This episode is a conversation between Ayesha Hameed and Sara Garzón. Ayesha is an artist whose work explores contemporary borders and migration, critical race theory, Walter Benjamin, and visual cultures of the Black Atlantic. Sara is a Colombian curator and art historian. She specialises in contemporary Latin American art and focuses on issues relating to decoloniality, temporality, and Indigenous ecocriticism.  Their conversation includes discussions on the intersection of coloniality,...

This episode is a conversation between Edgar Schmitz and Behzad Khosravi Noori. Edgar works on and through dispersed materialities of the choreographic, and distributed forms of (in-)animacy. He is the founder of the CHOREOGRAPHIC and ANIMATE ASSEMBLY research clusters and, director of the Art Research Programme at Goldsmiths, University of London. Behzad is an artist, writer, educator, playground builder, and necromancer. His research-based practice includes films and installations as well...

This episode is a conversation between the three members of the curatorial and research initiative Counter Encounters; Laura Huertas Millán, Onyeka Igwe & Rachael Rakes. Together they engage forms of anti and alter ethnographies in cinema and contemporary art. Laura is a Colombian artist and filmmaker based in Brussels, Onyeka is a London born and based moving image artist and researcher, and Rachael is a curator and writer from the US. You will hear the group reflect on their recent...

This episode is a conversation between Leo Boix and Pablo Bronstein, recorded in their home in East London. Leo is a poet, translator and teacher, writing from multiple identities on the complexities of creative and cultural translations. Pablo is an artist whose work spans prints and drawings to choreography and performance. His focus is on style, spatial politics and queerness. In this episode, Leo and Pablo talk about their personal and professional relationship and how their practices...

Arjuna Neuman is an artist, filmmaker, and writer who works with the essay form in a multi-perspectival and mobile approach where the ‘essay’ is inherently future-oriented and experimental. Denise Ferreira da Silva is a philosopher, writer and filmmaker, whose practices reflect and speculate on questions crucial to contemporary philosophy, political theory, black thought, feminist thought, and historical materialism. In this episode, Arjuna and Denise plan the next film in their Elemental...

In this episode, Mette and Chrysa talk about their identities as performers and choreographers. They also talk about translation in their practices, and the politics of authorship in choreography and dance.  Mette is a choreographer and performer, and she co-founded the publishing house Varamo Press. Much of Mette's work focuses on choreography as writing. Chrysa Parkinson is a dancer and professor of dance at Stockholm University of the Arts, and her current research project is...

This episode is a conversation between Andros Zins-Browne and Prem Krishnamurthy in a studio in New York City. Andros’s work consists of live and hybrid environments at the intersection between installation, performance and conceptual dance and Prem runs an artist-organised group called the Department of Transformation, which looks at art as an agent of transformation. The conversation explores important teachers in their lives, processes of collaboration and hosting as part of their...