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Foreignness and FriendshipPoetry #1: Hvidt lys (Dansk)Hvidt lys Et endnu ikke afsluttet langdigt inspireret af systemisk vold. Systemerne har mange navne, men de er alle sammen kun interesseret i deres egen overlevelse, og det enkelte menneske kun en brik i et større spil. Det gælder om ikke at forsvinde i systemets logik. Udsendelsen er publiceret af Foreignness and Friendship søndag 4.maj 2025.2025-05-0411 min
Foreignness and FriendshipEssay #4 - Kontinental fornuft?Kontinental fornuft? I mere end 10 år har jeg sat spørgsmålstegn ved det kontinentale, kontinentale begreber og forestillingen om Afrika og om Europa. Jeg opfatter det som koloniale fantasier. Hvis vi fortsætter med at bruge dem, gør vi os også skyldige i at fortsætte historisk produceret ondskab. Jeg forsøger at skrive et essay om kontinental fornuft - eller rettere, som stiller spørgsmål ved om kontinentale begreber og forestillinger giver mening, men dette essay er også forsøg på at begynde en anmeldelse af tre forskellige bøger udgivet på dansk:...2025-03-3114 min
Foreignness and FriendshipReal Sound Recording #1: Stellenbosch Triennale 2025 (Dansk)Stellenbosch Triennale 2025 Vi præsenterer her en helt ny serie, der egentlig blot næsten uden filter tilbyder reallydsoptagelser "on the rocks". I denne første udgave befinder vi os på Stellenbosch Triennale i Sydafrika. Ind imellem krydret med nogle få betragtninger for at give kontekst, men det handler egentlig kun om lyden og dens rytme. Kunstudstillingen kan opleves frem til og med onsdag den 30.april 2025. Foto: Tuli Mekondjo præsenterer sit kunstværk. Udsendelsen er publiceret af Foreignness and Friendship mandag 10. marts 2025.2025-03-1034 min
Foreignness and FriendshipConversation #20: Khanyisile Mbongwa, Stellenbosch Triennale, South Africa (English)Conversation with Khanyisile Mbongwa Khanyisile Mbongwa is the chief curator of the Stellenbosch Triennale, who takes place for the second time this year. It runs until 30th of April 2025 in Oude Libertas, Rubert Museum and Stellenbosch University Museum in Stellenbosch, an hours drive from Cape Town. Here she is in a conversation with Morten Ranum telling about her background and discussing the role of the curator. The conversation took place Thursday 20th of February - the day after the opening of the Stellenbosch Triennale - in Oude Libertas. Photo: The opening of St...2025-03-0325 min
Foreignness and FriendshipConversation #19: Kobus Moolman, Cape Town, South Africa (English)Conversation with Kobus Moolman In this conversation Morten Ranum meet Kobus Moolman. Three years ago Morten Ranum published a translation of Kobus Moolman’s long-poem “All and Everything”. They meet in Cape Town for the first time, and Kobus Moolman had just the day before launched his new poetry collection “Fall Risk”. We enter into their conversation halfway because they were so eargerly engaged into conversation from the first mimute that Morten Ranum only half an hour later remember to switch on the recording device. The conversation took place Friday 21st of February 2025 in The Elec...2025-03-0351 min
Foreignness and FriendshipDecember 2024: 15 dage i Dakar (Dansk)Sæson VII, 3 - Episode 35 Der er ridser i vinylen, når det kommer til vores betragtninger om moderne kunst.. Endnu engang oplever vi at tekstil og design står øverst på dagsordenen – en bekræftelse af at håndværket og det taktile manifesterer sin position i den moderne kunsts centrum, men spørgsmålet er, hvad det betyder. Verden lader til at befinde sig i et vakuum. Mennesket er forvirret. Vi er nået til en grænse, men der er ikke noget nyt land at betræde – intet nyt spørgsmål at stille. Tekstil s...2024-12-0252 min
