The new podcast Feminist Art Lives: Stories and Insights from the Feminist Art Making Histories Archive consists of eight episodes which will be released weekly on Thursdays from 2 July - 20 August.
The series unfolds stories of art and activism taken from the newly created Feminist Art Making Histories digital archive of oral history interviews with 60 artists, curators and writers. Life stories rich with debates and protests, controversy and critique, politics and creativity drawn from a moment when everything was questioned and the category of art was tested and remade.
From the art school to D.I.Y. gallery, the kitchen table to the museum, Feminist Art Lives records the vitality of artistic experiment and the tactics and strategies artists and creatives found to share their work beyond the mainstream.
Alive to difference and disagreement within feminism, each episode shows how artists, makers and creatives forged paths through divisive issues, making work that continues to help us understand the world and its inequities.
Gathering voices who are rarely heard, and who remain less well-represented in public museums and art histories, Feminist Art Lives, showcases a critical generation of artists and thinkers. Listeners can explore the full oral history interviews of those featured in the podcast in the Feminist Art Making Histories open access archive available through the Digital Repository of Ireland.
EPISODE 1: ART EDUCATION
Presented by Elspeth Mitchell
Featuring Sam Ainsley, Adele Patrick, Marlene Smith, Symrath Patti, Mary Duffy, Ailbhe Smyth and Griselda Pollock.
EPISODE 2: PICTURING OURSELVES
Presented by Amy Tobin
Featuring Alice Maher, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Sonia Boyce, Rose English, Vivienne Dick, Terri Wragg, Pru Stevenson, Suzy Mackie and Anne Robinson of See Red Women’s Workshop, Rosy Martin, Penny Slinger and Pauline Cummings
EPISODE 3: ART AS ACTION
Presented by Tina Kinsella
Featuring Catherine Marshall, Geraldine O’Reilly, Cecily Brennan, Louise Walsh, Fionna Barber, Pauline Cummins, Alice Maher and Patricia McKenna
EPISODE 4: NORTH OF THE BORDER
Presented by Martina Mullaney
Featuring Rita Duffy, Catherine McWilliams, Fionna Barber, Louise Walsh, Patricia McKenna, Una Walker, Geraldine O’Reilly, Sarah Edge and Anne Tallentire
EPISODE 5: LIVING FEMINIST LIVES
Presented by Ana Baeza Ruiz
Featuring Terri Wragg, Rosy Martin, Christine Kinsey, Christine Roche, Liz Heron, Bobby Baker, Sonia Boyce and Rita Keegan
EPISODE 6: VISUAL ACTIVISM
Presented by Ana Baeza Ruiz
Featuring Pen Dalton, Pru Stevenson, Suzy Mackie and Anne Robinson of See Red Women’s Workshop, Terri Wragg, Sally Greenhill, Liz Heron, Michael Ann Mullen, Maggie Murray and Christine Roche of Hackney Flashers, Loraine Leeson, Marlene Smith and Ailbhe Smyth.
EPISODE 7: CLASS POLITICS
Presented by Amy Tobin
Featuring Cosey Fanni Tutti, Margaret Harrison, Su Richardson and Suzy Varty, Rosy Martin, Adele Patrick, Rose English, Symrath Patti, Anne Robinson, Pru Stevenson, Suzy Mackie of See Red Women’s Workshop.
EPISODE 8: MAKING HISTORIES
Presented by Hilary Robinson
Featuring Rose Frain, Fionna Barber, Felicity Allen, Althea Greenan, Catherine Elwes, Griselda Pollock, Rita Keegan, Sonia Boyce and Adele Patrick.