This episode of What Are You Looking At? is a table conversation with Zara Sully, Pete Marseveen and Nour Abdullatif about the relationship between art and money, initially focussing on fundraising but then expanding to explore other facets.

Zara Sully (they/them) is an artist, arts worker, curator, and researcher and director of Sawtooth ARI in Launceston, Lutruwita/Tasmania.

Peter Marseveen (he/him) is a photographic artist, arts technician and activist based in Nipaluna/Hobart.

Nour Abdullatif (she/they) is founder and director of Unassigned Gallery in Naarm/Melbourne. 

This episode is hosted and produced by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie. What Are You Looking At? is presented by Contemporary Art Tasmania

This episode of What Are You Looking At? is a table conversation with Jade Lillie, Andy Hutson and Aunty Cheryl Mundy Trimanya, reflecting on collaboration and community engaged practice.

Andy Hutson is a visual artist based in Nipaluna/Hobart and is the lead initiator and artist for the project Apologue Isle, which first exhibited at Contemporary Art Tasmania in 2024 and is, at the time of the episode release, showing at Burnie Regional Gallery.

Aunty Cheryl Mundy Trimanya is a singer/songwriter, cultural educator, sculptor, and poet and is one of 34 collaborators on Apologue Isle as a set designer and maker and narrator for the piece The Sun, the Moon and the Caterpillar. 

Jade Lillie commissioned and curated ‘The Relationship is the Project’ — a resource book which has 40 different lived experience practitioners contributing insights about community engaged practice.

This episode is hosted and produced by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie. What Are You Looking At? is presented by Contemporary Art Tasmania

Links: 

https://www.apologueisle.com/cheryl-mundy 

http://apologueisle.com/

https://www.burniearts.net/Exhibitions/2025-Exhibits/Apologue-Isle

https://andyhutson.com/

https://www.jadelillie.com/

https://unsw.press/books/the-relationship-is-the-project/

This episode of What Are You Looking At? explores zines and zine culture, reflecting on the Contemporary Art Tasmania 2024 end of year exhibition, Paper Trail. 

Lead artists, Miranda Rogers, Jess Bateman and Leigh Rigozzi speak about the community building nature of zine-making and how zine culture is often based in sharing ideas and creating connections.

This episode contains readings and excerpts from zines exhibited in Paper Trail by Beatrix, Fran Reeve, Niamh Marriott, Niccola Mudge, Siobhan Marriott and Timothy Hodge, narrated by producer Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie.

Also included are readings and reflections from Paper Trail exhibition contributors Jade Irvine, Luke Cruddas and Tim Butcher.

This episode also contains an excerpt from the Edge Radio broadcast of Xpress Radio which used their collaborative zine, created under the guidance of lead Paper Trail artist, Julia Drouhin, as a script to design their broadcast. Soundscapes and music are also provided by Xpress Radio, borrowing from an earlier work, Aquanebula, exhibited at Moonah Arts Centre in 2024.

This episode was produced by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie.

Xpress Radio: ⁠https://www.edgeradio.org.au/shows/x-press-radio/⁠

Small Press Zine Fair: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/smallpresszines/⁠

Miranda Rogers: https://www.⁠instagram.com/miranda_h_rogers/⁠

Leigh Rigozzi: https://www.instagram.com/leighrigozzi/

Jess Bateman: https://www.instagram.com/jessbateman_/

Julia Drouhin: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/julia_drouhin/⁠

Reflecting on Embraced in the Loving Arms of An Algorithm – v1.1 — curated by Jon Smeathers for Contemporary Art Tasmania in April 2024 — Sophie Penkethman-Young and Jon speak about intersections of their practices, algorithmic displacement and intervention and how care, cute and trust can be present in algorithm augmented curatorial models.

This episode is hosted and edited by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie and produced by Lisa Campbell-Smith for Contemporary Art Tasmania. 

A conversation with Leyla Stevens and Melanie Lane, reflecting on Balinese and Javanese dance, diasporic bodies working within and from traditional stories in contemporary practice, and the intersections of cultural knowledge and choreography.

This episode was hosted by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie and produced and edited by Lisa Campbell-Smith for Contemporary Art Tasmania.

Sound courtesy of the artist, Leyla Stevens from the artwork 'Patiwangi, death of fragrance', 2021

Leyla Stevens: https://leylastevens.com/

Melanie Lane: https://melanielane.info/

For her final episode of What are you looking at? podcast Pip Stafford talks to Nadia Refaei, Alex Kelly, and Amy Spiers, asking them: What *can* art do?This episode explores how art can contribute to social change in the world. Nadia talks about the importance of exploring political identity through her work, Alex discusses how artists can collaborate with or contribute to social movements, while Amy shares how her work aims to highlight some of Australia's history of colonial violence. They emphasise that art can help unravel complex topics, tell stories, imagine futures, inspire conversations and act as a resistance tool, challenging ingrained structures and systems of thought.

This episode was produced, edited and hosted by Pip Stafford for Contemporary Art Tasmania.