Foreignness and FriendshipNovember 2024: A Lost Recording (English)Season VII, 2 - Episode 34 Morten Ranum has submitted an essay with the title “The Lost Rrecording of Uhuru Phalafala” to New Contrast Literary Magazine in South Africa. In this podcast you can listen to him reading it. The title is somewhat a weird one. As the title reveals this was not the purpose. His intention was to have a recording of the conversation he had with Uhuru Phalafala in Cape Town in September and publish it as a conversation podcast, only very lightly edited to keep it as close as possible to the live situation maintaining the raw...2024-11-0419 min
Foreignness and FriendshipOktober 2024: Kunsten at have en samtale, Open Book Festival, Cape Town, South Africa (Dansk/English)Sæson VII, 1 - Episode 33 Indhold: 00:00 Intro 02:38 Abstrakt 03:58 Kunsten at have en samtale 13:28 Dag I 14:53 Decolonising the Palestinian Mind 26:08 Dag II 30:00 Dag III 34:20 The Lost Recording of Uhuru Phalafala 38:52 Johannesburg 44:15 Søndag på Bagsværd Sø 47:45 Outro Det var meningen, at udsendelsen skulle handle om, hvad en samtale er, og hvordan en samtale mellem mennesker kan blive en rigtig samtale, åbenhjertig og virkelig. Vi vil forsøge på at nærmere os samtalens kunst, men ikke på den måde, som det egentlig var...2024-10-0148 min
Foreignness and FriendshipConversation #18: Karen Jennings (South Africa), Open Book 2024, Cape Town (English)Conversation with Karen Jennings We present a conversation between Karen Jennings and Morten Ranum. Karen Jennings is based in Cape Town. She has published several novels. The most recent is Crooked Seeds. The conversation with Karen Jennings took place in Homecoming Centre in District Six in Cape Town during Open Book Festival on Sunday 8th of September, 2024. Published by Foreignness and Friendship, Wednesday 25th of September, 2024.2024-09-2544 min
Foreignness and FriendshipConversation #17: Shubnum Khan (South Africa), Open Book 2024, Cape Town (English)Conversation with Shubnum Khan During Open Book Festival in Cape Town we meet the Durban based South African author Shubnum Khan for a conversation about writing, literature and her most recent novel "The Lost Love of Akbar Manzil". The conversation with Shubnum Khan took place in Homecoming Centre in District Six in Cape Town during the festival on Friday 6th of September, 2024. Published by Foreignness and Friendship, Tuesday 24th of September, 2024.2024-09-2424 min
Foreignness and FriendshipConversation #16: Mazen Maarouf, Louisiana Literature 2019 (English)Conversation with Mazen Maarouf In 2019 Morten Ranum participated in the festival Louisiana Literature in Louisiana Museum in Humlebæk north of Copenhagen and had a conversation with the Palestinian author Mazen Maaarouf. Maarouf lives in Reykjavik , Island. His collection of short stories "Vittigheder til krigere" had just been published in Danish translation by Epilog. The conversation with Mazen Maarouf took place in the hallway of Rungstedgaard Hotel on Saturday 24th of August, 2024. We publish the conversation to celebrate the annual literature festival in Louisiana Museum. It always takes place in the thi...2024-08-2248 min
Verdens klogeste landSÅ klam er hanI denne uge i verdens klogeste land, står det endelig klart, hvad DBU’s overordnede mission er til EM i Tyskland, da det jo ikke handler om at spille interessant fodbold. Nej, alle kræfter sættes nu ind på at jagte de frække danske fans, som havde et “FUCK UEFA”-banner med på stadion i kampen mod England.Det var også ugen, hvor regeringen kunne præsentere en såkaldt “grøn trepartsaftale”, som blandt andet har ført til en Co2-afgift på landbruget, der ikke ligefrem er en bombe under landets grisestalde. Alt imens har erhvervs...2024-06-2740 min
