filmmaking

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.

In FONS ÀUDIO #61, Mireia Sallarès talks to us about her works in the MACBA collection. We plunge right in with Literatura de Replà, una relectura [Literature on the landing, A Rereading] (2014), Mireia’s first work to enter the MACBA Collection—although it may one day leave it—before moving disjointedly to Història potencial de Francesc Tosquelles, Catalunya i la Por [Potential History of Francesc Tosquelles, Catalunya, and Fear] (2021), a public service for the people of Catalonia. As the conversation unfurls in the opposite order to how it took place, we finish with Las Muertas Chiquitas [Little Deaths] (2009-2016), which Sallarès tells us she can always revisit to find a quote.

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.