[spectre] New podcast: Belgian artist and musician Céline Gillain talks about her recent incursion in the music industry

[Radio Web MACBA]

In this podcast, we talk with Céline Gillain
<https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-304-celine-gillain> at lenght about
her incursion into the music industry, stage fright, the power of fragility
and depression as a form of resistance today. Paradoxically, her current
media of choice are a mix of pop songs, motivational speeches, and updated
fictions from the entertainment world, which run through everyday life in a
darkly humorous, inimitable way.


Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-304-celine-gillain

Belgian artist and musician Céline Gillain (b. 1979)
<https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-304-celine-gillain> talks about the
power of fragility and about depression as a form of resistance today. She
describes her stage fright and fear of making a mistake under the
spotlights, in the face of the moral and political obligation to take
control of her life, as a woman. Imbued with a strong class consciousness
and an awareness of her inherited privileges, Céline speaks out against the
privatisation of the art world and notes the need for collective
discussion. Paradoxically, her current media of choice are a mix of pop
songs, motivational speeches, and updated fictions from the entertainment
world, which run through everyday life in a darkly humorous, inimitable way.

Céline Gillain split her time between working as a high school art teacher
and the solitary practice of painting in her Brussels studio, until one day
she had enough and organised a residency for six female artists at her
grandmother’s house. Five years of collective experimentation with other
women paved the way for the creation of hybrid, solo performances combining
artistic research, the staging of her speculative writing, and catchy pop
songs, carefully woven through complex and seemingly sooth and seamless
narratives.

And just before she turned forty –the cut-off age for having children
according to a social obligation that still persists– she decided to
radically change the course of her career and officially enter the world of
the music industry and festivals, with the launch of her debut LP Bad
Woman. She has since continued to follow the thread of her discoveries and
obsessions, while embracing the prerogative of making audiences dance.

In this podcast, Céline Gillain talks about the power of fragility and
about depression as a form of resistance today. She describes her stage
fright and fear of making a mistake under the spotlights, in the face of
the moral and political obligation to take control of her life, as a woman.
Imbued with a strong class consciousness and an awareness of her inherited
privileges, Céline speaks out against the privatisation of the art world
and notes the need for collective discussion.


Timeline

02:42 Becoming a bad woman
06:23 To speak up, even when you are terrorized
10:49 From painting to collective practice
19:19 Fear and white fragility
24:05 Art and precarity
26:57 Entering the music industry
30:05 Depression as a form of resistance
33:10 Taking responsibility
37:12 On performance
38:34 Dark humour
41:04 Working around discomfort
42:52 Psychoanalysis, feminist literature, sci-fi and pop stars

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