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28.11.2025
119 MIN
Spanish
Son[i]a #442
Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil
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In this podcast, Mixe linguist, writer and activist Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil unpacks the complexities of being Mixe in Mexico and talks about the cracks that appear in an imposed identity. She dismantles the category of “indigenous” as an external, political label, claiming the right to specificity in naming herself: the right to be Mixe. She also objects to the essentialism and folklorism that seek to reduce being and speech. She turns her attention to the power of small structures, to multilingualism, to a defense of the territory, and to maize as a social ecosystem.

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Son[i]a Creative Commons indigenous movements land struggles mixe people Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil
13.11.2025
109 MIN
English
Son[i]a #441 
Adam Broomberg
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Born in apartheid-era Johannesburg to a Jewish family, descended from Holocaust survivors, Adam Broomberg's trajectory spans teenage anti-apartheid activism, years embedded in global conflict zones, and commercial collaborations that later became subjects of critique. Across this arc, his work has evolved into a sustained inquiry into power: his own positionality, the complicities of photography, and its potential to be repurposed as a tool for change. In this conversation, the artist and educator traces his own path through images, complicities, and refusals. He reflects on the toxicity of photography, how he engaged with its reproduction and refusal – through projects with large-format cameras, archival excavations, and counter-surveillance.

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07.11.2025
63 MIN
Spanish
Son[i]a #440
Marilyn Boror Bor
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In this conversation, we talk with Maya-Kaqchikel artist and activist Marilyn Boror Bor about languages, textiles, relationality, extractivism, and cement. She tells us about the slow violence of processes of assimilation, about the importance of the Mayan language and culture, and of how colonisation has demonised ancestral knowledge. She recounts what it means to live in a land perforated by a cement factory, where water scarcity becomes the norm and mountains are drilled until they lose their spirit. Hence the urgency of the connection to the land and indigenous struggles, which are not new, but have always existed: a millennial memory that still breathes.

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Son[i]a activism anti-racism colonialism coloniality Creative Commons extractivism indigenous movements Marilyn Boror Bor
31.10.2025
25 MIN
Spanish
Son[i]a #422. Tania Safura Adam
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We dig up some unreleased fragments from our conversation with researcher, writer, and curator Tania Safura Adam. Here, she reflects on the inner drive in the face of injustice, writing as a form of healing, and the need to protect one’s own time. We also talk about the personal and collective implications of assimilation, denial, and trauma within the context of the African diaspora and migrant life, sharing family experiences that connect Mozambique, Lisbon, and Madrid. Kizombando the past, she also shares how music, literature, and art help to recognize what one tries to forget: to understand and share experiences.

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24.10.2025
81 MIN
Spanish
Son[i]a #439
Mikaelah Drullard
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In this podcast, Mikaelah Drullard dismantles the clichés of Western progressivism and reminds us that the plantation has not gone away. With words that cut like machetes, she shows how human rights are still the key to a house that only white bodies can enter. Against the impunity of a livestreamed genocide, Mikaelah takes up a radical gesture of decolonisation: the rejection of humanity itself. She also criticises white feminism, whose promise of equality breaks down when skin is in the game, and she draws on insurgent genealogies that invent other ways of living.

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Son[i]a anti-racism black feminism blackness Creative Commons orality sexual dissidence writing
17.10.2025
91 MIN
English
Son[i]a #438
Mobile Radio
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Agitators by nature, Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann's radio practice involves the activation of ephemeral radio stations that emerge from a mix of technical skills and knowledge, their desire to keep trying new things and testing the medium, and their capacity to bring out the best in the local communities that host them. In this podcast, they talk about their approach to radio through the various spaces they have activated over the years: from workshops to major projects such as the studio at the São Paolo Biennial, Radio Revolten: 30 Days of Radio Art in Halle, and the 100-day Radio Art Zone. They also talk about smaller projects, such as their improvisation duo, Tonic Train, which encapsulates their idea of artistic practice –and life– as something dirty and leaky, in the best sense of the words.

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Son[i]a Knut Aufermann performance radio radio art Sarah Washington transmission art
10.10.2025
23 MIN
Spanish
FONS ÀUDIO #63
Coco Fusco
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Cuban-American artist and writer Coco Fusco explores issues such as cultural, racial, and gender identity; the construction of alterity; the colonial legacy; and the mechanisms of control, censorship and repression that systems of power impose on people’s bodies and lives. In FONS ÀUDIO #63, Fusco discusses two of her works in the MACBA Collection: Els segadors (2001) and Your Eyes Will Be an Empty Word (2021), where she reflects respectively on Catalan identity and mourning rituals in times of crisis, connecting the local with the universal.

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Specials FONS ÀUDIO Coco Fusco covid-19 Creative Commons MACBA Collection mourning performance video art
03.10.2025
73 MIN
Spanish
Son[i]a #437
Purita Pelayo
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Purita Pelayo is a writer, photographer and human rights activist, and a key voice in the fight for LGBITQ+ rights in the Republic of Ecuador. Her unusual sensitivity from a very young age soon blossomed into a pressing need to improve living conditions for the trans community in her country. In this podcast, we join Purita in exploring her vitality and life force, and the life that she has lived unapologetically. A sensitive woman for whom activism became one of many ways of inhabiting the world, Purita is now mainly working from the trenches of culture to preserve Ecuador’s trans memory and make it sustainable, based on a huge archive of photographs that she has taken and kept for decades.

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Son[i]a activism Creative Commons Purita Pelayo queer trans trans*feminism
26.09.2025
26 MIN
English
Son[i]a #433. Tareq Khalaf
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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.

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Extra agriculture Climate change climate justice Creative Commons Deleted Scenes Palestine red TEJA Tareq Khalaf West bank
17.09.2025
59 MIN
English
Son[i]a #436
Kate Rich
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In this podcast, we talk to artist and feral economist Kate Rich about administration, entrepreneurship and feral vocabularies. We consider the cycles of learning and unlearning required to open up the imaginary of cooperation and business, and access their enduring emotional content. We recap experiences of shared bank accounts, economic abstractions as temporary hiding places, greyness as camouflage or cover, and acknowledge administrative practice as the inevitable soundtrack of our lives that is waiting to be reimagined. 

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