wonderful to work with Christine Wilson, Ariadna Tsenina & co., and super-producer Emma Crampton, on Our World Connected, the British Council podcast on cultures and cultural relations. listen 🔈britishcouncil.org/research-… @BritishCouncil @SonicWhirls @InsightBritish @messageheard

*EMPIRE LINES - NEW EPISODE* Artist Zineb Sedira records cultural and postcolonial connections between Algeria, France, Italy, and the UK from the 1960s, featuring radical films from her personal archive, in Dreams Have No Titles (2022). listen+follow 🔊 pod.link/1533637675/episode/…

🗣️I wanted to free Giolo from the archives. drawing on John Savage's etching of the 'Painted Prince', a 17th century slave, Pio Abad shares how his contemporary practice is anchored around the body. listen now on the EMPIRE LINES podcast, and Instagram ↓instagram.com/p/C5NowhsIqh5/

kind words from Cornwall, to @crystalbennes in Edinburgh, for Professor Paul Gilroy's episode on The Black Atlantic. listen on all podcast platforms🔊 pod.link/1533637675/episode/… find more on Instagram, @empirelinespodcast 📷instagram.com/p/C37nMfRoZsC/… start ↓ xitter.cf/jelsofron/status/17654…

from his 'solo' exhibition at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, Pio details why he shows his work with others like the Filipino American artist and art historian Carlos Villa, plus the role of family in his practice, delving into the archives, collections, and textiles of Pacita Abad ↓

‘The process of the work includes the physicality of walking.’ see Diorama Map Dundee (2023), Sohei Nishino’s commission for Photo City at the V&A, then hear more on historicity Tokyo 🔈pod.link/1640089187/episode/… @soheinishino @VADundee @AshmoleanMuseum #podcast #audiowalkingtours

*EMPIRE LINES - NEW EPISODE* Artist and archivist Pio Abad draws out lines between Oxford, the Americas, and the Philippines, reconstructing networks of trafficking, tattooing, and 20th century dictatorships via Giolo’s Lament (2023). listen+follow🔊pod.link/1533637675/episode/…

a (bird) call out 🪹 we are looking to borrow five iPhones for our forthcoming exhibition at Southcombe Barn on Dartmoor, featuring Hanna Tuulikki’s Avi-Alarm filters. we can collect in Glasgow, London, Plymouth, Devon, and southwest England 🪺 support an artist (and curators!)

tracing Yugoslav/diaspora artists in the UK often means scanning archives, bookshelves, and captions for names ending 'ic'. on a too-brief research trip to Ireland - for IMMA's superb Self-Determination exhibition - I was surprised to find mine, at The Library Project in Dublin!

it’s also the final day to see Michelle Williams Gamaker’s Our Mountains Are Painted On Glass at DCA, before it travels to @theBluecoat. go behind-the-scenes - and find Candice Lin, a fellow Gasworks artist, in Scotland - on the EMPIRE LINES Instagram 📷 instagram.com/stories/empire…

and from Pia Arke: Silences and Stories, and Arctic Hysteria, EMPIRE LINES recommends: - Outi Pieski, @Tate_StIves - Michelle Williams Gamaker: The Silver Wave, @RAMMuseum - Shuvinai Ashoona: When I Draw, The Perimeter (@BaffinWest @CanadaCouncil) links in the episode notes.

*EMPIRE LINES - NEW EPISODE* Curators Ros Carter and Sofie Krogh Christensen chart Pia Arke’s photo-activism across the Arctic region, Indigenous and Inuit experiences in the 20th century, and reconstruct the artist’s camera obscura. listen+follow🔊pod.link/1533637675/episode/…

a great evening with Drs. Tanja Petrović, Elena Stavrevska, Jessie Barton-Hronešová, Nicholas Lackenby, and Jelena Ćalić, marking the publication of Tanja’s landmark text about the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA), available as an open access (free) book too. @EBStavrevska @YessinkaH

join EMPIRE LINES in conversation with curators and artists from the Architectural Association Interprofessional Studio (AAIS) at Shoreditch Arts Club in London. 📆Thursday 21/03 (free exhibition entry on Wednesday) 🎟️ tickets @AASchool @shoreditcharts_ eventbrite.com/e/borne-to-th…

recorded at Griselda's recent HackelBury Fine Art exhibition, this episode looks at Coral Woodbury's Revised Edition, now on view. she layers Janson's History of Art with the women omitted from the book's first printings - like Lubaina Himid (@1lubaina), of the last EMPIRE LINES.

a truly great day in the archives with Richard Demarco and Terry Ann Newman; we passed almost all of four hours in the Polish Room, and found another (rope) line between Magdalena Abakanowicz, Yugoslavia, and Scotland. more photographs at @Summerhallery in Edinburgh, and online.

*EMPIRE LINES - NEW EPISODE* Art historian and Professor Griselda Pollock traces the memories of contemporary artist women as Sutapa Biswas, one of her students in the 1980s, and entanglements in feminist, queer, and postcolonial thinking. listen+follow🔊pod.link/1533637675/episode/…

Extractivism/Activism starts today, with talks and performances live at the Building Centre, and online via the Paul Mellon Centre and Autograph. also join me, Marie Petersmann, Radha D’Souza, Jonas Staal, and Marie Smith, on the EMPIRE LINES Instagram 📷 instagram.com/p/C4Kyhhtowfs

The Curse of County Mayo returns for St. Patrick’s Day with a special episode on superstitions in sport, from Ireland’s Gaelic football team to America. available now on BBC Sounds, and on World Service soon ☘️ @BBCSounds @bbcworldservice @messageheard bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0hhzq…

a look back to the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London (UCL) where, recently, I was fortunate to be invited to guest lecture with Partha Mitter about modernism, primitivism, and intergenerational approaches to decentring art history. more to follow soon!