Artery. A podcast on art, authorship and anthropology
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Who is responsible for making a work of art? In each episode of this collaborative podcast series, one anthropologist, specialising in a particular cultural context, has a conversation with an artist of their choosing, exploring issues of authorship and the relational in art. Ranging across geographical locations and creative practices, discussions address and unpack the conceptualisation of the artistic person, authorship as centred upon an individual or bounded group, and the development of responsibility for artworks during and after their making. Every episode brings a fresh perspective on where ideas come from, what agency an artist feels in the creation...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Artery makes authorship tangible by tracing how artists share decisions, negotiate responsibility and turn cultural relationships into creative form.
Artery keeps returning to a deceptively practical question: who can claim a work, and what responsibilities follow from making it? Robert Simpkins frames a collaborative format in which anthropologists speak with artists about creative decisions, relationships and…
Seven-eight time becomes your doorway into who gets to reshape a tradition.
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Clothing becomes a public language here, linking 1980s slogan T-shirts, farmers' clothes, and a museum-held painting to Korean cultural recovery.
Artery brings together anthropologist Yoon Ah Kim and artist Mrs. Lee Kyung in a conversation about clothing as public expression, moving from slogan T-shirts in the 1980s democratization movement to the longer effort, after colonialism and industrialisation, to look back toward…
Artory explores AI authorship through art recognition, intention, and responsibility.
Artory treats AI authorship as a question of how art is recognized and who gets to claim it. The host and guest move through vignette-based tests that ask whether objects made intentionally or not, beautiful or not, and institutionally recognized or not, count as art.
A reflective art conversation about authorship, daily practice, and the sound of a live room.
Artery follows a thoughtful conversation about art, authorship, and anthropology. Luca Prioetti, a researcher of Japanese noise music at SOAS, gives just enough context to keep the genre approachable, while Tamaki Ueda, aka Banatoriko, treats art as something ordinary, daily,…
Embroidery, language, and the ethics of buying handmade work.
Florentina Manuel Martinez's conversation with Michelle Federnadov and Claudia Rocha Valverde treats embroidery as labor and authorship, while keeping attention on how craft moves between Brooklyn and the Huasteca of San Luis Potosi.
A careful conversation about VeerChat, naming, embodiment, and the freedom to be recognized.
Artery presents a patient study of naming, embodiment, and recognition through VeerChat and self-making. Ludmilla Bredekina, a researcher at the University of Malta, brings a frame shaped by art, literature, and kawaii male virtual gender practices in Japan, while Misumi Dancha…
A careful theatre conversation about authorship, distance, and how performance is worked through in practice.
Artery listens best when it treats theatre less like a finished product and more like a working relationship. Isa Kavetja and Jonas Tinius talk through rehearsal-room details, authorship, and the shifting space between performers, characters, and directors without turning the…
A patient conversation about dance as daily practice, personal voice, and the work of making context.
Artery follows a multidisciplinary artist and dance improviser through self videography, daily movement practice, and quarantine diaries that grew out of work first done in Chicago.
A thoughtful conversation about unfinished work, authorship, and the space art leaves open.
The conversation between Tomoko Hojo and Andrea Giolai works best when it treats authorship as an open question rather than a line on a label.
Art historian Tamar Avishai interviews critics, curators, and writers about single paintings and ideas.
Jennifer Dasal narrates art history's overlooked lives, from Picasso's police file to Rauschenberg and Twombly's romance.
Russell Tovey and Robert Diament interview artists about their materials, biography, and process.
Cinematographer Roger Deakins and James Deakins interview film crew about the craft behind specific shots.
Robert Bound interviews artists and reviews new film, book, and music releases with critics.
Sound art from places, recordings, and memory.
Movement starts as a daily habit.
Rotem Steinbock speaks with Berlin-based artist Ayala Gazit about voice and authorship.
Kayla Rush records from a practice room at Dundalk Institute of Technology in County Lough, where she talks with Dr.
Noise becomes a way of listening to life.
Clothes become a moving exhibition.
Loss, erasure, and repair give this one its shape.
Tomoko Hojo keeps the work spare, and that is the point.
Embroidery does the arguing here.
A field recording opens in Hargeisa.
Authorship becomes a question of responsibility.
Anthropologist Ludmilla Bredekina interviews virtual YouTuber Misumi Lancia about her life as 'virtual existence art' in the metaverse.
Artery’s episode with Elzė Sigutė Mikalonytė and Edoardo Chidichimo centers on AI-generated art, especially the 2018 work Edmond de Bellamy and the question of who counts as its author.
Artery brings together Fatema Al-Bastaki and Mike Williams for a conversation about Pencak Silat, authorship, and movement-based training, with Robert Simpkins introducing the show as one on art, authorship, and anthropology.
A theatre rehearsal takes center stage.
Jakku starts with sound as a journey, but the episode keeps that idea grounded.