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Tacita Dean is one of the UK's most acclaimed artists, best known for working with 16mm analogue film. Daniel speaks with her about recent work on important living artists, and her huge, mesmerising chalk drawings, from her exhibition at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art.

My Thing is... getting squished. Actor and choreographer Smac McCreanor went viral for her Hydraulic Press Girl videos, imitating household objects getting crushed by a hydraulic press.  Now she's in the art gallery -- featuring in the National Gallery of Victoria's Triennial.

In parts of Mexico, a high price is being paid for the world's insatiable appetite for avocados. Artist Fernando Leposse investigates the ecological and social costs of the industry in his art project Conflict Avocadoes.

Daniel Browning details the creative process behind his new book, Close to the Subject: Selected Works.

In recent years there has been a growing appreciation of First Nations writing and storytelling.

A culture that flourished 3,500 years ago in Thailand. They made jewellery and ceramics, not war.  You may never have heard of Ban Chiang —That’s possibly because the objects that tell the story of this fascinating archaeological site are in limbo, caught between voracious collectors, tomb-raiding locals and undercover federal agents. Art historian Dr Melody Rod-ari tells Daniel the story.

My Thing is... Black Histories. Prince made 'Purple Rain' famous, but five years later in 1989, a group of Cape Town anti-apartheid protesters claimed it for themselves when police fired water cannons at them, dyed purple. The Purple Rain Protest is one event in southern African resistance that's inspired artist Roberta Joy Rich in her latest work, The Purple Shall Govern.

Meet the designers behind DNJ Paper, a textile research project and clothing label making garments out of paper! Rosa meets Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran and Jake Nakashima-Edwards, who want to address the social, aesthetic and environmental dilemmas of fashion and textiles.

Enter the art installation of provocation, decolonisation and truth. Admission? Beyond the bare minimum. Abolish the date with YOU CAN GO NOW this week.

Non Indigenous Australians need to do the work but also here are resources mentioned to get involved beyond tweeting and signing petitions:
https://paytherent.net.au/
https://www.reconciliation.org.au/
https://supplynation.org.au/

First Nation organisations to donate to:
https://www.mentalhealthformob.org/
https://www.magabala.com/
https://www.commonground.org.au/
https://indigenousx.com.au/
https://ourislandsourhome.com.au/
https://dhadjowa.com.au/
https://awesomeblack.org/

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This episode is a presentation from the Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival 2021, with an introduction by Andy Muir and Suzanne Leal.

"Australia as a Crime Scene"

Has the whole of Australia become a crime scene since colonisation? Where do we start to look? First Nations speakers Kodie Bedford, Julie Janson and Melissa Lucashenko (joining via Zoom) give us a new perspective. Facilitated by Daniel Browning. 

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Richard Bell is one of the few individual artists curated into Documenta 15, the highly-anticipated global survey of contemporary art. This year, for the first time, it’s been dominated by artists and collectives from the Global South. But the historic takeover has been eclipsed by a media storm ignited by what appears to be a Jewish caricature in a mural painted by Indonesian artist group Taring Padi, since taken down. 

Queensland-born sculptor Sebastian di Mauro who now calls Delaware home, discusses his obsession with materiality and his new exhibition featuring appliquéd army blankets based on the arcane imagery on American dollar notes. 

And we discover the little-known painter Edward Brezinski who lived on the fringes of the hyperactive 1980s New York art scene that produced Jean Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. His desperate bid for fame is charted in the new documentary Make Me Famous which also offers a fascinating insight into the ecosystem of the art business.

A conversation with artist Daniel Boyd whose work has focussed on reframing Eurocentric images from Australia's past. Plus, Sally Ryan discusses her latest commission, a giant oil painting of Jesus, Mary and Joseph for St Mary’s cathedral in Sydney. She says it's her hardest painting yet. And, returning artefacts taken from Kunwinjku and Gagadju artists in Arnhem Land in the early 1900s.

Australian-South Sudanese artist Atong Atem brilliantly flips the Ethnographic gaze to create gorgeous studio portraits with a powerful statement.

Plus, how does the medium of video art exist in the era of binge watching?

And Namila chats to incoming guest host Daniel Browning, a familiar voice to RN listeners — but did you know he trained as an artist?

Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin has dug a grave for the statue of James Cook and it begs the question: what do we do with monuments to a one-sided version of history? And a new podcast that uncovers the history of Aboriginal resistance during the frontier wars.

Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin has dug a grave for the statue of James Cook and it begs the question: what do we do with monuments to a one-sided version of history? And a new podcast that uncovers the history of Aboriginal resistance during the frontier wars.

Netflix cofounder Marc Randolph on the beginnings of the streaming game-changer, ABC's Life Osman Faruqi weighs in on Kanye West's new gospel album, and Awaye!'s Daniel Browning looks back at David Bowie's Let's Dance video.