Introducing: BUZZWORDS: Care with Jasmina Cibic
BUZZWORDS is a new pilot podcast from Open City, produced in collaboration with the arts and culture podcast EMPIRE LINES. The podcast unpacks words and phrases often overused in the fields of art and...
4 Sep 202529min
It Should Not Be Forgotten, Elsa James (2025) (EMPIRE LINES Live at Firstsite Colchester)
In this special episode, contemporary artist Elsa James joins EMPIRE LINES live, navigating how the slave ship marks and haunts Black lives in Britain today, in their interdisciplinary exhibition, It ...
21 Aug 20251h 2min
Love (Warbler Remix), Hanna Tuulikki (2025) (EMPIRE LINES x Folkestone Triennial 2025)
Artist Hanna Tuulikki traces the migration route of the Marsh Warbler, a bird that mimics and remixes the songs of European and Afrotropical species it meets, across the English Channel to Kent.Throug...
7 Aug 202516min
The Dhaba, Alia Syed (2025) (EMPIRE LINES Live at CCA Glasgow)
In this special episode, filmmaker and contemporary artist Alia Syed joins EMPIRE LINES live, to weave together their works in moving image, photography, and oral history, and reflect on personal expe...
24 Jul 202558min
A Cutting: Stone Portals, Leo Robinson (Ongoing) (EMPIRE LINES Live at SEEDLINGS, The Hunterian)
Find out more about Leo Robinson’s relations to African and Caribbean cosmologies, and worldbuilding through play, with Stone Portals (Ongoing), now part of SEEDLINGS: Diasporic Imaginaries, curat...
17 Jul 20254min
A Cutting: Kinnomic Botany: Freeing the Potato from its Scientific and Colonial Ties, Iman Datoo (2022) (EMPIRE LINES Live at SEEDLINGS, Invasion Ecology)
Find out more about Iman Datoo’s installation, Kinnomic Botany (2022), now part of SEEDLINGS: Diasporic Imaginaries, curated by Jelena Sofronijevic with Travelling Gallery in Scotland.The group exhi...
10 Jul 20254min
Kern, Amba Sayal-Bennett (2024) (EMPIRE LINES Live at SEEDLINGS, Somerset House Studios)
In this special episode, contemporary artist Amba Sayal-Bennett joins EMPIRE LINES live, to trace the migrations of rubber seeds between South America, London, and British colonies in South Asia in th...
26 Jun 202538min
Sweet & Sour, Hrair Sarkissian (2021-2022) (EMPIRE LINES x Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Lisson Gallery)
Conceptual photographer Hrair Sarkissian moves between Syria, Armenia, and Turkey, capturing present absences in personal and political histories in the 20th and 21st centuries.Hrair Sarkissian uses p...
12 Jun 202515min
