What are you looking at?

What are you looking at?

Contemporary Art Tasmania

Episodes 45
Avg. Duration 28m
Activity Highly Active
Since May 2015
Latest Episode May 2026

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About This Podcast

Toffee sculptures, cannibalism and who’s funding who…we chat with artists to unpack what’s happening in contemporary art right now. Hosted and produced by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie for Contemporary Art Tasmania.

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Recent Episodes

Eat the art

May 28, 2026 1h 9m

Starting at the intersecting point of culinary and creative practice, Haneen Mahmood Martin and Caitlin Fargher discuss how an arts practice can be productive medium to unpack lineage and familial…

Art that re-makes: the transformative potential of materials

Mar 06, 2026 1h 27m

This episode of What Are You Looking At? is a series of conversations with artists Noah Johnson, Lila Meleisea and Justene Williams focussing on how the use of certain materials influence and inform…

Art and money, money and art: from fundraising to funders

Aug 28, 2025 55m

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…

Community and creative practice: the mess and the thrill of collaboration

Jul 31, 2025 44m

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…

Zine season

Mar 27, 2025 45m

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…

Sophie Penkethman-Young and Jon Smeathers in Conversation

Oct 03, 2024 47m

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…

A conversation with Leyla Stevens and Melanie Lane

May 09, 2024 37m

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…

What can art do?

Dec 19, 2023 52m

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…

Our Side of Things with Feras Shaheen and Jay Hennicke

Dec 06, 2023 16m

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…

The artist, the archivist, a manila folder, and a server farm

Sep 15, 2023 37m

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…

Tisna Sanjaya talks to Lisa Campbell-Smith

Jul 12, 2023 23m

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.…

The C Word

May 05, 2023 47m

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…

Grace Gamage: art, boxing and the history of spinach

Nov 09, 2022 29m

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…

Tomoko Momiyama and Joel Stern in Conversation

Sep 07, 2022 45m

Tomoko Momiyama and Joel Stern in conversation at Contemporary Art Tasmania, speaking about the concepts and experience of creating 'Listening Within the Opacities of our Times and Places' at…

Tomoko Momiyama: Towards a collective composition

Aug 18, 2022 28m

Japanese composer and artist Tomoko Momiyama speaks to Pip Stafford about her collective sound practice.Tomoko Momiyama works internationally as a music composer, artist, dramaturg, and producer of…

Bonus: Lost and Found with Gay Hawkes

Jul 29, 2022 13m

In this bonus, short episode of What are you looking at? Pip Stafford talks to Gay Hawkes about the experience of losing her home and studio during the 2013 Dunalley bushfires. Gay’s exhibition,…

Lost and Found

Jun 17, 2022 42m

This episode uses Diana Baker Smith’s the Lost Hour as a starting point to explore three very different stories, of art, of culture and of loss.Pip Stafford talks to Fiona Fraser, Julie Gough and…

RURU Radio - ruangrupa documenta fifteen (Indonesian Language)

Mar 18, 2022 38m

Dalam episode ini Christina Schott, jurnalis dan manajer proyek budaya, berbicara dengan empat anggota kolektif ruangrupa. Didirikan di Indonesia pada tahun 2000, ruangrupa adalah organisasi seni…

RURU Radio - Ruangrupa Documenta 15 (English Language)

Mar 18, 2022 33m

In this episode Christina Schott, journalist and culture project manager, speaks with four members of the ruangrupa collective. Founded in Indonesia in 2000, ruangrupa are a not-for-profit arts…

Conchcast by Lucreccia Quintanilla

Oct 28, 2021 19m

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…

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