Past – Forward: The Wapping Project at 20 The Wapping Project

In the final episode of ‘Past – Forward’, the 21st, curator and writer Gareth Evans talks to architect Josh Wright and architecture critic Rowan Moore about the light touch approach to restoring historic industrial buildings, the nodes of contact between architecture, culture and the social fabric of places, as well as the impermanence of everything.

Hosted by Gareth Evans
Featuring Josh Wright and Rowan Moore
Sound editing and design by Philippe Frau-Nadal
with sound and music from The Wapping Project’s archives including an extract from a film ‘A13’, 2004, by Sean Rogg
Podcast intro theme by Billy Cowie from the soundtrack to ‘Shiny Nylon’

In this episode of ‘Past – Forward’, curator and writer Gareth Evans talks to writer Deborah Levy on being commissioned as a young poet, learning to write librettos, and on the simplicity and directness of exchange with Jules Wright, made possible by decades of collaboration between creative minds.

Hosted by Gareth Evans
Featuring Deborah Levy
Sound editing and design by Philippe Frau-Nadal
with music by Billy Cowie from several collaborations with The Wapping Project
Podcast intro theme by Billy Cowie from the soundtrack to ‘Shiny Nylon’

In this episode of ‘Past – Forward’, curator and writer Gareth Evans talks to composer, artist and choreographer Billy Cowie on the early collaborations with Jules Wright and Deborah Levy in the 1990s, risk averse established art institutions very unlike The Wapping Project, and on transitioning seamlessly between worlds created of music, image and text.

Hosted by Gareth Evans
Featuring Billy Cowie
Sound editing and design by Philippe Frau-Nadal
Featuring music by Billy Cowie from several collaborations with The Wapping Project
Podcast intro theme by Billy Cowie from the soundtrack to ‘Shiny Nylon’

In this episode of ‘Past – Forward’, curator and writer Gareth Evans is in conversation with photographer Stephen Morgan and artist and designer Sam Spenser on starting out as waiters in the restaurant at The Wapping Project, before being invited to exhibit their work within the Project’s former home the Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, and on forming long lasting friendships with Jules Wright.

Hosted by Gareth Evans
Featuring Stephen Morgan and Sam Spenser
Sound editing and design by Philippe Frau-Nadal
Including sound recordings from The Wapping Project’s archives
Podcast intro theme by Billy Cowie from the soundtrack to ‘Shiny Nylon’

In this episode of ‘Past – Forward’, curator and writer Gareth Evans talks to a quartet of Omani artists – Rawan AlMahrouqi, Safa Baluchi, Ruqaiya Mazar, Riham Noor Al Zadjali – on their experience making work in response to scores, collaborating with Elina Brotherus during a residency programme in Oman in 2019, and finding their voices as young women artists working with performance and political art.

Hosted by Gareth Evans
Featuring Rawan AlMahrouqi, Safa Baluchi, Ruqaiya Mazar, Riham Noor Al Zadjali
Sound edit and design by Philippe Frau-Nadal
Including soundtracks from the works produced as part of the residency programme, some of which were exhibited during the 'Resonance' exhibition at Stal Gallery in March 2020.
Podcast intro theme by Billy Cowie from the soundtrack to ‘Shiny Nylon’

In the first episode of the fourth series of ‘Past – Forward’, curator and writer Gareth Evans is in conversation with artist Karen Stuke and choreographer Maresa von Stockert on working with iconic narratives, in vast industrial spaces, and the many firsts they both embraced on their encounter with Jules Wright who never settled for the easier option.

Hosted by Gareth Evans
Featuring Karen Stuke and Maresa von Stockert
Sound edit and design by Philippe Frau-Nadal

Including soundtrack from Maresa von Stockert’s ‘Grim(m) Desires’, 2004, and music composition by Billy Cowie for Karen Stuke’s exhibition ‘After Sebald’s Austerlitz’, 2013
Podcast intro theme by Billy Cowie from the soundtrack to ‘Shiny Nylon’