Radio Web MACBA

Son[i]a #421

Memorial to Enslaved Laborers who built and worked at the University of Virginia.

18.02.2025 93 MIN English
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In this podcast, we start by asking architect, curator and researcher Mabel O. Wilson to talk about her personal, educational, and professional development, in response to a lack or silencing of critical thought. We then discuss ideas of land, property, and possession, and also—based on the context of her recent trip to the West Bank—colonial encounters, spatial aspects of enclosures, and degrees of containment. Mabel reminds younger generations of the importance of using architecture not just as a means to build and design, but also to gather, observe, and build relations, to understand history from a different perspective, and to survive within the current socio-political climate, without giving in to despair.

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In this podcast, we start by asking architect, curator and researcher Mabel O. Wilson to talk about her personal, educational, and professional development, in response to a lack or silencing of critical thought. We then discuss ideas of land, property, and possession, and also—based on the context of her recent trip to the West Bank—colonial encounters, spatial aspects of enclosures, and degrees of containment. Mabel reminds younger generations of the importance of using architecture not just as a means to build and design, but also to gather, observe, and build relations, to understand history from a different perspective, and to survive within the current socio-political climate, without giving in to despair.

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Son[i]a

2 highlights
03.01.2025
78 MIN
English
Son[i]a #418
Samia Henni
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In this podcast, writer, historian, educator, and curator Samia Henni offers insights into her wide-ranging curatorial and research projects, which delve into key topics such as the role of archives in reconstructing histories, the desert as a colonial construct, and the ongoing impact of colonial toxicity on landscapes and communities. We talk about nuclear tests in Algeria, about contradictions, war propaganda and traumatic exhibitions, and about the absences in colonial archives. 

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18.12.2024
96 MIN
English
Son[i]a #416
Maya Al Khaldi and Sarouna
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In this podcast, singer and composer Maya Al-Khaldi and Qanun player, DJ and producer Sarouna talk about the Palestinian music scenes and about their own musical approaches and artistic practices. They question the electronic music genre from a decolonial point of view and talk about the issues around fusion and the exoticization of cultural expression. Folklore emerges as a complex and often disputed concept. The conversation touches on the tensions between the archive and lived experience, the challenges of non-existent or inaccessible archives, and the importance of preserving cultural heritage. They also reflect on the crucial need for collective mourning as Palestinians and talk about the weight of imposed guilt, and about resilience. Sarouna’s thoughtfully captured field recordings of everyday moments in Palestine are woven through the podcast.

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Opening BJ Nilsen’s field recording archive
BJ Nilsen in Lanzarote
Opening BJ Nilsen’s field recording archive
As part of the European project Re-Imagine Europe: New Perspectives for Action, we have begun a collaboration with Swedish sound artist BJ Nilsen to incorporate selections from his field recordings archive into the RWM sound libraries.

Nilsen’s work, which explores how sound influences human perception, will provide a rich sonic backdrop for our podcast series. By incorporating his archival recordings—capturing both natural and urban soundscapes, from remote wilderness to Arctic industrial landscapes—we are able to subtly weave his unique audio explorations into our interviews and conversations. Rather than serving as mere ornaments, these recordings create a deeper sonic context, adding texture and presence to the discussions. So far, we’ve used Benny’s soundscapes in our podcasts with Sarah Nuttall and Seba Calfuqueo – the first of many more to come!

Specials

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31.01.2025
98 MIN
English
High latencies #3
Ren Loren Britton
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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.

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22.11.2022
39 MIN
English
Undead Matter #6
Nurturing the Ancient Undead
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Undead Matter is an unfolding conversation about where life lies in the ever-turning matter of our universe, as it rhythmically resurfaces over millennia. In this new episode, artist, Oreet Ashery speaks with paleontologist Tori Herridge about discoveries in the permafrost, genetic legacies, cloning from the deep past, fertility and the unborn.

