7 episodes

Voicing Art explores contemporary art from the Arab World. Featuring both emerging and established voices, we talk to artists, curators and academics about their work, looking at themes such as activism within art, the body as a canvas, broadening accessibility in arts spaces and much more.

New producer and host Emily Primmer-Pyke is a masters student at SOAS, studying History of Islamic Architecture and Arabic. She has spent the last six years studying Arabic, and has spent time living in Jordan.

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Voicing Art explores contemporary art from the Arab World. Featuring both emerging and established voices, we talk to artists, curators and academics about their work, looking at themes such as activism within art, the body as a canvas, broadening accessibility in arts spaces and much more.

New producer and host Emily Primmer-Pyke is a masters student at SOAS, studying History of Islamic Architecture and Arabic. She has spent the last six years studying Arabic, and has spent time living in Jordan.

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    Preservation/Innovation

    Preservation/Innovation

    Featuring Rania Mneimneh and Ghazaleh Zogheib discussing their recent Kalila wa Dimna exhibition, its themes of migration and social engagement, and photographer and anthropologist Ebrahim Bahaa El Din on his work capturing the changing landscapes of Cairo in the face of urban development.

    Produced and presented by Emily Primmer-Pyke

    Additional editing and mixing by Marnie Woodmeade

    • 36 min
    Alia Alzougbi and Soufiane Chinig: Spaces/Places

    Alia Alzougbi and Soufiane Chinig: Spaces/Places

    Featuring founder and CEO of the Shubbak Arab arts festival Alia Alzougbi and Soufiane Chinig, whose research focuses on street art in Morocco and Jordan. We talk about hierarchies within arts spaces, how Covid has changed how we relate to art in different environments, and how to encourage greater accessibility within arts spaces.

    Produced and presented by Emily Primmer-Pyke

    Music by Carol OHair

    • 38 min
    Carol OHair: Connection/Interruption

    Carol OHair: Connection/Interruption

    In conversation with Carol OHair, Beirut based DJ on community within the Lebanese music scene, creating narratives in techno music, and her defining sounds of Beirut.

    Produced and presented by Emily Primmer-Pyke

    Music by Carol OHair

    • 29 min
    Zeina Aref: Body/Canvas

    Zeina Aref: Body/Canvas

    In conversation with artist Zeina Aref about her work, the use of humour as a means of social critique, the body as a canvas within self-portraiture, and her navigating her identity as an Egyptian woman.

    Produced and presented by Emily Primmer-Pyke
    Music by Carol Ohair
    Editing by Marnie Woodmeade

    • 29 min
    Yousef Sabry: Print/Ink

    Yousef Sabry: Print/Ink

    In conversation with Yousef Sabry, founder of Rizo Masr, on creating a zine culture in Cairo, autonomy within printing, and the potentials of risography for small scale printing in Egypt.

    Produced and presented by Emily Primmer-Pyke
    Music by Carol Ohair 

    • 29 min
    Adra Kandil: Digital Art/Healing

    Adra Kandil: Digital Art/Healing

    In conversation with Adra Kandil, aka Dear Nostalgia, about her unique and dreamy style of digital collage, which contrasts with its themes of activism, shame and trauma. We discuss protecting mental health when using social media in artistic practice, NFTs, the artistic Big Bang in Lebanon and more.

    • 29 min

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