Art Cast

Art Cast

Series 2 Episode 3: Mira Calix

Student Guest: Ethan Hamilton

This episode was recorded in October 2021 before the untimely passing of Morley Radio’s close friend and highly respected artist Mira Calix.

Welcome to Art Cast, a podcast presented by Matt Gee, artist… and Subject Leader for Fine Art at Morley College London. The decision to do this podcast was inspired by photographs taken from the Polio outbreak in the 1940s where students were being remotely taught by radio. This podcast will be a series of informal discussions with artists about their work, lifestyle and how they have adapted during the current crisis we live in. The aim is to disseminate mate rial for students by limiting screen time and providing a feed of information for when they are taking a break from the screen.

Mira Calix was a multi award winning artist and composer signed to Warp Records, where she released her latest LP (absent origin) on November 5th, 2021.

Mira was known for producing predominantly electronic music, but over the past two decades incorporated classical music, recently doing a remix of John Cage. Recently incorporated performance and multidisciplinary art, Mira considered sound a sculptural material.

In 2003 she collaborated with the London Sinfonietta, and Nunu premiered at the Royal Festival Hall and has gone on to create music for film, theatre and other performances for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Manchester International Festival, Sydney Festival, The Royal Northern Sinfonia and more.

The albums she created are all titled in lower case as a rejection of Capitalism, and in this interview Matt also discussed her work as an activist and protester, which again like with Russell in the previous episode is a topic for Morley’s  Foundation students who study art as protest.

You can listen to previous episodes on the Morley Radio website, which includes artist support pledge founder Matthew Burrows, Goldie, and Morley Chelsea alumni Susan Collis.