Beth Bate (Dundee Contemporary Arts), Sepake Angiama (Iniva), and Nigel Prince (Artes Mundi) join Kirsteen MacDonald for a roundtable discussion sharing strategies for navigating the decentralisation project.
These guests represent three UK arts organisations that were founded or re-developed around the new millennium with core missions to serve historically under-resourced and overlooked communities. Whilst the ideas, assets and personnel that comprise our public infrastructure are tested anew by austerity thinking, this discussion offers distinct and overlapping models for cultivating an outward-looking cultural infrastructure.
Art after Devolution is hosted by Marcus Jack, a curator and writer based between Exeter and Glasgow. His research looks for counternarratives in visual culture through analyses of infrastructure, statehood and socio-economics, with particular emphasis on artists’ film. He lectures in Contemporary Art and Curation at the University of Exeter. Follow him on socials @marcusfjack or online at MarcusJack.com
TIMESTAMPS
2:11 – Introductions
5:42 – Consideration of state funding across the UK
24:34 – Cultural value and the wider arts ecology
Read the episode transcript here: https://britishartnetwork.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Transcript-Art-after-Devolution-Episode-Three.pdf
GUEST INFORMATION:
Sepake Angiama – @iniva_arts
Beth Bate – @dcadundee
Kirsteen Macdonald
Nigel Prince – @ArtesMundi
The image in our graphic is Balaclava Bust by Ursula Burke, used with her kind permission.
Music is Too Many To Count by Comfort from their 2023 album ‘What’s Bad Enough?’ Check them out wherever you listen to music. Thanks to Natalie McGhee for the permission to include it.
This podcast has been audio produced by Clare Lynch
Art after Devolution is a British Art Network (BAN) podcast supported by the Paul Mellon Centre and Tate. Membership of the British Art Network is free and open to anyone with an active engagement in curating, researching and interpreting British art. To join, just visit britishartnetwork.org.uk
BAN is supported financially by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Tate, with additional public funding provided by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
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