Radio interview The Artist Lounge

Through recent exhibition was put in touch with a curator who runs a weekly radio show interviewing artists, the Artist Lounge. ON FM is a London radio station. Melissa Hardwick runs a couple of art spaces in Kentish Town - I may be showing a screening of Moving Image there in a new venture, the Art Shed.

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An hour long interview seems like a big challenge. We met first at an exhibition, and covered alot of ground. Mel had worked out a structure for the interview, but of course it didn't go like that at all. I will hear a podcast of it in about a week - it went out live, and although we left out more than we talked about, and it felt a little rambling at times to me, I came away thinking that we had had a proper conversation.

We talked about practice, the dark rooms showing Moving Image, the use of vintage items in contemporary art as a way of exploring our relationship with the past, and other things.

Talking in public is really an extension of practice. Responding to questions, getting the gist of questions, trying to be clear and not panicking. Not the definitive interview, but practice towards such speaking.

Most of us don't grow up comfortable and used to such speaking - it has to be learned, and relaxed into, but it's so interesting to hear artists speak, and it's surely part of the job.

Gorgeous views of the Thames at Hammersmith from radio station.

19th March 2012