Foreignness and FriendshipConversation #15: Rodrigo Hasbún, LiteratureXchange 2018 (English/Dansk)Conversation with Rodrigo Hasbún In 2018 Morten Ranum participated in the festival LitertureXchange in Aarhus and had a conversation with the Bolivian author Rodrigo Hasbún. His book “Affekter” (Los Afectos) had just been published in Danish translation by Jensen & Dalgaard. Morten Ranum wrote a review of Hasbüns book published by Globalnyt in 2018. After the conversation we bring the review. The review is in Danish. In a previous podcast featuring the Angolan author José Agualusa we also bring a reportage article from an event in the festival in 2018, where Rodrigo Hasbún is discussing “The Right t...2024-06-2129 min
Foreignness and FriendshipConversation #14: José Eduardo Agualusa, LiteratureXchange 2018 (English/Dansk)Conversation with José Eduardo Agualusa Our longtime and loyal member of staff Morten Ranum always participated in the festival LitertureXchange in Aarhus, but in the recent years he seems to have taken a break from the festival. Maybe it is time to go back to the middle Jutland provincial town, but until further notice we will bring a conversation with the Angolan author José Agualusa from 2018, who participated in the festival in 2018. His book “Almen teori om glemsel” (Teoria geral do esquecimento) was just published by Batzer & Co. In 2018 Morten Ranum wrote a review of Agualu...2024-06-2150 min
Foreignness and FriendshipJuni 2024: Lyd og litteratur (Dansk)Sæson VI, 4 - Episode 32 Indhold: 00:00 Intro 02:38 Abstrakt 05:00 Lyd og litteratur 12:10 Afbrydelse I: Refugiets DNA 18:55 Fra tekst til lyd 22:23 Afbrydelse II: Valg i Sydafrika 28:20 Lyden, stemmen og sproget 35:48 Afbrydelse III: Sydafrikas politiske fremtid 38:10 Lyden som pause 40:30 Outro Vi skulle have været i Dakar til kunstbiennale i den forløbne måned, men Dak’Art er blevet udskudt til november. Udskydelsen af Biennale de Dakar forærede Morten Ranum to blanke uger, som han straks vekslede til en uges refugieophold på Hald Hovedgaard. Om den anden ug...2024-06-0441 min
Foreignness and FriendshipMaj 2024: Biennale di Venezia, Venedig, Italien (Dansk)Sæson VI, 3 - Episode 31 Indhold: 0:00:00 Intro 0:02:38 Venedig 0:11:26 Pressekonference 0:22:27 Tekstil og det taktile 0:37:50 Kunsten kan vente 0:41:44 South African Pavilion 1:03:03 Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot 1:06:48 Den kuraterede udstilling forfra og bagfra 1:56:26 Outro I denne maraton version af en podcast beretter vi fra årets kunstbiennale i Venedig. Det kunne ikke gøres kortere, fordi kampen imod "the single story" kræver, at vi hele tiden gentager os selv i let forandret form - og også helt modsiger, hvad vi netop sagde for lidt siden. Derfor har vi vandret på kryds...2024-05-071h 57Verdens klogeste landInger Støjbergs airfryer og Messerschmidts deepfakeI denne uge i verdens klogeste land har politikerne endnu engang været i krea-rummet og fået en masse idéer, der ikke rigtigt handler om politik, men dog er værd at dvæle ved. Inger Støjberg har nemlig endelig fundet ud af, at en medister bliver bedst i en airfryer, hvis man svøber den i bacon, mens Morten Messerschmidt har opdaget hvordan man laver deep fakes af Mette Frederiksen. Derudover er Den Uafhængige Politiklagemyndighed kommet med dens årsberetning, og det er som sædvanlig lidt af en pageturner, hvis man har en ting for uheldi...2024-05-0241 min
Foreignness and FriendshipConversation #13: José Hendo, Ugandan Pavilion. Venice Biennale 2024 (English)Conversation with José Hendo from Uganda In the Venice Biennale we found the Ugandan Pavilion and had a conversation with one of the artists. It is again centered around textile, but this time a different kind of textile. The conversation took place in Venice on Thursday 18th of April 2024 in the Ugandan Pavilion. Published by Foreignness and Friendship, Thursday 25th of April, 2024.2024-04-2527 min
