Hannah Pezzack is a writer, editor, and curator. Drawing on sonic knowledge, ecology, and the politics of intimacy, she regards language and sound as deeply intertwined sensory and embodied mediums. She is currently a junior curator at Sonic Acts – an art, theory, and technology biennial – and is the assistant editor of Ecoes, a bi-annual magazine about ‘art in the age of pollution’, published by Sonic Acts Press. A lot of her work has been about relational ontologies – thinking about human and non-human exchanges and how we might be able to challenge the hierarchies and binaries between them.

Hannah has suggested Anastasia (A) Alevtin as our second guest for this conversation..

(A) is - a theorist, writer, and artist whose work scrutinises how dominant Western politics of structural marginalisation is lived and quietly subverted in one’s daily anti-ableist, migratised, and non-binary communities and multispecies kinships. In their artistic practice, they work with text, textile, performance, aesthetic gestures, and collective readings. With the support of the Finnish Institute in the UK & Ireland, Art Promotion Centre Finland and Glasgow Seed Library, they are developing Dormancy, Reseeding, and Resistance. The project engages with communal gardening, seed-saving practices and grandmothering in the contexts of anti-ableism and food in/security, specifically lived by chronically sick and other precarious bodies in Turku, Vantaa, and Glasgow.

Links

Hannah Pezzack on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hanapezzack/

Anastasia (A) Alevtin: On Instgram: https://www.instagram.com/awaitingbody/

Anastasia’s website: https://soundcloud.com/mutantradio/scrying-the-landscape-w-dim-garden-071124?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=0&si=81A0A022125347DE91651223A8CE1B71&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Aquatic Encounters book: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Aquatic-Encounters-A-Glossary-of-Hydrofeminisms-by-Anastasia-A-Khodyreva-editor-Elina-Suoyrj-editor/9789527258262

Noise Summer School: https://graduategenderstudies.nl/education/noise-summer-school/

Sonic Acts: https://www.sonicacts.com/

Astrida Neimanis - Hydrofeminism or on becoming a body of water.

Astrida Neimanis - Post-humanist phenomenology

Hannah Interviewing Astrida Neimannis for Sonic Acts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6B5RESGwFY

Hannah Rowan: https://www.instagram.com/rowanhannah/?hl=en

Anne Imhof - One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s27gmjB8gdw

Find Mater on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/mater________/?hl=en

Find the commissioned essays on The Mater Website: https://mater.digital/about/

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An EPIC conversation with Ellie Barrett. We delve into the philosophical and artistic histories of materials. We talk about Ellie’s art practice working with various materials and in collaboration with both her mum and daughter.. Ellie is a sculptor, practice-based researcher, writer, academic and artist-mother, who is invested in exploring sculpture as a collaborative discipline. Using material engagement as a means of activating different circumstances and experiences as sites for making. She is an advocate for artist-m*thers.

The PhD: https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/152305/1/2020BarrettPhD.pdf

E.Barrett’s website: https://elliebarrett.com/

Put It To Work: https://putittowork.wordpress.com/

E.Barrett’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elliecbarrett/?hl=en-gb

Links to sited texts and works (in order of mention)

Aristotle’s Hylomorphism: https://metaphysicsjournal.com/articles/10.5334/met.2

New Materialism: https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780190221911/obo-9780190221911-0016.xml

Material Literacy, A.S.Lehmann: https://www.academia.edu/35213411/A_Lehmann_Material_Literacy_Bauhaus_Zeitschrift_Nr_9_2017_20_27

Glitter with R.Coleman and N.Seymour, The Mater Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-mater-podcast/id1749226924?i=1000670752060

O. Bax: https://www.oliviabax.co.uk/

R.Molloy: https://www.artthou.co.uk/editorial/12/rebecca-molloy

J. Shannon The Disappearance of Objects: https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780300137064/Disappearance-Objects-New-York-Art-0300137060/plp

