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Zoo Art Fair at the Royal Academy London 2007 as Broadcast from the Frieze.





A series of short interviews with gallerists from the summer 2007 Zoo Art Fair at the Royal Academy, London. The interviews were broadcast from art-music radio station Resonance 104.4FM's booth at the Frieze in the same week.

Fari talks to one of the managers Alec Steadman about Zoo's journey from its beginnings, Hannah Watson of Trolley Gallery about Robert Gordon McHarg's lifesize model of Charlies Saatchi , award winning gallery Cherry and Martin Gallery's co-owner, Mary Lee Cherry, about Elad Lassry and Nathan Maybry's work and the John Jones Prize, Romilly Eveleigh from Ibid Projects London about Vita Zaman's costumes for their staff, Meta Kenworthy Ball of the ausstellungsraum25 gallery, Laura Bartlett of the Laura Bartlett Gallery London and a representative of the Workplace Gallery.
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Frieze Art Fair - Lara Favoretto Interview

Commissioned artist, Frieze 2007: Lara Favoretto gave me an interview in the Resonancefm booth. We had been speaking in Italian all week, I think we just nabbed those girls by chance as they stood near Lara's gallery booth, because it was the only way to translate. It was an interesting experiment because both mine and Lara's bubbly personalities seemed stifled by this formal approach and the girls added their own presences to the conversation.

Lara has done some very noteworthy work, this chat illustrates some of it.


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We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us...

I'd forgotten this piece of experimental arts journalism from '04. Peter Lewis and Shezad Dawood curated "We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us" at the Redux Gallery, Spitalfields. Peter,  Shezad and Babak Ghazi speak of their pieces, of stereotypes and extremism as it was in 2004.

In retrospect this show was well positioned on the arts calender and the media one, as before 9/11 these shows had a different tilt both to us as the public and us as Middle Easterners. The exhibition also featured a live piece by Reza Aramesh a previous guest of my show 'Six Pillars to Persia' on Resonancefm and whose work we enjoy following, however I'd not met him then.

Originally this quote referred to the human decimation of nature through war, on a pogo poster in 1971, however there are parallels to be drawn between our treatment of nature and our treatment of each other. The general disregard and flippant commercialisation of both lead to an estrangement from life altogether. Peter Lewis explains the show while Adam Curtis gives context at the start. "People have lost faith in ideologies...."

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