OTHER FUTURES
Podcast
MARINA RHEINGANTZ
Instituto Tomie Ohatake, Sau Paulo, Brazil
June 2027
Curating the first major exhibition of works, including new commissions, by the Brazilian artist in her home city of Sao Paulo.
https://www.institutotomieohtake.org.br/
https://fdag.com.br/en/artists/marina-rheingantz/
ART AND OTHER FUTURES: SEASON 1
A podcast about the future of art and culture, ways it shapes society and how it can help you think about the challenges of tomorrow. Art and Other Futures speaks with cultural leaders and entrepreneurs about their work, it’s impact, and their vision for a changing cultural landscape. We’ll be joined by artists talking about their work and the places, ideas and communities that inspire them. Supporting creativity is our core mission so we’ll be commissioning new art from artists, writers and musicians offering fresh perspectives and narratives on the lives we lead and places we live – celebrating the art amongst us.
Episodes
TESSA GIBLIN - TALBOT RICE GALLERY, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
FRANCESCA ANFOSSI - ROCHESTER SQUARE
BENJAMIN SEROUSSI - CASA DO POVO
ELINOR MORGAN - MIMA
CAROLINE NORBURY - CREATIVE UK
LESLIE ROMOS - THE TWENTIETH
MARTYN EVANS - LANSEC
All epidoes availale on Spotify and Apple Podcasts
PUBLICATION: Untitled, circa 1994. Giles Round
Beautiful publication documenting Giles Round’s show at Brighton CCA including a new text commissioned from Rebecca Heald.
Untitled, circa 1994 by artist Giles Round was presented across the North and South Galleries at Brighton CCA, combining archival research with the production of new work, presentations of modernist design and a programme of live events. Design is a register of our changing priorities, tastes and politics and therefore can be a lens through which to understand the evolution of society. The exhibition drew on Round’s long standing investigations into these narratives – of product design, histories of display and the ways in which we choose to identify, record and organise them. It is a meditation on the evolution of ideas and how they are communicated.
Limited edition
£6.00
Available here
CONFERENCE
Delighted to be taking part in the Permance / Impermance conference at the University of Westminster. I’ll be in conversation with artist Phoebe Cummings discussing her work and current debates around ceramic practice, performance and collecting.
Permance / Impermance launches Future Ecologies of Clay research project addressing the challenges of UK museums in collecting ephemeral, live, performative, site-specific and participatory works in clay. The project seeks to ensure that artworks in the ‘expanded field of clay’ can be identified, explored and analysed in the future.
Future Ecologies of Clay is a three-year AHRC-funded collaborative project between the V&A and the Ceramics Research Centre-UK at the University of Westminster. Bringing together artistic, academic and curatorial expertise from the two teams, the project will examine the significant gap between what is being made and exhibited by contemporary artists working with clay, and what is represented in museum collections. It will address the challenge of collecting artworks in the expanded field of clay and the ability of UK museums to make them accessible and visible to future audiences.
TATE PAPERS: Mother Lines
Very proud to have been editor of issue 37 of Tate Papers exploring transgenerational connections and ancestral knowledge in art. Developed in collaboration with Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational, Mother Lines reflects Tate’s wider programme, focusing on artists who centre modes of embodied and ancestral knowledge primarily passed on through women. In seeking to restore relationships to histories and environments, the practices explored in this issue resist cultural and spiritual erasure.
Alongside traditional research articles and artist interviews, the issue includes contributions by practice-researchers that reveal a range of disciplinary approaches to the themes examined.
READ FULL ISSUE HERE
BEN ROBERTS, FRSA
Director, Artists’ Research Centre
Research Convenor, Tate
Presenter, Art and Other Futures podcast
Contact:
ben@artistsresearchcentre.org.uk
Follow: @bajroberts
Ben Roberts is a British curator and researcher with a particular focus on the intersection of interdisciplinary research, performance and social activism. Roberts is currently serving as Research Convenor at Tate with responsibility for developing research and study programmes across the museum’s four sites and editing Tate Papers.
Prior to Tate, Roberts was director of Brighton CCA, creating a critically acclaimed contemporary art programme of exhibitions, commissions and publications including the first UK solo presentations of Katharina Wulff (2020); Bill Lynch (2022) and Billie Zangewa (2023).
He has curated major public art commissions with Alexandre ca Cunha (2021), Jade Montserrat (2022) and Helen Cammock (2023), exhibitions include Franz Erhard Walther (2019), Amalia Pica (2022), Resolve Collective (2023), The World Turned Upside Down - Sculpture and the Absurd, co-curated with Simon Faithfull (2013) and Anne Hardy (2011). Roberts has curated performance projects with Sonia Boyce, Roger Hiorns, Keith Harrison, Olivia Plender, Harold Offeh, Johanna Billing and Simone Barclay.
Roberts has served as curator at Camden Arts Centre, Modern Art Oxford and The Mead Gallery curating exhibitions and performance programmes including Performance in Public (2015), Straight to Camera: Performance for Film (2014) and The World Turned Upside Down co curated with Simon Faithfull (2013).
He is founding director of the Artists’ Research Centre leading a research fellowship programme in collaboration with Universities and Galleries across the UK and is host of the Art and Other Futures podcast examining international models of community building through creative practice.
He was Chair of Cubitt Artists in London (2017-22) and a Dean of Brown Mountain College (2008-10) and sat on Soho House Art Selection Committee and the Vision Forum Research Group Universitet Linköpings, Sweden. He holds a BA in Politics and Art History from the University of Essex and a MA in European Cultural Policy from the University of Warwick.