Suite (212)

Israeli filmmaker Avi Mograbi (b. 1956) has been documenting the Israel/Palestine conflict, and other issues in Israeli politics, since 1989. He has since made eight award-winning feature films and a number of shorts that forensically examine his home country's character and behaviour, and experiment with the documentary form. Juliet speaks to Mograbi about his life in cinema: how and why he chose film as his primary medium; how video and digital technology changed his practice; the logistics of getting his work funded and shown; and more. WORKS REFERENCED Most of Avi Mograbi's films are available via his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCYhnbhUeQTcysINT958qTA Avi Mograbi filmography: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0595783/ AUGUSTO BOAL, Theatre of the Oppressed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_the_Oppressed Forensic Architecture: https://www.forensic-architecture.org/ Eyal Weizman: https://www.gold.ac.uk/visual-cultures/w-eizman/

In the July 2018 edition of Suite (212), Tom Overton talks to Mike Dibb (http://www.mikedibb.co.uk) about a documentary filmmaking career that has spanned more than fifty years. As well as directed John Berger's legendary BBC TV series 'Ways of Seeing' (1972), Dibb has adapted books by Raymond Williams and C.L.R. James, made documentaries about art, music and sport, and is currently making a film about artist Donny Johnson, who has spent almost his entire adult life in the U.S. prison system. SELECTED REFERENCES WORKS BY MIKE DIBB About Time (1983-85) - http://www.mikedibb.co.uk/filmdet.php?filmid=42 A Curious Mind - AS Byatt (1996) - http://www.mikedibb.co.uk/filmdet.php?filmid=61 The Fame and Shame of Salvador Dalí (1997-98) - http://www.mikedibb.co.uk/filmdet.php?filmid=63 The Miles Davis Story (2001) - http://www.mikedibb.co.uk/filmdet.php?filmid=65 Fields of Play (1981-82) - http://www.mikedibb.co.uk/filmdet.php?filmid=36 Seeing Through Drawing (1977-78) - http://www.mikesouthon.biz/portfolio/seeing-th

'De-Communisation' has become a central plank of government policy since 'Euromaidan' - the second revolution in Ukraine after independence from the USSR in 1991. Determination to erase not just the Soviet past but any possibility of left-wing radicalism is the one thing that unites the country's two largest political forces: one that represents European Union-facing neoliberalism, the other, violent Ukrainian nationalism. Often censored - or worse - during the 20th century, post-Soviet artists with socialist, feminist and/or utopian ideals have found themselves facing new forms of exclusion and oppression. How have they located themselves within the new cultural and political landscape? In this episode, Juliet - on residency at the Izolyatsia cultural foundation (https://izolyatsia.org/en) in Kyiv, where it has been in exile from its home in Donetsk since the Russian occupation in 2014 - meets artist Maria Kulikovska (https://www.mariakulikovska.com), herself in exile from Crimea, and academic Jessica Zycho

One of the more intriguing - and most Lacanian - slogans that appeared in Paris in May 1968 declared 'Il est interdit d'interdire' - 'It is forbidden to forbid'. In this follow-up to our recent Resonance 104.4fm show about the insurrections, Juliet Jacques talks to curator/writer Paul Clinton about his 'Forbidden to Forbid' exhibition, how May '68 launched a decade of queer radicalism, the tensions within its gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender elements, and its eventual collapse amidst the HIV/AIDS crisis and the decline of the wider French left. SELECTED REFERENCES MICHEL FOUCAULT, History of Sexuality vols. I-IV (1976-84) GUY HOCQUENGHEM, Homosexual Desire (1972) - https://libcom.org/files/Hocquenghem%20-%20Homosexual%20Desire.pdf Ixe (dir. Lionel Soukaz, 1980) - http://ubu.com/film/soukaz_ixe.html PIERRE KLOSSOWSKI, La Monnaie vivante (1970) - https://frieze.com/article/illicit-trade Race d'Ep (dir. Lionel Soukaz & Guy Hocquenghem, 1979) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJvcrubBS5g Oreet Ashery - '

Sheila Heti's new novel 'Motherhood' (Henry Holt/Harvill Secker, 2018) is a formally inventive, deeply personal exploration of a woman's decision about whether to have children. It builds on the success of her 'novel from life', 'How Should a Person Be?' and confirms her as one of the most interesting and exciting authors of the 21st century. In our June 2018 episode, Juliet talks to Sheila about her new book and her life in writing. WORKS BY SHEILA HETI The Middle Stories (2001) Ticknor: A Novel (2005) How Should a Person Be? (2010) The Chairs are Where the People Go (2011) We Need a Horse (2011) Women in Clothes (2014, co-edited with Heidi Julavits and Leanne Shapton) All Our Happy Days are Stupid (2015) Motherhood (2018) Kathy Acker Thomas Bernhard Cool Runnings (dir. Jon Turteltaub, 1993) Rachel Cusk Dave Eggers 'The Hills' (TV series, 2006-10) JULIET JACQUES, Trans: A Memoir (2015) JULIET JACQUES, 'The Woman in the Portrait' Karl Ove Knausgaard CHRIS KRAUS, I Love Dick (1997) Ben Lerner Herman Melville

