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Global North rings and Global Sount groopings graph, published at Tricontinental's
Source: “Hyper-Imperialism: A Dangerous Decadent New Stage” report, 2024.
31.10.2024 94 MIN English
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In this podcast, Marxist historian, editor, and journalist Vijay Prashad emphasises the power of storytelling, expressing emotion as he critiques imperialism and raises awareness about war. While disagreeing with hyper-imperialism, he recognises the uncertain material conditions that underpin conservative ideologies. Reflecting on Palestinian oppression, he thoughtfully revisits the intertwined histories of European colonialism and antisemitism, with a particular focus on the German context. Though fatigued by dishonest discourse, he finds hope in the dissent of younger generations and the socially constructed courage they embody. And despite attempts at silencing, he embraces the defiant spirit of protest, rallying behind the cry: ¡No pasarán!
Son[i]a colonialism Creative Commons global south hyperimperialism Palestine political imagination settler colonialism Vijay Prashad
In this podcast, Marxist historian, editor, and journalist Vijay Prashad emphasises the power of storytelling, expressing emotion as he critiques imperialism and raises awareness about war. While disagreeing with hyper-imperialism, he recognises the uncertain material conditions that underpin conservative ideologies. Reflecting on Palestinian oppression, he thoughtfully revisits the intertwined histories of European colonialism and antisemitism, with a particular focus on the German context. Though fatigued by dishonest discourse, he finds hope in the dissent of younger generations and the socially constructed courage they embody. And despite attempts at silencing, he embraces the defiant spirit of protest, rallying behind the cry: ¡No pasarán!
Son[i]a colonialism Creative Commons global south hyperimperialism Palestine political imagination settler colonialism Vijay Prashad
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15.10.2024
91 MIN
English
Son[i]a #411
Philip Rizk
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Philip Rizk is a filmmaker and writer whose work explores themes of power, resistance, and memory, particularly in the context of social and political movements in Egypt, Syria, Palestine and beyond, in a process he describes as “putting struggles into conversation with each other”. In this podcast, we speak with Rizk about the past and present of his practice, about imagined scenarios, and about the impossibility of working with images in today’s world. We discuss autonomy, musha’ or land commons, re-enactments, and improvisation as a form of response to imposed order.
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19.09.2024
105 MIN
English
SON[I]A #409
Imani Jacqueline Brown
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In this podcast, Imani Jacqueline Brown tells us about her formative experience as an activist in New Orleans and in the crucible of Zuccotti Park during the Occupy Wall Street movement. We also talk about eugenics and about how Carl Linnaeus’s philosophy during the Enlightement divided existence into parcels of private property, about oil infrastructure networks and environmental racism in Death Alley, and about apocalypse as repeated events. Along the way, Imani imagines paths to ecological reparation, ways to steward and attend to the world. She finds that it is precisely the uncultivated land at the back of the plantation that is rich with life and possibility: the seed banks of new growth.
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The family of sniffers and antennas of the RWM Working Group is growing!
The family of sniffers and antennas of the RWM Working Group is growing!
The family of sniffers and antennas of the RWM Working Group is growing!
Following the residency and workshop in collaboration with BEK this past September, the small collection of antennas and sniffers of the RWM Working Group has expanded. This time, in addition to new formats and sizes – including a copper tape antenna on a window– we were able to conduct collective outings, amplifying the electromagnetic signal with a portable device, much to the surprise of passersby. This opened up a community and playful learning space beyond the workshop attendees. This event is part of ‘New Perspectives for Action,’ a project of Re-Imagine Europe.
Specials
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12.06.2024
112 MIN
English
OBJECTHOOD #9
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OBJECTHOOD #9 keeps asking questions about the limits and borders of stuff all around us – from countries to nuclear sites. We talk to Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou about her work on exclusion zones and radioactive waste management, focusing on temporal and spatial thresholds. Our second guest, researcher and activist Nishat Awan, talks about unsettlement and geopolitical borders, especially in relation to Pakistan and her field work in Balochistan. Get ready for a deep dive into the oddness of boundaries, including political demarcations, the interplay between insects and radiation leaks, forced displacements, and gigantic triangles, to name but a few. Curated by Roc Jiménez de Cisneros

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10.09.2023
69 MIN
English
RADIOACTIVITY #7
Edwin van der Heide
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In this podcast, we talk with Edwin van der Heide about using radio as a way into the public, outside world, and about radio as a highly regulated space that sometimes resists experimentation. We discuss his early interest in short and medium wave radio and how it came to be expressed in these immersive, awe-inspiring installations, and we speculate about the production of meaning inherent in each of them.

