Show Notes
Episode 6.17 Show notes:
Neha Kale is a widely-published writer. She works in many forms including criticism, journalism, essay and other nonfiction. For close to fifteen years, her writing on art, contemporary culture and society has appeared frequently in international and Australian publications including The Sydney Morning Herald, ArtReview, Vogue, Elephant, VICE, The Guardian, Griffith Review, Art Guide Australia, SBS, Kill Your Darlings, Gourmet Traveller, The World of Interiors, Running Dog, i-D, Wonderground, BBC and more.
Mixing personal narrative with art and cultural criticism, Foreign Return explores the work of artists Dayanita Singh, Ana Mendieta, Tracey Emin, Brett Whiteley and Danie Mellor among others to investigate the myth of the suburbs, the shadows of colonial inheritance, and the changing ways we need to conceive of homes and their ownership.
Word cloud “We are living in the aftermath of so many histories” show texts, colonial contexts, the sweep of history, Dayanita Singh, experimental art writing, feelings first/embodied criticism, Australian property obsession, writing in long-hand, privacy, forgetting the audience, watching the self watch the world,
Reading list: Olivia Laing; Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency, Lonely City Dayanita Singh: Dream Villa Annie Erneaux: The Years Deborah Levy Hot Milk Neha Kale; Foreign Return
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