Free Thinking - Contemporary Curating
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2014
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic and curators Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Victoria Walsh join Anne McElvoy to discuss the display of art and design. As Prospect magazine launches the long list for its poll of World Thinkers for 2014, Serena Kutchinsky, Digital Editor of Prospect, joins Anne to debate what makes a leading intellectual. And lawyer and political activist Raja Shehadeh outlines the arguments he will be putting forward in this year's Edward Said London Lecture: Is there a Language of Peace? The programme was broadcasted from a pop-up studio at London's Southbank Centre where Radio 3 is broadcasting live every day for two weeks.
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| 0:33.0 | the BBC. For more information and our terms of use, go to BBC.co.uk slash radio three. |
| 0:40.6 | And welcome to free thinking. |
| 0:42.4 | Tonight we're going to try to map our way through the flood of information and ideas that make up the digital age. |
| 0:49.2 | We'll be investigating what makes a great intellectual, as Prospect magazine invites us to choose the big thinker of 2014, |
| 0:57.3 | philosopher, scientist, or perhaps the Pope. |
| 1:00.8 | And writer and activist Raj Shahadi will be talking to me about the language of politics |
| 1:05.7 | in advance of his Edward Said lecture. |
| 1:08.7 | And I will be curating your radio experience tonight |
| 1:11.8 | because just about everyone, it seems, is a curator these days. |
| 1:16.2 | We can curate our own brands, commercial spaces, online experience. |
| 1:21.5 | The word has broken free from the idea of an expert, |
| 1:25.1 | offering knowledge and guiding the development of artists' collections of work. |
| 1:29.9 | Well, joining me are three curators, Hans Ulrich Oberist, De Anzoujcik, both of whom have books |
| 1:35.6 | out which might rank as useful toolkets for navigating the cultural world, and alongside them |
| 1:40.7 | is Victoria Walsh, a curator whose career has ranged from working in |
| 1:45.0 | institutions like the Tate, where she developed the late at Tate nocturnal events to teaching |
| 1:50.3 | curating at the Royal Academy. Hans, do you first, in an era when everyone is a curator of sorts |
| 1:57.6 | or certainly can present themselves as such, why does the professional |
| 2:01.5 | curator remain important? Yeah, I think it's interesting how this word or this notion has |
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