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Episode 78 – MIMA School of Art & Design with Laura Sillars

For this episode we welcome back Laura Sillars, Director of MIMA and Dean of MIMA School of Art & Design, to tell us a bit about the art school.

The MIMA School of Art & Design a part of Teeside University but has the distinct advantage of operating within one of the North’s most active and international galleries, We have a chat about the benefits of this for students, the wider impact the school wants to have on the community, and what studying there will look like for students come September.

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You can find out more about the MIMA School of Art & Design here and on their Twitter here.

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Episode 64 – Middlesbrough Collection, Why Are We Here? with Black Artists and Modernism

For this week’s episode we headed back down to the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art to have a look at the ‘Middlesbrough Collection, Why Are We Here? with Black Artists and Modernism‘ exhibition. For this one we’re joined by the wonderful Olivia Heron, an Assistant Curator at mima, who told us some more about the exhibition and shared some pretty cool stories when it came to getting the pieces together!

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“Through a collaboration with research group Black Artists & Modernism, the collection is audited for all contributions by artists of African, Asian and Middle East and North Africa Region descent in the UK in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.”

” The display is structured around questions that are key for any collection, explored through the perspective of the artwork: Where am I? Why am I here? Who am I? What am I doing? What’s next?. The results of this research are unveiled as they are uncovered, making new material available to the institution and its publics. “

Exhibition runs until 29th March 2020.

Location: Middlesbrough Institute for Modern Art

More information: here.

Here’s the link to the database Olivia mentioned towards the beginning of the episode.

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Episode 59 – Mikhail Karikis at MIMA with Elinor Morgan

For this week’s episode the girls went back along to the wonderful Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art and had a chat with Senior Curator Elinor Morgan about their newest exhibition, For Many Voices by Mikhail Karikis. This exhibition is a survey of Karikis’s work over the past 10 years, and it massively employs the use of sound, documentary-style video, and a community focus.

“He employs listening as a form of activism, tuning into voices that operate beyond mainstream frequencies. In the past decade, he has shifted how he works, from creating a space in which others participate in the work to one in which they become co-producers. The resulting projects highlight alternative modes of solidarity and action, while nurturing attention, dignity and tenderness. “

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You can find out more information about this exhibition on the mima website.

Location: Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

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Episode 56 – Middlesbrough Art Weekender 2019 Pt.2

In this week’s episode we have a continuation of our conversation about Middlesbrough Art Weekender 2019 – this time with Rosie! She exhibited with HUN this year so she tells us about that process, some of the problems she ran into (and overcame), and what her experience of the weekender was.

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You can find out more about the festival on their website.

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Episode 55 – Middlesbrough Art Weekender 2019 Pt.1

In this week’s episode Alice and Amy have a chat about their experience checking out this year’s Middlesbrough Art Weekender that was on last weekend. It’s a wonderful three-day festival of art that takes over the city of Middlesbrough, and there was just so much to see!

Don’t forget you can have a listen to this episode and all of our other ones on Spotify, iTunes, Google, and Soundcloud!

You can find out more about the festival on their website.

Don’t forget to check out the wonderful The Art of Being Queer on Instagram and on Spotify!

The absolutely amazing Josh from The Art of Being Queer went ahead and made this fab little video illustrating what we were talking about in the episode.

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Episode 49 – The Auxiliary & hun

This episode continues from last week, where we were talking about our last visit to Middlesbrough and the Creative Factory arts trail on the 24th May. Here we have a chat about the opening of The Auxiliary’s brand new space in an old converted warehouse, and the lovely Hun event, ‘The Summer One’.

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You can find hun on Instagram, and you can check out The Auxiliary here.

The documentary Alice was talking about at the beginning of the episode was Romantic Comedy by Elizabeth Stankey (find it here on IMDb).

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Episode 48 – Training Montage and Renounce at Pineapple Black

For this week’s episode the girls talk about their recent visit down to Middlesbrough to check out the Creative Factory Middlesbrough art trail on the 24th May. On this wonderful evening filled with art and amazing people, Pineapple Black opened a couple of new exhibitions, ‘Training Montage’ and ‘Renounce’.

Tune in next week for a part two of this episode, where we chat about the opening of The Auxiliary and HUN’s Summer One!

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Episode 44 – Liquid Crystal Display with Laura Sillars

For this episode, the girls popped down to Middlesbrough to have a chat with Laura Sillars, Director of the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (Mima), all about one of their current exhibitions ‘Liquid Crystal Display‘. This exhibition looks at crystals in a range of different forms, namely ‘liquid’, and the different contexts in which we as human beings interact with them on a daily basis. It was awesome having a chat with Laura and great to get some further insight into the show and how it was put together.

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The exhibition runs until 16th June 2019.

More information: here.

Location: Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

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Episode 41 – Middlesbrough Double-Bill: Platform A & Pineapple Black

This week Alice and Amy talk about their trip down to Middlesbrough where they checked out ‘Major Conversations: The Industrial Narrative’ at Platform A gallery, and three new exhibition openings at Pineapple Black (‘Through Sound’, ‘Nights are Not Asleep’ & ‘Girls World’).

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Find out more info about Platform A and thesymposium on the 25th.

More info about Pineapple Black here.