[contra]panorama
Nerea Calvillo
Ren Loren Britton
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.
Jose Iglesias García-Arenal
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.
Eleonora Belfiore
Nicolás Malevé and Jara Rocha
In this podcast, we talk with Nicolás Malevé and Jara Rocha about infrastructures, software programmes and museums. We turn our attention to changes of scale, algorithms, black boxes, epistemicides and cybercides, and we explore the notions of service, access, and air as controversies: what is triggered by changes in temperature, in marketing strategies, and in web render formats? What materialities are suspended in response to these changes? We also consider palliative care and abolition as possible strategies for dismantling world-forms that should cease to exist, and think about how new forms—which we may not yet have managed to imagine—may be generated in this process.