 21 March '24

6 - 8pm GMT: Artist Talk - Tiona Nekkia McClodden at White Cube Bermondsey, London. Tiona will discuss the impetus of her solo exhibition ‘A MERCY | DUMMY’, which spans two discrete bodies of works produced alongside each other. McClodden will explore the impulse to present two bodies of works together for the first time in her career through a choreographed sharing of her collection of archival research, music, video, and texts. Reserve a spot here. MERCY | DUMMY runs until 24 March.


Tiona Nekkia McClodden (b.1981, Blytheville, Arkansas) spent her formative years throughout the American South. Trained as a filmmaker, McClodden worked largely within the punk and club scene in Atlanta before moving to Philadelphia in 2006 and expanding her practice to include painting, sculpture, photography and installation.


Recent solo exhibitions include Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland (2023); Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2023); The Shed, New York (2022); 52 Walker, New York (2022); The Triple Deities, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2021); and Company Gallery, New York (2019). Selected group exhibitions include Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York (2023–24); El Museo del Barrio in New York (2022–23), touring to Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona (2023) and Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida (2023–24); ICA Los Angeles, California (2022); Prospect 5, New Orleans, Louisiana (2021–22); Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania (2021); New Museum, New York (2021); Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2019); and the Whitney Biennial, New York (2019). Other presentations of her work have been on view at MOCA, Los Angeles, California (2017); MCA Chicago, Illinois (2017); and MoMA PS1, New York (2016). In recent years, McClodden has won prestigious grants and fellowships, including the Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant (2022), Princeton Arts Fellowship (2021–23); the Bucksbaum Award, Whitney Museum of American Art (2019); Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts (2019); the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award (2017); and the Pew Fellowship (2016), while running Conceptual Fade, a project gallery and library she founded in 2020 that hosts micro-exhibitions and publications centred on Black art and conceptual practice.


Work by McClodden is in the permanent collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; MoMA, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; and Rennie Museum, Canada.


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]]> This evening, 21 March '24

6 - 8pm GMT: Artist Talk - Tiona Nekkia McClodden at White Cube Bermondsey, London. Tiona will discuss the impetus of her solo exhibition ‘A MERCY | DUMMY’, which spans two discrete bodies of works produced alongside each other. McClodden will explore the impulse to present two bodies of works together for the first time in her career through a choreographed sharing of her collection of archival research, music, video, and texts. Reserve a spot here. MERCY | DUMMY runs until 24 March.


Tiona Nekkia McClodden (b.1981, Blytheville, Arkansas) spent her formative years throughout the American South. Trained as a filmmaker, McClodden worked largely within the punk and club scene in Atlanta before moving to Philadelphia in 2006 and expanding her practice to include painting, sculpture, photography and installation.


Recent solo exhibitions include Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland (2023); Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2023); The Shed, New York (2022); 52 Walker, New York (2022); The Triple Deities, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2021); and Company Gallery, New York (2019). Selected group exhibitions include Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York (2023–24); El Museo del Barrio in New York (2022–23), touring to Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona (2023) and Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida (2023–24); ICA Los Angeles, California (2022); Prospect 5, New Orleans, Louisiana (2021–22); Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania (2021); New Museum, New York (2021); Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2019); and the Whitney Biennial, New York (2019). Other presentations of her work have been on view at MOCA, Los Angeles, California (2017); MCA Chicago, Illinois (2017); and MoMA PS1, New York (2016). In recent years, McClodden has won prestigious grants and fellowships, including the Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant (2022), Princeton Arts Fellowship (2021–23); the Bucksbaum Award, Whitney Museum of American Art (2019); Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts (2019); the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award (2017); and the Pew Fellowship (2016), while running Conceptual Fade, a project gallery and library she founded in 2020 that hosts micro-exhibitions and publications centred on Black art and conceptual practice.


Work by McClodden is in the permanent collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; MoMA, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; and Rennie Museum, Canada.


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]]> Cynthia Lawrence John Cynthia Lawrence John Thu, 21 Dec 2023 03:00:26 GMT 13:18 657890a9cd374a0012cc3e8b false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/cynthia-lawrence-john 657890a9cd374a0012cc3e8b 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef cynthia-lawrence-john Costume Designer full 9 7 Welcome to the final episode in my seven part, end of year series! Inspired by the Black radical tradition of the harmony between the lyrical and visual, I am joined by friends to explore the musical influences that inspire their work. We also look to the people, real and imagined, familial and ancestral who guide them.

Cynthia is a costume designer, whose work you will have seen in successful British films, like the recent Rye Lane directed by Raine Allen-Miller. Cynthia's currently showing work at Somerset House in London as part of the exhibition Missing Thread, which charts the shifting landscape of Black British culture and the unique contribution it's made to Britain's design history. Our friendship began in the early 2000s, when we worked together in my capacity as a photographer.

It was Cynthia's generosity of ideas and her unique approach to design that inspired me and makes her one of the most revered costume designers today. Cynthia and I sneaked in a super quick, ten minute conversation whilst she was on set last week. She shares her musical influences and talks about how music is the foundation of her design for all of her characters.

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]]> Welcome to the final episode in my seven part, end of year series! Inspired by the Black radical tradition of the harmony between the lyrical and visual, I am joined by friends to explore the musical influences that inspire their work. We also look to the people, real and imagined, familial and ancestral who guide them.

Cynthia is a costume designer, whose work you will have seen in successful British films, like the recent Rye Lane directed by Raine Allen-Miller. Cynthia's currently showing work at Somerset House in London as part of the exhibition Missing Thread, which charts the shifting landscape of Black British culture and the unique contribution it's made to Britain's design history. Our friendship began in the early 2000s, when we worked together in my capacity as a photographer.

It was Cynthia's generosity of ideas and her unique approach to design that inspired me and makes her one of the most revered costume designers today. Cynthia and I sneaked in a super quick, ten minute conversation whilst she was on set last week. She shares her musical influences and talks about how music is the foundation of her design for all of her characters.

Please share and review this independent Black art show. Thank you!

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]]> Rashod Taylor Rashod Taylor Wed, 20 Dec 2023 03:00:04 GMT 21:21 65788269b56e520016cec153 false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/rashod-taylor 65788269b56e520016cec153 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef rashod-taylor Photographer full 9 6 Welcome to the penultimate episode in this Christmas series of conversations. Inspired by the Black radical tradition of the harmony between the lyrical and visual, I am joined by friends artists to explore the musical influences that inspire their work. We also look to the people, real and imagined, familial and ancestral who guide them.


Rashod Taylor is a Missouri-based photographer whose photographs are a window into the Black American experience. His work uses portraiture to address themes of family, race, culture, and legacy. Rashod is most recognised for his Little Black Boy series, an ongoing project featuring his son, which earned him an Arnold Newman Prize. His work is actively collected by the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and has been featured in publications including National Geographic, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Forbes, and many more. His photographs embody a communing of influences from the past, present, and future, he says ”I tell the story of my family history and my story, in my son's story.” Our conversation begins with Rashod telling us about the influence of negro spiritual songs on his work.


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]]> Welcome to the penultimate episode in this Christmas series of conversations. Inspired by the Black radical tradition of the harmony between the lyrical and visual, I am joined by friends artists to explore the musical influences that inspire their work. We also look to the people, real and imagined, familial and ancestral who guide them.


Rashod Taylor is a Missouri-based photographer whose photographs are a window into the Black American experience. His work uses portraiture to address themes of family, race, culture, and legacy. Rashod is most recognised for his Little Black Boy series, an ongoing project featuring his son, which earned him an Arnold Newman Prize. His work is actively collected by the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and has been featured in publications including National Geographic, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Forbes, and many more. His photographs embody a communing of influences from the past, present, and future, he says ”I tell the story of my family history and my story, in my son's story.” Our conversation begins with Rashod telling us about the influence of negro spiritual songs on his work.


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]]> Tyrone Isaac Stuart Tyrone Isaac Stuart Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:00:34 GMT 26:56 65787fb864f5a6001623bf1a false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/tyrone-isaac-stuart 65787fb864f5a6001623bf1a 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef tyrone-isaac-stuart Interdisciplinary artist (Krump, Hip-hop theatre, Jazz musician) full 9 5 Welcome to this seven part, end of year series - new episodes are released each weekday between Dec 13-21. Inspired by the Black radical tradition of the harmony between the lyrical and visual. I am joined by friends (artists, dancers, musicians) to explore the musical influences that inspire their work. We also look to the people, real and imagined, familial and ancestral who guide them.


Tyrone is a concept driven artist whose skills originate from Jazz and Hip-Hop Theatre. Working as a performer across dance and music, his practice has grown to become a mixture of Krump, contemporary dance, visual art & Jazz music. He performs in Julian Knxx's latest exhibition Chorus in Rememory of Flight, currently running at the Barbican. "There's already a musical language that is embedded in the ideas of that work because of the way Julian is working with choirs, and then I can try and translate that into movement. I have a good relationship with Julian and there's a lot of trust. So in some ways, we've established a chorus."


He recently released his debut LP, S!ck - and was called ”one to watch" by Giles Peterson this year. Commissions include a full length theatre work for the Barbican 'An Earnest Life', a duet for Dance Umbrella, Beyond Words & an international Solo work for Hayley Matthews Ensemble. He is a Steve Reid Innovation Award 2019-2020 recipient, and a 2020 Artist in Residence at Clarence Mews Space, 2021 East London Ideas Fund Awardee & 2022 Peter Whittingham Jazz recipient and a 2023 Take Five jazz awardees.


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]]> Welcome to this seven part, end of year series - new episodes are released each weekday between Dec 13-21. Inspired by the Black radical tradition of the harmony between the lyrical and visual. I am joined by friends (artists, dancers, musicians) to explore the musical influences that inspire their work. We also look to the people, real and imagined, familial and ancestral who guide them.


Tyrone is a concept driven artist whose skills originate from Jazz and Hip-Hop Theatre. Working as a performer across dance and music, his practice has grown to become a mixture of Krump, contemporary dance, visual art & Jazz music. He performs in Julian Knxx's latest exhibition Chorus in Rememory of Flight, currently running at the Barbican. "There's already a musical language that is embedded in the ideas of that work because of the way Julian is working with choirs, and then I can try and translate that into movement. I have a good relationship with Julian and there's a lot of trust. So in some ways, we've established a chorus."


He recently released his debut LP, S!ck - and was called ”one to watch" by Giles Peterson this year. Commissions include a full length theatre work for the Barbican 'An Earnest Life', a duet for Dance Umbrella, Beyond Words & an international Solo work for Hayley Matthews Ensemble. He is a Steve Reid Innovation Award 2019-2020 recipient, and a 2020 Artist in Residence at Clarence Mews Space, 2021 East London Ideas Fund Awardee & 2022 Peter Whittingham Jazz recipient and a 2023 Take Five jazz awardees.


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]]> Jose Campos AKA Studio Lenca Jose Campos AKA Studio Lenca Mon, 18 Dec 2023 03:00:54 GMT 23:40 657740f4fd7b5f0011bafd38 false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/jose-campos-aka-studio-lenca 657740f4fd7b5f0011bafd38 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef jose-campos-aka-studio-lenca Visual artist full 9 4 Welcome to this seven part, end of year series! New episodes released each weekday between Dec 13-21. Inspired by the Black radical tradition of the harmony between the lyrical and visual. I am joined by friends (artists, dancers, musicians) to explore the musical influences that inspire their work. We also look to the people, real and imagined, familial and ancestral who guide them.


Today I am joined by Jose Campos, who is also known by his artist name, Studio Lenca.

Jose considers himself to be an artist that doesn’t belong anywhere apart from the world he creates.

He says that “I have a deep longing to connect with the land of my ancestors. It’s a longing that I don’t realise is always there until it gets fulfilled.” 

Jose was forcibly displaced as a consequence of El Salvador’s civil war, he one of the first wave of child migrants moving to the USA. Travelling illegally with his mother, the family lived as ‘illegal aliens’, cleaning houses with no fixed address. 

His paintings depict regal figures that seek to decentralise the collective idea of Salvadoran identity.

The work playfully references a combination of biographical anecdotes, personal reflections and folkloric iconography.


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Studio Lenca @ TKE Studios in Margate.

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]]> Welcome to this seven part, end of year series! New episodes released each weekday between Dec 13-21. Inspired by the Black radical tradition of the harmony between the lyrical and visual. I am joined by friends (artists, dancers, musicians) to explore the musical influences that inspire their work. We also look to the people, real and imagined, familial and ancestral who guide them.


Today I am joined by Jose Campos, who is also known by his artist name, Studio Lenca.

Jose considers himself to be an artist that doesn’t belong anywhere apart from the world he creates.

He says that “I have a deep longing to connect with the land of my ancestors. It’s a longing that I don’t realise is always there until it gets fulfilled.” 

Jose was forcibly displaced as a consequence of El Salvador’s civil war, he one of the first wave of child migrants moving to the USA. Travelling illegally with his mother, the family lived as ‘illegal aliens’, cleaning houses with no fixed address. 

His paintings depict regal figures that seek to decentralise the collective idea of Salvadoran identity.

The work playfully references a combination of biographical anecdotes, personal reflections and folkloric iconography.


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Studio Lenca @ TKE Studios in Margate.

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Representation Carl Freedman Gallery.


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]]> Helene Love-Allotey Helene Love-Allotey Fri, 15 Dec 2023 03:00:23 GMT 33:25 657878dff921fb0016479672 false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/helene-love-allotey 657878dff921fb0016479672 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef helene-love-allotey Specialist Modern and Contemporary African Art, Bonhams Auction House London full 9 3 Welcome to my seven part end of year series! New episodes will be released each weekday between Dec 13-21. Inspired by the Black radical tradition of the harmony between the lyrical and visual, I am joined by friends (artists, dancers, musicians and in today's episode an art specialist) to explore the musical influences that inspire their work. We also look to the people, real and imagined, familial and ancestral who guide them. Get ready to be inspired!


Helene is Head of Sale and a specialist in Modern and Contemporary African art at Bonhams. She travels to Ghana regularly and specializes on art from that region. Her expertise also extends to 20th century Africa. Our conversation reveals just how knowledgeable Helene also is on African music and she recommends some excellent tunes from the continent that inspire her. We start our conversation hearing about a moment where she was talking with her SOAS tutor eight years ago, which led her on the journey to her current role at Bonhams. Stay tuned until the end to hear Helene's fantastic music recommendations!

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]]> Welcome to my seven part end of year series! New episodes will be released each weekday between Dec 13-21. Inspired by the Black radical tradition of the harmony between the lyrical and visual, I am joined by friends (artists, dancers, musicians and in today's episode an art specialist) to explore the musical influences that inspire their work. We also look to the people, real and imagined, familial and ancestral who guide them. Get ready to be inspired!


Helene is Head of Sale and a specialist in Modern and Contemporary African art at Bonhams. She travels to Ghana regularly and specializes on art from that region. Her expertise also extends to 20th century Africa. Our conversation reveals just how knowledgeable Helene also is on African music and she recommends some excellent tunes from the continent that inspire her. We start our conversation hearing about a moment where she was talking with her SOAS tutor eight years ago, which led her on the journey to her current role at Bonhams. Stay tuned until the end to hear Helene's fantastic music recommendations!

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Mixing by Tess Davidson

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]]> Axel Kacoutié Axel Kacoutié Thu, 14 Dec 2023 03:00:28 GMT 21:18 657873511585de00124c8302 false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/axel-kacoutie 657873511585de00124c8302 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef axel-kacoutie Sound artist full 9 2 Welcome to my seven part end of year series! New episodes will be released each weekday between Dec 13-21. Inspired by the Black radical tradition of the harmony between the lyrical and visual, I am joined by friends (artists, dancers, musicians) to explore the musical influences that inspire their work. We also look to the people, real and imagined, familial and ancestral who guide them. Get ready to be inspired!


Today I am delighted to introduce my friend, Axel Kacoutié - the multi-award-winning creator who's been crafting sound, music, and words to challenge the familiar and revive a magic in the mundane. Previously the Creative Director of Sound at The Guardian, their work has featured on the BBC, Spotify and in physical spaces like the Barbican, Tate Modern & Sundance Film Festival. They’ve received British Podcast Awards, ARIAs, Third Coast awards and many, many more. Some of you may know Axel from our work together Black Balloons for Tate Modern, Interludes podcast series on art and healing and Wandering where we walk with creatives through art spaces. We start by hearing Axel talk about their work A Mother Tongue which is a personal essay reflecting on language, created for the BBC. They also mention Gatekeeper where Axel discovers a new sense of self in the cosmologies, concepts and realities of queer and indigenous folks. In this piece we hear Axel say "Somewhere between the narrow entry of Who I am and What I seem to be, lies a vast and nameless place.” It is this vast and nameless place that Axel and I visit in todays conversation.

ENJOY! Please review & share!


