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Episode 4: Institutions

Zakia Sewell explores the ideas of identity, aesthetics and social conditioning that lie within 'taste'.

Aesthetic preferences, for Zakia Sewell, have always been woven into her identity, informing the ways she’s engaged with the world, through like-minded music lovers and fashion tribes. But 'taste' is also enshrined in the institutions that dominate our cultural life.

Zakia considers the recent rehang at Tate Britain with author and cultural critic Nathalie Olah and she discusses with Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad of The White Pube and Professor Dave O'Brien, one of the authors of Panic! It's An Arts Emergency, how institutional taste reveals what we as a society feel it’s appropriate to value, protect and promote.

Presented by Zakia Sewell
Produced by Alan Hall
A Falling Tree production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
(Image credit: Buster Grey Jung)

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28 minutes

Last on

Thu 28 Sep 2023 16:00

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  • Tue 4 Jul 2023 11:30
  • Thu 28 Sep 2023 16:00