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Ed Atkins’s survey is best described as an existential theatre with avatars, CGI, motion capture technology, traditional figural drawing, Unreal Engine, filmed performance, experimental writing, and much more. The artifice of life through the performance of (Un)Real Engines.
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Nick Taylor (http://www.imby3.com), an architect and first-time guest on the podcast, and Joana, get lost, fall into the temporary exhibition through a faulty door, rush through the show to watch the timed film, return a second time because they went to Tate Modern first, discuss exhibition-visiting methods, critique wall texts, and reflect upon their own relation with time, narrative, devotion and death.
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…are we spectators or actors?
…contemplative or engaged?
…are images and the people in them dead?
…and if so, why are they moving (both as a verb and an adjective)?
Ed Atkins - Solo Show- Tate Britain - Until 25 August
Curated by Polly Staple, Former Director of Collection, British Art and Nathan Ladd, Curator, Contemporary British Art, with Hannah Marsh, Assistant Curator, Contemporary British Art.
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00:00 Introduction and Setup
02:31 Memories of Tate Modern
07:07 Pivotal Moments in Ed Atkins' Career
14:03 A Few Points Of Reference For Ed Atkins' Work
18:21 When The Artist Writes Their Own Wall Texts
22:35 Narratives On And Off The Screen(s)
27:17 The Exhibition as Experimental Writing
32:07 Narrative Building in Art Experiences
37:33 Theatre Without Actors
41:03 Self-Representation and Identity in Art
46:19 Spatial Dynamics and Human Scale in Art
53:23 Modernism and Its Absence in the UK
55:31 Life As Utter Devotion, Art As Its Awareness
01:02:36 The Disconnect Between Generations in Art
01:07:18 Reading Emotion: Ed Atkin's New Film With Real Actors
01:11:40 The Journey Through Illness and Art
01:16:51 The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Spectators
01:22:16 OUTRO
About us: If you enjoy the podcast If Books Could Kill and You Are Good, you will enjoy Exhibitionistas, where artists are unveiled through current and pertinent angles, and through thoughts and feelings. These podcasts were a great inspiration for our format because they're nerdy and engaging, researched and approachable. The co-host and the guest co-host engage in a conversation informed by an accessible and lively presentation of the subject, through which you can reflect on a show you've seen or discover it if you can't go, learn or re-evaluate artistic topics crossing over into our everyday lives.