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Gatekeeper by Axel Kacoutié

A Mother Tongue by Axel Kacoutié

V & A East The Music is Black Film sound designed by Axel Kacoutié

Axel Kacoutié Instagram


This series was produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Music King Henry IV for Shade Podcast by Brian Jackson

Mixing by Tess Davidson

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]]> Welcome to my seven part end of year series! New episodes will be released each weekday between Dec 13-21. Inspired by the Black radical tradition of the harmony between the lyrical and visual, I am joined by friends (artists, dancers, musicians) to explore the musical influences that inspire their work. We also look to the people, real and imagined, familial and ancestral who guide them. Get ready to be inspired!


Today I am delighted to introduce my friend, Axel Kacoutié - the multi-award-winning creator who's been crafting sound, music, and words to challenge the familiar and revive a magic in the mundane. Previously the Creative Director of Sound at The Guardian, their work has featured on the BBC, Spotify and in physical spaces like the Barbican, Tate Modern & Sundance Film Festival. They’ve received British Podcast Awards, ARIAs, Third Coast awards and many, many more. Some of you may know Axel from our work together Black Balloons for Tate Modern, Interludes podcast series on art and healing and Wandering where we walk with creatives through art spaces. We start by hearing Axel talk about their work A Mother Tongue which is a personal essay reflecting on language, created for the BBC. They also mention Gatekeeper where Axel discovers a new sense of self in the cosmologies, concepts and realities of queer and indigenous folks. In this piece we hear Axel say "Somewhere between the narrow entry of Who I am and What I seem to be, lies a vast and nameless place.” It is this vast and nameless place that Axel and I visit in todays conversation.

ENJOY! Please review & share!


Follow us:

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Shade Art Review

Shade Art Review Christmas offer code

Shade Podcast Instagram

Gatekeeper by Axel Kacoutié

A Mother Tongue by Axel Kacoutié

V & A East The Music is Black Film sound designed by Axel Kacoutié

Axel Kacoutié Instagram


This series was produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Music King Henry IV for Shade Podcast by Brian Jackson

Mixing by Tess Davidson

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Brian Jackson Brian Jackson Wed, 13 Dec 2023 03:00:44 GMT 23:47 65786a3964f5a600161f3885 false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/brian-jackson 65786a3964f5a600161f3885 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef brian-jackson full 9 1 WELCOME TO SERIES NINE!

This is my end of year series! New episodes will be released each weekday, between Dec 13-21. Inspired by the Black radical tradition of the harmony between the lyrical and visual. I am joined by friends (artists, dancers, photographers, musicians) to explore the musical influences that inspire their work. We also look to the people, real and imagined, familial and ancestral who guide them. Get ready to be inspired!


Today I am delighted to introduce a special episode, with my friend the musician Brian Jackson. You may know Brian's work from his partnership with Gil Scott-Heron, together they made ten albums over an eight year period, including Pieces of a Man and Winter in America.

Time and time again that music has found its way onto over 100 cuts like Common's The People (from We Almost Lost Detroit) and Kendrick Lamar's Poe Mans Dreams (from Peace Go With You, Brother). Brian is still building with artists as diverse as Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad (Midnight Hour, A Tribe Called Quest) to the vocalist Gregory Porter.

I started by asking Brian about Langston Hughes, and how his legacy brought he and Gil together, where they followed in the footsteps of not only Langston Hughes but also Thurgood Marshall, Kwame Nkrumah and Oscar Brown Jr. Brian says in our conversation:

”It [Lincoln] just seemed like a logical place for me to continue my journey into Afrocentricity.”

 

"Gil used to call our songs, our albums, survival kits on wax. And, you know, that's just another way of looking at the Griot tradition. Because, it was his responsibility to heal the community. It's spiritual work."


"I'm gonna tell you Lou, before it's all over, I'm gonna do a Christmas album. What you think about that?!"


Please share and review this independent show. Thank you!

ENJOY!

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This is Brian Jackson

Jazz Is Dead


This series was produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Music King Henry IV for Shade Podcast by today's guest Brian Jackson

Mixing Tess Davidson

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]]> WELCOME TO SERIES NINE!

This is my end of year series! New episodes will be released each weekday, between Dec 13-21. Inspired by the Black radical tradition of the harmony between the lyrical and visual. I am joined by friends (artists, dancers, photographers, musicians) to explore the musical influences that inspire their work. We also look to the people, real and imagined, familial and ancestral who guide them. Get ready to be inspired!


Today I am delighted to introduce a special episode, with my friend the musician Brian Jackson. You may know Brian's work from his partnership with Gil Scott-Heron, together they made ten albums over an eight year period, including Pieces of a Man and Winter in America.

Time and time again that music has found its way onto over 100 cuts like Common's The People (from We Almost Lost Detroit) and Kendrick Lamar's Poe Mans Dreams (from Peace Go With You, Brother). Brian is still building with artists as diverse as Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad (Midnight Hour, A Tribe Called Quest) to the vocalist Gregory Porter.

I started by asking Brian about Langston Hughes, and how his legacy brought he and Gil together, where they followed in the footsteps of not only Langston Hughes but also Thurgood Marshall, Kwame Nkrumah and Oscar Brown Jr. Brian says in our conversation:

”It [Lincoln] just seemed like a logical place for me to continue my journey into Afrocentricity.”

 

"Gil used to call our songs, our albums, survival kits on wax. And, you know, that's just another way of looking at the Griot tradition. Because, it was his responsibility to heal the community. It's spiritual work."


"I'm gonna tell you Lou, before it's all over, I'm gonna do a Christmas album. What you think about that?!"


Please share and review this independent show. Thank you!

ENJOY!

Follow us:

Shade Podcast Spotify Playlist (updated daily)

Shade Art Review

Shade Art Review Christmas offer code

Shade Podcast Instagram

Brian Jackson Instagram

Brian Jackson NYTimes

Pieces of a Man Podcast

This is Brian Jackson

Jazz Is Dead


This series was produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Music King Henry IV for Shade Podcast by today's guest Brian Jackson

Mixing Tess Davidson

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]]> Wandering: An immersive gallery walk with Harold Offeh Wandering: An immersive gallery walk with Harold Offeh Thu, 30 Nov 2023 21:00:46 GMT 20:32 6568a9931cf19600131010e7 false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/wandering-an-immersive-gallery-walk-with-harold-offeh 6568a9931cf19600131010e7 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef wandering-an-immersive-gallery-walk-with-harold-offeh At Dulwich Picture Gallery in London full 8 4 Welcome to Wandering. A four part series of immersive podcast gallery walks, brought to you by Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié.


Today we meet the artist Harold Offeh at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London as he prepares to present work in their forthcoming exhibition, Soulscapes.


Opening on Feb 14th 2024, Soulscapes is a major exhibition of landscape art. Featuring more than 30 contemporary works, it will span painting, photography, film, tapestry and collage from leading artists including Harold Offeh, Hurvin Anderson, Phoebe Boswell, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Kimathi Donkor, Isaac Julien, Marcia Michael, Mónica de Miranda and Alberta Whittle, as well as some of the most important emerging voices working today.


Soulscapes will explore our connection with the world around us through the eyes of artists from the African Diaspora. 


Discover more episodes in this series as we meet Zakia Sewell, Nabihah Iqbal and Kayo Chingyoni, as they enjoy artworks in the National Portrait Gallery, Sir John Soane's Museum and Graves Gallery. 


Sponsored by Bloomberg Connects, the arts and culture app. The free app offers access to more than 250 cultural organizations through a single download, with new guides being added every week. 


To explore the Dulwich Picture Gallery guide, and many more, download the app today from the App Store or Google Play.



Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Welcome to Wandering. A four part series of immersive podcast gallery walks, brought to you by Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié.


Today we meet the artist Harold Offeh at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London as he prepares to present work in their forthcoming exhibition, Soulscapes.


Opening on Feb 14th 2024, Soulscapes is a major exhibition of landscape art. Featuring more than 30 contemporary works, it will span painting, photography, film, tapestry and collage from leading artists including Harold Offeh, Hurvin Anderson, Phoebe Boswell, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Kimathi Donkor, Isaac Julien, Marcia Michael, Mónica de Miranda and Alberta Whittle, as well as some of the most important emerging voices working today.


Soulscapes will explore our connection with the world around us through the eyes of artists from the African Diaspora. 


Discover more episodes in this series as we meet Zakia Sewell, Nabihah Iqbal and Kayo Chingyoni, as they enjoy artworks in the National Portrait Gallery, Sir John Soane's Museum and Graves Gallery. 


Sponsored by Bloomberg Connects, the arts and culture app. The free app offers access to more than 250 cultural organizations through a single download, with new guides being added every week. 


To explore the Dulwich Picture Gallery guide, and many more, download the app today from the App Store or Google Play.



Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Wandering: An immersive gallery walk with Kayo Chingonyi Wandering: An immersive gallery walk with Kayo Chingonyi Wed, 27 Sep 2023 20:00:00 GMT 19:29 6514689fd1996000112edff0 false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/wandering-an-immersive-gallery-walk-with-kayo-chingonyi 6514689fd1996000112edff0 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef wandering-an-immersive-gallery-walk-with-kayo-chingonyi At the Graves Gallery, Sheffield full 8 3 Welcome to Wandering. A four part series of immersive podcast gallery walks, brought to you by Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié.


Today we meet writer, editor and broadcaster, Kayo Chingonyi at the Graves Gallery in Sheffield, as he meditates on process and practice and what Patrick Caulfield's, The Hermit reveals to him.


Artworks Discussed in this listen: The Hermit, (1966) - Patrick Caulfield

Fountains Fell, Yorkshire Dales, 3 August 2008, (2016) - Simon Roberts


Discover more episodes in this series as we meet Zakia Sewell, Nabihah Iqbal and Harold Offeh as they enjoy artworks in the National Portrait Gallery, Sir John Soane's Museum and Dulwich Picture Gallery. 


Listen today on the Bloomberg Connects app or search for Shade Podcast wherever you download your podcasts.


Sponsored by Bloomberg Connects, the arts and culture app. The free app offers access to more than 250 cultural organizations through a single download, with new guides being added every week. 


To explore the Graves Gallery guide, and many more, download the app today from the App Store or Google Play.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Welcome to Wandering. A four part series of immersive podcast gallery walks, brought to you by Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié.


Today we meet writer, editor and broadcaster, Kayo Chingonyi at the Graves Gallery in Sheffield, as he meditates on process and practice and what Patrick Caulfield's, The Hermit reveals to him.


Artworks Discussed in this listen: The Hermit, (1966) - Patrick Caulfield

Fountains Fell, Yorkshire Dales, 3 August 2008, (2016) - Simon Roberts


Discover more episodes in this series as we meet Zakia Sewell, Nabihah Iqbal and Harold Offeh as they enjoy artworks in the National Portrait Gallery, Sir John Soane's Museum and Dulwich Picture Gallery. 


Listen today on the Bloomberg Connects app or search for Shade Podcast wherever you download your podcasts.


Sponsored by Bloomberg Connects, the arts and culture app. The free app offers access to more than 250 cultural organizations through a single download, with new guides being added every week. 


To explore the Graves Gallery guide, and many more, download the app today from the App Store or Google Play.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Wandering: immersive gallery walks, with contemporary creatives Wandering: immersive gallery walks, with contemporary creatives Wed, 20 Sep 2023 20:55:00 GMT 11:50 650afe0b3bf49b0011ca7348 false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/wandering-immersive-gallery-walks-with-contemporary-creative 650afe0b3bf49b0011ca7348 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef wandering-immersive-gallery-walks-with-contemporary-creative full 8 2 Today we meet musician, producer, broadcaster and DJ Nabihah Iqbal at Sir John Soane's Museum in London as she explores the many trinkets and secrets, hidden in the open.


Wandering is brought to you by Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié.

Discover more episodes in this series as we meet Zakia Sewell, Kayo Chingonyi and Harold Offeh as they discover artworks in the National Portrait Gallery, Graves Gallery and Dulwich Picture Gallery. 


Listen today on the Bloomberg Connects app or search for Shade Podcast wherever you download your podcasts.

Sponsored by Bloomberg Connects, the arts and culture app. The free app offers access to more than 250 cultural organizations through a single download, with new guides being added every week. 

To explore the Sir John Soane's Museum guide, and many more, download the app today from the App Store or Google Play.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Today we meet musician, producer, broadcaster and DJ Nabihah Iqbal at Sir John Soane's Museum in London as she explores the many trinkets and secrets, hidden in the open.


Wandering is brought to you by Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié.

Discover more episodes in this series as we meet Zakia Sewell, Kayo Chingonyi and Harold Offeh as they discover artworks in the National Portrait Gallery, Graves Gallery and Dulwich Picture Gallery. 


Listen today on the Bloomberg Connects app or search for Shade Podcast wherever you download your podcasts.

Sponsored by Bloomberg Connects, the arts and culture app. The free app offers access to more than 250 cultural organizations through a single download, with new guides being added every week. 

To explore the Sir John Soane's Museum guide, and many more, download the app today from the App Store or Google Play.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Wandering: a new four part podcast series of immersive gallery walks, with contemporary creatives Wandering: a new four part podcast series of immersive gallery walks, with contemporary creatives Wed, 13 Sep 2023 21:00:00 GMT 15:00 65017cb1f4929b001091829a false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/wandering-a-four-part-podcast-series-of-immersive-gallery-wa 65017cb1f4929b001091829a 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef wandering-a-four-part-podcast-series-of-immersive-gallery-wa full 8 1 Broadcaster, DJ and writer Zakia Sewell walks with us in the National Portrait Gallery in London. 


Zakia reflects on how memory and legacy influence our way of seeing, and how our contemporary eyes judge the face of history. We ask, to what extent is a portrait a mirror? 

We view a photographic portrait of Sarah Forbes Bonetta (1843-80)

Room 23, Floor 2. Historian and essayist; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) and explorer once a Governor of Jamaica, Edward John Eyre (1815-1901). Room 23, Floor 2.  


Subscribe to Shade Podcast to listen to future episodes of Wandering featuring our guests Nabihah Iqbal, Kayo Chingonyi and Harold Offeh as they discover artworks in the Sir John Soane's Museum, Graves Gallery and Dulwich Picture Gallery.


Wandering is brought to you by Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié.

Sponsored by Bloomberg Connects, the arts and culture app. The free app offers access to more than 250 cultural organizations through a single download, with new guides being added every week. 


To explore the National Portrait Gallery guide, and many more, download the app today from the App Store or Google Play.


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Broadcaster, DJ and writer Zakia Sewell walks with us in the National Portrait Gallery in London. 


Zakia reflects on how memory and legacy influence our way of seeing, and how our contemporary eyes judge the face of history. We ask, to what extent is a portrait a mirror? 

We view a photographic portrait of Sarah Forbes Bonetta (1843-80)

Room 23, Floor 2. Historian and essayist; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) and explorer once a Governor of Jamaica, Edward John Eyre (1815-1901). Room 23, Floor 2.  


Subscribe to Shade Podcast to listen to future episodes of Wandering featuring our guests Nabihah Iqbal, Kayo Chingonyi and Harold Offeh as they discover artworks in the Sir John Soane's Museum, Graves Gallery and Dulwich Picture Gallery.


Wandering is brought to you by Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié.

Sponsored by Bloomberg Connects, the arts and culture app. The free app offers access to more than 250 cultural organizations through a single download, with new guides being added every week. 


To explore the National Portrait Gallery guide, and many more, download the app today from the App Store or Google Play.


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Eddie Hutton-Mills. Director BBC Kanaval: A Peoples History of Haiti in Six Chapters Eddie Hutton-Mills. Director BBC Kanaval: A Peoples History of Haiti in Six Chapters Thu, 01 Jun 2023 03:30:54 GMT 28:58 6477763e8862de00116f5fea false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/shade-shorts-on-film 6477763e8862de00116f5fea 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef shade-shorts-on-film full 7 4 Today my guest is the Director Eddie Hutton-Mills. Eddie co-directed Kanaval: A Peoples History of Haiti in Six Chapters with Leah Gordon.

Eddie Hutton-Mills is an award winning documentary filmmaker, who has made films for all the major UK & US broadcasters including the BBC, ITV and Channel 4. He’s also made biographical

feature films about Naomi Campbell and Diane Abbott. His passion is for making films about subjects that need confronting like Fighting The Power: Britain After George Floyd. He is currently directing a film for the prestigious BBC Storyville strand.

Eddie and I discuss Kanaval in this episode. A visually arresting feature documentary, set in the present but which tells the rich story of Haiti’s past, that follows a number of carnival performers in the lead-up to, and during, the annual Jacmel Mardi Gras. The performers relate their own personal histories as well as the stories of their carnival characters, which represent moments and people from the distant, and not so distant, Haitian past. Interwoven with the interviews, testimonies and observational footage is archive material, drawn from a wide variety of sources to enhance our understanding of Haitian history and culture from the time of the indigenous Taino through to the present day. This is not the carnival of sequins and sound systems found elsewhere in the Caribbean, but a celebration of rebellion and resistance resonating through the centuries.

