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17 podcasts
19.06.2025
15 MIN
English
Son[i]a #426. Paulo Tavares
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We dig up some unreleased fragments of our conversation with architect, artist, and curator Paulo Tavares. Reflections that address the role of museums as spaces that shape public discourse, their involvement and relationship with ecology, sustainability, and the climate crisis, and how they can avoid falling into greenwashing rhetoric.
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Extra Climate change Creative Commons non-human Paulo Tavares Re-Imagine Europe sustainability
25.04.2025
71 MIN
English
Son[i]a #426
Paulo Tavares
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In this podcast, we ask Brazilian architect, researcher, and writer Paulo Tavares to respond to Audre Lorde’s enduring question: “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” Drawing on examples from projects such as Trees, Vines, Palms and Other Architectural Monuments, and reflecting on what he calls “a moment of shift” in today’s political climate, Paulo develops his notion of “critical proximity” as well as his understanding of architecture as a political field. We also interrogate ourselves about what a sustainable museum should be, while tackling systemic epistemic deficiencies and the politics of narrative.
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Son[i]a architecture Climate change climate justice Creative Commons Forensic Architecture land struggles non-human Paulo Tavares Re-Imagine Europe
05.06.2024
85 MIN
English
SON[I]A #403
M Murphy
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Murphy works with and against technoscience in the areas of environmental justice and data politics, colonialism, sexuality, reproduction and race. Their approach is interdisciplinary not only in the sense of involving various areas of knowledge, but also in enacting their dual responsibility: the almost impossible task of dismantling extractive racial capitalism, by means of re-imagining radical Black, queer, Indigenous and feminist decolonial horizons and worlds of care. In this podcast, Murphy walks us through permission-to-pollute infrastructures in and around Chemical Valley in the Great Lakes area, the largest basin of fresh surface water on the planet.

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03.04.2024
107 MIN
English
Son[i]a #396
pantea
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In this podcast, we talk to Iranian artist pantea about studying in Edinburgh, about the peat bogs of Scotland and about the misconceptions surrounding wetlands. We discuss agency, more-than-human subjectivities and the (im)possibilities that open up when thinking-with sundew, and talk about her experience with the Khamoosh listening and archiving community.

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Son[i]a agency collective creation Creative Commons DIWO landscape reading listening non-human pantea Sonic Acts sound soundscape wetlands
24.05.2023
90 MIN
Spanish
Son[i]a #373
Juan Arturo García
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In this podcast, we talk to the Mexican artist Juan Arturo García about language and plants—or about how taxonomy overwrote one tradition of thought and replaced it with another, by way of Latin. Which is, paradoxically, a dead imperial language. We take a close look at his practice, concentrating on the role of speculation, fiction, and the archive in the way his stories come together. We talk about the emergence of neutral Spanish, and Juan Arturo tells us about the first stages of a film that explores the strange arrival of a nuclear reactor in Colombia around 1950.

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Son[i]a global south Juan Arturo García neutral Spanish non-human Sonic Acts
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