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Root Canal "I'll Never be a Star I've Always Been the Moon" by KW Pogo Bar Podcasts
Nov 26, 2021•59 min
KW Pogo Bar Podcasts
Pogo Bar Podcasts are a series of long poems, sound scapes, essays, speculative interviews, and potential histories, commissioned by KW Institute for Contemporary Art. For the time being, the collective space of the physical Pogo bar is moved to the digital realm, with two new podcasts to be released on a monthly basis. The podcast series is curated by Kathrin Bentele and Léon Kruijswijk, Assistant Curators at KW Institute for Contemporary Art.
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Phung-Tien Phan "The Podcast City"
"The Podcast City" follows a script which could also be a template for one of Phung-Tien Phan’s films, in which the artist explores contemporary lifestyles, the performativity of daily life and our different roles between labor and leisure time. As her own roles move fluidly between author of the script, artist, and actor, her practice is situated in a close network of relationships and the social and material conditions of her own creative labor, while addressing questions of creativity, social...
Jul 15, 2021•6 min
Taylor Le Melle "Orion J. Facey’s The Virosexuals"
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Jun 17, 2021•33 min
Nicholas Grafia and Mikołaj Sobczak "It’s 10PM. Do You know where your children are?"
"It’s 10pm. Do You know where your children are?" narrates the struggles of teenagers dealing with their queerness within varying family dynamics and socio-political realities. The intertwined stories of the two protagonists touch upon memories, expectations and values shared between parents and their offspring with a diasporic background, unveiling the confluence of primary feelings of love, hate, desire and regret. Nicholas Grafia and Mikołaj Sobczak combine these anachronistic, personal fragm...
Jun 17, 2021•18 min
Nour Mobarak "Memory Talk"
In "Memory Talk", artist-performer Nour Mobarak continues her ongoing exploration of memory, psychic spaces and the spatialization of language. Based largely on field-recordings from Hollywood Boulevard and other places in Los Angeles where she asked strangers to share their earliest memories, her sound textures delve deep into the invisible architecture of both the individual mind and US therapy culture, often capturing moments of trauma, transgression, and intense feelings. As memory is itself...
May 13, 2021•32 min
Alexander Iezzi "Heehaw Angel Hunting—Lesson in Companionshit"
Meet Hope and Derek Heehaw—two siblings from a country-music-obsessed family in the south of the USA—in this radio show as day trip journal. Perspectives and legacies of their upbringing linger in their contrasting worldviews, which are confronted as they leave the city for a day and go out on a transgressive mission initiated by the devout Hope: angel hunting. Trying to get closer to the source that will supposedly grant them freedom, they struggle through their perverse family dynamics before ...
May 13, 2021•46 min
Joshua Leon "Lamentation No.1: A Smuggler's Guide to Loss"
We were having one of our usual phone calls. Talking about life, dealing with the distance the pandemic had enforced upon us. Then there was a suicide that hit your family. Grief overwhelmed us both. I could not reach you. I wanted to cross the border from the UK to the EU, but death is not essential travel. I wanted to smuggle my body across the border. I was not allowed. Instead, I was forced to use my words. To write and read as you moved away into the silence of your family home. This is a c...
Apr 07, 2021•30 min
Beth Collar "Scatter Cushion"
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Apr 07, 2021•26 min
Luzie Meyer "The Acquisition of Language & The Language of Acquisition"
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Mar 10, 2021•29 min
Thea Reifler and Phila Bergmann "Truth is a Matter of the Imagination"
For "Truth is a Matter of the Imagination", Thea Reifler and Phila Bergmann invited Lou Drago, Isabel Lewis, Ann Mbuti and Omsk Social Club for exchanges of thoughts departing from science fiction quotes. They sat down to talk about how the genre has influenced their ways of thinking, relating, creating art and programming institutions. Within the conversations, they discuss how it changed their perceptions of truth and fiction, dreamtime and world-time, structures and processes as well as chang...
Mar 10, 2021•35 min
Nadja Abt "Mutiny On The Bivalvia - Interview with a Seafarer"
"Mutiny on the Bivalvia" is a radio play about power and relationships. In an interview, a seafarer and previously successful artist delineates her motives for wanting to become a member of the female crew on board of the „Bivalvia“ and her daily life as a seafarer. The interviewer has but one question on her mind: What has lead the all-women crew to shipwreck and mutiny? Text and direction: Nadja Abt Seafarer: Mareike Wenzel Interviewer: Nadja Abt Music: Alabaster DePlume Sound: Nadja Abt &...
Mar 03, 2021•24 min
Simnikiwe Buhlungu "Anecdotal Through-isms"
"Anecdotal Through-isms" is a resource-as-podcast/podcast-as-resource. The collection of anecdotal references of phenomena exist ‘through’ the presences and remnants of everyday sonic utterances—including, but not limited to, experiential drum patterns1; songs deconstructed and recreated owing to copyright law limitations2; articulated or musical oral gestures3; migratory toenail reverberations4; and unanticipated splashes5. ‘Through-ism’ is proposed as a way of speaking ‘through’ rather than ‘a...
Mar 03, 2021•27 min
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