A podcast for creatives to share their frustrations in the arts, dig up their roots and find solutions through conversation.
In each episode, we have conversations with creative practitioners from around the world. We discover parts of their lived experiences, their project or research, and uncover the causes of the challenges in their respective fields. These informative, entertaining and honest conversations will enable us to better understand the inner workings of the creative sector.
Season 1: Art for the many and not the few, oh wait?
Cultural institutions have been claiming they will improve ethnic diversity. However, in the UK, more than 90% of the highest-funded theatre CEOs are white (Snow, 2020). How can we try to be, regardless of our skin colour, better allies?
Cultural institutions have been claiming they will improve ethnic diversity. However, in the UK, more than 90% of the highest-funded theatre CEOs are white (Snow, 2020). How can we try to be, regardless of our skin colour, better allies?
Join us in exploring issues these issues, with Kaya, Marina and Rachel. Their grassroot projects Mother Tongues and the Museum of Half Truths, work towards a more diverse and inclusive art sector. Through conversation, we learn about the need to decolonize language and about our inherent racial gaze.
Episode 1: Exploring language and representation
In this episode, we trace back to colonial times, to analyse today’s oppressive structures. The founders of Mother Tongues and the Museum of Half Truths, also explain why decolonizing language and decolonizing the gaze are necessary to make ethnic inequalities less worse.
Episode 2: Allyship through practice
In this episode, we learn about the practicalities of those ideas.
About the Collaborators
Juliette Witt is pursuing the Media Practice for Development and Social Change MA at the University of Sussex. Since co-producing a podcast with other students, she wants to dedicate her time to increasing her portfolio. Tracing Realities’ first episode, launching this September, will be submitted as part of her MA final dissertation.
Juliette works as the Executive Producer and Producer of Tracing Realities. The podcast is produced for the art platform UnderExposed.
Museum of Half Truths an interdisciplinary research project aimed to encourage critical thinking through playful investigations and exercises, by applying collaborative and feminist practices. They run workshops and events, curate exhibitions in collaborative ways and produce projects considering play, making & interdisciplinary work.
Mother Tongues is an interdisciplinary and research-led project applying decolonial, feminist and queer theory in exploring language and identity.
Credits
Moonrise (8:40), Negentropy (1:50), by Chad Crouch.
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Multiverse (0:20 and 16:30), by Ketsa.
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“The Moral Responsibility of the Artist”, by Mr. James Baldwin at the University of Chicago in 1963. Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976.
Image: 'Circle', by Eva Louisa Jonas.
The article ‘Doing Diversity’ mentioned at 5”05 can be found here.
Quote at 8:15:
“You want the appearance of us, but you don't want our whole bodies because our whole bodies get in the way. You just want that appearance of being diverse.” by Joon Lynn Goh.
Quote at 21:35:
“A museum should be a safe space for unsafe ideas.” by Pi Li.
Here is a list of podcasts that we used for research:
Front Row- Representation and diversity in the arts, Momus: The Podcast- Ebony L. Haynes on “What’s Changed, and What Should?”, Perceived Value- The Value Of Diversity: The Co-Curators of UNDEREXPOSED.
