Artangel and Radio 4: Open Project Artists
Tony Phillips
Commissioning Editor, Arts, Radio 4
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Katrina Palmer and Ben Rivers
You may remember that earlier in the year we announced a major new collaboration with Artangel, the organisation responsible for commissioning and producing some of the most memorable and acclaimed works of contemporary art in recent times. They have worked with artists like Clio Barnard, Jeremy Deller, Brian Eno, and Michael Landy, who famously destroyed all his possessions in Break Down, a 2001 performance piece installation.
Radio 4 has teamed up with Artangel in a quest to bring to life new ground-breaking arts projects. In January we launched Open, a call-out to artists working in any medium and anywhere in the UK to submit their proposals, and I’m really pleased to say that we have chosen the first two artists to be commissioned.
Katrina Palmer’s new project will excavate an undisclosed place in England through writing and installation. She is a young artist of exceptional promise – she wrote The Dark Object, a series of connected stories about power relations in a fictional art school – but her Open project for Artangel and Radio 4 will be her most ambitious to date.
The other successful artist is Ben Rivers. His films and installations dwell on subjects at the margins of society and build poetic narratives which ebb and flow between documentary and fiction. His first feature length film, Two Years at Sea, was presented at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in 2011 and at the London Film Festival.
Katrina and Ben will now continue to develop their proposals. I’m hugely excited by their ideas so far, and I look forward later in the year to being able to share more details of what we can expect from them, and the part Radio 4 will play in the projects.
Radio 4’s collaboration with Artangel has already borne fruit in the form of Open Air – a series of five playful and surprising audio interventions broadcast earlier this year.
Look out for more news later in the year.
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