Additional music from Blue Dot Sessions.

Alex Kelly: https://echotango.org/ | https://unquiet.com.au

Nadia Refaei: https://www.nadiarefaei.com | https://www.instagram.com/tpanlutruwita/

Amy Spiers: https://amyspiers.com.au/Zoe Samudzi: https://www.zoesamudzi.com/

This episode discusses Feras Shaheen and Jay Hennicke's exhibition at Contemporary Art Tasmania, Our Side of Things. The installation and associated programs were a vivid representation of freestyle football battles, workshops, and a celebration of the culture, incorporating dance, design, and sports. In this interview Feras recounts his experience combining his interest in dance and football, while Jay talks about his journey as a freestyle footballer that started at 14. The episode records their insights into this unique culture and its representation within the gallery. They share the inspiration behind aesthetics of the installation, freestyle football competition experiences, and their influences from other cultures and communities.

Episode produced by Pip Stafford for Contemporary Art Tasmania

Additional live audio courtesy of Feras Shaheen and Jay Hennicke from Our Side of Things main event, 26 August 2023

https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/programs/our-side-of-things/

Artists are well-known pack rats. If you conjure up the stereotypical artist's studio in your mind, it might well be a sort of wunderkammer of materials of creation, inspiration and detritus. Artists also use collections, archives and the more orderly functions of taxonomy as material and conceptual underpinning. What do artists and archivists have in common?

What are you looking at? host Pip Stafford explores the tensions between the past, the now, the subjective and the relational as it rubs up against the real, human lives and inspirations of artists. Featuring artist Ashe, artist and archivist Samara McIlroy and Gabbee Stolp talking about grief, online scams, the unruliness of digital memory, and the Sydney Olympics.

**Editor's apology: this episode states that in Ashe's exhibition This Too Shall Pass, the performer was replaced with an image of the artist. This is incorrect - the photograph is not of the artist.**

To read more about Ashe's Contemporary Art Tasmania exhibition, This Too Shall Pass and read Sebastian Henry-Jones' B-Theory: https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/programs/this-too-shall-pass/

To read Gabbee Stolp's Inventory: https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/journal/

The texts mentioned or quoted in this episode are (in alphabetical order of author name):

Sara Ahmed, Happy Objects, The Affect Theory Reader (Melissa Gregg and Gregory J Seigworth, Duke University Press, 2010), p 29 - 51

Kathy Carbone, Archival Art: Memory Practices, Interventions, and Productions, Curator The Museum Journal 53(2), 2020, p 257 - 263

Elisabeth Kaplan, We Are What We Collect, We Collect What We Are: Archives and the Construction of Identity, The American Archivist 53(1), 2000, p 126 - 151

Music for this episode is by Blue Dot Sessions

What are you looking at? is produced for Contemporary Art Tasmania by Pip Stafford

Greed/Rakus/Geirig curator Lisa Campbell-Smith talks to lead artist Tisna Sanjaya. Interview translation by Daffa Sanjaya.

The Jeprut artist community was founded in the 1980s in Bandung, West Java. Indonesian artist, Tisna Sanjaya is a leading figure in this community movement, and has gone on to produce many collaborative performance based art actions within this unique movement. Jeprut is a Sundanese term for a regenerative force. The performances held as part of Dark Mofo in partnership with Contemporary Art Tasmania and Project Eleven were a rare blend of contemporary, ephemeral, immersive spaces for shared experience steeped in traditional Sundanese spiritual practice understood through the global scope of art as activism.

This project was presented by Contemporary Art Tasmania and Project Eleven in partnership with Dark Mofo

This episode features a track by Jeprut Artist Collective called Sinyur

Artists: Bi Raspi, Yoyon Darson, Ayi Ruhat, Yaya Suryadi

This recording was engineered by Chris Townend, recorded at Frying Pan Studios at MONA. It is the first ever professional recording made by the musicians collectively.

For more information about Greed/Rakus/Geirig click here: https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/programs/greed-rakus-geirig/

The C word is “class”. In this episode Pip Stafford and guest host, Andrew Harper, talk about the friction between class and art, featuring interviews with Mish Grigor and Miriam McGarry.

Miriam McGarry’s Hidden Cities podcast: https://hiddencitiespodcast.net/

Mish Grigor’s Class Act: https://aphids.net/projects/class-act/

Music by Blue Dot Sessions

Episode produced, edited and hosted by Pip Stafford

What are you looking at? producer Pip Stafford and CAT Communications Co-ordinator Nadia Refaei took a visit to Broom and Brine farm in winter 2022. This episode is an interview with Broom and Brine's co-founder, artist, boxer and gardener, Grace Gamage. Listen now to hear more about her practice, and the history of plants.

Grace's work featured in BIOGYM at CAT earlier in 2022: https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/programs/biogym/

To read more about Broom and Brine: https://www.broomandbrine.com/

This episode was produced by Pip Stafford

Additional music by Blue Dot Sessions