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Danh Vo: Traces of History and The End of Empire

Intelligence Squared

Intelligence Squared

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4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this week's podcast Design Museum director Tim Marlow, South London Gallery director Margot Heller, academic and critic Shahidha Bari and botanist Roy Vickery discuss the White Cube Gallery exhibition 'Danh Vo: 'Chicxulub'. Incorporating imperial narratives, plant folklore, Catholicism and Coca-Cola, this podcast in partnership with White Cube is a fascinating exploration of an exhibition steeped in history and nature. To find out more about the exhibition and see photos of the works discussed click here: https://whitecube.com/exhibitions/exhibition/danh_vo_bermondsey_2020 To watch the video version of this talk, please visit our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/iqsquared Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello podcast listeners it's Connor here. Our podcast today is a recording of a great

1:04.8

conversation we staged last week for a video event in partnership with the

1:08.5

White Cube Gallery here in London the event focused on an exhibition by

1:12.4

leading artist Jan Vo, which closed just the day before the US presidential election earlier this week.

1:18.0

Vaux's work speaks to this moment in history very powerfully.

1:21.0

His work focuses on the nature of empires and the interconnectedness of life across the globe.

1:26.5

It feels like a very pertinent conversation this week as we all seek to make sense of the election

1:31.2

and the intensifying pandemic and if you would like to see a

1:34.2

visual representation of the works discussed in the podcast you can watch a video version of

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