The documentary was nominated for Best Debut Director and Best Cinematography in the British Independent Film Awards and Best Documentary at the London film awards, in 2022.


Watch Kanaval on BBCiPlayer


Thank you for listening and for supporting Shade - the award winning independent art show highlighting the work of Black art practitioners via Patreon or Ko-fi

See you next time!


Shade Podcast is hosted and produced by Lou Mensah

Music generously composed for Shade by Brian Jackson

Shade Instagram

Shade website

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]]> Today my guest is the Director Eddie Hutton-Mills. Eddie co-directed Kanaval: A Peoples History of Haiti in Six Chapters with Leah Gordon.

Eddie Hutton-Mills is an award winning documentary filmmaker, who has made films for all the major UK & US broadcasters including the BBC, ITV and Channel 4. He’s also made biographical

feature films about Naomi Campbell and Diane Abbott. His passion is for making films about subjects that need confronting like Fighting The Power: Britain After George Floyd. He is currently directing a film for the prestigious BBC Storyville strand.

Eddie and I discuss Kanaval in this episode. A visually arresting feature documentary, set in the present but which tells the rich story of Haiti’s past, that follows a number of carnival performers in the lead-up to, and during, the annual Jacmel Mardi Gras. The performers relate their own personal histories as well as the stories of their carnival characters, which represent moments and people from the distant, and not so distant, Haitian past. Interwoven with the interviews, testimonies and observational footage is archive material, drawn from a wide variety of sources to enhance our understanding of Haitian history and culture from the time of the indigenous Taino through to the present day. This is not the carnival of sequins and sound systems found elsewhere in the Caribbean, but a celebration of rebellion and resistance resonating through the centuries.

The documentary was nominated for Best Debut Director and Best Cinematography in the British Independent Film Awards and Best Documentary at the London film awards, in 2022.


Watch Kanaval on BBCiPlayer


Thank you for listening and for supporting Shade - the award winning independent art show highlighting the work of Black art practitioners via Patreon or Ko-fi

See you next time!


Shade Podcast is hosted and produced by Lou Mensah

Music generously composed for Shade by Brian Jackson

Shade Instagram

Shade website

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Interludes: Shade at Tate Modern. Liz Johnson Artur sound installation Interludes: Shade at Tate Modern. Liz Johnson Artur sound installation Fri, 26 May 2023 08:49:20 GMT 16:11 64707290c2fe9e00112ab9c9 false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/interludes-black-balloons-at-tate-modern 64707290c2fe9e00112ab9c9 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef interludes-black-balloons-at-tate-modern full Interludes: Black Balloons is a new sound installation by Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié now showing at Tate Gallery. Responding to Liz Johnson Artur’s display Time don’t run here, the piece references Artur’s Black Lives Matter protest images and works from her ongoing Black Balloon Archive documenting people in Africa, and of the African and Caribbean diasporas.


Experience Liz Johnson Artur’s work with the ear and body. How does sound change how you see the works? What pulses through you when you see the images, braille and thread?


The soundscape features the voices of Liz Johnson Artur, artists Imogen Faires and Jamel Alatise from Theatre Peckham, and Research and Interpretation Artist Resident, Marie Smith. It includes extracts from Poetry as Protest, Protest as Poetry, a poem by Faires and Alatise responding to the display and performed live at Tate Modern in April 2023.


Visit the installation at Tate Modern, Natalie Bell Building, Level 2 West Room 4, Artist and Society. Black Balloons will play in the gallery at the following times: 11.00am, 12.00pm, 1.00pm, 3.00pm, 4.00pm, 5.00pm.

Interludes is an ongoing sound collaboration between Lou Mensah of Shade Podcast and the audio artist Axel Kacoutié.

Produced by Lou Mensah

Created by Axel Kacoutié



Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Interludes: Black Balloons is a new sound installation by Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié now showing at Tate Gallery. Responding to Liz Johnson Artur’s display Time don’t run here, the piece references Artur’s Black Lives Matter protest images and works from her ongoing Black Balloon Archive documenting people in Africa, and of the African and Caribbean diasporas.


Experience Liz Johnson Artur’s work with the ear and body. How does sound change how you see the works? What pulses through you when you see the images, braille and thread?


The soundscape features the voices of Liz Johnson Artur, artists Imogen Faires and Jamel Alatise from Theatre Peckham, and Research and Interpretation Artist Resident, Marie Smith. It includes extracts from Poetry as Protest, Protest as Poetry, a poem by Faires and Alatise responding to the display and performed live at Tate Modern in April 2023.


Visit the installation at Tate Modern, Natalie Bell Building, Level 2 West Room 4, Artist and Society. Black Balloons will play in the gallery at the following times: 11.00am, 12.00pm, 1.00pm, 3.00pm, 4.00pm, 5.00pm.

Interludes is an ongoing sound collaboration between Lou Mensah of Shade Podcast and the audio artist Axel Kacoutié.

Produced by Lou Mensah

Created by Axel Kacoutié



Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Jermaine Francis on film : Lost In Music A Post Industrial Dreamscape Jermaine Francis on film : Lost In Music A Post Industrial Dreamscape Mon, 22 May 2023 03:00:35 GMT 41:18 6469d0e66b1f980011b162d9 false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/jermaine-francis-lost-in-music-a-post-industrial-dreamscape 6469d0e66b1f980011b162d9 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef jermaine-francis-lost-in-music-a-post-industrial-dreamscape full 7 3 An exploration of race and politics via the dancefloor.

Today my guest is the photographer and filmmaker Jermaine Francis.

Jermaine and I discuss his recent film Lost in Music: A Post Industrial Dreamscape - an exploration of race and politics within a dancefloor context. This work was recently presented alongside a discussion with the writer Nathalie Olah and photographer Edward "Eddie" Otchere at Camden Arts Centre.

His practice works within documentary & portraiture, in the format of personal driven photo projects & editorials, exploring the issues that arise from our interaction in the everyday environment. He has published two books, Something That Seems So Familiar and Rhythms from the Metroplex.

Jermaine's work can be found in publications such as i-D, 10 Magazine and the Wall Street Journal, and in exhibitions at GaleriePCP in Paris and Saatchi Gallery.

I loved talking with Jermaine and I hope that you enjoy his words on his rich creative life as much as I did.


Thank you for listening and for supporting Shade - the award winning independent art show highlighting the work of Black art practitioners via Patreon and Ko-fi

See you next time!


Shade Podcast is hosted and produced by Lou Mensah

Music generously composed for Shade by Brian Jackson

Shade Instagram

Shade website

Jermaine Francis instagram

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> An exploration of race and politics via the dancefloor.

Today my guest is the photographer and filmmaker Jermaine Francis.

Jermaine and I discuss his recent film Lost in Music: A Post Industrial Dreamscape - an exploration of race and politics within a dancefloor context. This work was recently presented alongside a discussion with the writer Nathalie Olah and photographer Edward "Eddie" Otchere at Camden Arts Centre.

His practice works within documentary & portraiture, in the format of personal driven photo projects & editorials, exploring the issues that arise from our interaction in the everyday environment. He has published two books, Something That Seems So Familiar and Rhythms from the Metroplex.

Jermaine's work can be found in publications such as i-D, 10 Magazine and the Wall Street Journal, and in exhibitions at GaleriePCP in Paris and Saatchi Gallery.

I loved talking with Jermaine and I hope that you enjoy his words on his rich creative life as much as I did.


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]]> Caribbean film with Patrice Robinson Caribbean film with Patrice Robinson Tue, 09 May 2023 03:00:05 GMT 14:26 6457f370eff373001109f92e false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/shade-shorts-on-caribbean-film-with-patrice-robinson 6457f370eff373001109f92e 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef shade-shorts-on-caribbean-film-with-patrice-robinson full 7 2 Snapshots: Caribbean Cinema Up Close at The Barbican.

Today my guest is Patrice Robinson who talks about Snapshots: Caribbean Cinema Up Close, at The Barbican, her debut curatorial season. With interest in communities, community access to film and the intimacies of the human experience, Patrice is a film programmer and writer working in the intersection of audiences and cinema.


We discuss Patrice's late entry into film following a change in career, and how the Independent Cinema Office’s FEDS Scheme led to her permanent position at The Barbican. She also shares how her time at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival informed Snapshots, and why she focused on films that shared themes of connection - to the land, oneself and family.


Snapshots offers a rare insight into the flourishing Caribbean film culture. Exploring individual and shared cultural identities, Snapshots: Caribbean Cinema Up Close runs from 17-31 May, and kicks off with the UK premiere of the brand new restoration of Kavery Kaul’s One Hand Don’t Clap, her upbeat archive documentary which explores the importance of Calypso music and the community around it. The season continues with Currents, a programme of seven shorts by Caribbean filmmakers which explore universal themes of (familial and self) acceptance, overcoming adversity, justice and pride from a uniquely Caribbean perspective.


The season closes with writer/director José María Cabral’s Parsley, based on the real story of the Parsley Massacre, a mass killing of Haitians living in

the Dominican Republic north western frontier October 1937. Parsley tells the story of a heavily pregnant Haitian woman left alone in the wilderness near the Dominican border, trying to escape the attack.


Snapshots: Caribbean Cinema Up Close - The Barbican

Wed 17 - Wed 31 May 2023


Shade Podcast is written, hosted and produced by Lou Mensah

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]]> Snapshots: Caribbean Cinema Up Close at The Barbican.

Today my guest is Patrice Robinson who talks about Snapshots: Caribbean Cinema Up Close, at The Barbican, her debut curatorial season. With interest in communities, community access to film and the intimacies of the human experience, Patrice is a film programmer and writer working in the intersection of audiences and cinema.


We discuss Patrice's late entry into film following a change in career, and how the Independent Cinema Office’s FEDS Scheme led to her permanent position at The Barbican. She also shares how her time at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival informed Snapshots, and why she focused on films that shared themes of connection - to the land, oneself and family.


Snapshots offers a rare insight into the flourishing Caribbean film culture. Exploring individual and shared cultural identities, Snapshots: Caribbean Cinema Up Close runs from 17-31 May, and kicks off with the UK premiere of the brand new restoration of Kavery Kaul’s One Hand Don’t Clap, her upbeat archive documentary which explores the importance of Calypso music and the community around it. The season continues with Currents, a programme of seven shorts by Caribbean filmmakers which explore universal themes of (familial and self) acceptance, overcoming adversity, justice and pride from a uniquely Caribbean perspective.


The season closes with writer/director José María Cabral’s Parsley, based on the real story of the Parsley Massacre, a mass killing of Haitians living in

the Dominican Republic north western frontier October 1937. Parsley tells the story of a heavily pregnant Haitian woman left alone in the wilderness near the Dominican border, trying to escape the attack.


Snapshots: Caribbean Cinema Up Close - The Barbican

Wed 17 - Wed 31 May 2023


Shade Podcast is written, hosted and produced by Lou Mensah

Music generously composed for Shade by Brian Jackson

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]]> Shade Shorts on Film with June Givanni Shade Shorts on Film with June Givanni Tue, 02 May 2023 16:48:54 GMT 37:34 64513ef7867492001299ff9e false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/shade-shorts-on-film-with-june-givanni 64513ef7867492001299ff9e 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef shade-shorts-on-film-with-june-givanni full 7 1 PerAnkh – The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive, now showing at Raven Row London.

Today my guest is the film curator and archivist, June Givanni.

June's new exhibition, PerAnkh: The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive, is showing at Raven Row in London until 4 June 2023.

The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive (JGPACA) holds a unique collection of artefacts and archival material, which has at its core the interest of PanAfrican cinema and its relationship with Black British cinema and culture. The exhibition reveals histories and ideas in African and African diasporic film. June has been collating and sharing this material since the 1980s. A key figure in the Black British Independent Cinema movement, she was involved in the landmark Third Eye Festival of Third World Cinema with the Greater London Council in 1983, later establishing the African Caribbean Film

Unit at the (BFI) in 1992. June’s archive holds more than 10,000 items connecting African film with the film cultures of diaspora communities in the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe. June and I met this week to discuss her early connection with film as a child and her four decades of work as a curator and archivist.


Shade Podcast is written, hosted and produced by Lou Mensah

Music generously composed for Shade by Brian Jackson

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PerAnkh: The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive, is showing at Raven Row exhibition details and programming

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]]> PerAnkh – The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive, now showing at Raven Row London.

Today my guest is the film curator and archivist, June Givanni.

June's new exhibition, PerAnkh: The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive, is showing at Raven Row in London until 4 June 2023.

The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive (JGPACA) holds a unique collection of artefacts and archival material, which has at its core the interest of PanAfrican cinema and its relationship with Black British cinema and culture. The exhibition reveals histories and ideas in African and African diasporic film. June has been collating and sharing this material since the 1980s. A key figure in the Black British Independent Cinema movement, she was involved in the landmark Third Eye Festival of Third World Cinema with the Greater London Council in 1983, later establishing the African Caribbean Film

Unit at the (BFI) in 1992. June’s archive holds more than 10,000 items connecting African film with the film cultures of diaspora communities in the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe. June and I met this week to discuss her early connection with film as a child and her four decades of work as a curator and archivist.


Shade Podcast is written, hosted and produced by Lou Mensah

Music generously composed for Shade by Brian Jackson

Thank you for listening and for supporting Shade - an independent art show highlighting the work of Black art practitioners via Patreon and Ko-fi

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PerAnkh: The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive, is showing at Raven Row exhibition details and programming

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]]> Hear, Now. A Podcast from Whitechapel Gallery: Tracing Absence exhibition Hear, Now. A Podcast from Whitechapel Gallery: Tracing Absence exhibition Fri, 28 Apr 2023 12:35:32 GMT 43:31 644bbd94c5d56200124eaa75 false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/hear-now-a-podcast-from-whitechapel-gallery-tracing-absence- 644bbd94c5d56200124eaa75 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef hear-now-a-podcast-from-whitechapel-gallery-tracing-absence- bonus Featuring Lou Mensah & Sunil Shah.

Enjoy this bonus episode of my conversation with the curators of Tracing Absence, a Whitechapel Gallery exhibition opening at the Kistefos Museum in Norway on April 29th, 2023. The MA student curators of Tracing Absence re-imagine the show to respond to the local context. 


Episode 18 of Whitechapel Gallery’s Hear, Now podcast series was published in October 2022. It delves deeper into the themes that underpin the exhibition Tracing Absence. Students graduating from the MA Curating Art and Public Programmes course, run by Whitechapel Gallery and London South Bank University, had the opportunity to curate this exhibition as part of their course, which confronts the different ways in which absence manifests in the world.


Tracing Absence features new sound art pieces by Joseph Sergi and Yiskāh (alias Jessica Beechy) and works from the Christen Sveaas Art Foundation. Student Cathy O ‘Sullivan presents and introduces fellow student Ada Egg Koskilouma who talks with Sunil Shah and Lou Mensah, to explore what absence means to them.


Sunil Shah is an artist and curator based in Oxford, UK. He is interested in the politics of photographic representation and conceptual post-documentary practices with relation to history, memory and identity.


Lou Mensah is a London based writer, photographer and the founder of Shade Podcast, a platform which hosts conversations with creative and radical thinkers on the politics of race and representation within the arts.


Please follow this link to view the publication that accompanies the exhibition and listen to the sound art works by Joseph Sergi and Yiskāh: https://linktr.ee/tracingabsence


For more information: https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/tracing-absence/


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]]> Featuring Lou Mensah & Sunil Shah.

Enjoy this bonus episode of my conversation with the curators of Tracing Absence, a Whitechapel Gallery exhibition opening at the Kistefos Museum in Norway on April 29th, 2023. The MA student curators of Tracing Absence re-imagine the show to respond to the local context. 


Episode 18 of Whitechapel Gallery’s Hear, Now podcast series was published in October 2022. It delves deeper into the themes that underpin the exhibition Tracing Absence. Students graduating from the MA Curating Art and Public Programmes course, run by Whitechapel Gallery and London South Bank University, had the opportunity to curate this exhibition as part of their course, which confronts the different ways in which absence manifests in the world.


Tracing Absence features new sound art pieces by Joseph Sergi and Yiskāh (alias Jessica Beechy) and works from the Christen Sveaas Art Foundation. Student Cathy O ‘Sullivan presents and introduces fellow student Ada Egg Koskilouma who talks with Sunil Shah and Lou Mensah, to explore what absence means to them.


Sunil Shah is an artist and curator based in Oxford, UK. He is interested in the politics of photographic representation and conceptual post-documentary practices with relation to history, memory and identity.


Lou Mensah is a London based writer, photographer and the founder of Shade Podcast, a platform which hosts conversations with creative and radical thinkers on the politics of race and representation within the arts.