Foreignness and FriendshipApril 2024: Oversættelser (Dansk)Sæson VI, 2 - Episode 30 Indhold: 00:00 Intro 02:38 Resume 04:08 Oversættelser 33:35 Outro I denne måned reserverer vi pladsen til at tale om oversættelse af litteratur. Det vil dels dreje sig om langdigtet ”Alt og Alting” oversat til dansk af Morten Ranum, skrevet af Kobus Moolman fra Sydafrika, men vi vil også nævne andre uvurderlige oversættelser som i de sidste par år er blevet gjort tilgængelige på dansk. Helt grundliggende vil vi gerne indlede en samtale om, hvad en oversættelse er for en tekst, og om det giver me...2024-04-0234 min
Foreignness and FriendshipReportage #6: Alberto Giacometti, Statens Museum for Kunst (Dansk)Reportage fra Statens Museum for Kunst om Alberto Giacometti Netop hjemkommet fra Cape Town, hvor vi endnu engang havde haft samtaler om, hvordan tekstil indtager en mere central plads i samtidskunsten, besøgte vi Statens Museum for Kunst i København, som lige nu viser den overbevisende udstilling ”Hvad øjet ser” med Alberto Giacomettis skulpturer og tegninger. Her eksploderer rummene. De slanke, ranglede fremadskridende væsener bevæger sig gennem landskabet som beslutsomme masai krigere på savanne i det nordlige Tanzania. Det udmagrede udtryk med indsunkne øjne gør indtryk. Afstanden er lige meget, ligegyldig om vi befind...2024-03-2913 min
Foreignness and FriendshipMarch 2024: Ghosts of Demolition and Contemporary Art (English) Season VI, 1 - Episode 29 Content: 00:00 Intro 00:55 Abstract 03:55 Ghosts of Demolition and Contemporary Art 38:38 Outro We are in Cape Town to attend Cape Town Art Fair. It is the missing link in a longer chain of larger art exhibitions around the world – without Cape Town we cannot really discuss contemporary art from a South African perspective. But in Cape Town we are also revisiting previous experiences. In September last year Morten Ranum was hijacked by an ancestral nightmare and swallowed by the past – brought back in time to a February day...2024-03-0539 min
Foreignness and FriendshipConversation #12: On Textile and Clay, Cape Town Art Fair, South Africa (English)Conversations with Art Formes (Cape Town) and No Man's Art Gallerry (Amsterdam) In Cape Town, South Africa we once again encountered textile - but also clay. In two separate conversaations with two very different galleries we exchange ideas about two materials and their specific tactility. The conversations took place on the last day of Cape Town Art Fair - February 18th, 2024. Both encounters are influenced by background noise and the exhaustion of four days of exhibition activity. Photo credit: Art Formes and No Man's Art Gallery. Published by Foreignness an...2024-02-2527 min
Podimo BogklubCarsten Norton & Josephine Park om "Sygeplejersken"Hvad driver et menneske til at tage et andet menneskets liv? Det er et af de spørgsmål, der dukker op i samtalen om ugens lydbog, der zoomer ind på en af Danmarkshistoriens mest spektakulære drabssager.Carsten Norton har inviteret Josephine Park i studiet, fordi hun spiller sygeplejersken, Christina Aistrup Hansen, i Netflix-serien baseret på Kristian Corfixens bog. Og derfor har hun om nogen forsøgt at forstå, hvad der foregik på Nykøbing Falster Sygehus, og hvilket mørke der lå bag.Bogen optrevler sagen fra alle vinkler - fra sygeplejersken selv og hendes p...2024-02-2333 min
Foreignness and FriendshipConversation #11: Laura Vincenti, Cape Town Art Fair, South Africa (English)Conversation between Laura Vincenti and Morten Ranum We have been in Cape Twon, South Africa to participate in Cape Town Art Fair. The conversation took place a couple of days before the art fair on February 13th, 2024. We met her in Cape Town International Convention Center for a conversation about what to expect of this years edition of the art fair. Laura Vincenti is an architect, originally from Italy, but been living in South Africa for the last 10 years. Photo credit: Artthrob. Published by Foreignness and Fr...2024-02-2030 min
