*Radio Web MACBA <
https://rwm.macba.cat/en> - Most listened podcasts June
2022*
*1/* Prof Chandra Wickramasinghe
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https://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/undead-matter-1-emergent-interstellar-dust>
: "I think there's a modern version of colonialism, that it is even more
sinister than the earlier version because the earlier one was pretty
straight forward: it was just exploitation and there was no question. But
in terms of ideas and suppression of ideas, it is much more subtle."
*Undead Matter,* a new series by Sophie J Williamson, is an unfolding
conversation about where life lies in the ever-turning matter of our
universe, as it rhythmically resurfaces over millennia. In the first
episode, artist and poet, Himali Singh Soin and astrobiologist, Prof
Chandra Wickramasinghe discuss signs of life from the cosmos, the theory of
panspermia and the biosphere of the galaxy.
<
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/undead-matter-1-emergent-interstellar-dust>
Link:
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/undead-matter-1-emergent-interstellar-dust
*2/* Marina <
https://rwm.macba.cat/es/sonia/sonia-351-marina-garces> Garcés:
<
https://rwm.macba.cat/es/sonia/sonia-351-marina-garces> “Tenemos una idea
de futuro muy productivista: proyectar, producir, construir, son los verbos
con los que hemos arrasado el mundo. Futuro es que después de una cosa pase
otra y que podamos pensar que es mejor que la anterior y que nos interesa
más o que tiene más sentido o que es más justa o que es más digna. Futuro
es continuidad y a la vez discontinuidad respecto a lo que queremos seguir
siendo. Por eso es importante conocer esos pasados de los que nos vamos
desvinculando.” (only available in Spanish)
We talk with philosopher, writer, and teacher Marina Garcé
<
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-351-marina-garces>s about education
and knowledge, about the future, and about time as raw material. We
consider the question of how to appear and think with others in this
present moment, which demands our active involvement. We discuss the
meeting of unequals, and the possibility of strangeness becoming a link. We
also explore the logic of the sinking ship or “every man for himself” and
the evolution of the words “disobedience” and “freedom”, which
leads Marina to emphasise the importance of forming alliances rather than
thinking from the reductionist position of unity. At the same time, she
invites us to imagine how to weave together worlds that are falling apart.
Link:
https://rwm.macba.cat/es/sonia/sonia-351-marina-garces
* <
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood-5>**3/ **Hito Steyerl:
<
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood-5>*
<
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood-5>"If I speculate now with
the amount of qualification every aspect of human activity is subjected to
nowadays, basically every sort of motion, emotion, action, being captured,
counted, calculated, predicted and so on. So in that sense the
subjectification of all aspects of the human beings has been intensified
quite dramatically. And also the idea that not only labour power can be
quantified, but basically other areas of human activities, which were not
seen as labour power, like looking. But also a lot of affective emotional
activities are now being quantified with the same technologies."
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https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-353-teresa-lanceta>
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https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood-5>
In this podcast we talk about things that are more than things: frozen
embodiments of social relations, petrifications of desires and energies,
replicas disguised as everyday objects. Images, microwave, post-its, money,
inhalers, cheese. We speak with Hito Steyerl, Helen Hester and Roula
Partheniou of these and other ideas. Because things are never quite the way
they seem.
Link:
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood-5
*4/ Teresa Lanceta:
<
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-353-teresa-lanceta> *"El tejer me ha
llevado a la posibilidad de entrar en un mundo en calma. A parte que es
hipnótico, con lo cual entras en una especie de nirvana, que te coloca en
otro lugar."
Teresa Lanceta is an artist, art historian, researcher, and teacher. In
this conversation, the sense of touch reclaims space from the gaze. At the
same time, we recover the wisdom of weaving in terms of community, as an
open source code for those who know and perform it. And through this
repetitive, necessary gesture, technique becomes form, and form becomes
language. Thus the margins disappear and give way to rhombuses, torn bits,
darning, mending... depending on what’s going on at that moment in time.
Link:
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-353-teresa-lanceta
*5/ *Jara Rocha: <
https://rwm.macba.cat/es/sonia/sonia-350-jara-rocha> "La
investigación exclusivamente académica tiende a producir conocimiento que
solo circula en unos circuitos. Y no estoy hablando de democratizar el
acceso a este conocimiento, que también (…), sino de las interlocuciones
que la producción del conocimiento puede y necesita provocar." (only
available in Spanish)
Researcher and activist Jara Rocha
<
https://rwm.macba.cat/es/sonia/sonia-350-jara-rocha>’s practice is
concerned with mediating and mobilising the conditions of meaning
production and materials for possibility. Fond of complexity and grounded
in a trans*feminist sensibility, they explore the inequalities and stark
contrasts in the distribution of the technological. They draw attention to
the politics and aesthetics embedded in infrastructures and to how power
organises itself, becoming simultaneously visible and inaccessible.
Link:
https://rwm.macba.cat/es/sonia/sonia-350-jara-rocha
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