Son[i]a #358
Grant Watson
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Grant Watson is a London-based curator and researcher. His practice includes exhibitions, publications, and long-term interview projects that revolve around notions such as collective politics, queer and feminist perspectives, and the politics of textiles, with a strong emphasis on narratives that break away from the hegemonic gaze.
Notable projects include bauhaus imaginista, a major international project exploring the transnational character of the Bauhaus and its reception; Folded Life: Talking Textile Politics (2021–), which looks at the links between textiles and subjectivity and personal lives; and How We Behave, commissioned by Amsterdam-based performance platform If I Can’t Dance, which explores questions of contemporary subjectivity through an archive of interviews conducted around the world, from India to Brazil: “Thinking through questions”, as he puts it.
We sat down with Grant Watson to talk about textiles and their material and social ramifications. Instead, we ended up talking about his interview-based practice, essentially producing an extremely meta interview on interviews and interviewing. In this podcast, Grant Watson talks about enacting, editing, demographics, transference, capturing the atmosphere of an interview, and other issues that he explores in one of his main ongoing projects, How We Behave.
Cabello/Carceller
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El Palomar
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Marysia Lewandowska
Marysia Lewandowska talks about the Women’s Audio Archive, about the crucial need to generate counter-narratives in totalitarian regimes, about networking before networks, about the boundaries between the private and the public, the negotiations generated by the shift from one sphere to another, the responsibilities of the archive, and the potential to generate conversation through art.
Teresa Lanceta
Teresa Lanceta is an artist, art historian, researcher, and teacher. In this conversation, the sense of touch reclaims space from the gaze. At the same time, we recover the wisdom of weaving in terms of community, as an open source code for those who know and perform it. And through this repetitive, necessary gesture, technique becomes form, and form becomes language. Thus the margins disappear and give way to rhombuses, torn bits, darning, mending... depending on what’s going on at that moment in time.