Chantal Hassard
Chantal Hassard is an artist and filmmaker interrogating the relationship between an artwork, the artist and its viewer which she views in parallel with law, policy and the body politic and often makes participatory paintings that embody this relationship.
She graduated from the University of Toronto in Political Science and Visual Studies and is currently wrapping up a MA degree in Artistic Research at the University of Amsterdam with a thesis on the cultural production of autonomous space in Amsterdam.
Her current body of work 'A(d)Just (the) City' performs the experimental role of artistic research by delivering a translation and analysis of the collective cultural production carried out by a decentralised assemblage of individual artists and activists working within the squatting scene and other autonomous spaces around Amsterdam. The ongoing self-documentation through visual, musical, poetic and other forms of cultural production emerging from autonomous cultural space is interpreted as part of a collaborative activistic and artistic urban process which has struggled to produce alternative/autonomous/free spaces as a force of resistance against capitalist logic and gentrification of Amsterdam as a hyper touristic city.
This episode was recorded Summer 2020 as one of my first interviews so all mentions of COVID are super out of date and the sound quality is a bit off.
Our conversation was recorded in Tkaranto, on the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, Anishinaabe, and Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nations.
Show Notes
Audio clips are used from Chantal’s documentary Tear Down Your House, Man! 2020
Definition of Exquisite Corpse Game
Exquisite Corpse - Nieuw en Meer Festival
Exquisite Corpse - Vondelbunker
Shared History with Laundry Soap Bottles
A(d)just (the) City - to be released
Constant Nieuwenhuys and New Babylon
Situationists International and Cobra
Squatting and Criminalization in the Netherlands
Episode 1 Rachel Rozanski - is the episode that mentions the Portlands
Timothy Morton - HyperObjects
France - May 68
Henri Lefebvre’s Spatial Triad
The article I mentioned to Chantal pre-interview about archives
Judith Butler Plenary Lecture
JL Austen performative utterances
The standing man protest in Gezi Square 2013
Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet (Black Pete) - Code Switch
Justin Trudeau in Blackface 2001
Podcast Recommendation
Sandy and Nora “Episode 110 Painted statues and union apologies”
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Original artwork for Hopping the Fence by Alex Gregory and original music by Jessica Price-Eisner.