In May 1968, demonstrations at the University of Nanterre, triggered a wave of protests across Paris and elsewhere in France, that have loomed in the imaginations of the Western European left. This month, Juliet talks to Mitchell Abidor, author of May Made Me: An Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France (https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745336947/may-made-me/) about the relationship between the protests and film: how André Malraux's decision to fire Henri Langlois from the Cinemathèque fed into the insurrection; how far the Provos, Lettrists and Situationists influenced the protests; how the likes of Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker changed their practice after May '68; and the feminist and queer filmmakers and groups that emerged in its wake. WORKS REFERENCED: FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT, Stolen Kisses (1968) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCELURpFlrs HERBERT MARCUSE, One-Dimensional Man (1964) Provos (Robert Jasper Grootveld) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omb23Qm_RG8 GUY DEBORD, The Society of the Specta

In the April 2018 edition of Suite (212), returning host Juliet Jacques talks to artist, musician and filmmaker Larry Achiampong and dancer/performer Alexandrina Hemsley (of Project O) about race, racism and the arts. (Cover image: 'Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features' by Adrian Piper, 1981) WORKS REFERENCED: LARRY ACHIAMPONG & DAVID BLANDY: Biters - http://www.larryachiampong.co.uk/list-of-artworks/biters LARRY ACHIAMPONG & DAVID BLANDY: Finding Fanon, parts I-III - https://vimeo.com/138951543 LARRY ACHIAMPONG: Relic Traveller - http://larryachiampong.co.uk/list-of-artworks/voyage-of-the-relic-traveller ALEXANDRINA HEMSLEY: Feminist Shakedown - http://feministshakedown.tumblr.com/ ALEXANDRINA HEMSLEY & SEKE CHIMUTENGWENDE: Black Holes - www.blackholes.co.uk JAY BERNARD: Surge - Side A - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/05/speaking-out-jay-bernard-surge-side-a-poet BLACK AUDIO FILM COLLECTIVE: Handsworth Songs, Part I (1986) - http://unrealisedfutures.tumblr.com/post/134049237625/bla

Guest host Tom Overton discusses the legacy of writer and translator Anya Berger (1923-2018), and issues around literary translation with Esther Leslie, author of 'Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism', and writer, poet, editor and curator Jen Calleja, who is currently Translator in Residence at the British Library. WORKS REFERENCED Tom Overton on Anya Berger (Frieze) - https://frieze.com/article/life-margins / https://frieze.com/article/anya-berger-1923-2018 Name the Translator campaign - https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/dispatches/article/name-the-translator Theodor W. Adorno SVETLANA ALEXEIVICH, Second-Hand Time (2013, trans. Bela Shayevich) - https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/from-second-hand-time-by-svetlana-alexievich-1/ Roland Barthes Charles Baudelaire WALTER BENJAMIN, The Storyteller (2016) - https://www.versobooks.com/books/2101-the-storyteller WALTER BENJAMIN, 'The Task of the Translator' (1923) WALTER BENJAMIN, 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' (1936) - https

Juliet talks to Owen Hatherley (author of 'Militant Modernism', 'A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain', 'Landscapes of Communism' and many other books) and David Stubbs (formerly of Melody Maker, and a writer on '1996 and the End of History' as well as Krautrock and electronic music) about the life and work of Mark E. Smith, who sadly died last month. They discuss The Fall in the context of post-industrial Manchester, the post-punk scene, a changing (and ever less intelligent) music press, modernist literature and pop culture, and think about the group's legacy. WORKS REFERENCED LoneLady - Hinterland (2015) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W6w8fQauwg Julie Campbell on Mark E. Smith - http://lonelady.co.uk/blog/rip-mark-e-smith-5th-march-1957-24th-january-2018/ The Fall discography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_discography Mark E. Smith reads the football scores - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBUiPs1PxKo 'I feel like Alan Minter' graffiti - https://rollerderbyonfilm.blogspot.co.uk/2012/

In the January 2018 episode, Juliet is joined by Jonathan Coe (author of 'Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson' and many other works) and Jennifer Hodgson (editor of 'The Unmapped Country', a collection of stories and fragments by Ann Quin). They discuss Britain's fertile post-war 'experimental' literary scene: its cultural contexts, its successes and failures, and its legacy. WORKS REFERENCED NOVELS Paul Ableman – I Hear Voices (1958) Kingsley Amis – Lucky Jim (1954) Francis Booth - Amongst Those Left: The British Experimental Novel 1940-1980 (1982) John Braine – Room at the Top (1957) Alan Burns – The Angry Brigade: A Documentary Novel (1974) Robert Burton – The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) Jonathan Coe – An Accidental Woman (1987) Jonathan Coe – Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B. S. Johnson (2004) Jonathan Coe – What a Carve-Up! (1994) Henry Green - Caught (1943) Rayner Heppenstall – The Blaze of Noon (1939) Rayner Heppenstall – Four Absentees (1960) Rayner Heppenstall – The Fourfold Trad

