CHANEL Connects - The Sparring Partners: William Kentridge and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

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🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by CHANEL. CHANEL Connects – the acclaimed arts and culture podcast – is back for its fourth season, with nine episodes featuring the artists, curators and thinkers shaping culture today. If you enjoy the episode, you can hear much more from the new season, just search CHANEL Connects now on your preferred streaming platforms or visit chanel.com. The artist William Kentridge and curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev are old friends who, together, have created some of the most resonant work of their time. These two giants of the art world discuss the Venice installation of William’s film “Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot,” Carolyn‘s previous work as director of the Castello di Rivoli museum in Italy, and the origins of their long and rich creative relationship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and Welcome to Intelligence Squared. I'm head of programming, Connor Boyle.
0:05.6	This episode is brought to you in partnership with Chanel.
0:08.9	Chanel Connects, the Acclaimed Arts and Culture Podcast, is back for its fourth season with nine episodes featuring the
0:15.5	artists, creators and thinkers shaping culture today.
0:19.1	And this season, those creatives are found amid the historic canals and palazzos of the Venice Bienale, where the
0:24.6	art world gathers to forge fresh connections and explore new paths forward.
0:28.9	As the name suggests, Chanel Connects is about bringing some of the brightest creative minds together to share their perspectives.
0:35.0	If you enjoy the upcoming discussion, you can hear much more from the new season.
0:39.0	Just search, Chanel Connects now on your preferred streaming platforms or visit
0:43.4	Chanel.com. A highlight from the new season which we're enjoying for this
0:47.6	episode is the pairing of South African multidisciplinary artist William
0:51.4	Kentridge and the famed curator Carolyn Christoph Bekargiev.
0:55.0	Let's join them now for Chinel Connect.
0:57.0	Welcome to Chinel Connects, the Venice Bionale Edition.
1:05.0	It's important to be free.
1:09.0	So who was the fool who didn't recognize it all their time ago?
1:12.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:13.4	It is seduction, oh absolutely.
1:15.0	Just another woman trying to survive.
1:17.8	So who of them is lying?
1:19.6	I wish that were the case.
1:21.9	Well, let's face the terror of the new work then and this is what the art is so good at.
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