Specials

119 podcasts
26.02.2025
79 MIN
Spanish
High latencies #4
Nerea Calvillo
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In this podcast we talk to Nerea Calvillo about data, translations, and citizen science and about pollution, gases, and particles. We spend some time on sensors and infrastructures designed to be invisible, exploring what their data show, and also what they hide. And we think about air and its composition. Nerea also suggests a reading of pollen from a queer theory perspective, challenging its binary classification as either good for the environment or a health threat, and revealing its nature as a material agent that reconfigures the relationships between bodies, cities, and ecologies.
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Specials High latencies [contra]panorama air citizen science Creative Commons pollen pollution social justice toxicity
11.02.2025
94 MIN
Catalan
FONS ÀUDIO #61
Mireia Sallarès
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In FONS ÀUDIO #61, Mireia Sallarès talks to us about her works in the MACBA collection. We plunge right in with Literatura de Replà, una relectura [Literature on the landing, A Rereading] (2014), Mireia’s first work to enter the MACBA Collection—although it may one day leave it—before moving disjointedly to Història potencial de Francesc Tosquelles, Catalunya i la Por [Potential History of Francesc Tosquelles, Catalunya, and Fear] (2021), a public service for the people of Catalonia. As the conversation unfurls in the opposite order to how it took place, we finish with Las Muertas Chiquitas [Little Deaths] (2009-2016), which Sallarès tells us she can always revisit to find a quote.
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Specials FONS ÀUDIO Creative Commons filmmaking Francesc Tosquelles Mireia Sallarès sexuality social movements video writing
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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Specials High latencies [contra]panorama access rider accessibility anti-ableism Creative Commons disability justice queer Re-Imagine Europe Ren Loren Britton trans*feminism
11.12.2024
99 MIN
Spanish
High latencies #2
Jose Iglesias García-Arenal
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In a country like Spain, where rural areas have historically been subject to dispossession and marginalisation, Jose’s work reveals the ravages of extractivism, from lithium mining to solar panel monocultures. He links these practices to historical processes of conquest, latifundism, and the privatisation of the countryside, while also exploring the ways in which communities resist and seek to build alternatives. In this podcast, Jose Iglesias García-Arenal invites us to imagine interstices of possibility where community resistance, historical memories, and art come together to redefine how we inhabit the world. We talk about invented traditions, olive trees, sheep, looms, and the complex interactions between past, present and future.

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Specials High latencies [contra]panorama Creative Commons desert extractivism Jose Iglesias García-Arenal land struggles mining toxicity working conditions
07.11.2024
32 MIN
Spanish
FONS ÀUDIO #60
Hac Vinent
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In FONS ÀUDIO #60, artist Hac Vinent takes us deep into her work "Hard Persistence". Her artistic practice resonates with a crip-queer and/or anti-ableist perspective: in short, a politics of life that advocates for those marginalised by a system that standardises and validates the body for the benefit of capitalism. In "Hard Persistence", subtitles, closed captions, displacements, hapticity and the cyborg body—via prostheses—come together in a fragmentary narrative that questions the essentialist idea of a fixed identity. The starting point is the premise that, in an ableist context such as ours, a body assigned as disabled is not read as a complete human body.
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Specials FONS ÀUDIO anti-ableism closed captions Creative Commons crip theory cyborg Hac Vinent MACBA Collection prostheses queer
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about Specials
The Specials line presents projects by artists and curators who are in some way connected to the museum’s programming, the MACBA Collection, or the territory of RWM: radiophonic practice at the intersection of art and politics. This section includes both thematic series and one-off programmes that pick up the thread of the various MACBA programming lines, exhibitions, and public programmes, in a parallel, complementary research process that revolves around orality and discursive strategies.
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