Ep 21: Vestibular Criticism ft. Geraldine Tedder

On this special Artalaap episode, Kamayani Sharma speaks to Kunsthalle Winterthur director Geraldine Tedder about writing and curating practices through the metaphor of the vestibular system.

They talk about how criticism and curating can help stabilise and situate ourselves in the contemporary, and about the many forms that the relationships between writing, speaking and listening can take.

Through of all this, they reflect together on how repairing, caring and loving can be modes of creating knowledge.

Click ⁠⁠here⁠⁠ to access the episode transcript.

OUR GUEST

Geraldine Tedder is a curator and writer based in Zürich. She is director of Kunsthalle Winterthur.

CREDITS

This episode was produced as part of the Art Writers’ Award 2024 residency at Villa Sträuli, Winterthur with the support of Pro Helvetia and TAKE On Art magazine.

Producer: Square Wave Studios, New Delhi

Brand design & artwork: Mohini Mukherjee

Episode graphics: Amir Bin Rafi

Transcription: Priya Thakur

Special thanks: Merly Knörle Izquierdo, Nicole Bachmann, Damian Christinger, Bibliotheken Winterthur

Additional support: Raghav Sagar

Audio courtesy: Vernouillet by Blue Dot Sessions [CCBY-NC 4.0]

LINKS

Geraldine Tedder

— 'You Are Probably Completely Oblivious That This Text Actually Is About You', 2020.

https://brand-new-life.org/b-n-l/you-are-probably-completely-oblivious-that-this-text-actually-is-about-you/

— 'Notes on Furniture' in collaboration with Chantal Kaufmann, audiobook, 2020.

Kamayani Sharma

— 'Loving with Language: Reflections on Writing Alongside Art', 2019. https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/19952/uploads/eb1d39a0-fa71-4665-bf97-6af6ec3740c1.pdf

— Book review of Arshi Ahmadzai's 'Nafas: Isolation Diaries', TAKE On Art [South Asia], 2024.

https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/19952/uploads/853acf00-eedd-4c65-b232-f7b10aaa46c4.pdf

— Artalaap Ep. 17: Tales of Silence, podcast, 2022.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Ee8hbSAE8DzWASUhrlkLc?si=E2YY4HctRSSg1z3hY6KK6Q

Other

Art Writers’ Award 2024 blog for TAKE On Art magazine:

⁠https://takeonartmagazine.com/blog/⁠

Kunsthalle Winterthur:

⁠https://kunsthallewinterthur.ch/⁠

CONTENTS

00:00 – Introduction & Context

02:00 – Defining ‘Vestibular’ & Episode Themes

03:00 – Writing, Orality, and Critical Positions

08:00 – Orality as Challenge to Print Culture

12:00 – Performativity, Misinformation & Media Forms

15:00 – Podcasting as Critical Practice

18:45 – Curatorial Conversations & Gossip as Subversion

21:45 – Oral Histories & Restoring Lost Voices

24:30 – Care in Curating & Opening Processes

28:30 – Breaking Down Curatorial Authority

29:45 – Spatial Metaphors & the Vestibular

36:45 – Erotics, Love, and Reparative Reading

42:00 – The Transcript as Inter-Script

45:00 – Collaborative Writing & Challenging Structures

46:45 – Demystifying Institutional Realities

48:00 – Closing & Reflections

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