Free Thinking - Artist Taryn Simon. Deglobalisation. 2017 New Generation Thinker Eleanor Lybeck on the circus.
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2017
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Artist Taryn Simon, Master of Photography at this year's Photo London Art Fair, speaks to Matthew Sweet about her work including her latest project Image Atlas inspired by the top image results for given search terms across local engines throughout the world.
2017 New Generation Thinker Eleanor Lybeck from the University of Oxford on the artist Edward Seago and running away to the circus.
What if globalisation isn't as unstoppable as once thought? As manufacturing technology advances will the push for cheap labour abroad cease? How will that change the location of factories? And how might that affect you? We consider the idea of deglobalisation with Finbarr Livesey, author of From Global To Local, and Stephanie Flanders, former BBC Economics Editor, now Chief Market Strategist for UK and Europe at J P Morgan.
Taryn Simon's art work is on show as part of Photo London at the Embankment Gallery East in Somerset House.
New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by the BBC with the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find academics who can turn their research into radio and television. You can find more information, films and broadcasts on the Free Thinking website. From Global To Local: The making of things and the end of globalisation by Finbarr Livesey is published 18 May 2017.
Producer: Zahid Warley
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| 0:23.3 | It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream van plays music when it's out of ice cream. |
| 0:28.8 | Listen to Evil Genius on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:32.1 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:35.6 | Hello, does anyone know anything anymore? Did they ever? I'm Matthew Sweet and this edition of |
| 0:41.1 | Freethinking, the Arts and Ideas program from Radio 3, aims to leave you wondering by testing out |
| 0:46.8 | some of the stories that we use to interpret the world. The artist Taryn Simon has examined |
| 0:52.1 | the history of international diplomacy |
| 0:54.2 | through the flower arrangements it's generated. |
| 0:57.1 | Now she's created a work that takes a global view of grief. |
| 1:00.5 | She's with us in the studio, as is our new generation thinker, Eleanor Leibek, |
| 1:04.6 | who's here to tell us what happens to Irish political history |
| 1:08.0 | if you see it as a form of circus. |
| 1:13.6 | Music Irish political history if you see it as a form of circus. More of Eleanor's Act later in the programme and that gunshot explained. |
| 1:25.6 | First though, the end of the world. We ought to be used to it by |
| 1:29.3 | now. We ought to get it. We once had the Ptolemaic universe with us at the centre. Then along came |
| 1:35.2 | Copernicus and we discovered that the universe wasn't all about us. We had Adam and Eve and the |
| 1:40.4 | Garden of Eden. Then along came Darwin and banished us to the monkey house. |
| 1:44.9 | The ideas by which we live, through which we conceptualise the world, our lives, ourselves, |
| 1:50.4 | have a habit of evaporating. Half the world once abided by the certitudes of Marxism, |
| 1:55.8 | and then the Berlin Wall fell, and the historian Francis Fukuyama announced the end of history. And for a while, |
| 2:02.1 | the future of the world looked like one of those bank adverts about the increasing connectedness |
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