ART FICTIONS is a monthly podcast created by artist and writer Jillian Knipe. Much like a magazine, hosting is shared between a range of contemporary art practitioners including art critics, curators and creative writers. For each episode, a guest artist discusses their work through the lens of a piece of fiction of their choosing. We explore the book’s themes, context and characters as well as the author’s background, which opens up and steers a rich conversation about the artist’s work. The podcast bounces back and forth between artworks and text, often meandering around film, television, exhibitions and other inspiring artists.
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ART FICTIONS is a monthly podcast created by artist and writer Jillian Knipe. Much like a magazine, hosting is shared between a range of contemporary art practitioners including art critics, curators and creative writers. For each episode, a guest artist discusses their work through the lens of a piece of fiction of their choosing. We explore the book’s themes, context and characters as well as the author’s background, which opens up and steers a rich conversation about the artist’s work. The podcast bounces back and forth between artworks and text, often meandering around film, television, exhibitions and other inspiring artists.
Arbitrary Traditions and Alien Observations (ROSIE GIBBENS)
ART FICTIONS
47 minutes 23 seconds
2 years ago
Arbitrary Traditions and Alien Observations (ROSIE GIBBENS)
Guest artist ROSIE GIBBENS joins VANESSA MURRELL of DATEAGLE to discuss her art practice via 'Life Ceremony' by Sayaka Murata, 2022 published by Granta Books. This off-kilter collection of short stories brings a grotesque whimsy to fables of cultural norms, including society rituals that develop when the human species is endangered .
ROSIE and VANESSA's discussion encompasses ritual, nothingness, meatarianism, shit and vomit . As well as ribcage tables, mocking Freud, recycling flesh, consuming oneself, anatomical Venus's, muscle suits, pointless products, human hair jumpers, an alien point of view, dried stomach lampshades, humans resembling cockroaches, eating Spongebob figurines, and to borrow Rosie's words, it's all kinda dark and kinda beautiful .
ROSIE GIBBENS
rosiegibbens.com
@rosiegibbens
ARTISTS + CURATORS
Becca Pall-Fry
Helen Chadwick
Marcel Joseph
Mike Stubbs
BOOKS + WRITERS
Albert Camus
Aldous Huxley 'Brave New World' 1932
Angela Carter
Barbara Creed 'The Monstrous Feminine' 1993
Julia Kristeva
Megan Milks 'Slug and Other Stories' 2021
Perfume
Steven King 'Carrie' 1974
FILM
'Alien' 1979
'Evil Dead II' 1987
'Ex Machina' 2015
'Hellraiser' franchise
'RAW' 2017
'The Human Centipede' 2009, 2011, 2015
GALLERIES + EXHIBITIONS
GIANT 'Body Poetics' 2023
Museum of the Home
Pictorum Gallery
The Bomb Factory
ART FICTIONS
ART FICTIONS is a monthly podcast created by artist and writer Jillian Knipe. Much like a magazine, hosting is shared between a range of contemporary art practitioners including art critics, curators and creative writers. For each episode, a guest artist discusses their work through the lens of a piece of fiction of their choosing. We explore the book’s themes, context and characters as well as the author’s background, which opens up and steers a rich conversation about the artist’s work. The podcast bounces back and forth between artworks and text, often meandering around film, television, exhibitions and other inspiring artists.
