Son[i]a

417 podcasts

02.12.2024

52 MIN

English

Norwegian vocalist and interdisciplinary artist Stine Janvin works with the voice as a tool and as raw material. Janvin explores the potential of the voice, challenging conventions, traditions, and formats, in a sound universe that warps and bends musical genres from electronica to folk. In this podcast, we talk to Stine Janvin about needlework, about family memories and medieval stories, and about the pleasures of gossip, against the backdrop of Norway’s modern identity-building project. We also look at Janvin’s recent immersion in and updating of the liksong (sung funeral service, literally, “corpse song”) tradition from south-western Norway. In her practice, tradition, popular culture, and identity are reinterpreted, updated and stretched through multiple strategies.

22.11.2024

84 MIN

Spanish

Son[i]a #414
Teresa Rubio

In this podcast, cultural mediator, educator, and collage artist Teresa Rubio fills us in on her way of understanding (and putting into practice) the third space that emerges in mediation. Much more than simply providing a few sofas, mediation entails being among and with others, which also opens up “other ways” of occupying and inhabiting the museum. For Teresa, mediation inherently contains performance, listening, and reproductive care work. Moreover, it is as much about individual authorship as it is about collective writing. And in order to realise its full potential, it often needs to be an internal process too.

09.11.2024

56 MIN

Catalan

Son[i]a #413
Mari Chordà

Mari Chordà was born on 14 May 1942 in Amposta, Tarragona, a land to which she is deeply attached. She is a painter, sculptor, writer, poet, and activist, whose painting and poetry speak of pleasure, motherhood, and the female body. She was also among the first of her generation to propose the idea of free sexuality. Mari Chordà developed her own pictorial style in formal and colour terms, without following trends but focusing on the direct depiction of her own body—the female body—and its cavities, sinuosity, fluids, and mutations.

31.10.2024

94 MIN

English

Son[i]a #412
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!

15.10.2024

91 MIN

English

Son[i]a #411
Philip Rizk

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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about Son[i]a

Son[i]a functions as a mirror and a sounding board for MACBA itself. Harnessing the synergies arising from the presence of the many voices, activities, and sounds that circulate in the museum, Son[i]a presents in-depth interviews with artists, curators, critics, activists, and thinkers, on a range of topics ranging from art to philosophy, by way of politics, activism, artistic research, music, and film, and everything in between. Son[i]a was the first RWM programme, launched on 2 May 2006.

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