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Violeta Ospina
Violeta Ospina is an artist, an educator, and a facilitator of collaborative projects that pay special attention to sound and the body. Using typical expressions and imaginaries of popular celebrations as raw materials, her work unfolds through multiform devices that seek to intensify the present. Piñatas, scale models, processions, karaoke, carnival, and cabaret all make an appearance in her practice as catalysts for violence and tenderness, which can also awaken the parodic potential that is always latent in everyday situations. Violeta is co-founder of Radio Cava-ret, a project linked to listening and theatricality, which, taking up the baton from the Futurists, calls itself a “radia”: the experimental and erotic flip side of traditional radio.
Charles Bernstein
Charles Bernstein is a poet, essayist, editor, and professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. Together with Bruce Andrews, he edited the magazine L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, which gave its name to a movement of more than a hundred poets interested in the radical exploration of writing that flourished in the late 1970s and the 1980s on both the east and west coasts of the United States. In this podcast, we hear Charles Bernstein think aloud about the performativity of poetry and the multiplicity of voice, elaborating on questions such as the sound of writing, presence and absence, orality, aurality and a/orality. Along the way, Bernstein recounts his first textual experience and acknowledges the influence of Artaud, Bob Wilson and the Living Theatre in shaping him as a poet. We also revisit the early discussions of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E constellation, their policy of exchanging poems and essays by setting up horizontal cultural mechanisms, and a collaborative effort to reread poets from past decades in order to write an alternative, non-hegemonic history of American poetry.
La Ribot
We talk to dancer, choreographer, and visual artist La Ribot about key moments in her childhood, the collective creation and delirium of Bocanada Danza, Festival Desviaciones, the UVI group and the subsequent financial and emotional crisis that drove her from London in the nineties, and her encounter with the performing arts boom. She talks to us from the breathing room she has gained with her new centre for dance and teaching in Switzerland. In the midst of comings and goings, we discover moments that allow us to flesh out and strip back the diva, from her childhood wish to be a gypsy and the lasting impression of a little girl’s fascination on seeing a bullfight on TV, to her found object fetishes, the camera-operator, and a (perhaps dreamt) falling out with Joan Brossa.
Jaume Ferrete
Mediante la creación de textos, grabaciones, performances, conciertos, sitios web, sesiones de escucha, talleres educativos y archivos de conversaciones, la obra de Jaume Ferrete (Mollet del Vallès, 1980) explora todo aquello que atraviesa y configura las ideologías de la voz. Sus proyectos eluden abiertamente cualquier naturalización de la identidad y examinan la producción vocal como un fenómeno social complejo, modelado por los ecos y las reverberaciones circundantes.
Jaume Ferrete
Mediante la creación de textos, grabaciones, performances, conciertos, sitios web, sesiones de escucha, talleres educativos y archivos de conversaciones, la obra de Jaume Ferrete (Mollet del Vallès, 1980) explora todo aquello que atraviesa y configura las ideologías de la voz. Sus proyectos eluden abiertamente cualquier naturalización de la identidad y examinan la producción vocal como un fenómeno social complejo, modelado por los ecos y las reverberaciones circundantes.