collective creation

Nancy Garín is a Chilean journalist, researcher, art historian, and independent curator. In this podcast, we look back at her life in order to shed light on her toolbox and projects to date. We take our time discussing collective methodologies and communal notions, and their challenges and difficulties. Continuing with the idea of community, Nancy emphasises the need to foster a radical political imagination and the power of empathy in collective action, using art as a critical and perceptual tool. Given the rigidity of writing and theory, perhaps play, putting our bodies in the streets, and allowing error are the keys we need to imagine other worlds and continue to build community.

Black feminist writer, organiser, and thinker Lola Olufemi's political and creative work has been shaped by over a decade of feminist activism—both within institutions and far beyond them. In this podcast, she invites us to embrace non-linearity, atemporal connections, and fragmentation—both in our organising and in how we write and research. She reflects on feminist legacies, the need to think beyond binaries of success and failure, and how imagination is not a luxury but a political necessity. We also explore the ethics of solidarity, the material conditions of care, and the radical power of listening—to each other, to the past, and to the unheard.

In this podcast, we talk to Dani Zelko about the shift from the mandate of the voice to rituals of listening. We also talk about making room for the uncomfortable, about embracing moments of conflict and mourning, about the difference between guilt and responsibility, and about the social and political need to find unifying forces that lubricate the political sphere.  We also touch on the possibility of new generations opening up to collective self-criticism, and on Dani’s faith in books and in multiple, chosen lineages. All of this, amidst nervous laughter and breath.