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The Swallow
This Culture File Digital Single meets Filmmaker, Tadhg O'Sullivan who speaks about his new film starring Brenda Fricker, The Swallow, a watery, elegiac meditation on memory and loss, and memory loss.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Culture File Presents: The Comfort Zone: Composer and tech wrangler, Jennifer Walshe, leads Colm Toibin deep into the humid heart of the musical mega-genre that almost dare not speak its name: ExoticaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Taking the Waters
Culture File goes for full immersion into some extended realities at Immersive Island at Venice Film Festival, and at Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria, meeting the creators of experimental experiences designed to dip users into new worlds, including the Irish team behind Irish dance gameworld, Foolish Flame.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Comfort Zone Likes | Autumn Brown
Academic and podcaster, Autumn Brown joins Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy in sharing some culture choices: Calligraphy Lesson: Collected Short Stories by Mikhail Shishkin; 2023: A Trilogy by Justified Ancients of Mu Mu; and William Blake vs. the World by John HiggsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Culture File Debate x Beta Festival
Recorded live at Beta Festival '24, writers and artists Noam Young-rak Son, Joanna Walsh and Leon Butler to help chart recent shifts at the intersection of art, design and AI. (First broadcast 140125)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Comfort Zone Likes | Eleanor Myler
Percussionist-singer Eleanor Myler joins Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy in sharing some culture choices: How to End a Story: Collected Diaries by Helen Garner; Victor Hugo's Octopus; and So Little Happened for So Long by Nev Clay.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Culture File Debate x Beta Festival
Recorded live at Beta Festival '24, artists Basil Al-Rawi and Conan McIvor, researcher Dr Autumn Brown, and historian Ciaran Wallace explore how we preserve and reimagine our cultural archives in a world of digital tools. (First broadcast 110125)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Comfort Zone Likes | Róis
Composer-vocalist, Róis joins Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy in sharing some culture choices: Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, John Healey's Death of an Irish Town and Apple's The Studio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Tortured Poets Department
Culture File Presents: The Comfort Zone: Art writer, Orit Gat joins Luke Clancy to wave Colm Tóibín off on a journey out of his comfort zone, and into the Taylor Swift Cinematic Universe. (First broadcast 150325)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Caravaggio 2025
Culture File XXXL Mix. An extended version of our Caravaggio program in which Colm Toibin, Orit Gat and Luke Clancy go to see this year's blockbuster once-in-a-lifetime gathering of the painter's work at the Barberini - as well as the many Caravaggios that are permanent Roman residents - and then gathered to imagine what the painter might mean (not to mention, smell like) to the 21st century.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Culture File Likes: Raina Lampkins-Fielder
Raina Lampkins-Fielder, the Paris-based curator behind IMMA's current Kith & Kin: The Quilts of Gee's Bend, on a few of her favourite thingsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On The Boreen: Teaċ Daṁsa; Tour de Force; Hedgerow & Wayside
This time on Culture File, A visit to Daingean Uí Chúis, where Michael Keegan-Dolan is creating a dance work around The Bothy Band's 1975 debut album; and to Kilkenny for a collaborative exhibition in Rothe House that brings together a botanical artist, a paper maker, a composer, and much local weedlife. Plus, our debut Twitch livestream with Renault4-based art project, Tour De Force.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Burn a million quid: Kerry Guinan
Culture File Presents: The Comfort Zone XXXL Edition. This time, artist and curator, Kerry Guinan join Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy to rake over the embers of art-provocateurs K-Foundation's 1994 performance of burning £1 million on a Scottish island.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Culture File | Schaymon Draymon's House of Hibernia, Cecilia Danell's sylvan scifi, The Natural History of Selborne
The spiritual calling that is running a rave; the sylvan sci fi of Cecilia Danell; unfinished art; and Paddy Woodworth's The Naturalist's Bookshelf.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Culture File Presents: The Comfort Zone XXXL version
Twelve Microtonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media: musician-academic-composer Richard Duckworth joins Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy for an extended encounter with US composer, Easley Blackwood's electro masterpiece.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.