EMPIRE LINES Podcast
1) Introducing: BUZZWORDS: Care with Jasmina Cibic
BUZZWORDS is a new pilot podcast from Open City, produced in collaboration with the arts and culture podcast EMPIRE LINES. The podcast unpacks words and phrases often overused in the fields of art and...Show More
2) It Should Not Be Forgotten, Elsa James (2025) (EMPIRE LINES Live at Firstsite Colchester)
In this special episode, contemporary artist Elsa James joins EMPIRE LINES live, navigating how the slave ship marks and haunts Black lives in Britain today, in their interdisciplinary exhibition, It ...Show More
3) Love (Warbler Remix), Hanna Tuulikki (2025) (EMPIRE LINES x Folkestone Triennial 2025)
Artist Hanna Tuulikki traces the migration route of the Marsh Warbler, a bird that mimics and remixes the songs of European and Afrotropical species it meets, across the English Channel to Kent.Throug...Show More
4) The Dhaba, Alia Syed (2025) (EMPIRE LINES Live at CCA Glasgow)
In this special episode, filmmaker and contemporary artist Alia Syed joins EMPIRE LINES live, to weave together their works in moving image, photography, and oral history, and reflect on personal expe...Show More
5) A Cutting: Stone Portals, Leo Robinson (Ongoing) (EMPIRE LINES Live at SEEDLINGS, The Hunterian)
Find out more about Leo Robinson’s relations to African and Caribbean cosmologies, and worldbuilding through play, with Stone Portals (Ongoing), now part of SEEDLINGS: Diasporic Imaginaries, curat...Show More
6) A Cutting: Kinnomic Botany: Freeing the Potato from its Scientific and Colonial Ties, Iman Datoo (2022) (EMPIRE LINES Live at SEEDLINGS, Invasion Ecology)
Find out more about Iman Datoo’s installation, Kinnomic Botany (2022), now part of SEEDLINGS: Diasporic Imaginaries, curated by Jelena Sofronijevic with Travelling Gallery in Scotland.The group exhi...Show More
7) Kern, Amba Sayal-Bennett (2024) (EMPIRE LINES Live at SEEDLINGS, Somerset House Studios)
In this special episode, contemporary artist Amba Sayal-Bennett joins EMPIRE LINES live, to trace the migrations of rubber seeds between South America, London, and British colonies in South Asia in th...Show More
8) Sweet & Sour, Hrair Sarkissian (2021-2022) (EMPIRE LINES x Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Lisson Gallery)
Conceptual photographer Hrair Sarkissian moves between Syria, Armenia, and Turkey, capturing present absences in personal and political histories in the 20th and 21st centuries.Hrair Sarkissian uses p...Show More
9) Palimpsest: Tales Spun From Sea And Memories, Billy Gerard Frank (2019) (EMPIRE LINES Live x PEACE FREQUENCIES, St James’s Church, Paxton House)
Contemporary artist Billy Gerard Frank explores the deep connections between Grenada, Scotland, and England, following the life and legacies of Ottobah Cugoano in their film, Palimpsest: Tales Spun Fr...Show More
10) Hero’s Head, Richard Hunt (1956) (EMPIRE LINES x White Cube, Centre Pompidou)
Curator Sukanya Rajaratnam and biographer Jon Ott weld together African American culture and 20th century Western/European modernism, through Richard Hunt’s 1956 sculpture, Hero’s Head.Born on the Sou...Show More