Points of Entry: Recent Episodes
Katie Kheriji-Watts
Points of Entry is a conversation with curators, artists and other researchers from across the globe about who they are, what they do, and how we can collectively (re)imagine the role of cultural organisations in a rapidly changing world. We talk about art and the people who make it happen and how the big ideas and concrete realities of the current cultural sector intersect with history, geography, politics, science and spirituality.
In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Lučka Kajfež Bogataj, an esteemed climatologist from Slovenia who’s served on the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They talk about why arts organisations should measure their environmental impact, the importance of setting concrete goals, and the relationship between creativity and survival.
This episode was co-commissioned by On the Move and the Motovila Institute, produced with the support of the French Ministry of Culture, and edited by Émilie Wadelle.
We have created a transcript of this episode and written translations in French and Slovenian.
mentioned in this episode :
· interview with Kim Stanley Robinson (Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana)
· Julie’s Bicycle - mobilising the arts to take action on the climate crisis
· keynote by Tim Wagendorp, sustainability expert, at the Mobility for Creativity Forum
· Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air by David MacKay
· French choreographer Jérôme Bel’s decision to stop all plane travel for his company
· Open Letter to Jérôme Bel by Mexican artist Lázaro Gabino Rodríguez
· Stop telling kids that climate change will destroy their world by Kelsey Piper
· Late lessons from early warnings - European Environmental Agency
Points of Entry can be found online at pointsofentry.com & instagram.com/pointsofentry
special thanks: Marie Le Sourd, Mateja Lazar, Tanja Kos
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In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Bochra Triki – a queer activist, feminist curator, and artist based in Tunis. They talk about what it was like for her to live through the Tunisian Revolution, how she feels about going into international spaces as a North African non-binary woman, and how a new generation of activists and artists in Tunisia is mobilising for queer visibility and freedom.
This episode was commissioned by On the Move, produced with the support of the French Ministry of Culture, and edited by Émilie Wadelle.
We have created a transcript of this episode and a written translation in French.
mentioned in this episode :
· the Tunisian organisation l’Art Rue
· the international feminist art festival Chouftouhonna
· the residency at l’Économat in Redeyef organised by Siwa platform
· the Under the Sand project in Gafsa
· the 2021 Tashweesh Festival between Tunis, Brussels, and Vienna
· the international exchange project Portals Next organised by Pro Helvetia
· Bochra Triki’s Mixed Signals project
Points of Entry can be found online at pointsofentry.com & instagram.com/pointsofentry.
special thanks: Marie Le Sourd
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In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Hettie Judah, a journalist and critic based in London who’s authored a new book: How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and Other Parents). They talk about how discrimination against parenthood in the arts is an international issue, what artists with care-taking responsibilities might need when they travel for their work, and what cultural organisations could do to be more parent-friendly.
This episode was commissioned by On the Move, produced with the support of the French Ministry of Culture, and edited by Émilie Wadelle.
We have created a transcript of this episode and a written translation in French.
mentioned in this episode :
· guidelines for institutions and residencies at artist-parents.com
· the 2019 Freelands Foundation study on the representation of female artists in Britain
· Industria’s project for increasing pay transparency in publicly-funded arts institutions in the UK
On the Move is compiling a list of international resources on the intersection of parenthood and mobility across all creative disciplines.
Points of Entry can be found online at
pointsofentry.com
instagram.com/pointsofentry
special thanks : Marie Le Sourd
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In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Ogutu Muraya, a Nairobi-based writer and a theatre maker whose artistic work focuses on orature and the politics of memory. They talk about internal and external mobility, the challenges of maintaining mental wellness during the creative process, epistemicide as an (often) unacknowledged legacy of colonial history, and why he decided to stop participating in the European Union’s “undeniably discriminatory visa system.”
This episode was commissioned by the National Arts Festival in South Africa and produced with support from the French Institute of South Africa
mentioned in this episode :
the National Arts Festival in South Africa
the Kenyan literary organisation Kwani?
Ogutu’s writings about his experiences in Europe :
"How do you observe a stone that is about to strike you ?"
"I am multitudes"
Ogutu’s performance “Fractured Memory”
Points of Entry can be found online at
pointsofentry.com
instagram.com/pointsofentry
special thanks: Rucera Seethal
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In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Brussels-based, participatory theatre maker Christophe Meierhans about money, radical trust, the ideology of individualism in the art world, being freaked out about the future, and why he paused his personal creative practice for more than a year to fully devote himself to the international civil disobedience movement Extinction Rebellion (XR).
mentioned in this episode :
A Hundred Wars to World Peace (2015)
https://www.hiros.be/en/projects/detail/verein-zur-aufhebung-des-notwendigen---a-hundred-wars-to-world-peace
Trials of Money (2018)
https://www.hiros.be/en/projects/detail/trials-of-money
A call to artists to leap off the stage (Etcetera, Sep. 2020)
https://e-tcetera.be/a-call-to-artists-to-leap-off-the-stage
Kaai Theatre (Brussels) - “How to Be Many ?”