Please follow this link to view the publication that accompanies the exhibition and listen to the sound art works by Joseph Sergi and Yiskāh: https://linktr.ee/tracingabsence


For more information: https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/tracing-absence/


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]]> Shade Shorts: on curation with Jareh Das Shade Shorts: on curation with Jareh Das Mon, 03 Apr 2023 04:00:09 GMT 35:34 6429d3241c2e26001147183c false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/shade-shorts-on-curation-with-jareh-das 6429d3241c2e26001147183c 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef shade-shorts-on-curation-with-jareh-das full 6 4 Writer, researcher and independent curator: Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics and Contemporary Art.

Dr Jareh Das is an independent curator, researcher and writer who lives and works between West Africa and the UK. Das’ academic and curatorial practice is informed by an interest in global modern and contemporary art with a specific focus on performance. In 2022, Das curated Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics and Contemporary Art an exhibition that spanned seventy years of ceramics and explored how clay has been disrupted, questioned and reimagined by Black women artists. She has written for publications including Ocula Magazine, Frieze, Hyperallergic, Bomb Magazine, Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art and The Art Newspaper.


Shade Podcast is written, hosted and produced by Lou Mensah

Music generously composed for Shade by Brian Jackson

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]]> Writer, researcher and independent curator: Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics and Contemporary Art.

Dr Jareh Das is an independent curator, researcher and writer who lives and works between West Africa and the UK. Das’ academic and curatorial practice is informed by an interest in global modern and contemporary art with a specific focus on performance. In 2022, Das curated Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics and Contemporary Art an exhibition that spanned seventy years of ceramics and explored how clay has been disrupted, questioned and reimagined by Black women artists. She has written for publications including Ocula Magazine, Frieze, Hyperallergic, Bomb Magazine, Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art and The Art Newspaper.


Shade Podcast is written, hosted and produced by Lou Mensah

Music generously composed for Shade by Brian Jackson

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]]> Shade Shorts: on Curation with Aindrea Emelife Shade Shorts: on Curation with Aindrea Emelife Fri, 31 Mar 2023 04:00:34 GMT 24:12 6425d04d93caf000127d5474 false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/shade-shorts-on-curation-with-aindrea-emelife 6425d04d93caf000127d5474 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef shade-shorts-on-curation-with-aindrea-emelife full 6 3 Curator and art historian specialising in modern and contemporary art and curator of Black Venus at Somerset House.


*Please note that the sound quality in this episode is compromised due to an unstable internet connection between London and Lagos, where this conversation was recorded. However, Aindrea's insights are not to be missed!


Aindrea Emelife is a Nigerian-British curator and art historian specialising in modern and contemporary art, with a focus on questions around colonial and decolonial histories in Africa, transnationalism and the politics of representation. Aindrea is currently the Curator, Modern and Contemporary at EMOWAA (Edo Museum of West African Art), a new David Adjaye designed museum complex and cultural district in Benin City, Nigeria due to open in stages from 2024.

 

Born in London, United Kingdom, Emelife studied at The Courtauld Institute of Art before embarking on a multifaceted career as a curator and art historian, producing highly acclaimed exhibitions for museum, galleries and private collections internationally. Recent exhibitions include BLACK VENUS; a survey of the legacy of the Black woman in visual culture which opened at Fotografiska NY and will tour to MOAD (San Francisco, USA) and Somerset House (London, UK) in 2023. Emelife’s first book, A Brief History of Protest Art was released by Tate in March 2022, Emelife has contributed to exhibition catalogues and publications, most recently including Revising Modern British Art (Lund Humphries, 2022) In 2021, Emelife was appointed to the Mayor of London’s Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm.


Lou and Aindrea consider Theaster Gates idea that “Black autonomy alone is too radical for current America” within the context of developing dialogues in contemporary art. We discuss the themes in her recent show 'Black Venus' and round up considering a key question of the series: 'Has the BLM period impacted art sector strategy?' We also find out how Aindrea navigates social media as a Black curator.


Shade Podcast is written, hosted and produced by Lou Mensah

Music generously composed for Shade by Brian Jackson

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]]> Curator and art historian specialising in modern and contemporary art and curator of Black Venus at Somerset House.


*Please note that the sound quality in this episode is compromised due to an unstable internet connection between London and Lagos, where this conversation was recorded. However, Aindrea's insights are not to be missed!


Aindrea Emelife is a Nigerian-British curator and art historian specialising in modern and contemporary art, with a focus on questions around colonial and decolonial histories in Africa, transnationalism and the politics of representation. Aindrea is currently the Curator, Modern and Contemporary at EMOWAA (Edo Museum of West African Art), a new David Adjaye designed museum complex and cultural district in Benin City, Nigeria due to open in stages from 2024.

 

Born in London, United Kingdom, Emelife studied at The Courtauld Institute of Art before embarking on a multifaceted career as a curator and art historian, producing highly acclaimed exhibitions for museum, galleries and private collections internationally. Recent exhibitions include BLACK VENUS; a survey of the legacy of the Black woman in visual culture which opened at Fotografiska NY and will tour to MOAD (San Francisco, USA) and Somerset House (London, UK) in 2023. Emelife’s first book, A Brief History of Protest Art was released by Tate in March 2022, Emelife has contributed to exhibition catalogues and publications, most recently including Revising Modern British Art (Lund Humphries, 2022) In 2021, Emelife was appointed to the Mayor of London’s Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm.


Lou and Aindrea consider Theaster Gates idea that “Black autonomy alone is too radical for current America” within the context of developing dialogues in contemporary art. We discuss the themes in her recent show 'Black Venus' and round up considering a key question of the series: 'Has the BLM period impacted art sector strategy?' We also find out how Aindrea navigates social media as a Black curator.


Shade Podcast is written, hosted and produced by Lou Mensah

Music generously composed for Shade by Brian Jackson

Thank you for listening and for supporting Shade - an independent art show highlighting the work of Black art practitioners via Patreon and Ko-fi


Shade Instagram

Shade website

EMOWAA website

Aindrea Emelife website

Aindrea Emelife instagram


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]]> Shade Shorts: On curation with Bolanle Tajudeen Shade Shorts: On curation with Bolanle Tajudeen Tue, 21 Mar 2023 04:00:04 GMT 15:45 641849e4fd7cf9001198bbd2 false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/shade-shorts-on-curation-with-bolanle-tajudeen 641849e4fd7cf9001198bbd2 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef shade-shorts-on-curation-with-bolanle-tajudeen Founder of Black Blossoms full 6 2 Bolanle Tajudeen founded Black Blossoms in 2015 to showcase the work of contemporary artists of colour. 

In 2020, Bolanle launched the Black Blossoms School of Art and Culture, an initiative highlighting the art histories and creative practices of artists from historically marginalised backgrounds. As an alternative art school, Black Blossoms offers short educational courses including Art and Revolutionary China, Black British Art, The Black Image in London Galleries, and Curating Black Art.

Lou & Bolanle discuss her shift in focus from studying politics, to art at UAL where, as the Vice President of the Student Union she co-founded UAL So White to address the lack of diversity in teaching staff. At the time there were 1,300 white and 126 BAME staff.

Black Blossoms provides public programming for Art on the Underground and partners include The Photographer's Gallery and Tate. We also discuss the media backlash Bolanle received following her Art on the Underground public programme. We round up hearing about Flourish Black Blossoms forthcoming event at Tate inspired by The Unfinished Conversation display curated by Aicha Mehrez.


Shade Podcast is written, hosted and produced by Lou Mensah

Music Shaded generously composed by Brian Jackson

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Black Blossoms Flourish at Tate

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]]> Bolanle Tajudeen founded Black Blossoms in 2015 to showcase the work of contemporary artists of colour. 

In 2020, Bolanle launched the Black Blossoms School of Art and Culture, an initiative highlighting the art histories and creative practices of artists from historically marginalised backgrounds. As an alternative art school, Black Blossoms offers short educational courses including Art and Revolutionary China, Black British Art, The Black Image in London Galleries, and Curating Black Art.

Lou & Bolanle discuss her shift in focus from studying politics, to art at UAL where, as the Vice President of the Student Union she co-founded UAL So White to address the lack of diversity in teaching staff. At the time there were 1,300 white and 126 BAME staff.

Black Blossoms provides public programming for Art on the Underground and partners include The Photographer's Gallery and Tate. We also discuss the media backlash Bolanle received following her Art on the Underground public programme. We round up hearing about Flourish Black Blossoms forthcoming event at Tate inspired by The Unfinished Conversation display curated by Aicha Mehrez.


Shade Podcast is written, hosted and produced by Lou Mensah

Music Shaded generously composed by Brian Jackson

Thank you for listening and for supporting Shade - an independent art show highlighting the work of Black art practitioners via Patreon and Ko-fi


Shade Instagram

Shade website

Black Blossoms Flourish at Tate

Black Blossoms website

Black Blossoms Instagram


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]]> Shade Shorts on curation with Péjú Oshin Shade Shorts on curation with Péjú Oshin Wed, 15 Mar 2023 06:35:10 GMT 18:54 6410963b359f7d0011a0b4eb false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/shade-shorts-on-curation 6410963b359f7d0011a0b4eb 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef shade-shorts-on-curation full 6 1 Associate Director Gagosian Gallery.

Péjú Oshin is the Associate Director of Gagosian Gallery and curator of Rites of Passage the exhibition featuring work by nineteen contemporary artists who share a history of migration.

Rites of Passage explores the idea of “liminal space,” a coinage of anthropologist Arnold van Gennep (1873–1957). It is structured in correspondence with liminality’s three stages: separation, transition, and return. Each of these phases addresses the act of movement, not only through individual experience, but also in the broader context of community. The exhibition examines the status of postcolonial Black identity, specifically the “triple consciousness” experienced by members of the African diaspora when encountering counterparts who identify with local majority populations. 


Péjú shares the personal and professional journey behind curating this exhibition, plus the impact and legacy of BLM 2020 on her previous role as Curator of Young People's Programmes at Tate and beyond. We round up exploring the visible public positioning of a curator and how the contemporary media landscape informs working practices.


Shade Podcast is written, hosted and produced by Lou Mensah

Music Shaded is composed by Brian Jackson

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]]> Associate Director Gagosian Gallery.

Péjú Oshin is the Associate Director of Gagosian Gallery and curator of Rites of Passage the exhibition featuring work by nineteen contemporary artists who share a history of migration.

Rites of Passage explores the idea of “liminal space,” a coinage of anthropologist Arnold van Gennep (1873–1957). It is structured in correspondence with liminality’s three stages: separation, transition, and return. Each of these phases addresses the act of movement, not only through individual experience, but also in the broader context of community. The exhibition examines the status of postcolonial Black identity, specifically the “triple consciousness” experienced by members of the African diaspora when encountering counterparts who identify with local majority populations. 


Péjú shares the personal and professional journey behind curating this exhibition, plus the impact and legacy of BLM 2020 on her previous role as Curator of Young People's Programmes at Tate and beyond. We round up exploring the visible public positioning of a curator and how the contemporary media landscape informs working practices.


Shade Podcast is written, hosted and produced by Lou Mensah

Music Shaded is composed by Brian Jackson

Thank you for listening and for supporting Shade, a Black independent art show via Patreon and Ko-fi


Shade Instagram

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Rites of Passage at Gagosian

Péjú Oshin Instagram


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]]> Interludes: Portals Interludes: Portals Tue, 01 Nov 2022 05:00:36 GMT 12:21 63602d3e66dc530012809323 false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/interludes-portals 63602d3e66dc530012809323 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef interludes-portals Series finale, featuring artist Cassi Namoda full Portals features the voice of Cassi Namoda who shares her reflections based on her practice and work titled 'Worship at Bar Mundo' (2022).

View 'Worship at Bar Mundo' here whilst listening to Axel's sonic response throughout this episode.

Cassi Namoda is a painter whose work interweaves the personal with the historical. Born in Maputo and having lived in several different countries throughout her life, Namoda’s nomadic lifestyle and multicultural identity has long informed her work. The duality between past and present, colonialism and post-colonialism, Africa and Europe, spiritual traditions and a globalised world is a latent force in her most recent paintings.

Discover more of Cassi's work at Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Goodman Gallery, François Ghebaly Gallery and on Cassi's instagram here.


Interludes is a collaboration between Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié featuring six contemporary artists: Amy Sherald, Ming Smith, Phoebe Boswell, Rahima Gambo, Nnena Kalu and Cassi Namoda.

Framed by the question "What does healing sound like?", these podcasts offer a visceral connection with the artists' work. In each episode we weave the artists' reflections through Axel's original soundscapes, as a collaborative exploration of their creative experience.

The aim is to soften our tendency to intellectualise artwork, and instead create a sonic texture that is more intimate in its connection with the artist.


Concept & Production by Lou Mensah

Created by Axel Kacoutié

Interludes is supported by Hauser & Wirth

Read more about this series in Hauser & Wirth Ursula Magazine


Additional support by Frieze Membership, the community that champions art. Frieze members enjoy articles from the leading voices shaping today’s art world, priority booking to Frieze fairs and unique perks along the way. Find out more on frieze.com/membership

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]]> Portals features the voice of Cassi Namoda who shares her reflections based on her practice and work titled 'Worship at Bar Mundo' (2022).

View 'Worship at Bar Mundo' here whilst listening to Axel's sonic response throughout this episode.

Cassi Namoda is a painter whose work interweaves the personal with the historical. Born in Maputo and having lived in several different countries throughout her life, Namoda’s nomadic lifestyle and multicultural identity has long informed her work. The duality between past and present, colonialism and post-colonialism, Africa and Europe, spiritual traditions and a globalised world is a latent force in her most recent paintings.

Discover more of Cassi's work at Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Goodman Gallery, François Ghebaly Gallery and on Cassi's instagram here.


Interludes is a collaboration between Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié featuring six contemporary artists: Amy Sherald, Ming Smith, Phoebe Boswell, Rahima Gambo, Nnena Kalu and Cassi Namoda.

Framed by the question "What does healing sound like?", these podcasts offer a visceral connection with the artists' work. In each episode we weave the artists' reflections through Axel's original soundscapes, as a collaborative exploration of their creative experience.

The aim is to soften our tendency to intellectualise artwork, and instead create a sonic texture that is more intimate in its connection with the artist.


Concept & Production by Lou Mensah

Created by Axel Kacoutié

Interludes is supported by Hauser & Wirth

Read more about this series in Hauser & Wirth Ursula Magazine


Additional support by Frieze Membership, the community that champions art. Frieze members enjoy articles from the leading voices shaping today’s art world, priority booking to Frieze fairs and unique perks along the way. Find out more on frieze.com/membership

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]]> Interludes: Mandala Interludes: Mandala Tue, 25 Oct 2022 04:00:54 GMT 7:16 6356d14592f06b0012b288a5 false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/interludes-mandala 6356d14592f06b0012b288a5 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef interludes-mandala Nnena Kalu full Mandala features the sounds of the artist Nnena Kalu creating an untitled work and the voice of ActionSpace Associate Artist, Charlotte Hollinshead.


Nnena Kalu has created a vast body of sculptural and 2D artworks and developed a live, performative element to her practice. She is driven by an instinctive urge to build repeated marks and forms, creating intensely layered, visually impactful artworks with dense colours and compacted, flowing lines. Nnena has developed her artistic practice at the ActionSpace studio in Studio Voltaire since 1999.

ActionSpace is London’s leading development agency for learning disabled artists. All of their work is focused towards enabling learning disabled artists to have a professional career in the arts. 

View Nnena's work here whilst listening to Axel's sonic response throughout this episode.


Interludes is a collaboration between Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié featuring six contemporary artists: Amy Sherald, Ming Smith, Phoebe Boswell, Rahima Gambo, Nnena Kalu and Cassi Namoda.

Framed by the question "What does healing sound like?", these podcasts offer a visceral connection with the artists' work. In each episode we weave the artists' reflections through Axel's original soundscapes, as a collaborative exploration of their creative experience.

The aim is to soften our tendency to intellectualise artwork, and instead create a sonic texture that is more intimate in its connection with the artist.


Concept & Production by Lou Mensah

Created by Axel Kacoutié

Interludes is supported by Hauser & Wirth

Read more about this series in Hauser & Wirth Ursula Magazine


Additional support by Frieze Membership, the community that champions art. Frieze members enjoy articles from the leading voices shaping today’s art world, priority booking to Frieze fairs and unique perks along the way. Find out more on frieze.com/membership

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Mandala features the sounds of the artist Nnena Kalu creating an untitled work and the voice of ActionSpace Associate Artist, Charlotte Hollinshead.


Nnena Kalu has created a vast body of sculptural and 2D artworks and developed a live, performative element to her practice. She is driven by an instinctive urge to build repeated marks and forms, creating intensely layered, visually impactful artworks with dense colours and compacted, flowing lines. Nnena has developed her artistic practice at the ActionSpace studio in Studio Voltaire since 1999.