What is gentrification? How far are artists complicit - wittingly or not - in processes of social cleansing? What can artists do to fight it? Juliet talks to artist-academic Alberto Duman (http://www.albertoduman.me.uk/main.htm) and 'Savage Messiah' author/artist Laura Grace Ford (http://lauraoldfieldford.blogspot.co.uk/) about gentrification, and the role of artists within it. WORKS REFERENCED Colouring in Culture - http://colouringinculture.org/ #NovaraFM on decapitalism - http://novaramedia.com/2017/12/17/nina-power-decapitalism/ Agit-train (Dziga Vertov & Aleksandr Medvdkin) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agit-train Archigram, Plug-In City - https://www.archdaily.com/399329/ad-classics-the-plug-in-city-peter-cook-archigram Walter Benjamin Embassy Court (Brighton) - http://www.embassycourt.org.uk/ Mark Fisher (k-punk) on rave - http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/009782.html RICHARD FLORIDA, The Rise of the Creative Class (2002) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_class Walter Gropius Stewa

The General Election of June 2017, and the massive Labour surge under Jeremy Corbyn's socialist leadership, has provided a new sense of optimism for those hoping for an end to utilitarian approaches to culture and swingeing cuts to arts funding. This month, Juliet talks to Loraine Leeson, Hassan Mahamdallie and Hilary Wainwright about the concept of cultural democracy, the recent The World Transformed conference and the Arts for Labour initiative. What are Jeremy Corbyn's arts policies, and how are they informed by the anti-austerity movement? What has been learned from the Greater London Council's arts programmes of the 1980s, or the Attlee government's cultural policies? How did writers and thinkers such as William Morris, E.P. Thompson and Raymond Williams establish a long British tradition of 'cultural democracy', and what can we take from them in the 21st century? WORKS REFERENCED: Campaign to save The Cinema Museum: www.cinemamuseum.org.uk 'A Creative Future for All' - https://www.policyforum.labour.

American writer, publisher and filmmaker Chris Kraus joins Juliet to talk about the difficulties of experimental filmmaking, her work with Semiotext(e)'s Native Agents series, critical responses to her work on Kathy Acker and the pressures of mainstream success. WORKS REFERENCED: Works by Chris Kraus Books CHRIS KRAUS, I Love Dick (1997) CHRIS KRAUS, Aliens and Anorexia (2000) CHRIS KRAUS, Torpor (2006) CHRIS KRAUS, Summer of Hate (2012) CHRIS KRAUS, L.A. Artland: Contemporary Art from Los Angeles (2005) CHRIS KRAUS, Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness (2004) CHRIS KRAUS, Where Art Belongs (2011) CHRIS KRAUS, After Kathy Acker (2017) Films In Order to Pass (1982) Terrorists in Love (1985) Foolproof Illusion (1986) How to Shoot a Crime (1987) Gravity & Grace (1996) Other works PENNY ARCADE, Bad Reputation: Performances, Essays, Interviews (2009) - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=213 Bruce Benderson - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=188 BERNADETTE CORPORATION, Reena Spaulings - http:

One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, the intellectual and ideological nature of the art and culture produced between October 1917 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 remained hotly debated and, at times, poorly understood. Here, Juliet Jacques welcomes writer/critics Maria Chehonadskih, Owen Hatherley (author of Militant Modernism (2009), Landscapes of Communism (2015) and The Chaplin Machine (2016)) and Ilia Rogatchevski to discuss the cultural legacy of the Soviet period and challenge Western preconceptions about the relationship between art and politics in the former USSR, from the Constructivist energy of the 1920s and imposition of Socialist Realism under Stalin, all the way through to the underground art movements of the 1980s. WORKS REFERENCED: Maria Chehonadskih on Pussy Riot – https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/what-is-pussy-riots-idea Adam Curtis on Vladislav Surkov - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od4MWs7qTr8 SERGEI M. EISENSTEIN, Aleksandr Nevsky (1938) SERGEI M.

What are the uses of cultural criticism? How does it improve art and artists, and how much does it impede them? How does criticism intersect with political ideology? What's changed in the age of the internet? In our pilot episode, Juliet Jacques discusses the uses, possibilities and limits of arts criticism with Fatema Ahmed, who has held editorial positions at Apollo, Granta and Icon, and contributed to numerous publications, and Daniela Cascella, author of En Abîme (2012) and F.M.R.L. (2015), both published by Zero, and Singed (2017, Equus Press). Works referenced: NAM JUNE PAIK, Suite (212) (1975) - https://www.eai.org/titles/suite-212 NAM JUNK PAIK, 'Media Planning for the Post-Industrial Society' (1974) - http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/source-text/33/ FENNESZ, 'Aus' (from Hotel Paral.lel, 1997) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4WNWhE45gc BRIAN DILLON, Essayism (2017) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/23/essayism-brian-dillon-review-essays-michel-de-montaigne-georges-perec-joan-didion KATE