Suite (212)

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