ActionSpace is London’s leading development agency for learning disabled artists. All of their work is focused towards enabling learning disabled artists to have a professional career in the arts. 

View Nnena's work here whilst listening to Axel's sonic response throughout this episode.


Interludes is a collaboration between Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié featuring six contemporary artists: Amy Sherald, Ming Smith, Phoebe Boswell, Rahima Gambo, Nnena Kalu and Cassi Namoda.

Framed by the question "What does healing sound like?", these podcasts offer a visceral connection with the artists' work. In each episode we weave the artists' reflections through Axel's original soundscapes, as a collaborative exploration of their creative experience.

The aim is to soften our tendency to intellectualise artwork, and instead create a sonic texture that is more intimate in its connection with the artist.


Concept & Production by Lou Mensah

Created by Axel Kacoutié

Interludes is supported by Hauser & Wirth

Read more about this series in Hauser & Wirth Ursula Magazine


Additional support by Frieze Membership, the community that champions art. Frieze members enjoy articles from the leading voices shaping today’s art world, priority booking to Frieze fairs and unique perks along the way. Find out more on frieze.com/membership

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Interludes: featuring Ming Smith Interludes: featuring Ming Smith Tue, 18 Oct 2022 04:00:17 GMT 12:27 634d78484faafe0012d28c88 false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/interludes-where-the-sun-sleeps 634d78484faafe0012d28c88 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef interludes-where-the-sun-sleeps Where the sun sleeps full Where the sun sleeps features the voice of photographer Ming Smith who shares her reflections based on her practice and work Circle of Life (Hakone, Japan 1985).

Ming Smith was the first female member to join Kamoinge, a collective of black photographers in New York in the 1960s, working to document black life. Smith would go on to be the first black woman photographer to be included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art.

Smith has often described her work as ‘celebrating the struggle, the survival and to find grace in it.’ Many of Smith’s subjects were well-known black cultural figures from Nina Simone, Grace Jones and Alice Coltrane: all from her neighbourhood. Smith has cited music as being a big influence in her work, saying 'these pieces are like the blues.’

View 'Circle of life' here whilst listening to Axel's sonic response throughout this episode.


Interludes is a collaboration between Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié featuring six contemporary artists: Amy Sherald, Ming Smith, Phoebe Boswell, Rahima Gambo, Nnena Kalu and Cassi Namoda.

Framed by the question "What does healing sound like?", these podcasts offer a visceral connection with the artists' work. In each episode we weave the artists' reflections through Axel's original soundscapes, as a collaborative exploration of their creative experience.

The aim is to soften our tendency to intellectualise artwork, and instead create a sonic texture that is more intimate in its connection with the artist.


Concept & Production by Lou Mensah

Created by Axel Kacoutié

Interludes is supported by Hauser & Wirth

Read more about this series in Hauser & Wirth Ursula Magazine


Additional support by Frieze Membership, the community that champions art. Frieze members enjoy articles from the leading voices shaping today’s art world, priority booking to Frieze fairs and unique perks along the way. Find out more on frieze.com/membership

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Where the sun sleeps features the voice of photographer Ming Smith who shares her reflections based on her practice and work Circle of Life (Hakone, Japan 1985).

Ming Smith was the first female member to join Kamoinge, a collective of black photographers in New York in the 1960s, working to document black life. Smith would go on to be the first black woman photographer to be included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art.

Smith has often described her work as ‘celebrating the struggle, the survival and to find grace in it.’ Many of Smith’s subjects were well-known black cultural figures from Nina Simone, Grace Jones and Alice Coltrane: all from her neighbourhood. Smith has cited music as being a big influence in her work, saying 'these pieces are like the blues.’

View 'Circle of life' here whilst listening to Axel's sonic response throughout this episode.


Interludes is a collaboration between Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié featuring six contemporary artists: Amy Sherald, Ming Smith, Phoebe Boswell, Rahima Gambo, Nnena Kalu and Cassi Namoda.

Framed by the question "What does healing sound like?", these podcasts offer a visceral connection with the artists' work. In each episode we weave the artists' reflections through Axel's original soundscapes, as a collaborative exploration of their creative experience.

The aim is to soften our tendency to intellectualise artwork, and instead create a sonic texture that is more intimate in its connection with the artist.


Concept & Production by Lou Mensah

Created by Axel Kacoutié

Interludes is supported by Hauser & Wirth

Read more about this series in Hauser & Wirth Ursula Magazine


Additional support by Frieze Membership, the community that champions art. Frieze members enjoy articles from the leading voices shaping today’s art world, priority booking to Frieze fairs and unique perks along the way. Find out more on frieze.com/membership

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Interludes: featuring Amy Sherald Interludes: featuring Amy Sherald Tue, 11 Oct 2022 04:00:23 GMT 10:26 634479ecd950350012c7eab4 false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/interludes-dream-recurred 634479ecd950350012c7eab4 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef interludes-dream-recurred Dream Recurred full Dream Recurred features the voice of Amy Sherald who shares her reflections based on her practice and new work For love, and for country (2022).

'For love, and for country' features in 'The World We Make', Sherald's first solo show in Europe. In this new body of work, Sherald humanises the Black experience by depicting her subjects in both historically recognisable and everyday settings, at once immortalising them and reinserting them into the art historical canon.

View 'For love, and for country' here whilst listening to Axel's sonic response throughout this episode.


Interludes is a collaboration between Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié featuring six contemporary artists: Amy Sherald, Ming Smith, Phoebe Boswell, Rahima Gambo, Nnena Kalu and Cassi Namoda.

Framed by the question "What does healing sound like?", these podcasts offer a visceral connection with the artists' work. In each episode we weave the artists' reflections through Axel's original soundscapes, as a collaborative exploration of their creative experience.

The aim is to soften our tendency to intellectualise artwork, and instead create a sonic texture that is more intimate in its connection with the artist.


Concept & Production by Lou Mensah

Created by Axel Kacoutié

Interludes is supported by Hauser & Wirth

Read more about this series in Hauser & Wirth Ursula Magazine


Additional support by Frieze Membership, the community that champions art. Frieze members enjoy articles from the leading voices shaping today’s art world, priority booking to Frieze fairs and unique perks along the way. Find out more on frieze.com/membership

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Dream Recurred features the voice of Amy Sherald who shares her reflections based on her practice and new work For love, and for country (2022).

'For love, and for country' features in 'The World We Make', Sherald's first solo show in Europe. In this new body of work, Sherald humanises the Black experience by depicting her subjects in both historically recognisable and everyday settings, at once immortalising them and reinserting them into the art historical canon.

View 'For love, and for country' here whilst listening to Axel's sonic response throughout this episode.


Interludes is a collaboration between Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié featuring six contemporary artists: Amy Sherald, Ming Smith, Phoebe Boswell, Rahima Gambo, Nnena Kalu and Cassi Namoda.

Framed by the question "What does healing sound like?", these podcasts offer a visceral connection with the artists' work. In each episode we weave the artists' reflections through Axel's original soundscapes, as a collaborative exploration of their creative experience.

The aim is to soften our tendency to intellectualise artwork, and instead create a sonic texture that is more intimate in its connection with the artist.


Concept & Production by Lou Mensah

Created by Axel Kacoutié

Interludes is supported by Hauser & Wirth

Read more about this series in Hauser & Wirth Ursula Magazine


Additional support by Frieze Membership, the community that champions art. Frieze members enjoy articles from the leading voices shaping today’s art world, priority booking to Frieze fairs and unique perks along the way. Find out more on frieze.com/membership

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Interludes: Forgetting Eden Interludes: Forgetting Eden Tue, 04 Oct 2022 15:38:24 GMT 10:04 633afefb409ce70011287143 false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/interludes-forgettingeden-rahimagambo 633afefb409ce70011287143 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef interludes-forgettingeden-rahimagambo Rahima Gambo full Forgetting Eden features the voice of Rahima Gambo who shares her reflections based on her practice and project Education is Forbidden and Tatsuniya.

Rahima’s deeply layered mixed media engagement is about the aftermath of conflict, the nature of memory and the echoes and consequences of colonial education in north eastern Nigeria.

Discover more of Rahima's work on her Instagram and her website.


Interludes is a collaboration between Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié featuring six contemporary artists: Amy Sherald, Ming Smith, Phoebe Boswell, Rahima Gambo, Nnena Kalu and Cassi Namoda.

Framed by the question "What does healing sound like?", these podcasts offer a visceral connection with the artists' work. In each episode we weave the artists' reflections through Axel's original soundscapes, as a collaborative exploration of their creative experience.

The aim is to soften our tendency to intellectualise artwork, and instead create a sonic texture that is more intimate in its connection with the artist.


Concept & Production by Lou Mensah

Created by Axel Kacoutié

Interludes is supported by Hauser & Wirth

Read more about this series in Hauser & Wirth Ursula Magazine


Additional support by Frieze Membership, the community that champions art. Frieze members enjoy articles from the leading voices shaping today’s art world, priority booking to Frieze fairs and unique perks along the way. Find out more on frieze.com/membership

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Forgetting Eden features the voice of Rahima Gambo who shares her reflections based on her practice and project Education is Forbidden and Tatsuniya.

Rahima’s deeply layered mixed media engagement is about the aftermath of conflict, the nature of memory and the echoes and consequences of colonial education in north eastern Nigeria.

Discover more of Rahima's work on her Instagram and her website.


Interludes is a collaboration between Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié featuring six contemporary artists: Amy Sherald, Ming Smith, Phoebe Boswell, Rahima Gambo, Nnena Kalu and Cassi Namoda.

Framed by the question "What does healing sound like?", these podcasts offer a visceral connection with the artists' work. In each episode we weave the artists' reflections through Axel's original soundscapes, as a collaborative exploration of their creative experience.

The aim is to soften our tendency to intellectualise artwork, and instead create a sonic texture that is more intimate in its connection with the artist.


Concept & Production by Lou Mensah

Created by Axel Kacoutié

Interludes is supported by Hauser & Wirth

Read more about this series in Hauser & Wirth Ursula Magazine


Additional support by Frieze Membership, the community that champions art. Frieze members enjoy articles from the leading voices shaping today’s art world, priority booking to Frieze fairs and unique perks along the way. Find out more on frieze.com/membership

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Larry Achiampong Larry Achiampong Fri, 30 Sep 2022 04:00:53 GMT 38:15 632df19e2e3c7c0012afbab0 false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/larry-achiampong-on-race-and-inclusion-in-art-education 632df19e2e3c7c0012afbab0 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef larry-achiampong-on-race-and-inclusion-in-art-education bonus Larry Achiampong is a British Ghanian, Jarman Award nominated artist. In 2020 he was awarded the Stanley Picker fellowship and in 2019 he received the Paul Hamlyn Artist award in recognition for his practice. Larry’s most recent solo exhibition Wayfinder showed this summer at the Turner Contemporary Gallery. He serves on the Board of Trustees at Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) and The Elephant Trust.

Join Larry & I in exploring the impact of race on arts education and access to the arts sector. 

We highlight the urgent need for change as set out in The Runnymede Trust and Freelands Foundation research into access into the visual arts for Black, Asian and ethnically diverse students in the UK. It’s the first research project of this scale in the UK. 

The project was launched in July 2022 with a ‘Call for Evidence inviting contributions from students, teachers, art educators, artists and the wider sector. 

Read about how the evidence will be implemented and contribute by submitting your evidence here.

The final report will be published in early 2023.


Guest Larry Achiampong

This podcast was produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Editing Mae Li Evans

Music composed for Shade Podcast by Brian Jackson

The Runnymede Trust website

This episode was supported by Freelands Foundation

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]]> Larry Achiampong is a British Ghanian, Jarman Award nominated artist. In 2020 he was awarded the Stanley Picker fellowship and in 2019 he received the Paul Hamlyn Artist award in recognition for his practice. Larry’s most recent solo exhibition Wayfinder showed this summer at the Turner Contemporary Gallery. He serves on the Board of Trustees at Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) and The Elephant Trust.

Join Larry & I in exploring the impact of race on arts education and access to the arts sector. 

We highlight the urgent need for change as set out in The Runnymede Trust and Freelands Foundation research into access into the visual arts for Black, Asian and ethnically diverse students in the UK. It’s the first research project of this scale in the UK. 

The project was launched in July 2022 with a ‘Call for Evidence inviting contributions from students, teachers, art educators, artists and the wider sector. 

Read about how the evidence will be implemented and contribute by submitting your evidence here.

The final report will be published in early 2023.


Guest Larry Achiampong

This podcast was produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Editing Mae Li Evans

Music composed for Shade Podcast by Brian Jackson

The Runnymede Trust website

This episode was supported by Freelands Foundation

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Interludes: Drexciya Interludes: Drexciya Tue, 27 Sep 2022 04:00:41 GMT 12:59 6331d0d89cd7a00012420d85 false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/interludes-drexciya-phoebe-boswell 6331d0d89cd7a00012420d85 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef interludes-drexciya-phoebe-boswell Phoebe Boswell, feat. JD Allen full Drexciya features the voice of Phoebe Boswell who shares her reflections based on her practice and project The Black Horizon Do We Muse on the Sky or Remember the Sea?

Discover more of Phoebe’s work on her Instagram and her website

This episode also features a performance by Jazz Tenor Saxophonist JD Allen who collaborated with Phoebe Boswell on The Black Horizon project. His work is also available on all music platforms.


Interludes is a collaboration between Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié featuring six contemporary artists: Amy Sherald, Ming Smith, Phoebe Boswell, Rahima Gambo, Nnena Kalu and Cassi Namoda.

Framed by the question "What does healing sound like?", these podcasts offer a visceral connection with the artists' work. In each episode we weave the artists' reflections through Axel's original soundscapes, as a collaborative exploration of their creative experience.

The aim is to soften our tendency to intellectualise artwork, and instead create a sonic texture that is more intimate in its connection with the artist.


Concept & Production by Lou Mensah

Created by Axel Kacoutié

Interludes is supported by Hauser & Wirth

Read more about this series in Hauser & Wirth Ursula Magazine


Additional support by Frieze Membership, the community that champions art. Frieze members enjoy articles from the leading voices shaping today’s art world, priority booking to Frieze fairs and unique perks along the way. Find out more on frieze.com/membership


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Drexciya features the voice of Phoebe Boswell who shares her reflections based on her practice and project The Black Horizon Do We Muse on the Sky or Remember the Sea?

Discover more of Phoebe’s work on her Instagram and her website

This episode also features a performance by Jazz Tenor Saxophonist JD Allen who collaborated with Phoebe Boswell on The Black Horizon project. His work is also available on all music platforms.


Interludes is a collaboration between Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié featuring six contemporary artists: Amy Sherald, Ming Smith, Phoebe Boswell, Rahima Gambo, Nnena Kalu and Cassi Namoda.

Framed by the question "What does healing sound like?", these podcasts offer a visceral connection with the artists' work. In each episode we weave the artists' reflections through Axel's original soundscapes, as a collaborative exploration of their creative experience.

The aim is to soften our tendency to intellectualise artwork, and instead create a sonic texture that is more intimate in its connection with the artist.


Concept & Production by Lou Mensah

Created by Axel Kacoutié

Interludes is supported by Hauser & Wirth

Read more about this series in Hauser & Wirth Ursula Magazine


Additional support by Frieze Membership, the community that champions art. Frieze members enjoy articles from the leading voices shaping today’s art world, priority booking to Frieze fairs and unique perks along the way. Find out more on frieze.com/membership


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Interludes trailer Interludes trailer Thu, 22 Sep 2022 06:12:42 GMT 2:22 632b634c9c3b8700158b7b9b false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/interludes 632b634c9c3b8700158b7b9b 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef interludes trailer 5 Interludes is a collaboration between Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié featuring six contemporary artists: Amy Sherald, Ming Smith, Phoebe Boswell, Rahima Gambo, Nnena Kalu and Cassi Namoda.

Framed by the question "What does healing sound like?", these podcasts offer a visceral connection with the artists' work. In each episode we weave the artists' reflections through Axel's original soundscapes, as a collaborative exploration of their creative experience.

Interludes opens an alternative space. The aim is to soften our tendency to intellectualise artwork, and instead create a sonic texture that is more intimate in its connection with the artist.


Concept & Production by Lou Mensah

Created by Axel Kacoutié

Voice Credits Rahima Gambo, Ming Smith, Phoebe Boswell

Interludes is supported by Hauser & Wirth

Read more about this series in Hauser & Wirth Ursula Magazine


Additional support by Frieze Membership, the community that champions art. Frieze members enjoy articles from the leading voices shaping today’s art world, priority booking to Frieze fairs and unique perks along the way. Find out more on frieze.com/membership

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Interludes is a collaboration between Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié featuring six contemporary artists: Amy Sherald, Ming Smith, Phoebe Boswell, Rahima Gambo, Nnena Kalu and Cassi Namoda.

