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We dig up some unreleased fragments of our conversation with choreographer, performer and artist Itxaso Corral, which we couldn’t include the first time around. With Itxaso, we embrace the complexity of being-and-doing-with-others, and we look inside some of the notions that underlie her thinking-by-doing: hijacked words that can be set free, such as tenderness, naivety, empathy, modesty and cringe. We also open up a host of questions—poetic, political, and convivial—in order to spend some time with them, leaving them unanswered. How far do things go? Is reading a text just reading a text? Does a written text remain only on the page? Is there no vibration? Who is legitimized, and to say what? Which things are accepted as legitimized and which are left out? Do I seem to be alone? Where can we come together?
Carlos Motta
In this conversation, we talk to Carlos Motta about the genealogy of Nefandus, about the concept of sodomy as a tool of colonial control, and about the links between sexuality, morality and power. Carlos also talks us through the collaborative and physical processes of Gravedad, his relationship with endurance performance, and how pain, gesture and care can become symbolic languages of resistance. During our talk, we also look back at works such as Naufragios (Shipwreck), The Defeated (2013), and Towards a Homoerotic Historiography (2014), and we discuss archival strategies, museographic devices, and the importance of rethinking history from the margins.
Wynnie Mynerva
In this podcast, we talk with Peruvian Wynnie Mynerva about painting and the body—about flesh, skin, and weight. We look back at her formative memories in Villa El Salvador, living on the fringes: we invoke friends, affects and support networks, and revisit her first home-studio and the parks where she used to sell copies of the great Western masters. We also discuss the role of medicine and body modifications in her work, and the outrage in response to bodies that are transformed in the name of self-determination, rather than to conform to conventional beauty standards.
Coco Fusco
Cuban-American artist and writer Coco Fusco explores issues such as cultural, racial, and gender identity; the construction of alterity; the colonial legacy; and the mechanisms of control, censorship and repression that systems of power impose on people’s bodies and lives. In FONS ÀUDIO #63, Fusco discusses two of her works in the MACBA Collection: Els segadors (2001) and Your Eyes Will Be an Empty Word (2021), where she reflects respectively on Catalan identity and mourning rituals in times of crisis, connecting the local with the universal.
Mobile Radio
Agitators by nature, Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann's radio practice involves the activation of ephemeral radio stations that emerge from a mix of technical skills and knowledge, their desire to keep trying new things and testing the medium, and their capacity to bring out the best in the local communities that host them. In this podcast, they talk about their approach to radio through the various spaces they have activated over the years: from workshops to major projects such as the studio at the São Paolo Biennial, Radio Revolten: 30 Days of Radio Art in Halle, and the 100-day Radio Art Zone. They also talk about smaller projects, such as their improvisation duo, Tonic Train, which encapsulates their idea of artistic practice –and life– as something dirty and leaky, in the best sense of the words.