Podimo BogklubIngrid Baraka, Lotte Folke og Céleste Nshimiyimana om "Menneskets dybeste erindring"Ugens vært er Ingrid Baraka, og hun har taget sin favorit bog fra 2023 med: "Menneskets dybeste erindring" af den internationale forfatterstjerne Mohamed Mbougar Sarr. En roman, der både er anmelderrost, prisvindende og oversat fra fransk til hele verden. Det er en bog med mange lag og et varieret formsprog, som gør, at du kan vende tilbage til igen og igen, og du vil blive ved med at se nye perspektiver, referencer og måske lære noget om dig selv på vejen.Med sig i studiet til at udfolde bogens tematikker har hun Lot...2024-01-1755 min
Foreignness and FriendshipDecember 2023: Aké Arts and Book Festival i Lagos, Nigeria (Dansk)Sæson V, 4 - Episode 28 Indhold: 00:00 Intro 02:36 Abstrakt 06:31 Lagos, uge 1 26:29 Aké Art and Book Festival 52:47 Outro Vi befinder os nu i midten af den kontinentale fornuft. Her i Lagos bliver vi mindet om Kampala in the old days, selvom vi bestræber os på ikke at sammenligne. Alligevel slår den tanke ned i os, at der måske er en mere direkte forbindelse mellem øst og vest, end der er mellem nord og syd. Vi er ankommet en uge tidligt til Lagos for at kunne opleve den urbane kontekst for Aké...2023-12-1253 min
Foreignness and FriendshipConversation #10: Lola Shoneyin (Lagos, Nigeria), Aké Arts and Book Festival (English)Conversation between Lola Shoneyin and Morten Ranum We are in Lagos, Nigeria to participate in Aké Arts and Book Festival. Prior to the festival we have a conversation with the festival director Lola Shoneyin, Nigerian poet and author. The conversation begins with snaopshots from the press conference, thereafter we are having a one by one with Lola Shoneyin in her office in a more relaxed atmosphere and environment. To the press meeting Lola Shoneyin introduces the festival, tells about the ten years of experience and presents the main sponsor of the festival si...2023-11-3045 min
Foreignness and FriendshipNovember 2023: Hald Improvisationer (Dansk/English)Sæson V, 3 - Episode 27 Indhold: 00:00 Intro 02:38 Abstrakt 05:40 Improvisationer over Hald Sø 40:30 Homeage to Palestine (English) 47:30 Improvisationer (fortsat) 87:25 Outro I denne meget lange podcast serverer vi en række improvisationer opstået under vandringer langs Hald Sø. Ind imellem forsøger vi at give historisk kontekst til, hvor vi befinder os, og hvad som måske, måske ikke foregik her i tidligere tider. Midtvejs kommer en hyldest til Palestina - på engelsk. Formålet med inprovisationerne er vores taknemmelighed over for endnu engang at have fået...2023-11-061h 28
Foreignness and FriendshipConversation #9: Polo Moji & Laura Nkola-Wenz (Cape Town, South Africa), Open Book Festival 2023 (English)Mapping Literary Cities - or the return of geography During Open Book Festival in September 2023 in Cape Town we had a conversation about the cross disciplinary “African Literary Cities Project” with Polo Moji and Laura Nkola-Wenz from African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town. For a general reportage from the festival in Cape Town we recommend listening to a previous episode of our radio show. In the conversation they are referring to the UNESCO Creative Cities Network and questioning the network critically. After the conversation with Laura and Polo we introd...2023-10-2942 min