Framed by the question "What does healing sound like?", these podcasts offer a visceral connection with the artists' work. In each episode we weave the artists' reflections through Axel's original soundscapes, as a collaborative exploration of their creative experience.

Interludes opens an alternative space. The aim is to soften our tendency to intellectualise artwork, and instead create a sonic texture that is more intimate in its connection with the artist.


Concept & Production by Lou Mensah

Created by Axel Kacoutié

Voice Credits Rahima Gambo, Ming Smith, Phoebe Boswell

Interludes is supported by Hauser & Wirth

Read more about this series in Hauser & Wirth Ursula Magazine


Additional support by Frieze Membership, the community that champions art. Frieze members enjoy articles from the leading voices shaping today’s art world, priority booking to Frieze fairs and unique perks along the way. Find out more on frieze.com/membership

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Ekow Eshun, Writer and Curator of In the Black Fantastic at Hayward Gallery, London. Ekow Eshun, Writer and Curator of In the Black Fantastic at Hayward Gallery, London. Fri, 08 Jul 2022 07:35:10 GMT 22:32 62c6fea93c109c0012143d9c false https://shows.acast.com/shadepodcast/episodes/ekow-eshun-writer-and-curator-of-in-the-black-fantastic-at-h 62c6fea93c109c0012143d9c 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef ekow-eshun-writer-and-curator-of-in-the-black-fantastic-at-h full In this episode I am in conversation with Ekow Eshun. Ekow is a writer and the curator of In the Black Fantastic, currently on show at the Hayward Gallery, London.

In the Black Fantastic is a new exhibition of 11 contemporary artists from the African diaspora, who draw on science fiction and myth to question our knowledge of the world. Although the exhibition encompasses themes within Afrofuturism, Ekow and I discuss why and how he is drawing from ideas distinct from this movement.

We explore the works on display including the epic themes of exploration and renewal present throughout the show. Ekow also shares his process of personal development throughout the three year curation process, which started prior to the BLM uprisings of 2020.


In the Black Fantastic is showing until September 18 2022 at Hayward Gallery, London.


If you'd like to support this independent, award winning podcast through Patreon or shout me a coffee via Ko-fi I would be delighted! Thank you!


Producer & Host Lou Mensah

Music by Brian Jackson from the legendary duo Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson. Check out his new album 'This is Brian Jackson' here

Additional sound and mixing by CA Davis. Check out his new film 'Inhuman Figures' at the Smithsonian here

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> In this episode I am in conversation with Ekow Eshun. Ekow is a writer and the curator of In the Black Fantastic, currently on show at the Hayward Gallery, London.

In the Black Fantastic is a new exhibition of 11 contemporary artists from the African diaspora, who draw on science fiction and myth to question our knowledge of the world. Although the exhibition encompasses themes within Afrofuturism, Ekow and I discuss why and how he is drawing from ideas distinct from this movement.

We explore the works on display including the epic themes of exploration and renewal present throughout the show. Ekow also shares his process of personal development throughout the three year curation process, which started prior to the BLM uprisings of 2020.


In the Black Fantastic is showing until September 18 2022 at Hayward Gallery, London.


If you'd like to support this independent, award winning podcast through Patreon or shout me a coffee via Ko-fi I would be delighted! Thank you!


Producer & Host Lou Mensah

Music by Brian Jackson from the legendary duo Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson. Check out his new album 'This is Brian Jackson' here

Additional sound and mixing by CA Davis. Check out his new film 'Inhuman Figures' at the Smithsonian here

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> <![CDATA[SHADE SHORTS with Co-Editors In Chief of Citizen Magazine, Henrietta Gallina & Danielle Powell-Cobb]]> Fri, 08 Apr 2022 23:01:00 GMT 18:37 b2e21d56-c02c-426f-b06c-b7d7649d20e0 false https://play.acast.com/s/shadepodcast/shadeshortswithco-editorsinchiefofcitizenmagazine-henriettagallina-daniellepowell-cobb b2e21d56-c02c-426f-b06c-b7d7649d20e0 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef shadeshortswithco-editorsinchiefofcitizenmagazine-henriettagallina-daniellepowell-cobb full AWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021


In this episode I’m in conversation with Co-Editors in chief of Citizen, Henrietta Gallina & Danielle Powell-Cobb.

In 2017, the idea for Citizen magazine was born out of the desire to see something that did not quite exist, an independent magazine documenting Black life and culture through the words of Black thinkers and the lenses of Black creatives, a beautifully designed record of Black life. Henrietta & Danielle tell Lou about the journey of Citizen from conception through to

their plans for the magazines future and why they chose Nikole Hannah-Jones to feature on their first cover.


‘Shade Shorts’ is a new short series of conversations with the founders of some our most radical, Black led art & culture journals.

These conversations will keep us connected and inspired between the main seasons of the podcast. We will explore the power that we all have when we focus on considered communication and building community.


If you'd like to support this independent, award winning podcast through Patreon or Ko-fi I would be delighted! Thank you!


Shade Podcast is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Music by Brian Jackson - an American keyboardist, flautist, singer, composer, and producer known for his collaborations with Gil Scott-Heron in the 1970s

Mixing CA Davis - film & podcast creator/editor

Citizen Instagram

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> AWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021


In this episode I’m in conversation with Co-Editors in chief of Citizen, Henrietta Gallina & Danielle Powell-Cobb.

In 2017, the idea for Citizen magazine was born out of the desire to see something that did not quite exist, an independent magazine documenting Black life and culture through the words of Black thinkers and the lenses of Black creatives, a beautifully designed record of Black life. Henrietta & Danielle tell Lou about the journey of Citizen from conception through to

their plans for the magazines future and why they chose Nikole Hannah-Jones to feature on their first cover.


‘Shade Shorts’ is a new short series of conversations with the founders of some our most radical, Black led art & culture journals.

These conversations will keep us connected and inspired between the main seasons of the podcast. We will explore the power that we all have when we focus on considered communication and building community.


If you'd like to support this independent, award winning podcast through Patreon or Ko-fi I would be delighted! Thank you!


Shade Podcast is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Music by Brian Jackson - an American keyboardist, flautist, singer, composer, and producer known for his collaborations with Gil Scott-Heron in the 1970s

Mixing CA Davis - film & podcast creator/editor

Citizen Instagram

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]]> SHADE SHORTS with Johny Pitts, author of Afropean SHADE SHORTS with Johny Pitts, author of Afropean Tue, 29 Mar 2022 15:10:43 GMT 26:09 cc7783eb-4fd1-4bcf-81ad-7325424be7af false https://play.acast.com/s/shadepodcast/shadeshortswithjohnypitts-authorofafropean cc7783eb-4fd1-4bcf-81ad-7325424be7af 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef shadeshortswithjohnypitts-authorofafropean full AWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021


Shade Podcast is back with ‘Shade Shorts’ the new series of conversations with the founders of some our most radical, Black led art & culture journals. 

These episodes will keep us connected and inspired between the main seasons of the podcast. We will explore the power that we all have when we focus on considered communication and building community. 

In this episode I’m in conversation with author of Afropean and Guest Editor of The Eyes Journal, Johny Pitts.

️The Eyes is an independent and bilingual journal (published in French and English) that explores cultural and societal issues through the prism of photographic creativity.

For each issue The Eyes gives an artist "carte blanche" to curate a subjective and personal panorama on the special focus.

Johny & I discuss his guest curation for Issue 12 titled B-side, a visual exploration of what it means to be Afropean.


If you'd like to support this independent, award winning podcast through Patreon or Ko-fi I would be delighted! Thank you!


Johny Pitts Instagram

Afropean Instagram

The Eyes Instagram


Shade Podcast is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Mixing CA Davis

Music by Brian Jackson

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Shade Podcast is back with ‘Shade Shorts’ the new series of conversations with the founders of some our most radical, Black led art & culture journals. 

These episodes will keep us connected and inspired between the main seasons of the podcast. We will explore the power that we all have when we focus on considered communication and building community. 

In this episode I’m in conversation with author of Afropean and Guest Editor of The Eyes Journal, Johny Pitts.

️The Eyes is an independent and bilingual journal (published in French and English) that explores cultural and societal issues through the prism of photographic creativity.

For each issue The Eyes gives an artist "carte blanche" to curate a subjective and personal panorama on the special focus.

Johny & I discuss his guest curation for Issue 12 titled B-side, a visual exploration of what it means to be Afropean.


If you'd like to support this independent, award winning podcast through Patreon or Ko-fi I would be delighted! Thank you!


Johny Pitts Instagram

Afropean Instagram

The Eyes Instagram


Shade Podcast is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Mixing CA Davis

Music by Brian Jackson

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> <![CDATA[SHADE SHORTS - The Photographer's Green Book]]> Sat, 12 Mar 2022 08:39:49 GMT 16:25 5a415e3e-2c15-498a-937d-75634fbc90fc false https://play.acast.com/s/shadepodcast/shadeshortswithfounderofthephotographersgreenbook-jaysimple 5a415e3e-2c15-498a-937d-75634fbc90fc 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef shadeshortswithfounderofthephotographersgreenbook-jaysimple full AWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021


Shade Podcast is back with ‘Shade Shorts’ the new series of conversations with the founders of some our most radical, Black led art & culture journals. 

These episodes will keep us connected and inspired between the main seasons of the podcast. We will explore the power that we all have when we focus on considered communication and building community. 

In this episode I’m in conversation with Jay Simple, founder of The Photographers Green Book.

️The Photographers Green Book is a resource hub for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Advocacy within the lens based community. It’s truly an amazing print & online journal which offers both practical and inspirational resources. Inspired by The Negro Motorist Green Book, a list of safe places for Black people during their travels in segregated America, the PGB helps navigate the photographic community which has historically denied the voices of those other than predominantly white, cis, male artists. 


If you'd like to support this independent, award winning podcast through Patreon or Ko-fi I would be delighted! Thank you!


PGB Website

PGB Instagram

Jay's recommendations

https://shashamovies.com/

https://www.ablackcreativesguide.com/

Jay Simple Website

Jay Simple Instagram


Shade Podcast is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Mixing CA Davis

Music by Brian Jackson

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Shade Podcast is back with ‘Shade Shorts’ the new series of conversations with the founders of some our most radical, Black led art & culture journals. 

These episodes will keep us connected and inspired between the main seasons of the podcast. We will explore the power that we all have when we focus on considered communication and building community. 

In this episode I’m in conversation with Jay Simple, founder of The Photographers Green Book.

️The Photographers Green Book is a resource hub for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Advocacy within the lens based community. It’s truly an amazing print & online journal which offers both practical and inspirational resources. Inspired by The Negro Motorist Green Book, a list of safe places for Black people during their travels in segregated America, the PGB helps navigate the photographic community which has historically denied the voices of those other than predominantly white, cis, male artists. 


If you'd like to support this independent, award winning podcast through Patreon or Ko-fi I would be delighted! Thank you!


PGB Website

PGB Instagram

Jay's recommendations

https://shashamovies.com/

https://www.ablackcreativesguide.com/

Jay Simple Website

Jay Simple Instagram


Shade Podcast is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Mixing CA Davis

Music by Brian Jackson

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Making Sense of Inclusive Education with Dr. Aminul Hoque, at the South London Gallery Making Sense of Inclusive Education with Dr. Aminul Hoque, at the South London Gallery Mon, 02 Aug 2021 05:39:18 GMT 37:28 cf8c7e2e-82f9-4312-a700-b40f60531817 false https://play.acast.com/s/shadepodcast/makingsenseofinclusiveeducationwithdr.aminulhoque-atthesouthlondongallery cf8c7e2e-82f9-4312-a700-b40f60531817 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef makingsenseofinclusiveeducationwithdr.aminulhoque-atthesouthlondongallery bonus SHADE 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021


Special edition from Shade at South London Gallery ‘Making Sense’ - a new digital resource that assembles people around ideas for structural change through creative practice.


In this episode Lou Mensah speaks to Dr. Aminul Hoque about inclusive education and how our local community can support educators in achieving it.


Dr. Aminul Hoque is a lecturer in the Educational Studies Department at Goldsmiths College London.


Aminul's work focuses on issues of multicultural Britain, identity, social justice, youth policy, religion, race relations and Islamic feminism. With over 24 years of experience in the youth, community and voluntary sector, Aminul is a recognised expert in young people and cultural identity.


Shade Podcast is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Editing and sound design by CA Davis

Music by Brian Jackson

Episode supported by South London Gallery


Dr. Aminul Hoque Twitter

Author of British-Islamic Identity: Third generation Bangladeshis from East London

Presenter: A Very British History: British Bangladeshis, BBC4, Feb 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RosoCezTQ_o

Presenter: Searching for Secrets: London, Smithsonian Channel, June 2021




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]]> SHADE 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021


Special edition from Shade at South London Gallery ‘Making Sense’ - a new digital resource that assembles people around ideas for structural change through creative practice.


In this episode Lou Mensah speaks to Dr. Aminul Hoque about inclusive education and how our local community can support educators in achieving it.


Dr. Aminul Hoque is a lecturer in the Educational Studies Department at Goldsmiths College London.


Aminul's work focuses on issues of multicultural Britain, identity, social justice, youth policy, religion, race relations and Islamic feminism. With over 24 years of experience in the youth, community and voluntary sector, Aminul is a recognised expert in young people and cultural identity.


Shade Podcast is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Editing and sound design by CA Davis

Music by Brian Jackson

Episode supported by South London Gallery


Dr. Aminul Hoque Twitter

Author of British-Islamic Identity: Third generation Bangladeshis from East London

Presenter: A Very British History: British Bangladeshis, BBC4, Feb 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RosoCezTQ_o

Presenter: Searching for Secrets: London, Smithsonian Channel, June 2021




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]]> <![CDATA[Thomas J Price 'Unencumbered Voices in Curated Spaces' : Hauser & Wirth x Shade]]> Tue, 13 Jul 2021 16:56:17 GMT 32:08 374148e3-fa9f-411b-b8a9-bab2c0f8ea5b false https://play.acast.com/s/shadepodcast/thomasjpriceunencumberedvoicesincuratedspaces-hauser-wirthxshade 374148e3-fa9f-411b-b8a9-bab2c0f8ea5b 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef thomasjpriceunencumberedvoicesincuratedspaces-hauser-wirthxshade full 3 SILVER AWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021


Welcome to our third and final episode in this special series of conversations from Shade, supported by Hauser & Wirth, where we will be exploring ‘Unencumbered Voices in Curated Spaces: Inspired by the life & work of Sir Frank Bowling’. 


Released throughout this summer, the series provides a collaborative platform for diverse perspectives investigating freedom of expression today and throughout art history. 


Today my guest is Thomas J Price.


Born in London in 1981, Thomas studied at Chelsea College of Art and the Royal College of Art in London. He works across disciplines, predominantly in sculpture, but also in film and photography. His large-scale sculptures depict imagined subjects, whose features are an amalgamation of sources, observed individuals and stereotypes represented in the media are mixed with references to ancient, classical and neoclassical sculptures. These works serve as psychological portraits of the viewer by revealing socially learned attitudes and understandings as they project identities on to the depicted characters.


Shade Podcast is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Editing and sound design by CA Davis

Music by Brian Jackson

Series supported by Hauser & Wirth

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> SILVER AWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021


Welcome to our third and final episode in this special series of conversations from Shade, supported by Hauser & Wirth, where we will be exploring ‘Unencumbered Voices in Curated Spaces: Inspired by the life & work of Sir Frank Bowling’. 


Released throughout this summer, the series provides a collaborative platform for diverse perspectives investigating freedom of expression today and throughout art history. 


Today my guest is Thomas J Price.


Born in London in 1981, Thomas studied at Chelsea College of Art and the Royal College of Art in London. He works across disciplines, predominantly in sculpture, but also in film and photography. His large-scale sculptures depict imagined subjects, whose features are an amalgamation of sources, observed individuals and stereotypes represented in the media are mixed with references to ancient, classical and neoclassical sculptures. These works serve as psychological portraits of the viewer by revealing socially learned attitudes and understandings as they project identities on to the depicted characters.


Shade Podcast is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Editing and sound design by CA Davis

Music by Brian Jackson

Series supported by Hauser & Wirth

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> <![CDATA[Hauser & Wirth x Shade with Guest Michael Ohajuru]]> Tue, 15 Jun 2021 06:00:00 GMT 21:13 7a936977-4483-4d43-bc65-64468900eead false https://play.acast.com/s/shadepodcast/unencumberedvoicesincuratedspaces-hauser-wirthxshadewithguestmichaelohajuru 7a936977-4483-4d43-bc65-64468900eead 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef unencumberedvoicesincuratedspaces-hauser-wirthxshadewithguestmichaelohajuru full 2 SILVER AWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021


Unencumbered Voices in Curated Spaces: Inspired by the life & work of Sir Frank Bowling - a three-part summer podcast series, investigating freedom of expression today and throughout art history.

