[contra]panorama

8 podcasts

05.06.2025

96 MIN

Spanish

High latencies #5
Fernando Domínguez Rubio

In this podcast, we talk to sociologist Fernando Domínguez Rubio about the ecologies of care that fuel the fiction of artistic stability —a network of infrastructures, climate technologies, conservation laboratories and underground storage facilities, as well as the largely invisible workers whose labour is usually left out of the traditional narrative of art, even though it is pivotal. We talk about the constant struggle against entropy, reflecting on the physical and human resources devoted to it, but also on the ethical, political, and economic implications of trying to slow down the passage of time. Because the way Domínguez Rubio sees it, the museum is much more than a space for contemplation and a collective archive: it is a political and cultural technology aimed at freezing time, ordering the world, and determining what is worthy of conservation. We talk to Fernando Domínguez Rubio about regimes of objecthood, about storage facilities, memory, and greenhouses, about uniqueness, and about other ways of holding onto things.

28.05.2025

89 MIN

English

Son[i]a #429
Vaida Stepanovaité

In this podcast, researcher, curator, and organizer Vaida Stepanovaitė guides us through some of the intricate lineages of past and present trade unions in the post-Soviet Baltic states, while also drawing inspiration from international movements such as the Art Workers’ Coalition and W.A.G.E., as well as from recent collective efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic. She reflects on the devaluation of labour and people within the context of “uber-economics” or the gig economy, on the toll, precarity takes on the tired bodies of workers, and on the need for radical action to foster new forms of collectivization. The struggle against inhospitable working conditions and the gaps in the social safety net affecting art workers, serves as a starting point for devising better models for arts institutions and building new solidarities in the quest for a good life.

16.05.2025

92 MIN

English

Son[i]a #428
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

26.02.2025

79 MIN

Spanish

High latencies #4
Nerea Calvillo

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.

31.01.2025

98 MIN

English

High latencies #3
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.

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