Wysing Arts Centre

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Wysing Arts Centre hosts residencies, commissions and events from our site in Bourn, Cambridgeshire. Arts Council England supported.

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Syllabus: Meet the new Partners podcast

Mar 14 2024 14 mins

Tune in to hear the new Syllabus partners PS2, TACO! (guest partner 2024-25) and New Art Exchange talk about their organisations and what they are most looking forward to on the Syllabus programme. Read the podcast transcript here: https://www.wysingartscentre.org/images/uploads/Syllabus_Meet_the_new_Partners_Podcast_Transcript.pdf Syllabus is a collaboratively produced altern

Joanna Holland and John Bloomfield In-Conversation - In Flux: Sickness as practice and landscapes as freedom

Feb 06 2024 31 mins

Please note that the audio becomes quite loud at 9:43. In this podcast we join artist-curator Joanna Holland (she/her) in conversation with Senior Programme Curator John Bloomfield (he/him) to discuss Joanna’s recent exhibition ‘Out of the Blue’, and aspects of her Wysing residency which took place from 2020-2023. Her residency extended over a long period as it worked around

The New Block Commission: Carol Sorhaindo and Bella Milroy in conversation: Part two: Q&A

Dec 13 2023 37 mins

To celebrate the launch of The Golden Crown, a new site-based commission from artist Carol Sorhaindo that explores memory, reflection, time and fragmentation, join artists Carol Sorhaindo and Bella Milroy for a conversation exploring their research. The discussion will focus on their shared interests in growing projects and practices which are centred in collaboration and care. Th

The New Block Commission: Carol Sorhaindo and Bella Milroy in conversation: Part one: Presentations

Dec 13 2023 41 mins

To celebrate the launch of The Golden Crown, a new site-based commission from artist Carol Sorhaindo that explores memory, reflection, time and fragmentation, join artists Carol Sorhaindo and Bella Milroy for a conversation exploring their research. The discussion will focus on their shared interests in growing projects and practices which are centred in collaboration and care. Th

Seema Mattu - podCASTE Episode 4: caste-oppressed queers 👽

Nov 14 2023 51 mins

Guest speaker: Manu Kaur (they/them) Caste-oppressed diasporic queers discuss tragic love through Seema’s 2022 Role-Playing Game (RPG), love x lore, and the influence of caste on power dynamics & social hierarchies within South Asian queer circles - plus a comparison of lived experiences between India, the US and the UK. This podCASTE episode contains strong language througho

Seema Mattu - podCASTE Episode 3: colourism, casteism and its intersections 🇳🇬

Nov 07 2023 45 mins

Guest speaker: Tobi Adebajo (they/them) Tobi’s interest in the topic of caste and casteism stems from a curiosity about what can be unearthed at the intersections of casteism and colourism - especially from a Nigerian context - to focus on seeking / creating worlds and spaces where we arrive to find healing and repair from this violence. This podCASTE episode contains strong la

Seema Mattu - podCASTE Episode 2: troublemakers in trinidad 🇹🇹

Oct 10 2023 63 mins

Guest speaker: Helen Starr (she/her) With an undercurrent of friendship captured throughout the episode’s joy and laughter, Helen and Seema sit in community with one another and discuss: how caste in Trindidad came not to be, attitudes toward bodily fluids in municipal work, touch and hapticality, how we can hold each other through caste and by a Global South lens - and the tie

Seema Mattu - podCASTE Episode 1: girmit histories with izland kuli 🇫🇯

Sep 22 2023 54 mins

Guest speaker: Esha Pillay (she/her) Taking inspiration from her feature in Tamil Futures 2020, Esha Pillay presents her vision for a Tamil future as a low-caste coolie from Fiji - encouraging viewers to further their understanding of gendered and caste-based violence(s) of indentured labour, and their intersections with intergenerational traumas. Resources for the episode (as m

From the Ground Up: Jo Capper & Akil Scafe-Smith

Jan 27 2023 51 mins

What role can cultural spaces that are custodians of land, like Wysing, play in fostering a sense of ownership in public space? How can the resources that the culture sector currently holds contribute better to grassroots justice work? What are the imaginative possibilities of divestment? Catch up with the final archived part of our event 'From the Ground Up: The Gathering', July 2

From the Ground Up: Khairani Barokka, Bella Milroy & Hannah Wallis

Dec 12 2022 67 mins

Khairani Barokka and Bella Milroy in-conversation, chaired by Hannah Wallis In this second archived event from our event 'From the Ground Up: The Gathering', join Khairani Barokka and Bella Milroy with Hannah Wallis for readings, an in-conversation and an audience Q and A. You can find out more about 'From the Ground Up' by clicking here. A full transcript is available to read by c