This second episode in a special series of conversations from Shade, supported by Hauser & Wirth is with art historian Michael Ohajuru.

Based in London, Michael Ohajuru is a Senior Fellow of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies where he leads the ‘What’s Happening in Black British History’ workshops, fostering a creative dialogue between researchers, educators, archivists, curators, and policy makers. He speaks regularly on the Black presence in Renaissance Europe at the National Gallery, Tate Britain, British Library, National Archives and the Victoria Albert Museum, highlighting the overt and covert Black presence in national art collections. His new book coauthored with With S. I. Martin, ‘The Guide to Black London,’ is forthcoming from September Publishing.

‘Frank Bowling. London / New York’ is on view Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street from 5 May and Hauser & Wirth London from 21 May 2021


Shade Podcast is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Editing and sound design by CA Davis

Music by Brian Jackson

Series supported by Hauser & Wirth

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> SILVER AWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021


Unencumbered Voices in Curated Spaces: Inspired by the life & work of Sir Frank Bowling - a three-part summer podcast series, investigating freedom of expression today and throughout art history.

This second episode in a special series of conversations from Shade, supported by Hauser & Wirth is with art historian Michael Ohajuru.

Based in London, Michael Ohajuru is a Senior Fellow of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies where he leads the ‘What’s Happening in Black British History’ workshops, fostering a creative dialogue between researchers, educators, archivists, curators, and policy makers. He speaks regularly on the Black presence in Renaissance Europe at the National Gallery, Tate Britain, British Library, National Archives and the Victoria Albert Museum, highlighting the overt and covert Black presence in national art collections. His new book coauthored with With S. I. Martin, ‘The Guide to Black London,’ is forthcoming from September Publishing.

‘Frank Bowling. London / New York’ is on view Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street from 5 May and Hauser & Wirth London from 21 May 2021


Shade Podcast is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Editing and sound design by CA Davis

Music by Brian Jackson

Series supported by Hauser & Wirth

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> <![CDATA[Hauser & Wirth x Shade on the life and work of Sir Frank Bowling with graphic designer Silas Munro]]> Tue, 18 May 2021 14:00:00 GMT 30:54 ea5408db-5d9c-4a5b-acb0-5bae424c5e01 false https://play.acast.com/s/shadepodcast/shade-hauser-wirth-silasmunro ea5408db-5d9c-4a5b-acb0-5bae424c5e01 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef shade-hauser-wirth-silasmunro full 1 SILVER AWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021


Unencumbered Voices in Curated Spaces: Inspired by the life & work of Sir Frank Bowling - a three-part summer podcast series, investigating freedom of expression today and throughout art history.

This first episode in a special series of conversations from Shade, supported by Hauser & Wirth, is with Silas Munro—LA-based critic, writer and partner of graphic design studio Polymode.

Silas Munro’s past collaborations include the City of LA Mayor’s Office, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, Mark Bradford at the Venice Biennale, and MoMA. Munro’s writing appears in the book, ‘W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America’ published by Princeton Architectural Press. He has been a visiting critic at MICA, RISD, and Yale. Munro is Founding Faculty and Chair Emeritus at Vermont College of Fine Arts. 

Founded in 2014, Polymode is a studio that leads the edge of contemporary graphic design through poetic research, learning experiences, and making cool shit for clients in the cultural sphere, innovative businesses, and community-based organizations.

‘Frank Bowling. London / New York’ is on view Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street from 5 May and Hauser & Wirth London from 21 May 2021. 


Shade Podcast is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Editing and sound design by CA Davis

Music by Brian Jackson

Series supported by Hauser & Wirth

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> SILVER AWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021


Unencumbered Voices in Curated Spaces: Inspired by the life & work of Sir Frank Bowling - a three-part summer podcast series, investigating freedom of expression today and throughout art history.

This first episode in a special series of conversations from Shade, supported by Hauser & Wirth, is with Silas Munro—LA-based critic, writer and partner of graphic design studio Polymode.

Silas Munro’s past collaborations include the City of LA Mayor’s Office, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, Mark Bradford at the Venice Biennale, and MoMA. Munro’s writing appears in the book, ‘W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America’ published by Princeton Architectural Press. He has been a visiting critic at MICA, RISD, and Yale. Munro is Founding Faculty and Chair Emeritus at Vermont College of Fine Arts. 

Founded in 2014, Polymode is a studio that leads the edge of contemporary graphic design through poetic research, learning experiences, and making cool shit for clients in the cultural sphere, innovative businesses, and community-based organizations.

‘Frank Bowling. London / New York’ is on view Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street from 5 May and Hauser & Wirth London from 21 May 2021. 


Shade Podcast is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Editing and sound design by CA Davis

Music by Brian Jackson

Series supported by Hauser & Wirth

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Axel Kacoutié. Multi-award-winning audio artist, poet and sound designer Axel Kacoutié. Multi-award-winning audio artist, poet and sound designer Sat, 17 Apr 2021 06:30:00 GMT 20:43 d261ad50-80aa-43c0-a425-7e0b704f1b0c false https://play.acast.com/s/shadepodcast/axelkacoutie.multi-award-winningaudioartist-poetandsounddesignerfortheguardiantodayinfocuspodcast d261ad50-80aa-43c0-a425-7e0b704f1b0c 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef axelkacoutie.multi-award-winningaudioartist-poetandsounddesignerfortheguardiantodayinfocuspodcast Talking with Lou at South London Gallery full SILVER AWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021


Welcome to the final episode of the four-part series of conversations exploring anti-racism and the arts, co-curated by Shade and Convergence at the South London Gallery 


In this episode Lou Mensah is in conversation with Axel Kacoutié. Axel is is a multi-award-winning audio artist and poet. His work has featured on the BBC, Channel 4, NOWNESS and the Barbican. He is also the Sound Designer and theme composer for The Guardian daily news podcast, Today in Focus.

'How to Remember' by Axel Kacoutié. Award winning production in the 2019 Audio Production Awards for Best New Producer


Shade Podcast is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Editing and sound design by CA Davis

Music by Brian Jackson


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Welcome to the final episode of the four-part series of conversations exploring anti-racism and the arts, co-curated by Shade and Convergence at the South London Gallery 


In this episode Lou Mensah is in conversation with Axel Kacoutié. Axel is is a multi-award-winning audio artist and poet. His work has featured on the BBC, Channel 4, NOWNESS and the Barbican. He is also the Sound Designer and theme composer for The Guardian daily news podcast, Today in Focus.

'How to Remember' by Axel Kacoutié. Award winning production in the 2019 Audio Production Awards for Best New Producer


Shade Podcast is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Editing and sound design by CA Davis

Music by Brian Jackson


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Author Season Butler in conversation with Shade at the South London Gallery Author Season Butler in conversation with Shade at the South London Gallery Sat, 20 Mar 2021 07:30:00 GMT 18:19 83fbb432-33a6-41e9-a1b9-d8bb8bd1064c false https://play.acast.com/s/shadepodcast/shadepodcast-convergence.conversationsatthesouthlondongallery-withguestauthorseasonbutler 83fbb432-33a6-41e9-a1b9-d8bb8bd1064c 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef shadepodcast-convergence.conversationsatthesouthlondongallery-withguestauthorseasonbutler full SILVER AWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021


Welcome to the third episode of the new four-part series of in-conversations exploring anti-racism and the arts, co-curated by Shade and Convergence at the South London Gallery 

Season Butler is a writer, performance artist and teacher. Season's debut novel 'Cynet' was published in 2019 by Dialogue Books in the UK and Harper Collins in the U.S. Season & Lou discuss Race, Character and The Racial Empathy Gap in storytelling.


Shade Podcast is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Editing and sound design by CA Davis

Music by Brian Jackson


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> SILVER AWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021


Welcome to the third episode of the new four-part series of in-conversations exploring anti-racism and the arts, co-curated by Shade and Convergence at the South London Gallery 

Season Butler is a writer, performance artist and teacher. Season's debut novel 'Cynet' was published in 2019 by Dialogue Books in the UK and Harper Collins in the U.S. Season & Lou discuss Race, Character and The Racial Empathy Gap in storytelling.


Shade Podcast is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Editing and sound design by CA Davis

Music by Brian Jackson


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> The White Pube talks BLM The White Pube talks BLM Mon, 01 Mar 2021 02:00:00 GMT 30:07 547082ff-b2b6-45e0-a0f6-c1f0965654ab false https://play.acast.com/s/shadepodcast/season4finale-artfutures-blm-inconversationwiththewhitepube 547082ff-b2b6-45e0-a0f6-c1f0965654ab 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef season4finale-artfutures-blm-inconversationwiththewhitepube full 4 8 Art futures & BLM

in conversation with The White Pube

The White Pube is the collaborative identity of art critics Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad. They return as guests to talk about the positive changes they saw and those they hope for in the Arts, as a result of the BLM uprisings.

@tate_united 

@riotgames 

@mark.leckey 

@swarzymacaly 

@thewagaduchronicles 

@theresnosignal

@creativedebuts 

@cubitt_gallery 

@languidhands

I also share my thoughts on the season and our shared Shade community

Shade is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Please support this work by becoming a Shade Patron

Full season music is composed by Brian Jackson

Mixing & sound design CA Davis

Thank you Kloris for supporting Shade Podcast Season Four

Sign up to Shade Patreon (for as little as £1 monthly) to receive your Kloris gift

New and existing patrons, simply message Shade privately on social media, along with your address, to claim your gift

Support for this episode comes from Convergence at the South London Gallery

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Art futures & BLM

in conversation with The White Pube

The White Pube is the collaborative identity of art critics Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad. They return as guests to talk about the positive changes they saw and those they hope for in the Arts, as a result of the BLM uprisings.

@tate_united 

@riotgames 

@mark.leckey 

@swarzymacaly 

@thewagaduchronicles 

@theresnosignal

@creativedebuts 

@cubitt_gallery 

@languidhands

I also share my thoughts on the season and our shared Shade community

Shade is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Please support this work by becoming a Shade Patron

Full season music is composed by Brian Jackson

Mixing & sound design CA Davis

Thank you Kloris for supporting Shade Podcast Season Four

Sign up to Shade Patreon (for as little as £1 monthly) to receive your Kloris gift

New and existing patrons, simply message Shade privately on social media, along with your address, to claim your gift

Support for this episode comes from Convergence at the South London Gallery

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> <![CDATA[Barack Obama's Presidential Campaign Artist: Nicola Green]]> Mon, 22 Feb 2021 02:00:00 GMT 42:57 4cf786f2-e5c4-4464-9386-46bd44cab140 false https://play.acast.com/s/shadepodcast/raisedfistsalute-origins-manifestations-guestartistnicolagreen 4cf786f2-e5c4-4464-9386-46bd44cab140 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef raisedfistsalute-origins-manifestations-guestartistnicolagreen full 4 7 In this episode I take you through the origins and manifestations of the raised fist salute, which has more recently been associated with the BLM movement. We move on to my conversation with Nicola Green, the artist behind the work ‘In Seven Days’ - a series created from her unprecedented artistic access to Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential campaign trial.


Nicola Green is renowned for gaining access to iconic personalities from the worlds of politics, religion, and culture, including collaborations with Pope Francis and the Dalai Lama. In 2008 Nicola Green gained artistic access to Obama’s Presidential campaign. She had a front row seat to historic events: from Obama’s DNC nomination speech to Inauguration, Nicola was behind-the-scenes taking photographs, making sketches, and having conversations with press, staff and citizens. I spoke with Nicola about the process of creating this series, and she shares how her own multi race and faith family influences her work.

Inspired by her own mixed-heritage and multi-faith family, she creates and preserves religious, social, and cultural heritage for future generations. Recording these events as they happen, and investing thousands of hours of academic and artistic research, she builds and curates substantial archives. In Seven Days is in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery - The Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Library of Congress, Washington D.C; and in both the International Slavery Museum and The Walker Art Gallery, in Liverpool

Shade is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Please support this work by becoming a Shade Patron

Full season music is composed by Brian Jackson

Mixing & sound design CA Davis

Thank you Kloris for supporting Shade Podcast Season Four

Sign up to Shade Patreon (for as little as £1 monthly) to receive your Kloris gift

New and existing patrons, simply message Shade privately on social media, along with your address, to claim your gift!

Support for this episode comes from Convergence at the South London Gallery

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> In this episode I take you through the origins and manifestations of the raised fist salute, which has more recently been associated with the BLM movement. We move on to my conversation with Nicola Green, the artist behind the work ‘In Seven Days’ - a series created from her unprecedented artistic access to Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential campaign trial.


Nicola Green is renowned for gaining access to iconic personalities from the worlds of politics, religion, and culture, including collaborations with Pope Francis and the Dalai Lama. In 2008 Nicola Green gained artistic access to Obama’s Presidential campaign. She had a front row seat to historic events: from Obama’s DNC nomination speech to Inauguration, Nicola was behind-the-scenes taking photographs, making sketches, and having conversations with press, staff and citizens. I spoke with Nicola about the process of creating this series, and she shares how her own multi race and faith family influences her work.

Inspired by her own mixed-heritage and multi-faith family, she creates and preserves religious, social, and cultural heritage for future generations. Recording these events as they happen, and investing thousands of hours of academic and artistic research, she builds and curates substantial archives. In Seven Days is in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery - The Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Library of Congress, Washington D.C; and in both the International Slavery Museum and The Walker Art Gallery, in Liverpool

Shade is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Please support this work by becoming a Shade Patron

Full season music is composed by Brian Jackson

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]]> Small Axe Screenwriter Courttia Newland in conversation with Lou Mensah Small Axe Screenwriter Courttia Newland in conversation with Lou Mensah Sat, 20 Feb 2021 15:00:00 GMT 26:37 64b4f713-d153-4a94-b307-5fbeea9e0d08 false https://play.acast.com/s/shadepodcast/smallaxescreenwritercourttianewlandinconversationwithshadeatthesouthlondongalleryconvergencecommunityfilmfestival 64b4f713-d153-4a94-b307-5fbeea9e0d08 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef smallaxescreenwritercourttianewlandinconversationwithshadeatthesouthlondongalleryconvergencecommunityfilmfestival South London Gallery full Welcome to the second episode of the new four-part series of in-conversations exploring anti-racism and the arts, co-curated by Shade and Convergence. This episode is part of the South London Gallery's Convergence Community Film Festival on Saturday 20th February 2021. Our guest today is Courttia Newland.

Courttia wrote the screenplays for Steve McQueen's BBC Small Axe 'Lover's Rock' & 'Red, White & Blue' films. Courttia grew up in west London and published his first novel, The Scholar: A West-Side Story, aged 23, earning critical praise for his portrayal of a teenager’s life in the inner city. Since then he’s written seven more books and eight plays, winning numerous awards for his work. In 2000, he co-edited The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain. In 2021 Courttia's novel A River Called Time was published by Canongate

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]]> Welcome to the second episode of the new four-part series of in-conversations exploring anti-racism and the arts, co-curated by Shade and Convergence. This episode is part of the South London Gallery's Convergence Community Film Festival on Saturday 20th February 2021. Our guest today is Courttia Newland.

Courttia wrote the screenplays for Steve McQueen's BBC Small Axe 'Lover's Rock' & 'Red, White & Blue' films. Courttia grew up in west London and published his first novel, The Scholar: A West-Side Story, aged 23, earning critical praise for his portrayal of a teenager’s life in the inner city. Since then he’s written seven more books and eight plays, winning numerous awards for his work. In 2000, he co-edited The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain. In 2021 Courttia's novel A River Called Time was published by Canongate

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]]> LEGACY with guest photographer Andre D. Wagner LEGACY with guest photographer Andre D. Wagner Mon, 15 Feb 2021 02:00:00 GMT 26:31 d684538c-6c46-4ed2-9bac-1a4f6d2e62bd false https://play.acast.com/s/shadepodcast/legacywithguestphotographerandred.wagner d684538c-6c46-4ed2-9bac-1a4f6d2e62bd 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef legacywithguestphotographerandred.wagner With Guest Photographer Andre D WagnerGordon Parks’ work was shared widely during the 2020 BLM protests, perhaps to share comfort, solace and act as a collective creative marker acknowledging that our civil justice work continues. My guest Andre share... full 4 6 With Guest Photographer Andre D Wagner

Gordon Parks’ work was shared widely during the 2020 BLM protests, perhaps to share comfort, solace and act as a collective creative marker acknowledging that our civil justice work continues. My guest Andre shares the impact of Parks’ work on his own photography, his experiences of the protests, plus his working practice & life as a street photographer 

It's such a beautiful episode. Thank you Andre for the conversation

Andre D. Wagner is a photographer living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He explores and chronicles the poetic and lyrical nuances of daily life, using city streets, neighborhoods, parades, public transportation and the youth of the twenty first century as his visual language. His work and practice fits into the lineage of street photography that investigates the American social landscape, often focusing his lens on themes of race, class, cultural identity and community. He develops his own black and white negatives and makes silver gelatin prints in his personal darkroom. 

