This episode of What are you looking at? is a commission produced by Dr Lucreccia Quintanilla. Conchcast invites the listener on a journey into the smooth interior of the conch shell, to consider its history and its physical qualities. Conchcast features the following music: Conch Shell by Skinny Fabulous, Machel Montano & Iwer George Whāia Te Māramatanga by Rob Thorne [Short] Conch Shell Trumpets (Q'eros Authorities) Various Artists. Dr. Lucreccia Quintanilla is an artist, DJ, sound system operator and writer. She has recently completed her doctoral research at Monash University. Recent sound and written works include: On the volatility of noise, residual bass with AM Kanngieser for Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Austria, Brian Fuata; A Generous Opacity, for the Anti LIVE Art International Award publication, Finland. Records of Displacement for Disclaimer online Journal.

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S07E03: Conchcast by Lucreccia Quintanilla

What do art prizes mean to artists? Is there an Olympics for the arts? Pip Stafford interviews Julie Ewington, Loren Kronemyer and Daniel Mudie Cunningham about the purpose and place of art prizes in Australia. Produced and edited by Pip Stafford. Additional audio for this episode comes from Abolish the Olympics by Pony Express. Music: Cheap Sunglasses by Kabbalistic Village https://soundcloud.com/kabbalisticvillage Winters Mist by Joseph McDade https://josephmcdade.com/

S07E02: Winners and Losers

This episode is a special edition produced by Liquid Architecture and co presented by Contemporary Art Tasmania featuring interviews and audio from the recent instrument builders project as part of Mona Foma 2021 – a durational performance held at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania. Instrument Builders Project’s (IBP) avant-garde, transdisciplinary and socially engaged approach has, over its previous four iterations in Indonesia, Australia and Japan, generated many fruits for the artistic communities involved. In short IBP is where artists invent, build, present and perform using invented ‘instruments’ that mix traditional and contemporary forms including sound sculpture, installation, improvisation and performance through international residencies. Each IBP is configured differently, however pre-pandemic iterations have consistently worked with an intensive 3-week international residency model, whereby new and alumni IBP artists work in a collaborative setting, culminating in an in-situ performance/presentation. IBP5 is a partnership project presented by Contemporary Art Tasmania, Liquid Architecture and Volcanic Winds. Curated by Kristi Monfries, Joel Stern and Lisa Campbell-Smith, featuring artists Richie Cyngler, Julia Drouhin, Dylan Sheridan and Pip Stafford IBP5 is supported by Australia Japan Foundation, Asialink, Regional Arts Fund, Mona Foma and The School of Architecture & Design, UTAS With very special thanks to Mara Schwerdtfeger (sound producer) and Mish Szekelyhidi (documentation and audio.

S07E01: Instrument Builders Project 5 produced by Liquid Architecture

Lucienne is drawing extinct things. She has drawn a fly. A skink. A turtle. She draws them incredibly well. She puts effort in. She does her work and uses her ability and her skill and I think she’s trying to honour these things. Because as she draws, she looks at images of these now-extinct, now-dead, now-gone creatures, and she wonders about them, seeing how well they had evolved to be the commonplace miracles that every living creature is. She looks at the detail, and sees the detail, and draws it. Until the drawing is finished. Then she takes an eraser, and rubs it out. Because it is gone. Because it is dead. And because she is furious. - Andrew Harper, FURY, Island 159 In this final 2020 episode of What are you looking at? we explore the concept of extinction through Lucienne Rickard's Extinction Studies. Featuring interviews with artist Lucienne Rickard and scientist and co-author of the State of the Environment report, Dr Ian Cresswell, and an excerpt from FURY, originally published in Island Magazine 159, read by writer, Andrew Harper.   This episode was produced and edited by Pip Stafford, with audio mix by Brendan Walls and additional sounds from Blue Dot Sessions. What are you looking at? is produced for Contemporary Art Tasmania by Pip Stafford and Lisa Campbell Smith. Extinction Studies is commissioned by Detached Cultural Organisation and presented by TMAG. Blue Dot Sessions music is used under Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Music in order of appearance: Uncertain Ground, Powder and Egg, Dolly and Pad.