Foreignness and FriendshipOktober 2023: Open Book Festival i Cape Town (Dansk/English)Sæson V, 2 - Episode 26 Indhold: 00:00 Intro 02:41 Abstrakt 05:51 Open Book 23:17 Reading by Uhuru Phalafala from "Mine Mine Mine" in The Book Lounge (English) 26:17 Interview with Mervyn Sloman, founder of Open Book Festival (English) 43:24 Lyset i maleriet (Anna Ancher) 45:34 Outro Vi har været I Cape Town i Sydafrika til bogfestival, men der skete noget den sidste formiddag før vi skulle tage flyveren til East London længere mod nord, som overskygger alt andet som ellers hændte, men måske handler det alt sammen om det samme – om at fø...2023-10-0246 min
Foreignness and FriendshipSeptember 2023: Billedkunst set i københavnsk perspektiv (Dansk)Sæson V, 1 - Episode 25 Indhold: 00:00 Intro 02:46 Abstrakt 06:19 Litteratur på museet 23:59 Billedkunst set i københavnsk perspektiv 35:00 Outro Vi indleder en ny sæson. På overfladen fortsætter vi med at lave anmeldelser og reportage. I denne udsendelse forsøger vi at anskue billedkunsten fra en københavnsk synsvinkel. Vi har besøgt CHART og Enter Art, men litteraturen på kunstmuseet Louisiana blander sig også. Litteraturen har altid haft sine egne problemer, hvilket vi vil komme tilbage til. Langt vigtigere er den underliggende musik. Det vil være forkert at sige at vi l...2023-09-0535 min
Foreignness and FriendshipConversation #8: Guadalupe Nettel (Mexico), Louisiana Literature 2018 (English)Conversation between Guadalupe Nettel and Morten Ranum. Her novel "El cuerpo en que naci" had just been translated into Danish and published by Forlaget Grif with the title "Kroppen jeg blev født i". Guadalupe Nettel attended Louisiana Literature to present her book, where Morten Ranum met her in a jetlagged version of herself. The conversation took place Friday, August 24, 2018 in Louisiana Museum in Humlebæk north of Copenhagen. Afterwards a written version of the conversation was published in Globalnyt. Photos: press photos (Forlaget Grif & Louisiana Museum).2023-08-2524 min
RotsekkRotsekk Morten Gamst Pedersen og Kent RanumTiden i BlackburnReisen til RBKUt fra RBKWienerbrødkonkuransseRuben AltePerry river ned garasjeporten til KentOm talentene i RanheimHva skal til for at RBK kommer tilbake i storslag?Fremtiden Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-08-241h 42
Foreignness and FriendshipReview #1: Louisiana Literature 2014-19 (Dansk)Vi varmer op til årets udgave af Louisiana Literature ved at bringe en række anmeldelser og interviews fra tidligere års festivaler på museet. Alle artikler har tidligere været publiceret på Globalnyt - en enkelt på U-landsnyt (U-landsnyt ændrede i 2015 navn til Globalnyt). Foto: Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Louisiana Museum) Opdateringer om kommende udsendelser fra Fremmedhed og Bekendstskab2023-07-311h 13
Foreignness and FriendshipReportage #5: Louisiana Literature 1-2, 2021 (Dansk)Sæson I, 4 - Episode 4 & Sæson I, 5 - Episode 5 - uddrag Vi genudsender repprtage fra Louisiana Literature i 2021. I udsendelsens første del introducerer vi til festivalen, der pga. pandemien var udstrakt i hele august måned. I anden del anmelder vi bøger af Samanta Schweblin og Jamaica Kincaid. Flettet ind i reportagen bringes også et interview med festivalens leder Christian Lund. Foto: Jamaica Kincaid (Louisiana Museum) Første gang sendt på Tremella Radio den 10.august og den 24.august 2021 Yderligere info om Fremmedhed og bekendtskab 2023-07-311h 02
Foreignness and Friendship22.06.2021: LiteratureXchange 2021 (Dansk)Season I, 2 - Episode 2 Content: 00:00 Intro 02:56 CPH Central Station 04:06 Arrival Aarhus06:51 Abstract (English) 08:36 Walking to Dokk1 20:14: Om de gode intentioner (festivaler) 51:36 Leonora Carrington 58:46 Outro Welcome to our second episode. Last time we promised that on the fourth Tuesday we would always broadcast a repetition of the previous show, but this will not be case, because last week "inmyfootstep" and "thewhiteafrican" decided to visit the international literature festival LiteratureXchange in Aarhus. In Arhus we met Jeanette Ehlers and Olivia Wenzel. Wenzel has last year released her novel "1000 Serpentinen...2023-06-111h 00
