Public Art & The Economics of Imagination: Michelle Williams Gamaker on Activism, Fiction, and Collaboration

What is the role of public art in shaping our collective imagination? How does economics influence what kind of art is allowed in our public spaces? Where are the opportunities for radical new types of creative activity that can shift what seems possible?

Join artist Toby Tobias Kidd as he explores all of these questions and more with guests including artists, curators, and philosophers in a new podcast series in collaboration with Kings College London, Future Narratives Lab, Art School Plus, and Professor Shanbaum of Coventry University.

On this second episode host Toby Tobias Kidd is joined by the artist Michelle Williams Gamaker, who makes films to confront the problematic history of cinema, in particular in relation to racial discrimination, in what she calls ‘fictional activism’.

She has recently installed a major solo exhibition at Dundee Contemporary Arts in Scotland and also works in a number of collaborative partnerships including the large project A Particular Reality.