L'internationale

Edwin van der Heide's Spiral of Time offers a gentle, non-intrusive auditory portrait of Plaça dels Àngels in Barcelona’s Raval neighborhood, inviting us to observe changes in temporal and meteorological patterns, the varied uses of the space, and the subtle shifts that occur from day to day. By presenting soundscapes over different intervals—hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, and even yearly—it helps listeners perceive the scale of time differently and understand how the square evolves with each season and moment. In this podcast, we sit down with Edwin van der Heide exactly to discuss this work. We reflect on concepts of time travel and spirals, on creating staged memories and living archives, on the far-reaching sounds that traverse the square, and on the intriguing possibility of expanding Spiral of Time to encompass diverse, non-human landscapes.

In this podcast, Lebanese artist, researcher, and filmmaker Marwa Arsanios unpacks the many conversational tactics embedded in her modes of working in the gaps between art and activism, in the intersection between ecological thinking, land struggles, and feminist politics. We talk about reading groups, the film object, solidarity as a practice, and using the art economy to bring communities and movements together.

In this podcast, Lebanese writers, researchers and activists Lara and Stephen Sheehi walk us through the day-to-day reality of psychoanalysis under occupation, Zionist psy-ops and (anti)oppressive praxis. They talk about psychological warfare and about Sumud—or the reverie of resistance—, and discuss the worldliness of our subjectivities in a world that is not the same for everyone.

Philip Rizk is a filmmaker and writer whose work explores themes of power, resistance, and memory, particularly in the context of social and political movements in Egypt, Syria, Palestine and beyond, in a process he describes as “putting struggles into conversation with each other”. In this podcast, we speak with Rizk about the past and present of his practice, about imagined scenarios, and about the impossibility of working with images in today’s world. We discuss autonomy, musha' or land commons, re-enactments, and improvisation as a form of response to imposed order.