In the final episode of ‘Past – Forward’, the 21st, curator and writer Gareth Evans talks to architect Josh Wright and architecture critic Rowan Moore about the light touch approach to restoring historic industrial buildings, the nodes of conta

with Deborah Levy

Jul 22nd, 2021 39m 10s

In this episode of ‘Past – Forward’, curator and writer Gareth Evans talks to writer Deborah Levy on being commissioned as a young poet, learning to write librettos, and on the simplicity and directness of exchange with Jules Wright, made possi

with Billy Cowie

Jul 13th, 2021 44m 11s

In this episode of ‘Past – Forward’, curator and writer Gareth Evans talks to composer, artist and choreographer Billy Cowie on the early collaborations with Jules Wright and Deborah Levy in the 1990s, risk averse established art institutions v

with Stephen Morgan and Sam Spenser

Jul 8th, 2021 43m 30s

In this episode of ‘Past – Forward’, curator and writer Gareth Evans is in conversation with photographer Stephen Morgan and artist and designer Sam Spenser on starting out as waiters in the restaurant at The Wapping Project, before being invit

with a quartet of Omani artists

Jun 28th, 2021 36m 27s

In this episode of ‘Past – Forward’, curator and writer Gareth Evans talks to a quartet of Omani artists – Rawan AlMahrouqi, Safa Baluchi, Ruqaiya Mazar, Riham Noor Al Zadjali – on their experience making work in response to scores, collaborati

with Karen Stuke and Maresa von Stockert

Jun 25th, 2021 37m 5s

In the first episode of the fourth series of ‘Past – Forward’, curator and writer Gareth Evans is in conversation with artist Karen Stuke and choreographer Maresa von Stockert on working with iconic narratives, in vast industrial spaces, and th

with Elina Brotherus

Apr 30th, 2021 28m 51s

In the first episode of the third series of ‘Past – Forward’, curator and writer Gareth Evans is in conversation with Finnish artist Elina Brotherus on making an ambitious proposal as a very young artist that perhaps wasn’t expected, which led

with Mairéad McClean

Apr 30th, 2021 29m 2s

In this episode of ‘Past – Forward’, curator and writer Gareth Evans talks to artist Mairéad McClean about a giant pencil, the wild beauty of the Other Hebrides, lines in the sand erased by North Atlantic waves, and how growing up close to the

with Kapka Kassabova

Apr 30th, 2021 31m 52s

In this episode of ‘Past – Forward’, curator and writer Gareth Evans is in conversation with writer Kapka Kassabova about story hunting on borders, her personal connection to the shadows of borders that she keeps on returning to in her writing,

with Imogen Eveson and Sonya Dyakova

Apr 30th, 2021 32m 27s

In this episode of ‘Past – Forward’, curator and writer Gareth Evans talks to writer and book designer Imogen Eveson about creating the book The Wapping Project on Paper, in 2013, and art director Sonya Dyakova of Atelier Dyakova who was involv

with Lydia Fulton and Ben Eastham

Apr 30th, 2021 33m 9s

In this episode of ‘Past – Forward’, curator and writer Gareth Evans talks to writers Lydia Fulton and Ben Eastham who ran The Wapping Project’s bookshop, set in a glasshouse within the gardens of the Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, where one

with James Robson and Cameron Emirali

Jan 26th, 2021 33m 24s

In the first episode of the second series of ‘Past – Forward’, curator and writer Gareth Evans is in conversation with the former head chefs at Wapping Food – James Robson and Cameron Emirali – on ambition, the ways to turn a small kitchen set

with Richard Wilson

Jan 26th, 2021 37m 11s

In this episode of ‘Past – Forward’, curator and writer Gareth Evans talks to sculptor Richard Wilson about his commission ‘Butterfly’ (2003), taking inspiration from a fiver washed in a jeans’ pocket, the ways to escape one’s artistic signatur

with So Mayer

Jan 26th, 2021 37m 21s

In this episode of ‘Past – Forward’, curator and writer Gareth Evans in in conversation with writer, curator and activist So Mayer on the process of responding to large scale work produced by female makers, the importance of making digital arch

with Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Taina Galis

Jan 26th, 2021 41m 39s

In this episode of ‘Past – Forward’, curator and writer Gareth Evans talks to artist filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman and editor and cinematographer Taina Galis about the feature documentary ‘Erase and Forget’, which premiered at Berlinale in 20

with Shona Illingworth and Nick Grief

Jan 26th, 2021 46m 17s

In this episode of ‘Past – Forward’, curator and writer Gareth Evans talks to artist Shona Illingworth and barrister Nick Grief about their collaborative project the Airspace Tribunal and Shona Illingworth’s ‘Topologies of Air’, their relations

with Jane Prophet

Nov 12th, 2020 41m 19s

In the very first episode of ‘Past – Forward’, curator and writer Gareth Evans is in conversation with artist Jane Prophet whose installation 'Conductor' marked the launch of The Wapping Project in October 2000. The conversation is framed by mu

with Lea Anderson & Luca Silvestrini

Nov 12th, 2020 44m 47s

In the second episode of ‘Past – Forward’, curator and writer Gareth Evans talks to choreographers Lea Anderson and Luca Silvestrini about pushing boundaries, dancing in a derelict, filthy building, hot soup, and producing a piece in a restaura

with Jen Calleja & Sophie Hughes

Nov 12th, 2020 34m 33s

In this episode of ‘Past – Forward’, curator and writer Gareth Evans talks to writers and translators Jen Calleja and Sophie Hughes about their commissions for The Wapping Project, the difficulties of carrying evocations of place across languag

with Alia Trabucco Zerán

Nov 12th, 2020 31m 59s

In this episode of ‘Past – Forward’, curator and writer Gareth Evans talks to Chilean writer and the 2019 International Booker Prize nominee Alia Trabucco Zerán about the surprising power of words, read or heard, to create a physical reaction i

with Marta Michalowska & Thomas Zanon-Larcher

Nov 12th, 2020 30m 44s

In this episode of ‘Past – Forward’, the current directors of The Wapping Project – Marta Michalowska and Thomas Zanon-Larcher are in conversation with curator and writer Gareth Evans. Looking back to their first meetings with the late Jules Wr

Trailer

Past – Forward: The Wapping Project at 20 – Season 1 – teaser

Oct 9th, 2020 6m 15s

Welcome to Past – Forward: The Wapping Project at 20, a new podcast series commissioned to mark twenty years of The Wapping Project.The first season of five episodes will be available later this Autumn, and it will include conversations hosted

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