We are pleased to announce that episode 4 of Left to be Desired is now live. Maja and Reuben Fowkes converse with Romanian theorist Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu on the Ecological Socialism of the Future.  Left to be Desired is available to listen to on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music/Audible and Audacy.  Left to be Desired podcast explores the distinctiveness of the socialist path through the Anthropocene by bringing together artistic and scholarly insights into the ecologies of global...

In episode 2 of Left to be Desired, Paris and Tashkent based artist Saodat Ismailova talks to Maja & Reuben Fowkes about her work and the turbulent legacies of Soviet power for Central Asia. The conversation flows through the ecological disaster caused by the damming of the great rivers of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya and the social and environmental consequences of turning biodiverse agriculture into a cotton monoculture, to the motives of Soviet campaigns for the emancipation of women....

For the first episode of Left to be Desired, Maja & Reuben Fowkes interview Vienna-based artist Oliver Ressler on the occasion of his solo show Barricading the Icesheets at The Showroom. They discuss Oliver’s work, climate change & justice, capitalism & extraction, Extinction Rebellion, the ecologies of post-socialism and the potential of eco-socialist futures.                                             Oliver Ressler is an artist and filmmaker who produces installations,...