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31 podcasts
04.07.2025
60 MIN
Catalan
Storage #2
Poetics and Politics of Storage and Circular Use
Poetics and Politics of Storage and Circular Use
Following the Poetics and Politics of Storage and Circular Use research-action work group, this three-episode miniseries looks at the symptoms and possible responses to the current challenges of temporary storage and palliative curating of works and legacies. In this second instalment, Anna Manubens, David Bestué, Lucia C. Pino and Francesc Ruiz share experiments and valuable experiences to shape a new institutional hypothesis. They speak of celebratory arrivals, orchestrated destructions, unobscured forms of maintenance, and networks of adoption of works that involve care without ownership. They also explore the possibility of making space and creating forms of public memory that accompany heritage objects through their processes of decay, crumbling, and material transformation.
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28.05.2025
89 MIN
English
Son[i]a #429
Vaida Stepanovaité
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.
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23.05.2025
76 MIN
Spanish
Storage #1
Poetics and Politics of Storage and Circular Use
Poetics and Politics of Storage and Circular Use
Following the Poetics and Politics of Storage and Circular Us group’s work, this three-episode miniseries looks at the symptoms and possible responses to the current challenges of temporary storage and palliative curating of works and legacies. In this first instalment, Anna Manubens, David Bestué, Lucia C. Pino and Francesc Ruiz connect artistic processes to the larger-scale processing of materials. They talk about scrapyards, landfill, sewage treatment plants, and trucks, highlighting the energy and the aesthetic fascination that is sometimes sparked by waste and the intense memory of materials in motion. They also address the proliferation and promises of storage units, storage as crisis or free fall, and the bewilderment of knowing themselves part of a generation which has been dispossessed of space.
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09.05.2025
117 MIN
Spanish
Son[i]a #427
Nancy Garín
Nancy Garín
Conversation: Ricardo Cárdenas and Anna Ramos. Script: Ricardo Cárdenas. Sound production: Albert Tarrats. Voice over: Valeria Brugnoli.
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02.10.2024
42 MIN
English
Son[i]a #410
Wu Tsang
Wu Tsang
In this podcast, we talk to filmmaker and visual artist Wu Tsang about her way of understanding (and practicing) the ungraspable nature of the moving image through her concept of magic realism, as well as other reality-modification strategies. We talk about big and small stories, about myths and clichés, and about rewriting and unravelling timelines, part real and part fictional. We also look at the benefits of collaborative processes and at the need to challenge and dismantle the idea of individual authorship in the visual arts.
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