Alana Jelinek reads from Between Discipline and a Hard Place: the Value of Contemporary Art, which was published by Bloomsbury in 2020. This episode is the first of the new format for the podcast and in this episode Alana reads the first sectio

Art and the Future with Jen Clarke

Feb 24th, 2021 15m 35s

This is third and final part of an edited interview with Dr Jen Clarke of Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland. The original interview was an hour via video call and I have split it up into bite-sized chunks of 15-20mins. This episode t

The questionableness of Genius (re-edit)

Feb 19th, 2021 9m 15s

This episode is a re-edited part of a talk I gave at University of Hertfordshire, where I work, for the Contemporary Art Practice Research Group. The talk was a discussion with Sam Jury and included questions from colleagues and students in res

Systems, Politics and Art

Feb 18th, 2021 13m 3s

This episode is re-edited from a talk I gave for the Contemporary Art Practice Research Group at University of Hertfordshire (episode 9). The discussion included questions from colleagues and students in response to the book. Here I respond to

Art and Anthropology with Jen Clarke

Feb 17th, 2021 15m 21s

This is part two of an edited interview with Dr Jen Clarke of Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland. The original interview was an hour via video call and I have split it up into bite-sized chunks of 15-20mins. This episode is a discussi

Art and Ecology with Jen Clarke

Jan 26th, 2021 16m 9s

This is part one of an edited interview with Dr Jen Clarke of Robert Gordon Uni in Aberdeen. The original interview was an hour via video call and I have split it up into bite-sized chunks of 15-20mins. This episode takes me to task about the a

Art, Therapy and Truth with Merili Pugh

Jan 15th, 2021 33m 16s

This episode is the second time Alana Jelinek and art student and working doctor, Merili Pugh, talk about the ideas in Between Discipline and a Hard Place. This episode focuses on questions of what is art and what is the difference between art

Questions of Standards and Discipline with Merili Pugh

Jan 7th, 2021 20m 30s

This episode was recorded via zoom with Merili Pugh, who got in touch via Instagram. She is a MA student and in her reading around art and activism came across This is Not Art: Activism and Other Not Art, which was published in 2013 by IB Taur

Politics and Art

Dec 20th, 2020 13m 18s

This episode is edited from a talk I gave for the Contemporary Art Practice Research Group at University of Hertfordshire. The discussion included questions from colleagues and students in response to the book. This episode responds to a quest

The questionableness of Genius

Dec 13th, 2020 9m 30s

This episode is an edited part of a talk I gave at University of Hertfordshire, where I work, for the Contemporary Art Practice Research Group. The talk was a discussion with Sam Jury and included questions from colleagues and students in respo

Neoliberalism and Art

Dec 9th, 2020 10m 18s

This episode defines neoliberalism more fully than previously, and discusses markets and the potential negative impact in monetizing public goods. In particular, the episode addresses how endogenous values, that is, the values that emerge from

Neoliberalism, Art and Universities

Nov 29th, 2020 9m 40s

This episode looks at various issues since capitalism took a neoliberal turn. I also define neoliberalism. The episode looks at some of the ill effects of neoliberalism on art, including the problem with the 'academicisation' of art - how the t

Art as a Knowledge Forming Discipline

Nov 22nd, 2020 9m 38s

This episode introduces audiences to the idea that art is like any other knowledge forming discipline, that art operates in a similar way to science or archaeology or anthropology. Artists build on the achievements of previous generations and a

Beauty and the relationship with Art

Nov 21st, 2020 10m 24s

This episode discusses the historical link between beauty and art and describes why the pursuit of beauty is a historical one. And that, for a hundred years at least, art has been about something else. For example see Kurt Schwitters' artwork f

The Artworld

Nov 20th, 2020 10m 54s

This episode takes a quick look at the philosophy of art. I discuss philosopher George Dickie's concept of the Institutional Definition of Art, which builds on Arthur Danto's. George Dickie says that it is the 'art world' who defines what is ar

Who is an artist?

Nov 19th, 2020 9m 2s

Who is an artist? describes the importance of training in becoming an artist, that artists are not born, but instead are made - and this is true of artists in any society, anywhere in the world, and for the past few thousand years.

What is Art?

Nov 18th, 2020 9m 27s

What is Art? is short overview of the chapter devoted to this question. The chapter goes into much more depth about why the general public, art historians, anthropologists and philosophers have their own view - but they're wrong. And why we,

another introduction but different

Nov 17th, 2020 8m 32s

This is the original introduction to the podcasts, introducing the podcasts themselves, by Alana Jelinek about the ideas in Between Discipline and a Hard Place.

Introduction

Nov 16th, 2020 7m 13s

An introduction to the book, Between Discipline and a Hard Place, created mostly from an edit of an online talk about the book given for the Contemporary Arts Practice Research Group, hosted by Sam Jury at the University of Hertfordshire.

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