the Roberts Institute of Art Podcast
1) Close Looking: Julie Ezelle Patton on Eva Hesse
Julie Ezelle Patton’s 'Three Phases of Eva, 1965' is written in response to Eva Hesse’s 'Three' (1965), a triptych of gouache and oil on paper collage. Patton takes Hesse’s triptych and title to struc...Show More
2) Close Looking: Imani Mason Jordan on Ellen Gallagher
Imani Mason Jordan’s '1:1' is written in response to Ellen Gallagher’s 'Untitled' (2005). Gallagher’s intimate work shows two silhouetted figures etched onto a gold leaf background. The figures, posed...Show More
3) Close Looking: Renee Gladman on Ayan Farah
Renee Gladman’s 'All These Not-Places for Wandering' is written in response to Ayan Farah’s 'Stardust' (2011), a work dyed and bleached by UV light and painted with acrylic paint. Gladman approaches t...Show More
4) Liliane Lijn on Bernd and Hilla Becher
In this podcast, we invited Liliane Lijn, whose work is featured in the David and Indrė Roberts Collection to choose a piece from the collection as a starting point for a conversation. Liliane describ...Show More
5) Valerie Asiimwe Amani
In this podcast, artist Valerie Asiimwe Amani discusses her first live performance 'To dismantle a house' which was jointly commissioned by the Roberts Institute of Art and South London Gallery and pr...Show More
6) Dora García on Ida Applebroog
Dora García is an artist who often draws on interactivity and performance in her work. At our 2008 Evening of Performances, García performed 'The Game of Questions', a performance that blurred boundar...Show More
7) Nkisi and Tiran Willemse
Nkisi was commissioned to perform a DJ set as part of our Evening of Performances in 2018. Here she is joined by artist and choreographer Tiran Willemse to discuss how they work together and jointly e...Show More
8) On Togetherness: Grace Schwindt and Katleen Van Langendonck
Belgian curator and academic Katleen van Langendonck joins Grace Schwindt in conversation about Grace's practice and the crossovers between Katleen's current research into performance and the translat...Show More
9) Phyllida Barlow on Bethan Huws
First encountering Bethan Huws' work during the degree show at the Royal College of Art in 1988, Phyllida Barlow recalls how, ever since then, it has had an impact on her own approach to sculpture. Ph...Show More
10) Arike Oke and Pelumi Odubanjo
Archives can be places where knowledge is passed on and cultural and personal histories are preserved. Arike Oke and Pelumi Odubanjo talk about what it means to be telling new stories with materials f...Show More