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

Bochra Triki : “My queerness is about questioning norms and opening new possibilities.”

Jun 19th, 2023 36m 49s

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

Hettie Judah : “Artists often feel they need to hide their parenthood from the art world.”

Nov 3rd, 2022 42m 27s

In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Hettie Judah, a journalist and critic based in London who’s authored a new book: How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and Other Parents). They talk about how discrimination against parenthood

Ogutu Muraya : “Absence as protest”

Jul 8th, 2021 44m 7s

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

Christophe Meierhans : “Art is not the default way of doing things for me anymore”

Dec 16th, 2020 37m 40s

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

Françoise Vergès : “The art world thinks of itself as progressive, but there are structural problems"

Sep 3rd, 2020 41m 2s

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

Lucy Neal : “Artists are foundational to the systemic change needed in every sphere of our lives”

Jul 2nd, 2020 50m 25s

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

Michelle Millar Fisher : “What would it mean to plant and sow things outside our institutions ?”

Jun 3rd, 2020 42m 22s

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

Mallika Taneja : "Taking risks can lead to beautiful things"

May 7th, 2020 51m 43s

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

Andy Horwitz : “Don’t wait for money and don’t wait for permission”

Mar 20th, 2020 46m

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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