We have come full circle as I link Gemma Marmalade back to BA Zanditon.
Gemma Marmalade tells me how to tell a lie that is 62% more believable. We also discuss her project to set up a call centre in Las Vegas, and Gemma explains the origins of her amazing surname – and why that story is strangely relevant to her work. But can I believe her?
BA Zanditon has spent several years researching and documenting the history and fabrication of the South Bank Centre in London and we discuss concrete as a material, the motivation to make art and the desire to acknowledge the overlooked.
What do Gemma Marmalade and BA Zanditon have in common? – Las Vegas gets a name check in both episodes.
Thanks for listening to Something To Do With Art. Your thoughts and comments always welcome – along with suggestions for my new series in Spring 2021.
Links:
Something To Do With Art – Gemma Marmalade
Something To Do With Art – BA Zanditon
What do Carl Gent and Gemma Marmalade have in common?
Carl Gent is an artist from Bexhill-on-Sea, UK. His work frequently involves performances based on his researches into Cynethryth, the eighth century Queen of the Mercians and co-founder of Bexhill-on-Sea. Carl tells me how his researches led him to investigate pseudo-Mongol, a fake language depicted by Giotto and other mediaeval painters.
Gemma Marmalade investigates the boundaries of truth and story-telling through performance, photography and the construction of fake personas. In this episode, Gemma runs rings around me as I try to work out if she is telling me the truth – can I believe what she says?
What do Carl and Gemma have in common? They both discuss ideas of ‘fake’ with me.
Links:
Something To Do With Art – Carl Gent
Something To Do With Art – Gemma Marmalade
Next week: What do Gemma Marmalade and BA Zanditon have in common?
Thanks to everyone who has supported this podcast so far – it has now reached 1000 plays!
To celebrate this milestone there is now a special bonus episode online featuring a conversation with artist William Furlong, founder of the Audio Arts project in 1972. Over the next three decades Bill recorded over 900 conversations with artists, including Joseph Beuys, Tracey Emin and Andy Warhol, making Audio Arts possibly the most comprehensive sound archive devoted to art and artists in the world.
So head over to soundcloud.com/robertgood_art and take a listen.