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Processes

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Discplacement architectures, military archives and drones
Notes from the editing process of Mahmouf Alhaj’s podcast.
Photo: Albert Tarrats
In conversation with Teresa Solar Abboud
Chromatisms, textures, underground ecosystems, and logistic operations.
Photo: Gemma Planell.
Notes from the Conversation with Vaida Stepanovaitė
We talk about unionism, rights, and solidarities in the visual arts sector in Lithuania.
Photo: André Chêdas.
Turning language upside down
Attentive listening to activist Maya Aura Cumes.
Photo:Loli Acebal
Party as curatorial practice
Notes from the Conversation with Andrea Francke.
Photo: André Chêdas.
The Times of Weaving and Editing
Violeta Ospina Listening to Teresa Lanceta
Coiling copper four hands
Pineapple-shaped sniffer made in BEK’s workshop
Podcast with Mireia Sallarès in progress.
Notes by Albert Tarrats from more than three hours of conversation with the artist. Photo by Gemma Planell.
Moment of the conversation with Núria Güell
“I work with reality,” shares Núria Güell at the very beginning of the interview. Photo: Ricardo Cárdenas.
Notes from our conversation with Imani Mason Jordan
Emotional truths, listening, and collective work for a possible repair. Notes by André Chêdas.
Screenshot of the project with Ren Loren Britton
A podcast from the inside: script, markers, and multiple audio tracks.
Mediation: a space of possibility in-between…
The mediator, educator, and curator Teresa Rubio arrived at our conversation well-prepared.
In conversation with Rember Yahuarcani
We talk about contemporary Indigenous art with the visual artist, curator, and activist from the Uitoto Indigenous nation.
Re-Imagine Europe meeting at Rupert (Vilnius)
A fruitful exchange of projects, experiences, and vulnerabilities in October 2024.
Electromagnetic brunch at BEK (Bergen)
WORKSHOP ON ANTENNAS AND SNIFFERS LED BY PANTEA, ALBERT TARRATS, AND ANNA RAMOS, WITH BEAUTIFUL VIEWS.
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.
Workshop and collective listening for audio cleaning tecniques
Knowledge transfer dynamics of the RWM Working Group
The materiality and immateriality of radio
Exploring the Electromagnetic Spectrum with Mobile Radio (Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann)
Artist Helena Vinent through the lens of Violeta Ospina
Anti-ablism and other experiences from the perspective of orality with Helena Vinent
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
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
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
RWM Working Group workshop with Open-Weather workshop
Just before the sighting of satellite NOAA-19 over Barcelona
Ona Bros, listening and self-publishing live
Visual artist and researcher Ona Bros during our conversation
David Yubraham Sánchez rendered by Violeta Ospina
Notes from our conversation with mediator and cultural worker David Yubraham Sánchez
Drawing: Violeta Ospina
Pantea’s recipe for the RWM Working Group
Shirini Nokhodchi, Iranian chickpea flour and cardamon biscuits
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
Antenna-cutting diagram for the TEA workshop, Tenerife
RWM Working Group collective experiments in listening and learning about electromagnetic space
Thinking with spiders
Collective listening with Suely Rolnik
Photo: Teresa Tejada
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.
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.
Building possible future worlds with Françoise Vergès
From the economy of exhaustion and racial capitalism to the museum without objects.
"Process is necessary for transformation"
Verónica Lahitte’s notes from our conversation with philosopher and writer Andrea Soto Calderón
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
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
Last recording session for 2023
Unpacking the Khamoosh community´s collective practices with Pantea Arman

Research

2 highlights
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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Extra

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Edwin van der Heide’s Spiral of Time offers a gentle, non-intrusive auditory portrait of Plaça dels Àngels in Barcelona’s Raval neighborhood, inviting us to observe changes in temporal and meteorological patterns, the varied uses of the space, and the subtle shifts that occur from day to day. By presenting soundscapes over different intervals—hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, and even yearly—it helps listeners perceive the scale of time differently and understand how the square evolves with each season and moment. In this podcast, we sit down with Edwin van der Heide exactly to discuss this work. We reflect on concepts of time travel and spirals, on creating staged memories and living archives, on the far-reaching sounds that traverse the square, and on the intriguing possibility of expanding Spiral of Time to encompass diverse, non-human landscapes.
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11.07.2024
27 MIN
English
SON[I]A #398
Yaiza Hernández. Deleted scenes
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We dig up some unreleased fragments of our conversation with researcher and transdisciplinary curator Yaiza Hernández. We unpack the relationship between militarism and tourism by looking at zonified border territories that also model touristification. Through this lens, we also see that the tourist resort replicates the architectural layout of the colony, offering safe spaces for privilege, wealth, and whiteness. Then, we take a look at the current form of the museum model, warning of certain symptoms suggesting it is reaching a terminal stage. We wrap up with a digression into Yaiza’s understanding of cultural appropriation.

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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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