Published May 15 2020

Broken Art - What Happens Next? podcast on the impact of art

Callum
Morton
Artist, Associate Dean, International and Engagement, Director, Monash Art Projects
Susan carland
Academic, author and social commentator
Ali alizadeh
Senior lecturer, Literary Studies, literary writer and theorist

In the next three podcast episodes we're looking at a new topic – the impact of art – and what could happen to our world if we no longer have an appreciation for art and culture? At times when our most basic needs are at threat, can we even afford to consider art, let alone lament its loss? How does the world look and feel without new art being created? Or do we simply need to start looking for and at art differently? In this episode we hear from Ali Alizadeh, a literary critic, poet and writer on the philosophy of art, who sees the biggest threat to art as the growing need for it to have function, serve a purpose or send a message, rather than simply existing for the sake of art.

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About the Authors

  • Callum morton

    Artist, Associate Dean, International and Engagement, Director, Monash Art Projects

    Callum is a Melbourne based artist with a significant international profile whose art explores the personal and social impact of architecture and our built environment. He has exhibited nationally and internationally since 1990. In 2007 Morton was one of three artists to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale. In 2008 he completed the work Hotel on the Eastlink Freeway in Melbourne.

  • Susan carland

    Director, Bachelor of Global Studies, and Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, Cultures and Linguistics

    Susan's research and teaching specialties focus on gender, sociology, contemporary Australia, terrorism, and Islam in the modern world. Susan hosted the “Assumptions” series on ABC’s Radio National, and was named one of the 20 Most Influential Australian Female Voices in 2012 by The Age.

  • Ali alizadeh

    Senior lecturer, Literary Studies, literary writer and theorist

    Ali Alizadeh is a literary critic, poet and writer on the philosophy of art. He is a Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies at Monash University. Both his creative writing and literary scholarship interrogate the collisions between the political and the personal. Radical subjectivity, philosophy of history and theories of art are of particular interest to Ali.

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