https://www.kaaitheater.be/en/articles/how-to-be-many
Extinction Rebellion (XR)
https://rebellion.global
Time For Answers (2020), made with Ant Hampton
https://1000scores.com/portfolio-items/ant-hampton-christophe-meierhans-time-for-answers
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http://www.pointsofentry.com
https://www.instagram.com/pointsofentry
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In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Françoise Vergès - co-founder and president of the Paris-based collective Décoloniser les Arts - about her life at the intersection of art, activism and scholarship. They talk about her formative early years in Réunion and Algeria, the fight against racism and misogyny in the French cultural sector, and the complex politics of (in)visibility.
mentioned in this episode :
Françoise Vergès on Twitter & Facebook
https://twitter.com/phamthikang
https://www.facebook.com/francoise.verges
Décoloniser les Arts on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/decoloniserlesarts
Décolonisons les Arts - 2018 book (in French)
https://www.arche-editeur.com/livre/decolonisons-les-arts-638
Voix/Voies entravées - 2020 book (in French)
http://www.editionskime.fr/publications/n-54-voix-voies-entravees-percees-emancipatrices
Points of Entry can be found online at :
http://www.pointsofentry.com
https://www.instagram.com/pointsofentry
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In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with London International Festival of Theatre co-founder Lucy Neal about the moral and social responsibility of art in a world inalterably changed by the burning of fossil fuels, about what climate justice could mean for internationally-focused arts organisations in wealthy countries, and about why the culture sector should publicly declare that we’re in an ecological emergency.
mentioned in this episode :
Lucy Neal
http://www.lucyneal.co.uk
LIFT
https://www.liftfestival.com
Transition
https://transitionnetwork.org
Playing for Time: Making Art as if the World Mattered
https://www.oberonbooks.com/playing-for-time.html
Culture Declares Emergency
https://www.culturedeclares.org
Points of Entry can be found online at :
http://www.pointsofentry.com
https://www.instagram.com/pointsofentry
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In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Michelle Millar Fisher, a Scotland-born design curator and co-founder of the grassroots collective Art + Museum Transparency. They talk about her experience working in the USA, her independent projects on the social histories of design for women, her outspokenness against unjust labor practices in museums, and her perspective on what cultural organisations should be focusing on during a global public health crisis.
mentioned in this episode :
Michelle Millar Fisher
https://michellemillarfisher.com
https://www.instagram.com/michellemillarfisher
Art + Museum Transparency
https://twitter.com/AMTransparency
Designing Motherhood
https://www.instagram.com/designingmotherhood
“Why are museums so plutocratic, and what can we do about it ?” : Andrea Fraser discusses how to radically reshape the power structures of museums today - Frieze
https://frieze.com/article/why-are-museums-so-plutocratic-and-what-can-we-do-about-it
"I Will What I Want: Women, Design and Empowerment" (exhibition)
https://michellemillarfisher.com/2017/04/10/i-will-what-i-want-women-design-and-empowerment-april-8-23
Kimberly Drew's keynote talk at the American Alliance of Museums’ 2019 annual meeting
https://www.aam-us.org/2019/05/28/aam2019-keynote-kimberly-drew
POWarts Salary Survey
https://www.powarts.org/salarysurvey
the 2015 union-lead staff protests at MoMA
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/06/moma-garden-party-drowned-out-by-staff-protest.html
Mamava pod for breastfeeding
https://www.mamava.com
Points of Entry can be found online at :
http://www.pointsofentry.com
https://www.instagram.com/pointsofentry
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In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Mallika Taneja, a theatre maker and independent artist from New Delhi. They talk about how trauma has informed her work, the importance of walking to her artistic practice, the various ways she’s created in and with community, and why she doesn’t consider herself an activist.
follow Mallika and her work : https://www.instagram.com/goodgirlfromgoodfamily
the Zanana Ensemble viral video : https://www.thequint.com/news/india/hawaon-mein-jawaab-milega-zanana-ensemble-viral-musical-protest-shaheen-bagha
to learn more about the recent anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests & communal violence in India : https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/16/world/asia/india-citizenship-protests.html
Points of Entry can be found online at : http://www.pointsofentry.com
https://www.instagram.com/pointsofentry
special thanks : Meghna Singh Bhadauria
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In this inaugural “Points of Entry” episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with culturebot.org founder Andy Horwitz about economic shame and labor advocacy in the arts world, the intersection of counterculture and online technology, the patience required to effect change in large institutions and what it’s like to experience parenthood for the first time at the age of 50.
mentioned in this episode :
Andy Horwitz
http://www.andyhorwitz.com
“The Future, Revisited: ‘The Mother of All Demos’ at 50” - LA Review of Books
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-future-revisited-the-mother-of-all-demos-at-50
The Brooklyn Commune
https://brooklyncommune.org
Culturebot
https://www.culturebot.org
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special thanks : Solene de Bony, Fabrice Allain, Gabriel Nazoa, Zied Kheriji