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17.04.2026
86 MIN
English
Son[i]a #453
Cocky Eek
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In this podcast, artist and teacher Cocky Eek dives into the conception and development of her inflatables—a delicate balance of fabric, air, and anchoring—as well as the challenges of preserving such fleeting, fragile materials and moments. Moving through mud, wind, and sand, she reflects on the ambiguous place her work occupies within fine art discourse, and speculates on how altering our sensory perception might, in fact, renew it.

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Son[i]a air Cocky Eek Creative Commons DIWO inflatables Re-Imagine Europe Sonic Acts
08.04.2026
64 MIN
English
Son[i]a #452
Ameneh Solati
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In this podcast, artist and researcher Ameneh Solati reflects on the marshes as revolutionary landscapes in southern Iraq, the relationship between environment and resistance, and the challenges of researching a territory that remains partially inaccessible and historically underdocumented. The conversation also touches on collective spatial investigation, collaborations with activists and communities, and experimental forms of mapping that rethink the relationship between humans, water and land.

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01.04.2026
66 MIN
Spanish
Son[i]a #451
Rolando Vázquez Melken
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In this podcast, we go into listening mode with Rolando Vázquez Melken. He proposes countering the modern-colonial aesthetic—the one that organises representation and governs our bodies and our gazes—by liberating aesthesis, or reopening the field of the sensible. The idea is to make space for other ways of seeing, listening, feeling, and living. To make room for ancestral knowledge and forms that have been historically erased, subordinated, or appropriated by the modern regime. Here, decolonial thought operates as a practice, a battlefield, an approach that walks alongside other forms of struggle and rings out in many voices: both ancestral voices and the voices that are still forging a path in the present, such as those of Walter Mignolo, María Lugones, Enrique Dussel, Gloria Wekker, and Catherine Walsh, to name just a few.

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24.03.2026
31 MIN
Spanish
Notes on Pan-African Orogeny
Tania Safura Adam
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Pan-African Orogeny presents an iteration of Tania Safura Adam’s ongoing research and archival work as it unfolds at MACBA, within the framework of the exhibition Projecting a Black Planet. To navigate this constellation of documents, we compiled a series of audio segments—written and read by Tania Safura Adam herself, that allow a kind of situated listening. In note form, Tania traces a topography of ideas, struggles, and tensions that run like a thread through this “complex ideological polyphony”: from the Founding Fathers to the Civil War and Pan-Africanism, by way of Black workers, to the Tricontinental Conference (1966) and in the African diasporas in Spain.

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Extra African diaspora archive blackness Creative Commons Deleted Scenes L'internationale panafricanism Tania Safura Adam
19.03.2026
78 MIN
English
Son[i]a #450
Rehana Zaman
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In this podcast, we talk to the artist, filmmaker and educator Rehana Zaman about diaspora, collectivity, and infrastructures of care; about the studio as a social testing ground, and about film as both process and result. We reflect on alliances, representation, polyvocality, and authorship. We also discuss institutional agendas and the political urgency of coming together. We consider how to sustain the power of such encounters without slipping into empty gestures, and how to maintain artistic practices grounded in listening, humour, responsibility, and being together.

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05.03.2026
85 MIN
English
Son[i]a #449
Fadya Salfiti
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In this podcast, Palestinian cultural organiser and activist Fadya Salfiti unfolds the layers of her trajectory –from Kuwait to the United States and then to Jerusalem– to reflect on what it means to go back, to take root, and to struggle in an occupied land. From her situated experience, she dismantles the “humanitarian” and “developmentalist” façade of international aid: how colonial philanthropy depoliticises struggles, fragments the territory, gathers data, monitors, imposes external priorities, and generates dependency. Against this, she proposes other ways of sustaining life and collective projects: networking, self-organising, solidarity among organisations, and the creation of projects such as Owneh Initiative and Rawa, which seek to liberate resources, language, political discourse and  imagination. Here, memory acts as insubordination, return as a daily practice, and community organising as a radical wager on Palestine’s future.

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12.02.2026
131 MIN
Spanish
Son[i]a #448
Javier García Fernández
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In this podcast, Javier García Fernández uses the three dimensions of coloniality – the coloniality of knowledge, of power, and of being – to think about what it might mean to decolonise Spain and Europe from its margins. He has coined the concept of pensar jondo – a kind of thinking that draws on flamenco cante jondo or ‘deep song’, on the social struggles of rural Andalusia and the anarchism of day labourers, and on the diasporas to Catalonia and Europe – to interpret Andalusia as a laboratory of the internal coloniality of the Spanish state: a land marked by dispossession, forced migration and fascist violence, but also by radical forms of community, cooperation and resistance. From that point, he considers how to develop political alliances that can tackle the rise of fascism today.  

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Son[i]a Andalucia anti-racism colonialism coloniality Creative Commons decolonialism decoloniality Javier García Fernández L'internationale
04.02.2026
77 MIN
Catalan
Son[i]a #447
Carol Stampone
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In this podcast, Brazilian writer and organizer Carol Stampone speaks about writing as her first experience of belonging, motherhood as a deeply transformative and often traumatic process, and the politics of empathy and compassion. She reflects on the importance of asking better questions rather than seeking definitive answers, inviting us to stay with uncertainty, to think with others, and to imagine forms of living, caring, and creating that remain open, relational, and unfinished.

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30.01.2026
89 MIN
English
Son[i]a #446
Omar Jabary Salamanca
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Omar Jabary Salamanca is a writer, teacher, and organizer whose work explores how power operates through the ordinary systems that shape everyday life. Omar places infrastructure at the center of his analysis. In his work, he recounts the ways infrastructures are constitutive of the logics of settler colonialism and racial capitalism as well as a vital terrain for land-based practices of anti-colonial resistance. Roads, electricity, water systems, and railways become sites of struggle. 

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Son[i]a Creative Commons Gaza infrastructure L'internationale Omar Jabary Salamanca Palestine settler colonialism solidarity
16.01.2026
73 MIN
English
Son[i]a #445
Mirna Bamieh
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In this podcast, Palestinian artist Mirna Bamieh thinks aloud through disappearance: of dishes, of access to land and sea, of routes between Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza. She lingers on fermentation and preservation as slow, stubborn forms of survival in times of genocide and exile, on pantries that prepare for emergency, on doors and foodways as thresholds between worlds. She speaks of immigrants’ suitcases lined with Zaatar, olive oil, and citrus, of how cooking can make a scattered life legible, and of how stories travel through potatoes passed from hand to hand in the street. Here, recipes become maps and memories, jars become time capsules, and the everyday choreography of hands in the kitchen opens a space where grief, rage, and tenderness ferment together into something that insists on remaining alive, visible, and shared.

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Son[i]a cooking Creative Commons food food sovereignty Gaza Mirna Bamieh Palestine Re-Imagine Europe sculpture settler colonialism
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