The Goat, R.Rauschenberg: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/rauschenberg-goat

Dominique White: https://blackdominique.com/

E.Barrett Salt Dough Exhibition: https://elliebarrett.com/explain-things-to-me/

J.Bennett Vibrant Matter: https://www.dukeupress.edu/vibrant-matter

C.Oldenburg, London Knees: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/77314

Object Oriented Feminism: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctt1g2knjg

Object Oriented Onology: https://www.artspace.com/magazine/interviews_features/the_big_idea/a-guide-to-object-oriented-ontology-art-53690

Lion Salt Works: https://lionsaltworks.westcheshiremuseums.co.uk/about-us/

Art & Agency by A.Gell: https://monoskop.org/images/archive/4/4d/20150328075023%21Gell_Alfred_Art_and_Agency_An_Anthropological_Theory.pdf

SPACE podcast: https://spacestudios.org.uk/events/out-of-space-episode-4-looking-after-the-art/

Bad Vibes Club - Ten Texts on Sculpture, Maintenance: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ten-texts-on-sculpture-10-maintenance/id1220925467?i=1000659524759

E.Thomas: https://www.herts.ac.uk/uhbow/students/meet-the-artist-elly-thomas

E.Thomas, Play and the Artist’s Creative Process: https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/products/play-and-the-artists-creative-process-book-elly-thomas-9781032178370

E.Barrett’s, Processes and Forms for Artist-Motherhood, In Situ residency text: https://www.in-situ.org.uk/post/in-residence-ellie-barrett-and-nora-2-yrs

K.Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv12101zq

E.Barrett, The Sculpture Kit: https://elliebarrett.com/the-sculpture-kit/

R.Morris: https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/robert-morris-62842/

B.Le Va: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/barry-le-va-dead-post-minimalist-sculptor-1234582161/

H.Judah, How not to exclude artist mothers and other parents: https://www.hettiejudah.co.uk/how-not-to-exclude-artist-mothers-and-other-parents

E.Barrett’s w/ mum and daughter: https://putittowork.wordpress.com/2023/08/26/how-to-work-as-a-mum/

Hand-made Soft Play: https://elliebarrett.com/handmade-soft-play/

E.Barrett, Vibrancy and Natural Dyeing: https://putittowork.wordpress.com/2023/09/20/agency-and-natural-dyeing/

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An amazing conversation with Bisila Noha & Simone Brewster

Bisila is an artist working predominantly with clay, with a background in Translation and International Relations. She writes about ceramics, crafts, identity and design, and has a particular interest in the contributions of women of colour to the history of art and craft. Her words are a bridge bringing the past - the forgotten, the ignored, and the belittled - to the present.

Bisila suggested we are joined in conversation by artist, designer & cultural change-maker Simone Brewster. Strongly grounded in craft, Simone’s practice includes painting, sculpture, jewellery and writing, Using her creative outputs as her voice, celebrating and sharing windows into varied Black female narratives and histories. The threads that flow throughout her work display a balance of function with beauty, a repurposing of the “ethnic” and the “western” and a continuous playing with scale, materiality and architectural form.

Links

Bisila Noha Instagram

Simone Brewster Instagram

Bisila’s blog post about translation

Bisila Noha Baney clay project

Negress and Mammy

Woman In Parts

Simone’s solo exhibition

Spirit of Place

V&A porcelain sugar holder

Ursula K le Guin, Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

Elizabeth Fisher's best-known work is Women's Creation: Sexual Evolution and the Shaping of Society. The 7th chapter The Carrier Bag Theory of Evolution inspired Le Guin

Lydia Yuknavich talking about The Carrier Back Theory of Fiction

Frank Gehry, a Canadian architect, famously said, “Decoration is a sin, expression is in materials”

Truth to materials - ‘A belief that the form of a work of art should be inseparably related to the material in which it is made’.

Slow Motion Multi Tasking, Tim Harford

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