S06E04: Extinction Studies

In 2020 CAT is celebrating 25 years of the curatorial mentorship program. Looking back on two and half decades of exhibitions, Lisa Campbell Smith speaks to Scot Cotterell and Sarah Jones, and 2020 recipient Caitlin Fargher. To learn more about this program head to: https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/curatorial-mentorship/ This episode was produced and edited by Lisa Campbell Smith, additional editing and mixdown by Brendan Walls. Additional sounds for this episode come from Scot Cotterell - Sonic Systematics, Live at Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery for Hobiennale, 2017 and Selena de Carvalho, whose work is featured in the 2020 Curatorial Mentorship exhibition, re-member. The field recordings are collected from Tasmanian forests earmarked for clearfelling. Including: Styx underground creek, sumac bird, swift parrot in the division of Denison, 2019. Scot Cotterell www.scotcotterell.com Scot Cotterell is an Australian born inter-disciplinary artist known for his works concerned with the experience of mediated environments. His work uses mixtures of sound, video, images and objects in gallery and live contexts to create experiences that reflect upon cultural phenomena. Cotterell's work has been performed and exhibited nationally and internationally. Sarah Jones www.sarahjones.net.au Sarah Jones is a writer and curator who has worked as an independent curator, university tutor, research and projects manager, general administrator and assistant for several contemporary artists and arts organizations based in Melbourne, Tasmania, Slovakia and Berlin. Sarah’s research-based practice explores text and exhibition as a medium through which critical theory performs as the material of practice. She is currently examining the ways in which publishing can be redefined through the embodied exhibition event. Caitlin Fargher www.caitlinfargher.com Caitlin Fargher is a multi-disciplinary artist working in sculptural installation and curating. She works out of Good Grief Studios, and lives in the seaside town of Kettering. Her work is created through an embodied practice that explores histories, sites, ecologies and memories. Gardening, cooking, environmental systems, historical research and family narratives inform her materials.

S06E03: 25 years of the CAT Curatorial Mentorship

Audio recording of the Catalogue Essay for the exhibition re-member. 2020 CAT Curatorial Mentorship, curated by Caitlin Fargher. 24 July - 6 September 2020 Contemporary Art Tasmania re-member is about imagining across the cracks, filling in the gaps and stringing fragments together. This exhibition brings together three artists based in nipaluna: Selena de Carvalho, Takani Clark and Georgia Morgan. Their films and sculptures tell stories about mythologies, care and hope. They ask you to listen to, look carefully and move through contentious spaces by collecting residue from the past, remembering and reinvigorating what remains as a way to move forward in the future. In a world where stories of destruction and repeating the same wrongs dominate, it is an act of care to foster the stories that may have been forgotten or misconstrued by opening up a listening space for new voices (both human and non-human) to be heard. These are the stories that haunt us, the stories of places, family, species and who we are. To listen deeply to these stories now is healing, and to heal is to re-imagine what’s next.

re - member Full Catalogue Essay

Guest producer Sarah Mashman interviews two Tasmanian artists with two different experiences in France, as Covid 19 changes everything. Interviews with Megan Walch and Camille Antoine. Episode mixdown by Brendan Walls. What are you looking at? is produced by Pip Stafford and Lisa Campbell-Smith for Contemporary Art Tasmania

S06 E02: à Bientôt by Sarah Mashman

In this episode of What are you looking at? we talk to Reserved for Healing artist Michelle Maynard and Head of Indigenous Engagement and Strategy at MAAS, Marcus Hughes about cultural and artistic practice and the non-linear path of healing. Reserved for Healing was an exhibition at Contemporary Art Tasmania exploring intergenerational knowledge and cultural exchange in Lutruwita/Tasmania, featuring Mae Ganambarr, Jack Langford, Kaninna Langford, Ruth Langford, Josie Mason, Warren Mason and Michelle Maynard. The Reserved for Healing program focused on expanding the ambition of cultural production for Tasmanian Aboriginal artists and was developed through CAT and walantanalinany palingina (WaPa) working with support from the Australia Council’s Chosen initiative. WaPa and CAT partner on building capacity for delivering the First Nations festival, WaPa 22Ten22.

S06E01: Reserved for Healing

Jim Everett puralia meenamatta is an artist, playright, poet and Tasmanian Aboriginal Elder from Cape Barren Island. Following on from our interview with Ruth Langford (S05E02) we chat to Jim about his vision for 2020 and beyond.

S05E04: walantanalinany palingina with Jim Everett puralia meenamatta

What are you looking at? is a podcast by Contemporary Art Tasmania. Produced by Pip Stafford and Lisa Campbell Smith. Season 2 & 3 were hosted by Theia Connell and produced by Pip Stafford. Season 1 was hosted by Briony Kidd.