Front Row’s Risk season
How essential is risk to creating great art? We explore with figures across the arts.
What is artistic risk?
Will Self, Ellen E Jones and Scottee discuss what constitutes risk in art.
Physical Risk
Two filmmakers discuss the danger and necessity of filming in conflict zones.
Jeremy Deller on The Battle of Orgreave
"How do you reconstruct a riot?"
Richard Armitage on being waterboarded for Spooks
The actor on the physical risk of being waterboarded during filming.
What are the emotional risks of using your life in your art?
Louise Allen and Ahir Shah discuss the risk of drawing on personal issues for art.
Sharmaine Lovegrove on Dialogue Books
Sharmaine Lovegrove on setting up a publishing imprint for minority voices.
False Risk
Why is diversity in the arts seen as risky?
Kerry Hudson on Lowborn
The author discusses the emotional risk she felt writing her memoir.
What happens when artistic risk fails?
Theatre critic Michael Billington and academic Leila Jancovich on risks that fail.
How do you decide if a risk is worth taking?
Penny Woolcock and Richard Mantle discuss calculating risk in the arts.
How has risk changed in the past 20 years?
We discuss whether social media and cancel culture has impacted risk in the arts.
Jasmine Lee-Jones on the seven methods of killing kylie jenner
The playwright on the risk of tackling taboo topics in her work.
