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ArtalaapAuthor: Artalaap
Delve into the discourse around the aesthetics, politics, and infrastructure of visual art. Artalaap is a podcast on visual culture focusing on modern & contemporary art from the South Asian subcontinent. Art critic Kamayani Sharma interviews artists, curators, writers, researchers, arts organisation professionals, and culture workers. Come for the images, stay for the insights! Language: en Genres: Arts, Visual Arts Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Ep 21: Vestibular Criticism ft. Geraldine Tedder
Monday, 11 August, 2025
On this special Artalaap episode, Kamayani Sharma speaks to Kunsthalle Winterthur director Geraldine Tedder about writing and curating practices through the metaphor of the vestibular system. They talk about how criticism and curating can help stabilise and situate ourselves in the contemporary, and about the many forms that the relationships between writing, speaking and listening can take. Through of all this, they reflect together on how repairing, caring and loving can be modes of creating knowledge. Click here to access the episode transcript.OUR GUEST Geraldine Tedder is a curator and writer based in Zürich. She is director of Kunsthalle Winterthur.CREDITS This episode was produced as part of the Art Writers’ Award 2024 residency at Villa Sträuli, Winterthur with the support of Pro Helvetia and TAKE On Art magazine. Producer: Square Wave Studios, New DelhiBrand design & artwork: Mohini Mukherjee Episode graphics: Amir Bin Rafi Transcription: Priya ThakurSpecial thanks: Merly Knörle Izquierdo, Nicole Bachmann, Damian Christinger, Bibliotheken WinterthurAdditional support: Raghav SagarAudio courtesy: Vernouillet by Blue Dot Sessions [CCBY-NC 4.0] LINKSGeraldine Tedder— 'You Are Probably Completely Oblivious That This Text Actually Is About You', 2020.https://brand-new-life.org/b-n-l/you-are-probably-completely-oblivious-that-this-text-actually-is-about-you/— 'Notes on Furniture' in collaboration with Chantal Kaufmann, audiobook, 2020.Kamayani Sharma— 'Loving with Language: Reflections on Writing Alongside Art', 2019. https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/19952/uploads/eb1d39a0-fa71-4665-bf97-6af6ec3740c1.pdf— Book review of Arshi Ahmadzai's 'Nafas: Isolation Diaries', TAKE On Art [South Asia], 2024.https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/19952/uploads/853acf00-eedd-4c65-b232-f7b10aaa46c4.pdf— Artalaap Ep. 17: Tales of Silence, podcast, 2022.https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Ee8hbSAE8DzWASUhrlkLc?si=E2YY4HctRSSg1z3hY6KK6QOtherArt Writers’ Award 2024 blog for TAKE On Art magazine:https://takeonartmagazine.com/blog/Kunsthalle Winterthur:https://kunsthallewinterthur.ch/ CONTENTS00:00 – Introduction & Context 02:00 – Defining ‘Vestibular’ & Episode Themes 03:00 – Writing, Orality, and Critical Positions 08:00 – Orality as Challenge to Print Culture 12:00 – Performativity, Misinformation & Media Forms 15:00 – Podcasting as Critical Practice 18:45 – Curatorial Conversations & Gossip as Subversion 21:45 – Oral Histories & Restoring Lost Voices 24:30 – Care in Curating & Opening Processes 28:30 – Breaking Down Curatorial Authority 29:45 – Spatial Metaphors & the Vestibular 36:45 – Erotics, Love, and Reparative Reading42:00 – The Transcript as Inter-Script 45:00 – Collaborative Writing & Challenging Structures 46:45 – Demystifying Institutional Realities 48:00 – Closing & ReflectionsClick here to access the full list of works cited and time-stamped contents summaries.
