Radio Web MACBA

Amsterdam-based Korean artist Aram Lee works across moving image, installation, performance and research, tracing how histories of occupation, colonial violence and militarisation remain embedded in objects, bodies, landscapes and ecological matter. Her practice is particularly interested in the material afterlives of these histories: externalised memories of occupied land, the persistence of toxic substances, and the ways in which institutions attempt to preserve, classify and control the remains of the past. Ethnographical museums become a particularly charged site for this inquiry, revealing paradoxes in which practices presented as preservation can also perpetuate violence. In this podcast, we talk to Aram Lee about poisoned lands, toxic materials, restitution, and the use of artistic mediation as a way of making otherwise hidden continuities of violence, toxicity and memory perceptible.

Anthropologist and researcher Alana Osbourne works at the crossroads of anthropology, critical geography, postcolonial thought, and Black studies, tracing how histories of empire continue to shape contemporary ways of seeing, knowing, and organizing the world. Her work is attuned to the subtle but persistent afterlives of colonialism, that extend beyond obvious political or economic structures into cultural institutions, scientific practices, and even imaginaries of the future. In this podcast, Osbourne reflects on how these layered histories demand new critical tools and interdisciplinary approaches capable of holding together questions of race, space, materiality, and power.

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme work together across sound, image, text, installation and performance, unfolding a practice that moves between documentation and performativity, between political reality and speculative imagination. Focusing on their works in the MACBA Collection, FONS AUDIO #65 turns to their reflection on Prisoners of Love (Until the Sun of Freedom) (2024–2025). Developed as a site-specific multimedia installation, the work emerges from their ongoing research into the resilience of former Palestinian political prisoners, where song and poetry persist as forms of transmission under conditions of confinement.

Ren Loren Britton is an artist, researcher, activist, and practitioner whose work focuses on reimagining access, and anti-ableist cultural practices exploring non-normative time, linguistic nonlinear structures, at the intersections of arts, technology and pedagogy holding spaces for diverse temporalities. In this podcast, we delve into Radical access, Access riders, Access servers and the edges of access. We also think of access as feelings, access as a mood and a-temporal desire. We also talk about stretching time, the slipperiness of the lived experience, trans*disabled lineages, histories of other past(s), the burden of remembering, the weight of datasets and unforgetting as an act of caring.

Artist and filmmaker, Shezad Dawood speaks with social and geopolitical anthropologist Mark Nuttall, whose work is embedded in circumpolar rural communities, tracing the entanglements between climate change, extractive industries and identity of place. They discuss the accumulated residues, ecological cosmologies and shifting futures that have emerged from the deepest corners of the oceans, the icy subsurface and geological entanglements of Greenland’s complex landscapes and the lives they hold. Creation myths, told by Greenlandic storyteller Maria Kreutzmann, bubble up from the dark depths of the ocean and rub up against dramatic changes in the landscape throughout the past century.

In this instalment, we capture some of the infinite instances of voice and repetition in Eduard Escoffet’s sound poetry collection.

We dig up some unreleased fragments of our conversation with artist, researcher and essayist Cornelia Sollfrank. Here she reflects on the social experiment of cyberfeminism and the early days of net art, as well as on aesthetics of the commons and the copyright system, probing how notions of originality, intellectual property, and collective practice shape contemporary art. By revisiting feminist performance histories and examining the affective infrastructures of digital culture, her work articulates a techno-feminist perspective that unsettles conventional discourses on art, law, and power.

We dig up some unreleased fragments of our conversation with filmmaker and urbanist Tareq Khalaf. He reflects on life between Palestine, the US, Uganda, and South Africa, and what these journeys reveal about colonial legacies and liberation. Tareq speaks about South Africa as a mirror for Palestine, the wisdom of rooted figures like his great-aunt Azziza, and how land, memory, and struggle connect across contexts, raising vital questions of exile, belonging, and the shared pursuit of justice and freedom.