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Artists | Ideas | Now - Egypt and the Climate CrisisAdham Faramawy – NatureAdham Faramawy is an artist based in London.
Their work spans media including moving image, sculptural installation, and print, thinking through issues of materiality, touch and toxic embodiment to question ideas of the natural in relation to marginalized communities.
They lecture at both Goldsmiths University, London and Ruskin School of Art, Oxford. In 2018 they presented a show on the body and VR for BBC Radio 4, in 2019 they premiered their video piece ‘Skin Flick’ at a screening at Tate Britain dedicated to their work.
They were shortlisted for the Jarman Award in both 2017 and 2021.
Thei...2022-11-0219 min
Artists | Ideas | Now - Egypt and the Climate CrisisTrailer for Artists | Ideas | Now - Egypt & the Climate CrisisAn 8 part podcast series talking to artists from Egypt and of Egyptian heritage about climate, crisis, environment, protest and change.
Artists | Ideas | Now turns to the country’s creatives to ask: How can art and activism raise the profile of the climate emergency?
In this audio series, we hear from eight Egyptian artists and those with Egyptian heritage, who are using the arts to address the most pressing and complex conversations behind the crisis. From creating desert sculptures that can be seen from space, to reawakening dance culture, we discover how creativity can spark change.
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The Week in ArtArtists’ monuments, the €471m Caravaggio villa auction flop, Michael Armitage on Sane WaduThis week, our contemporary art correspondent Louisa Buck visits the exhibition Testament at Goldsmiths CCA in London, where 47 artists have been invited to make proposals that ponder the idea of tearing down and erecting monuments and what it might mean to rethink them. Louisa talks to Sarah McCrory, the director of Goldsmiths CCA, and to Adham Faramawy, one of the artists in the show. In Rome, a villa with ceiling paintings by Caravaggio and Guercino with a price tag of €471m failed to attract any bids. The Art Newspaper’s founder Anna Somers Cocks, who’s based in Turin, tells us why...2022-01-2149 min
AQNB's Artist Statement podcastEpisode 28: Space to Breathe with Adham Faramawy (Teaser)See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnbIn this episode Jared talks with Adham Faramawy, an artist whose work in video, image making and sculptural installation examines interwoven themes around the body, queerness, ecologies and migration.Based in London, Adham has recently exhibited at the likes of Somerset House and London’s Science Gallery. Their moving image work has twice been shortlisted for the Jarman Award, including this year for their film The air is subtle, various and sweet. Adham spoke on topics ranging from plant-life to body horror, intimacy and abjection, as well as...2021-07-2104 min
Royal Academy of ArtsProvocations in art: the eroticCatch up on this talk, exploring how 20th century artists have used eroticism in their work, and why it continues to challenge viewers and provoke controversy today.
Speakers:
Dr Alyce Mahon, Reader in Modern and Contemporary Art History, University of Cambridge, is a specialist in modern and contemporary art and their erotic politics.
Rowan Pelling, editor of The Amorist and former editor of The Erotic Review.
Adham Faramawy, artist and RA Schools alumnus.
Dr Shahidha Bari, Senior Lecturer in Romanticism, Queen Mary University of London & Fellow of Forum for European Philosophy, London School of Economics2018-02-1200 min