*Lithium mines, black boxes, ashes, replicas, monsters, money,
petrifications of desire, and other untraceable objects*
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https://rwm.macba.cat/en/buscador/radio/serie/objecthood-9471>
OBJECTHOOD <
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/buscador/radio/serie/objecthood-9471> is
a series of podcasts, curated by Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, about objects,
focusing on theories that bring new perspectives on objects from the worlds
of contemporary art and theory. Here we zero in on three specific moments
from the multiple drifts and odd crossovers that make up the series.
*1/ POINTS OF CONVERGENCE* <
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood-5>
In OBJECTHOOD #5, researcher/activist Helen Hester and artists Hito Steyerl
and Roula Partheniou talk about replicas, money, déjà vu, translations,
readymades, cheese and chalk, and everything in between. Objects as
condensations and frozen embodiments of social relations.
Play > <
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood-5>
*2/ UNTRACEABLE OBJECTS* <
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood-4>
OBJECTHOOD #4 explores the slippery materiality of untraceable objects:
from the arsenic poisoning the wells of Bangladesh—as told by artist,
researcher, and writer Nabil Ahmed—, to curator, editor, and researcher
Arie Altena's account of the superstition surrounding the Kola Superdeep
Borehole in Russia, by way of the bizarre biology of the vampire squid from
hell in a passage from Vilém Flusser’s *Vampyroteuthis Infernalis*, read by
sound artist AGF.
Play > <
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood-4>
*3/ SPACE IS THE THING* <
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood-6>
Lithium mines, Trotskyist sects, black boxes, planetary exodus, augmented
architecture, a city as big as the entire planet Earth, the mythology of
Area 51: writer and philosopher McKenzie Wark, architect Liam Young, and
choreographer and dancer Mette Edvardsen explore these and other ideas in
an attempt to think about space as more than just a medium.
Play > <
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood-6>
Check out other contributions to the OBJECTHOOD
<
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/buscador/radio/serie/objecthood-9471> series of
podcasts by philosophers, artists, thinkers, researchers and makers such as
AGF, Arie Altena, Nabil Ahmed, Andrea Ballestero, Erick Beltrán, Rick
Dolphijn, Mette Edvardsen, Jessica Ekomane, Diego Falconí, Graham Harman,
Florian Hecker, Barbara Held, Helen Hester, Martin Holbraad, Roc Jiménez de
Cisneros, Chris Korda, Kali Malone, Hito Steyerl, Luciana Parisi, Roula
Partheniou, Quim Pujol, Dave Phillips, Liam Young, and McKenzie Wark.
E/N/J/O/Y!