His photographs have been commissioned by The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Cut, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, WSJ, Time Magazine and Vogue, among other publications. For the movie Queen & Slim Andre photographed the key art and the campaigns leading images. His photographs have appeared in a number of solo exhibitions and group shows in Los Angeles, New York and North Carolina. His first monograph, Here For the Ride, was published by Creative Future in 2017. He is currently editing a 7-year-old body of work titled New City, Old Blues, to be published soon


Andre Instagram

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Mixing & sound design CA Davis

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]]> With Guest Photographer Andre D Wagner

Gordon Parks’ work was shared widely during the 2020 BLM protests, perhaps to share comfort, solace and act as a collective creative marker acknowledging that our civil justice work continues. My guest Andre shares the impact of Parks’ work on his own photography, his experiences of the protests, plus his working practice & life as a street photographer 

It's such a beautiful episode. Thank you Andre for the conversation

Andre D. Wagner is a photographer living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He explores and chronicles the poetic and lyrical nuances of daily life, using city streets, neighborhoods, parades, public transportation and the youth of the twenty first century as his visual language. His work and practice fits into the lineage of street photography that investigates the American social landscape, often focusing his lens on themes of race, class, cultural identity and community. He develops his own black and white negatives and makes silver gelatin prints in his personal darkroom. 

His photographs have been commissioned by The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Cut, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, WSJ, Time Magazine and Vogue, among other publications. For the movie Queen & Slim Andre photographed the key art and the campaigns leading images. His photographs have appeared in a number of solo exhibitions and group shows in Los Angeles, New York and North Carolina. His first monograph, Here For the Ride, was published by Creative Future in 2017. He is currently editing a 7-year-old body of work titled New City, Old Blues, to be published soon


Andre Instagram

Shade is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

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Full season music is composed by Brian Jackson

Mixing & sound design CA Davis

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]]> <![CDATA[Sophie Williams. Author 'Anti Racist Ally' & 'Millennial Black']]> Mon, 08 Feb 2021 02:00:00 GMT 29:15 e99b3523-a115-45e5-86aa-87b5eee7d331 false https://play.acast.com/s/shadepodcast/socialmediaallyshipwithguestsophiewilliams.authorantiracistally-millennialblack e99b3523-a115-45e5-86aa-87b5eee7d331 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef socialmediaallyshipwithguestsophiewilliams.authorantiracistally-millennialblack full 4 5 Guest Sophie Williams

Author Anti Racist Ally & Millennial Black


Sophie had a career in advertising, before she left to create her own business, working with clients such as Netflix on projects combining her professional advertising experience with active anti-racism work. 


In the summer of 2020, Sophie posted 10 slides to Instagram outlining how to be an anti-racist ally. Her slides, which were created in response to those outside the Black community wanting to help and be allies, went viral. 


We talk about how our visual culture and the language we use, is a powerful tool in communicating to those outside our own social groups.

Sophie also shares the stats on why Black & brown women are being expelled from workplaces due to discrimination. We are the most entrepreneurial group, why? Because we have to carve out our own work spaces. Sophie shares the evidence 


Shade is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Please support this work by becoming a Shade Patron

Full season music is composed by Brian Jackson

Mixing & sound design CA Davis

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]]> Guest Sophie Williams

Author Anti Racist Ally & Millennial Black


Sophie had a career in advertising, before she left to create her own business, working with clients such as Netflix on projects combining her professional advertising experience with active anti-racism work. 


In the summer of 2020, Sophie posted 10 slides to Instagram outlining how to be an anti-racist ally. Her slides, which were created in response to those outside the Black community wanting to help and be allies, went viral. 


We talk about how our visual culture and the language we use, is a powerful tool in communicating to those outside our own social groups.

Sophie also shares the stats on why Black & brown women are being expelled from workplaces due to discrimination. We are the most entrepreneurial group, why? Because we have to carve out our own work spaces. Sophie shares the evidence 


Shade is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Please support this work by becoming a Shade Patron

Full season music is composed by Brian Jackson

Mixing & sound design CA Davis

Thank you Kloris for supporting Shade Podcast Season Four

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]]> SYMBOLS OF PROTEST with Joshua Virasami and George Osei-Prempeh SYMBOLS OF PROTEST with Joshua Virasami and George Osei-Prempeh Mon, 01 Feb 2021 02:00:00 GMT 49:37 c3256565-dbb2-40c1-aa9d-9333ce48a201 false https://play.acast.com/s/shadepodcast/symbolsofprotest-edwardcolstonstatue c3256565-dbb2-40c1-aa9d-9333ce48a201 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef symbolsofprotest-edwardcolstonstatue full 4 4 Image Focus (click on link below to view image)

Protestors remove statue of Slave Trader, Edward Colston. June 7, 2020, Bristol, UK


Guests

Joshua Virasami, BLM UK Member & Author

George Osei-Prempeh, The Photographers Gallery London


Guests share their personal responses to the statue removal and it’s symbolism within the wider context of the civil rights movement


Shade is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Please support this work by becoming a Shade Patron 

Full season music is composed by Brian Jackson

Mixing & sound design CA Davis


Thank you Kloris for supporting Shade Podcast Season Four

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]]> Image Focus (click on link below to view image)

Protestors remove statue of Slave Trader, Edward Colston. June 7, 2020, Bristol, UK


Guests

Joshua Virasami, BLM UK Member & Author

George Osei-Prempeh, The Photographers Gallery London


Guests share their personal responses to the statue removal and it’s symbolism within the wider context of the civil rights movement


Shade is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Please support this work by becoming a Shade Patron 

Full season music is composed by Brian Jackson

Mixing & sound design CA Davis


Thank you Kloris for supporting Shade Podcast Season Four

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]]> BLM protests: with Lanre Bakare, Carey Robinson and Patrick Hutchinson BLM protests: with Lanre Bakare, Carey Robinson and Patrick Hutchinson Mon, 25 Jan 2021 02:00:00 GMT 49:35 7975616e-8c7e-44bd-8a5f-68718209fb21 false https://play.acast.com/s/shadepodcast/pressphotos-ukblmprotests-patrickhutchinson- 7975616e-8c7e-44bd-8a5f-68718209fb21 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef pressphotos-ukblmprotests-patrickhutchinson- BLM press photos full 4 3 UK BLM Protests

Press Photos

Image Focus: Patrick Hutchinson BLM Protest

Image REUTERS/Dylan Martinez June 13 2020

We discuss the impact of the image from social, cultural and art history perspective


Guests

Lanre Bakare. Arts & Culture correspondent, The Guardian

Carey Robinson. Head of Education, The South London Gallery

Patrick Hutchinson


Shade is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Please support this work by becoming a Shade Patreon Patron 

Full season music is composed by Brian Jackson

Episode Three additional music by Luke Cage

Mixing & sound design CA Davis


Thank you Kloris for supporting Shade Podcast Season Four

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]]> UK BLM Protests

Press Photos

Image Focus: Patrick Hutchinson BLM Protest

Image REUTERS/Dylan Martinez June 13 2020

We discuss the impact of the image from social, cultural and art history perspective


Guests

Lanre Bakare. Arts & Culture correspondent, The Guardian

Carey Robinson. Head of Education, The South London Gallery

Patrick Hutchinson


Shade is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Please support this work by becoming a Shade Patreon Patron 

Full season music is composed by Brian Jackson

Episode Three additional music by Luke Cage

Mixing & sound design CA Davis


Thank you Kloris for supporting Shade Podcast Season Four

Sign up to Shade Patreon (for as little as £1 monthly) to receive your Kloris gift!

New and existing patrons, simply message Shade via Patreon messenger, and write KLORIS in the subject header, along with your address, to claim your gift

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]]> Shade at South London Gallery with filmmaker Kevin Morosky Shade at South London Gallery with filmmaker Kevin Morosky Sat, 23 Jan 2021 07:00:00 GMT 27:59 e18bfc88-7297-4c16-a569-471915f459df false https://play.acast.com/s/shadepodcast/bonusepisodeshade-southlondongallery-convergence-co-curatedconversationsdoesthemediahavethepotentialtochallengeracism- e18bfc88-7297-4c16-a569-471915f459df 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef bonusepisodeshade-southlondongallery-convergence-co-curatedconversationsdoesthemediahavethepotentialtochallengeracism- full This bonus series of four co-curated conversations between Shade and Convergence - the South London Gallery’s platform for critical conversations, screenings and written commissions - explores anti-racism and the arts.

This first episode features Kevin Morosky, filmmaker, advertising creative director and co-founder of We are Pocc (the creative network accelerating equality and equity, for culturally and ethnically diverse people in the creative industries) who speaks to Lou Mensah about the role that advertising plays in challenging racism, in our everyday lives. 

Future Convergence + Shade co curated conversations will be released through Feb, March & April, and they will explore the role that film, literature and sound play in challenging racism.

Produced and hosted by Lou Mensah of Shade Podcast

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]]> This bonus series of four co-curated conversations between Shade and Convergence - the South London Gallery’s platform for critical conversations, screenings and written commissions - explores anti-racism and the arts.

This first episode features Kevin Morosky, filmmaker, advertising creative director and co-founder of We are Pocc (the creative network accelerating equality and equity, for culturally and ethnically diverse people in the creative industries) who speaks to Lou Mensah about the role that advertising plays in challenging racism, in our everyday lives. 

Future Convergence + Shade co curated conversations will be released through Feb, March & April, and they will explore the role that film, literature and sound play in challenging racism.

Produced and hosted by Lou Mensah of Shade Podcast

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]]> <![CDATA[VOGUE Magazine and BLM 'Hope' Covers with Osman Ahmed and Mariel Tyler]]> Mon, 18 Jan 2021 02:00:00 GMT 35:08 6562f69a-ba22-4c36-86d6-020807afac0c false https://play.acast.com/s/shadepodcast/voguemagazinehopeissues 6562f69a-ba22-4c36-86d6-020807afac0c 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef voguemagazinehopeissues full 4 2 Fashion & the BLM uprisings

Image Focus: British Vogue Cover, The September Issue 2020

American Vogue Covers, The September Issue 2020


Guests

Osman Ahmed, Fashion Features Editor i-D Magazine 

Mariel Tyler, Photographer

(Former Photo Editor of ELLE.COM & Getty)


Shade is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Please support this work by becoming a Shade Patron 

Full season music is composed by Brian Jackson

Episode Two additional music by Luke Cage

Mixing & sound design CA Davis


Thank you Kloris for supporting Shade Podcast Season Four

Sign up to Shade Patreon (for as little as £1 monthly) to receive your Kloris gift!

New and existing patrons, simply message Shade via Patreon messenger, and write KLORIS in the subject header, along with your address, to claim your gift


Shade Podcast and CONVERGENCE at The South London Gallery have co-curated a four part conversation series asking ’Does the media have the potential to challenge racism?’

SLG’s convergence platform hosts critical conversations, screenings and written commissions, freely available to everyone on their website. For our first talk, on January 23rd 2021, Shade Podcast will be in conversation with Kevin Morosky, filmmaker, senior advertising creative and co founder of POCC - the network accelerating equality and equity, for culturally and ethnically diverse people in the creative industries. The talk will be available from January 23rd, on the South London Gallery website and also on your podcast app as bonus Shade content….enjoy! 

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]]> Fashion & the BLM uprisings

Image Focus: British Vogue Cover, The September Issue 2020

American Vogue Covers, The September Issue 2020


Guests

Osman Ahmed, Fashion Features Editor i-D Magazine 

Mariel Tyler, Photographer

(Former Photo Editor of ELLE.COM & Getty)


Shade is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Please support this work by becoming a Shade Patron 

Full season music is composed by Brian Jackson

Episode Two additional music by Luke Cage

Mixing & sound design CA Davis


Thank you Kloris for supporting Shade Podcast Season Four

Sign up to Shade Patreon (for as little as £1 monthly) to receive your Kloris gift!

New and existing patrons, simply message Shade via Patreon messenger, and write KLORIS in the subject header, along with your address, to claim your gift


Shade Podcast and CONVERGENCE at The South London Gallery have co-curated a four part conversation series asking ’Does the media have the potential to challenge racism?’

SLG’s convergence platform hosts critical conversations, screenings and written commissions, freely available to everyone on their website. For our first talk, on January 23rd 2021, Shade Podcast will be in conversation with Kevin Morosky, filmmaker, senior advertising creative and co founder of POCC - the network accelerating equality and equity, for culturally and ethnically diverse people in the creative industries. The talk will be available from January 23rd, on the South London Gallery website and also on your podcast app as bonus Shade content….enjoy! 

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]]> TIME Magazine and BLM, with Editor at Large (Special Projects) Paul Moakley TIME Magazine and BLM, with Editor at Large (Special Projects) Paul Moakley Mon, 11 Jan 2021 02:00:00 GMT 40:06 506175d5-3dff-4536-997d-e2c4018e17d8 false https://play.acast.com/s/shadepodcast/timemagazinetheoverdueawakening 506175d5-3dff-4536-997d-e2c4018e17d8 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef timemagazinetheoverdueawakening Discussing TIME covers by Devin Allen full 4 1 Guest Paul Moakley Editor at Large, Special projects TIME Magazine

Image ‘The Overdue Awakening’ TIME, June 2020 Photographer Devin Allen

Produced and hosted by Lou Mensah


Music composed for Shade Podcast by Brian Jackson Copyright Brian Jackson/Shade Podcast

Mixing & sound design CA Davis

Available on all podcast apps & Shade Website

Please support this work by becoming a Shade Patron

Season 4 is supported by Kloris

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Patreon support for this episode is supported by The British Film Institute

The British Film Institute have provided memberships for 6 Shade Patreon patrons

Please listen to the episode for details on how to apply!

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]]> Guest Paul Moakley Editor at Large, Special projects TIME Magazine

Image ‘The Overdue Awakening’ TIME, June 2020 Photographer Devin Allen

Produced and hosted by Lou Mensah


Music composed for Shade Podcast by Brian Jackson Copyright Brian Jackson/Shade Podcast

Mixing & sound design CA Davis

Available on all podcast apps & Shade Website

Please support this work by becoming a Shade Patron

Season 4 is supported by Kloris

Thank you so much Kloris for supporting Shade this season! Sign up to Shade Patreon to receive your Kloris subscriber gift

Existing Shade Patreons, please message Shade via Patreon messenger and write 'KLORIS GIFT' in the subject header to claim your gift

Patreon support for this episode is supported by The British Film Institute

The British Film Institute have provided memberships for 6 Shade Patreon patrons

Please listen to the episode for details on how to apply!

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]]> <![CDATA[Season Four Trailer - 'Black Images Matter' Launching 11 Jan 2021]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2020 15:54:36 GMT 1:58 de3b06c9-bda3-40d3-be07-062e13ab95ad false https://play.acast.com/s/shadepodcast/shade-seasonfourtrailer-blackimagesmatterlaunching11jan2021 de3b06c9-bda3-40d3-be07-062e13ab95ad 241b5e41-db8f-59dc-95ea-0160569317ef shade-seasonfourtrailer-blackimagesmatterlaunching11jan2021 trailer 4 Shade returns for a new season, reflecting on the images and stories that emerged from the 2020 BLM uprisings.

Join Lou, along with the trailblazers and change-makers from the worlds of magazine & book publishing, photography, art, journalism and activism, to consider the effect of the summer 2020 uprisings on our visual and social cultures.

Music has been composed for Shade this season by musician Brian Jackson (of Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson). The duo composed the politically resonant 70's hit 'The Revolution will not be televised.'

Released weekly every Monday from 11 Jan 2021

Subscribe to catch new episodes!

Follow Shade on Instagram for images relating to the new season

Music Brian Jackson

Additional music by Luke Cage

Editing & sound design by CA Davis Producer & Host of A Latto Thought

Shade Patreon patreon.com/shadepodcast

www.shadepodcast.co.uk

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]]> Shade returns for a new season, reflecting on the images and stories that emerged from the 2020 BLM uprisings.

Join Lou, along with the trailblazers and change-makers from the worlds of magazine & book publishing, photography, art, journalism and activism, to consider the effect of the summer 2020 uprisings on our visual and social cultures.

Music has been composed for Shade this season by musician Brian Jackson (of Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson). The duo composed the politically resonant 70's hit 'The Revolution will not be televised.'

Released weekly every Monday from 11 Jan 2021

Subscribe to catch new episodes!

Follow Shade on Instagram for images relating to the new season

Music Brian Jackson

Additional music by Luke Cage

Editing & sound design by CA Davis Producer & Host of A Latto Thought

Shade Patreon patreon.com/shadepodcast

www.shadepodcast.co.uk

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