Arti Parti
In a new collaboration with Campus 103.7, broadcaster and researcher Karsten Xuereb interviews contemporary artists and curators who have worked with Unfinished Art Space over the past few years, covering practices and methodologies such as community art practice, inter-disciplinarity, art in public space, archival practice, poetics, and sound.
This 13-part one-hour long radio series is produced and aired during the 2024 summer schedule of Campus 103.7.
Episodes 10 | Farfara Top of the World 1
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Airs: Wednesday 4 September at 3pm & 10pm, and Sunday 8 September at 10am
With Aidan Celeste, Alberto Favaro, Amparo Alonso Sanz, Beatrice Portelli
Episode 7 | The community and the individual
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Airs Wednesday 14 August at 3pm & 10pm, and Sunday 21 August at 10am
Claire Ducène is a visual artist working around ideas of memory, fiction and the fictive archive. Her work also focuses on imaginary cartography and representations of unknown, undefined spaces.
Charlene Galea is a multidisciplinary artist whose body is both her canvas and subject of research. Her work stems from her curiosity about the world and the contrasts between online identity and physical experiences, narrated mostly through performance where she has several identities in which she performs. whilst being sensitive to space and sound.
Episode 6 | Memory and the human body
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Airs Wednesday 7 August at 3pm & 10pm, and Sunday 11 August at 10am
Florinda Camilleri Florinda is a community pharmacist and dance artist from and based in Malta. She engages in dance- and performance- related projects, taking on various roles as a contemporary dance and screen dance performer and maker, researcher, coach and producer.
Claire Ducène is a visual artist working around ideas of memory, fiction and the fictive archive. Her work also focuses on imaginary cartography and representations of unknown, undefined spaces.
Episode 5 | Spaces, sites and territories
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Airs Wednesday 30 July at 3pm & 10pm, and Sunday 4 August at 10am
Raphael Vella is an artist, educator and curator based in Malta, and is a full professor at the University of Malta. The conversation with Raphael includes changes in the production and consumption of art over time, connections between art and non-art fields, art education, and the growing use of archives in art.
Keit Bonnici is a transdisciplinary artist and designer, who has studied and lived in Malta, London and Vienna. His conceptually-driven and practice-based research is embedded in speculative thinking and an assemblage of designing objects, interventions and narratives that question the social, political and cultural territories of space.
Episode 4 | Other disciplines
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Airs Wednesday 24 July at 3pm & 10pm, and Sunday 28 July at 10am
Kristina Borg is a freelance visual, socially engaged artist and an art educator/lecturer. In her transdisciplinary research-practice her work dialogues with specific multispecies communities and places, focusing on the co-creation of projects that are situation and context-specific. The conversation with Kristina addresses research in contemporary art, matters related to space and geography, the functions of community contexts, and the rise of commercialisation in contemporary societies. [ ]
Raphael Vella is an artist, educator and curator based in Malta, and is a full professor at the University of Malta. The conversation with Raphael includes changes in the production and consumption of art over time, connections between art and non-art fields, art education, and the growing use of archives in art.
Episode 3 | The specifics of communities
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Airs Wednesday 17July at 3pm & 10pm, and Sunday 21 July at 10am
Charlotte Nordgren Sewell is a British-Swedish artist who lives and works in Barcelona. She has an an MA in Art and Politics from Goldsmiths College. She is interested in how popular culture produces and perpetuates natural histories, the relationship between feminized bodies and non-human animals, tongues and tenderness. [ ]
Kristina Borg is a freelance visual, socially engaged artist and an art educator/lecturer. In her transdisciplinary research-practice her work dialogues with specific multispecies communities and places, focusing on the co-creation of projects that are situation and context-specific. The conversation with Kristina addresses research in contemporary art, matters related to space and geography, the functions of community contexts, and the rise of commercialisation in contemporary societies. [ ]
The second part of the conversation with Charlotte will be aired next week.
Episode 2 | Intimacy without proximity
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Airs Wednesday 10 July at 3pm & 10pm, and Sunday 14 July at 10am
Agustín Ortiz Herrera’s artistic practice is developed in the fields of audiovisual, performance and installation. He uses these media to activate the queer perspective in a patriarchal-colonialist context nurtured by the dominance of audiovisual persuasion and the normative representation of memory. The conversation with Augustin addresses queer art, the intersection between art and science, genre politics in human bodies and environmental politics, in how they try to break the anthropocentric view on matter and living beings. [ ]
Charlotte Nordgren Sewell is a British-Swedish artist who lives and works in Barcelona. She has an an MA in Art and Politics from Goldsmiths College. She is interested in how popular culture produces and perpetuates natural histories, the relationship between feminized bodies and non-human animals, tongues and tenderness. She has been artist-in-residence at Tabakalera (Donostia, 2020), Tangent Projects (Hospitalet, 2021), Can Serrat (El Bruc, 2021, 2022) and Fabra I Coats (Barcelona, 2023). She is currently in residence at Fabra i Coats with the community art project Parque Creativo that she runs with her collaborator Maybuch Victorel, where they are researching and running workshops on mothering, radical care and collective art making. [ ]
The second part of the conversation with Charlotte will be aired next week.
Episode 1 | Ableism and the body politic
Airs Wednesday 3 July at 3pm & 10pm, and Sunday 7 July at 10am
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The first episode features Barcelona-based artists Irene Pérez Gil and Agustín Ortiz Herrera, who both participated in “Māter” alongside Kristina Borg, Charlotte Nordgren Sewell Vanesa Varela, and Raphael Vella, and curated by Pilar Cruz, Alexia Medici, and Margerita Pulè.
Introductions are in Maltese, while the interviews are in English
Irene Pérez Gil is a visual artist, mother and an activist for various causes with a queer feminist perspective. Through her practice, she explores ideas related to identity, gender, language, education and illness, beginning from her personal experience and working towards their use in generating thought. The conversation with Irene begins with an exploration of how art leads to and enables conversations on multiple layers. Irene speaks about the way illness and a lack of well-being can be investigated through contemporary art, as well a realities such as ableism and what Irene describes as ‘dynamic disability’. [13:42 - 45:55]
Agustín Ortiz Herrera’s artistic practice is developed in the fields of audiovisual, performance and installation. He uses these media to activate the queer perspective in a patriarchal-colonialist context nurtured by the dominance of audiovisual persuasion and the normative representation of memory. The conversation with Augustin addresses queer art, the intersection between art and science, genre politics in human bodies and environmental politics, in how they try to break the anthropocentric view on matter and living beings. [53:45 - 59:19]
The second part of the conversation with Agustín will be aired next week.
Presented and produced: Karsten Xuereb
Music: Blur
