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Podcast: EMPIRE LINES
Episode: Medium and Memory, Griselda Pollock (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x HackelBury Fine Art)
Description: Art historian and Professor Griselda Pollock traces the memories of contemporary artist women like Sutapa Biswas, one of her students in the 1980s, and the entanglements in feminist, queer, and postcolonial thinking in art schools and universities.
Griselda Pollock has long advocated for the critical function of contemporary art - and artists - in society. Whether paintings, drawings, or sculptures, these media can translate the traumatic legacies of colonialism, imperialism, and migration into visual form, and serve as refusals to forget - especially in our memory-effacing digital age.
Born in apartheid South...