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Coline Milliard and Mark Prince discuss the the literary tendency in contemporary art, and the recent Falmouth Convention where the keynote speech was by Lucy Lippard.

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Theorist Dan Smith talks to host Matt Hale about current use of the spiritual in art, and artist and activist John Jordan discusses Liberate Tate’s recent protest against BP sponsorship at Tate’s summer party while critic JJ Charlesworth argues that the activists oversimplified the issue.

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Artist Dean Kenning and poet Cherry Smyth join Matt Hale to discuss Kenning’s feature on relational, collaborative artwork in the public realm – in particular projects by David Collins and Emma Hart in Morpeth School, Bethnal Green, London – and Smyth’s review of Rachel Harrison’s exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery.

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Gilda Williams and Maria Walsh join Matt Hale to discuss ways in which artists utilise the difference between ruined buildings and the merely derelict, and how Hannah Sawtell’s films analyse entropy in the age of the digital.

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Japanese artist Tatsuo Miyajima rose to prominence in the late 1980s with his distinctive use of glowing LED numerical counters, with later works seeing these counters attached to moving devices or embedded in natural materials, such as piles of coal or submerged underwater. Miyajima describes his practice as addressing humanist ideas within a Buddhist philosophy: ‘keep changing, connect with everything, continue forever’. He has work in the Tate Collection, has twice exhibited in the Venice Biennale and presented a solo show at London’s Lisson Gallery earlier this year.

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Sally O’Reilly and Mark Prince join Matt Hale to discuss the work of John Smith and the idea of artists as curators of the self.

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Patricia Bickers and Alex Coles discuss the work of artist Sturtevant, appropritation in both visual art and advertising, and the failure of ‘designart’.

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Born in South Korea, New York-based artist Kimsooja is renowned for her performative video works and sculptural installations. Meditating on the crossover between cultural, social and personal identity, her work has previously been selected for the Venice Biennale – 2001, 2005 and 2007 – as well as the Whitney Biennial and the Yokohama Triennial. She currently has a solo exhibition at the Baltic in Gateshead.

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Matt Hale talks to Colin Perry and Gavin Grindon. Perry has written about artists who use the law as an artistic medium; something that can be manipulated and tested. He is joined by Grindon who writes about art and activism. Grindon has recently returned from the Climate Conference in Copenhagen and he tells us about the new forms of art and activism he saw out there.

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