coloniality
13 podcasts
16.05.2025
92 MIN
English
Son[i]a #428
Zarina Muhammad/The White Pube
Zarina Muhammad/The White Pube
In this podcast, we speak with Zarina Muhammad, who walks us through The White Pube’s collaborative process and projects to date. We delve into Zarina’s diasporic identity and the politics of assimilation, as well as polyvocal narratives and fiction as critique. We explore the embodied experience of writing their first book, Poor Artists, and ask why a bingo card can sometimes say more than a press release
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10.04.2025
107 MIN
Spanish
Son[i]a #425
Vivian Abenshushan
Vivian Abenshushan
In this podcast, Mexican writer and editor Vivian Abenshushan talks us through a personal repertoire of textual practices, literary artefacts, collective devices, and commons methodologies that seek to contaminate the hegemonic literary space. Experimental practices and assemblages that become communal spaces, making room for other politics of language that are more sensitive, situated, and welcoming of complexity. In these spaces, digression, home stories, sheets of paper, quotes, plagiarism, open source, parties, malaise, and international networks become political acts and mechanisms of resistance.
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27.03.2025
77 MIN
English
Son[i]a #424
Mahmoud Alhaj
Mahmoud Alhaj
In this podcast, Gazan artist Mahmoud Alhaj tells us about visual strategies and counter-strategies to reclaim their right to see. We talk about low-resolution images and human rights, about rubble and displacement architecture, and about how to build tents with whatever is at hand. In contrast, Mahmoud shows us 3D scans, pilots with architectural knowledge, military archives, and other psyops tactics. He also gives us a glimpse of the art scene in the Gaza Strip and the resilience of the Palestinian people. In his work, the past, present, and future collapse, while the perception of time operates differently in the everyday life of the occupation.
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20.03.2025
120 MIN
Spanish
Son[i]a #423
José Luis Espejo
José Luis Espejo
In this podcast we talk to curator and researcher José Luis Espejo about the unusual progression of his academic immersion, but above all we focus on the key role played by the blubber of toothed cetaceans at different points in recent human history. A descent into the hidden layers of early modernity that connects biology, chemistry, economics, military engineering, and lighting technology. We talk about sperm whales and dolphins, about boats, lamps, and trade treaties, and about the echoes of this history, which resonate in the midst of the current climate crisis. But mostly we talk about blubber, about our relationship with ecosystems, and about the unsustainable exploitation of marine, fossil, and human resources.
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05.03.2025
0 MIN
Spanish
Son[i]a #422
Tania Safura Adam
Tania Safura Adam
In this podcast, researcher, writer and curator Tania Safura Adam takes us inside her research processes and strategies to revive the individual and collective memories of blackness in Spain: an urgent and tenacious writing operation based on fragments that are often scattered and disjointed. The public dissemination of these silenced and ignored narratives has the power to make us feel uncomfortable, and in this discomfort lies the potential for transformation. We also talk about gaps in the archive, about potential archives, and about what it means to take responsibility for this. And on a more personal note, about what motherhood and child rearing in the diaspora means for her and for many other women.
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