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In conversation with Rember Yahuarcani
We talk about contemporary Indigenous art with the visual artist, curator, and activist from the Uitoto Indigenous nation.
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Re-Imagine Europe meeting at Rupert (Vilnius)
A fruitful exchange of projects, experiences, and vulnerabilities in October 2024.
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Electromagnetic brunch at BEK (Bergen)
WORKSHOP ON ANTENNAS AND SNIFFERS LED BY PANTEA, ALBERT TARRATS, AND ANNA RAMOS, WITH BEAUTIFUL VIEWS.
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Notes on the conversation with artist and activist Imani Jacqueline Brown
Imani maps the scope and ongoing violence of the capitalist and extractivist agents that led to slavery, colonial genocide and ecological saturation. Snapshot from André Chêdas’ notes.
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Workshop and collective listening for audio cleaning tecniques
Knowledge transfer dynamics of the RWM Working Group
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The materiality and immateriality of radio
Exploring the Electromagnetic Spectrum with Mobile Radio (Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann)
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Artist Helena Vinent through the lens of Violeta Ospina
Anti-ablism and other experiences from the perspective of orality with Helena Vinent
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34.5 cm long, 120º angle
Ivonne Villamil, Rafael Socra, Blanca Pujas and Ignacio de Antonio setting up their antennas at the RWM Working Group workshop with Open-Weather
Photo: Gemma Planell
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Sasha Engelmann and Sophie Dyer introduce us to the secrets of the electromagnetic spectrum
RWM Working Group workshop with Open-Weather
A collaboration between Ràdio Web MACBA and Sonic Acts as part of New Perspectives for Action. A project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union.
Photo: Gemma Planell
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Intensive week at Willem Twee Studios
Keyboards, open tapes and synths of all kinds as part of the RWM Working Group residency at Willem Twee Studios (Den Bosch, the Netherlands).
A collaboration between Ràdio Web MACBA, Sonic Acts and Paradiso as part of New Perspectives for Action. A project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union
Photo: Albert Tarrats
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RWM Working Group workshop with Open-Weather workshop
Just before the sighting of satellite NOAA-19 over Barcelona
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Ona Bros, listening and self-publishing live
Visual artist and researcher Ona Bros during our conversation
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David Yubraham Sánchez rendered by Violeta Ospina
Notes from our conversation with mediator and cultural worker David Yubraham Sánchez
Drawing: Violeta Ospina
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Pantea’s recipe for the RWM Working Group
Shirini Nokhodchi, Iranian chickpea flour and cardamon biscuits
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From listening to writing and publishing
First RWM Working Group session with Lumbung Press: both hoping to start a publication together
Photos: Ricardo Cárdenas and Violeta Ospina
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Antenna-cutting diagram for the TEA workshop, Tenerife
RWM Working Group collective experiments in listening and learning about electromagnetic space
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Thinking with spiders
Collective listening with Suely Rolnik
Photo: Teresa Tejada
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Life lessons with activist Yaneth Valencia
Cooking up oralities, we share some Pandebonos and Yaneth Valencia’s recipe for 20 years as activist and founder of Lila Mujer, a healing and mutual support space for Afro-descendant women living with HIV in Cali, Colombia.
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The "mutual nurturing of the arts", in conversation with Elvira Espejo Ayca
The Bolivian artist, documentary maker, poet, weaver and traditional storyteller in Aymara and Quechua, during our conversation.
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Building possible future worlds with Françoise Vergès
From the economy of exhaustion and racial capitalism to the museum without objects.
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"Process is necessary for transformation"
Verónica Lahitte’s notes from our conversation with philosopher and writer Andrea Soto Calderón
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RWM Working Group meeting with José Luis Espejo
We explore curator and radio-buddy José Luis Espejo’s theory on the crucial role of whaling in increasing daylight hours and productivity. We’re wowed by our chat
Photos: Tiago Pina
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Albert Tarrats in residence at Ina Grm (Paris)
Our sound library gets a boost from RWM Working Group member Albert Tarrats’s residency at Ina Grm (Paris).
Part of Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
Photo: Jean-Baptiste Garcia
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Last recording session for 2023
Unpacking the Khamoosh community´s collective practices with Pantea Arman
Research
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25.10.2016
86 MIN
English
ON LISTENING #1
Thinking (through) the ear
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Can we think through listening? Seth-Kim Cohen, Christoph Cox, Julian Henriques, Casey O’Callaghan, Peter Szendy and Salomé Voegelin discuss why thinking should not be at odds with resonating…

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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.

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Research Undead Matter Climate change Creative Commons ecology extractivism Greenland ice Re-Imagine Europe Sophie J Williamson
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12.08.2024
13 MIN
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SON[I]A #395. Imani Mason Jordan. Deleted scenes
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We dig up some unreleased fragments of our conversation with interdisciplinary writer, artist, editor, curator, and plant lover Imani Mason Jordan. We discuss Audre Lorde’s call to action in “Your Silence Will Not Protect You,” exploring Imani’s interpretation of it. Additionally, we talk about tuning in—rather than out—as a strategy to find rest and respite, to nourish ourselves and recharge through simple things. Finally, we delve into Imani’s collaborative practices.
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31.07.2024
37 MIN
English
Son[i]a #397. Open-weather
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We dig up some unreleased fragments of our conversation with Open-weather’s researcher-designer Sophie Dyer and creative geographer Sasha Engelmann, which we couldn’t include the first time around. They share their “origin story” while demonstrating “live” their collaborative dynamic. The poetics and materiality of radio, in its capacity to sense and to resonate at a distance, emerge as a tool for insightful alliances, as well as speculative and radical experiments, from the Feminist Antifascist Weather Front to radio mirrors.
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Extra collective creation Creative Commons Deleted Scenes Open-weather radio Re-Imagine Europe Sasha Engelmann satellite Sonic Acts Sophie Dyer
We are orality,
we are text,
we are sound.
Radio Web MACBA (RWM) is an online radio project based at MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona. A radio-beyond-radio that dwells in the folds and intersections of critical thinking, contemporary art, artistic research, activism, knowledge transfer, sound… and everything in between. We produce podcasts which can be listened to on demand, downloaded, and/or subscribed to. And we also publish essays, texts, and related documentation, on the verge of filecasting.
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