Son[i]a #329
Violeta Ospina
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Violeta Ospina is an artist, an educator, and a facilitator of collaborative projects that pay special attention to sound and the body. Using typical expressions and imaginaries of popular celebrations as raw materials, her work unfolds through multiform devices that seek to intensify the present. Piñatas, scale models, processions, karaoke, carnival, and cabaret all make an appearance in her practice as catalysts for violence and tenderness, which can also awaken the parodic potential that is always latent in everyday situations. Violeta is co-founder of Radio Cava-ret, a project linked to listening and theatricality, which, taking up the baton from the Futurists, calls itself a “radia”: the experimental and erotic flip side of traditional radio.
In this podcast, Violeta Ospina explains how to dance an ambulance strobe light, takes us through the process of inserting subliminal messages in karaoke, and imagines John Cage’s coffees at El Molino as fragments of a minor history of sound art. The conversation includes the thoughts of fellow member of Radio Cava-ret Samuel Céspedes, aka Perry Medea, on the problem of speaking out on someone else’s behalf, the representation of others, the relationship between voice and democracy, and the need for a radical overhaul of the political practice of listening.
Conversation: Antonio Gagliano, Veronica Lahitte, Samuel Céspedes and Anna Ramos. Production: Antonio Gagliano. Sounds: Radio Cava-ret Orgasm Answering Machine.
Violeta Ospina
Violeta Ospina is an artist, an educator, and a facilitator of collaborative projects that pay special attention to sound and the body. Using typical expressions and imaginaries of popular celebrations as raw materials, her work unfolds through multiform devices that seek to intensify the present. Piñatas, scale models, processions, karaoke, carnival, and cabaret all make an appearance in her practice as catalysts for violence and tenderness, which can also awaken the parodic potential that is always latent in everyday situations. Violeta is co-founder of Radio Cava-ret, a project linked to listening and theatricality, which, taking up the baton from the Futurists, calls itself a “radia”: the experimental and erotic flip side of traditional radio.
El Palomar
In this podcast we talk to the queer collective El Palomar about art, dissidence, and pedagogy. We dive deep into their strategies for self-care and resilience. We talk about the importance of producing disobedient, abject, situated genealogies, despite the obstacles to remembering the past in Spain. We share the experience and trauma of embodied research, and reread the pandemic experience through the lens of the lessons of the silenced AIDS crisis. Touch and queer parties emerge as political possibility and bastions of resistance where drives are liberated, limits are transgressed, and the hostilities of a hetero-centric world disappear, albeit temporarily.
Antonio Gagliano