Paperweight Radio: Explorations in Visual and Material Culture draws together artists, designers, academics, curators, writers and researchers around a theme, to explore the territory of visual and material culture from different vantage points. In these explorations, Paperweight offers reports from the front-line of research into visual and material culture, running into the heat of battle and reporting back with dispatches.
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Paperweight Radio: Plastic (S2 Ep6, 24th July 2014)
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On this episode of Paperweight Radio we discuss plastic. Featured are material scientist Paul Tangney on the history and material properties of plastic; the sociologists Dominik Bartmanski and Ian Woodward on the rise of vinyl in the digital age; art historian Matt Lodder on plastic surgery in fine art practice; communications scholar Emily Yochim …
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Paperweight Radio: The Art School (S2 Ep5, 17th July 2014)
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This episode of Paperweight Radio, themed The Art School, features art historian Beth Williamson on the Tate's Art School Educated project; artist Matthew Cornford and literature scholar John Beck on the death of the regional art school, and their book The Art School and The Culture Shed; and writer Emily LaBarge on the role of the humanities in th…
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Paperweight Radio: Mixed Media (S2 Ep4, 10th July 2014)
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Our episode on Mixed Media featured art historian Matt Lodder on art on TV and film; geographical historian Elizabeth Haines on colonial cartography; artist and architectural theorist Marian Macken on book-architecture; and artist Judy Sparks on communication technology and fine art practice.The show was produced and hosted by Juliette Kristensen; …
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Paperweight Radio: Domesticating the Modernist Body (S2 Ep3, 3rd July 2014)
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Themed Domesticating the Modernist Body, this episode featured guests include design historian Jessica Kelly on the architect and critic J.M.Richards; Mary Vaughan Johnson on The Maison de Verre; architectural historian Simon Weir on Salvador Dali's Anti-Modernisms; and designer Julijonas Urbonas speaking about The Euthanasia Rollercoaster and The …
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Paperweight Radio: Animals (S2 Ep2, 26th June 2014)
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In the Animals episode, we feature contemporary art historian Lynn Turner, medieval art historian Robert Mills and Edinburgh School of Art’s Chancellor’s Fellow Michelle Bastian.Produced and hosted by Juliette KristensenSound Engineer Chris Dixon.Av J.C.Kristensen
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Paperweight Radio: Collections (S2 Ep1, 19th June 2014)
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This episode, themed Collection, features Goldmiths’ Curator of Art and Textile Collections Jenny Doussan, material culture specialists and historians Leonie Hannan and Kate Smith from University College London’s 100 Hours Project, Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture‘s Head of Museum Collections Zoë Hendon and the artist and writer Jane Wildgo…
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Paperweight Radio: Mother-Daughter (S1 Ep5, 3rd October 2013)
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In the fifth episode of this six part series exploring themes in visual and material culture, hosted by Juliette Kristensen, we discuss the role of fashion in the mother-daughter relationship with sociologist Katherine Appleford; nineteenth century Invisible Mother portraits with art historian Catherine Grant and artist Lisa Castagner; and the suff…
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Paperweight Radio: The Ecological (S1 Ep6, 10th October 2013)
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In this week's show we discuss how ecological concerns and ideas intersect with contemporary art practice with contemporary art historian Wood Roberdeau; what role sustainability plays in design practices with sustainable design scholar Paul Micklethwaite; and the politics of water in post-Soviet states with geographer Richard Bater.Produced by Jul…
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Paperweight Radio: Maker Culture (S1 Ep4, 26th September 2013)
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In conversation with artist, curator and maker Helen Carnac, this week’s show explores Maker Culture, the contemporary trend for making that marries technology to craft practices to form a new DIY social movement. Also featured on the show is Gavin Grindon, V&A Visiting Research Fellow, talking about Maker Culture in the context of social movements…
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Paperweight Radio: Paper (S1 Ep3, 19th September 2013)
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In the third episode of this six part series exploring themes in visual and material culture, hosted by Juliette Kristensen, we feature the art historian Beth Williamson of the Tate on the digitisation of artists’ books; the Head of Museums and Collections at the Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture Zoe Hendon on the Sonic Wallpaper project; El…
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Paperweight Radio: Light (S1 Ep2, 12th September 2013)
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In this second in a series of six programmes discussing themes within visual and material culture, hosted by Juliette Kristensen, we discuss fireworks with historian of science Simon Werrett; home organisation with design historian and material culture theorist Katherine Feo Kelly; nineteenth century glass and iron structures with architectural his…
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Paperweight Radio: Screen & Ghosts (S1 Ep1, 5th September 2013)
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In this first show in a series of six programmes discussing themes within visual and material culture, hosted by Juliette Kristensen, we discuss the origins of Paperweight with its Editor-At-Large Matt Lodder, Lecturer in Contemporary Art, University of Essex; Abraham Zapruder’s film of the assassination of JFK with media scholar Øyvind Vågnes, pos…
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Paperweight Radio: The Ghosts of Visual & Material Culture (Pilot)
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The pilot radio show of Paperweight: A Newspaper of Visual and Material Culture, broadcast on ResonanceFM, is themed on one of our favourite topics, Ghosts. This episode features discussions with the design historian Paul Atkinson on vapourware; the parageographer James Thurgill on haunted places; the collector and curator Brad Feuerhelm on occult …
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