Points of Entry
Points of Entry is a conversation with artists, curators, and activists from across the globe about who they are, what they do, and how we can collectively (re)imagine the roles of cultural organisations in a rapidly changing world.
Episodes
10 episodes
Lučka Kajfež Bogataj : “Creativity is how we will survive on our planet.”
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 ...
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42:05
Bochra Triki : “My queerness is about questioning norms and opening new possibilities.”
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...
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Hettie Judah : “Artists often feel they need to hide their parenthood from the art world.”
In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Hettie Judah, a journalist and critic based in London who’s authored a new book:
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Ogutu Muraya : “Absence as protest”
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 ...
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44:07
Christophe Meierhans : “Art is not the default way of doing things for me anymore”
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 pa...
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37:40
Françoise Vergès : “The art world thinks of itself as progressive, but there are structural problems"
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 form...
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41:02
Lucy Neal : “Artists are foundational to the systemic change needed in every sphere of our lives”
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 clima...
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50:25
Michelle Millar Fisher : “What would it mean to plant and sow things outside our institutions ?”
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 independe...
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42:22
Mallika Taneja : "Taking risks can lead to beautiful things"
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 ...
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Andy Horwitz : “Don’t wait for money and don’t wait for permission”
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 patie...
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