Foreignness and FriendshipJuni 2023: Poesi improvisationer over Gudhjem (Dansk)Season IV, 3 - Episode 24 Content: 00:00 Intro 02:46 Abstract 05:42 Poesi improvisationer 24:59 Outro Vi præsenterer en ny person. Han kalder sig Morty Mort. Det var egentlig meningen af Morten Ranum skulle have været på et legatophold i Gudhjem for at skrive, men midt ude i Østersøen sank færgen og med den forsvandt Morten Ranum i havet – et element han altid har elsket meget højt. I Rønne havn dukker Morty Mort op og udgiver sig for at være Morten Ranum. Vi undrer os fortsat over, hvordan det kunne lade sig gø...2023-06-0625 min
Foreignness and FriendshipConversation #7: Anna Stewart, GFI Art Gallery, Port Elizabeth / Gqeberha, South Africa (English)The last of the three conversations held in January 2023 with art gallery managers and curators along the eastern coast in South Africa.. In this conversaton we are visiting GFI Art Gallery in Port Elizabeth, renamed Gqeberha. Rose, a woman also present in the gallery office interrupts now and then the conversation with Gallery Manager Anna Stewart to elaborate on aspects relevant for the conversation. A shorter version of our visit in Gqeberha has earlier been published as part of our radioshow from February 2023 about East Coast Art Scene (season IV, 1 - episode 22. More info: Foreignness an...2023-05-2523 min
Foreignness and FriendshipConversation #6: Mduduzi Xakaza, Durban Art Gallery, eThekwini, South Africa (English)The second of three conversations held in January 2023 with art gallery managers and curators along the eastern coast in South Africa.. In this conversation we meet Dr. Mduduzi Xakaza, Manager of Durban Art Gallery. A shorter version of the encounter with Dr. Mduduzi Xakaza has earlier been published as part of our radioshow from February 2023 about East Coast Art Scene (season IV, 1 - episode 22). Photo credit: Peter Upfold More info: Foreignness and Friendship2023-05-251h 07
Foreignness and FriendshipConversation #5: Reggie Letsatsi, Limani Gallery East London, South Africa (English)In January 2023 we travelled along the East Coast in South Africa to visit art galleries in East London, Durban (Ethekwini) and Port Elizabeth (Gqeberha). Here is a conversation with Reggie Letsatsi, Art Curator from Limani Art Gallery in East London. A shorter version of the conversation has earlier been published as part of our radioshow from February 2023 about East Coast Art Scene (season IV, 1 - episode 22). Photo credit: Limani Art Gallery More info: Foreignness and Friendship2023-05-241h 13
Foreignness and FriendshipConversation #4: Iben Bach Elmstrøm, København, Danmark (Dansk)Om kuratorens rolle Samtale med udstillingsinspektør Iben Bach Elmstrøm fra Den Frie Udstillingsbygning om kuratering og kuratorens rolle. Hun har en baggrund såvel som billedkunstner, men har også gennem en årrække arbejdet som kurator i meget forskellige sammenhænge. Hun er udover sin kunstneriske baggrund også uddannet idenfor kuratering med en master i kuratering fra Goldsmith College, University of London i England. Samtalen mellem Iben Bach Elmstrøm og Morten Ranum fandt sted tirsdag den 31.maj 2022 i arkivet i kælderen under Den Fri Udstillingsbygning i København. Mere info: Fremme...2023-03-2838 min
Foreignness and FriendshipMarch 2023: Conversation about Contemporary Art (English) Season IV, 2 - Episode 23 Content: 00:00 Intro 02:45 Abstract 04:35 Art Talk, interviews and conversations about contemporary art 07:08 Conversation with Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova 35:15 Conversation with Edison Peñafíel 52:00 Art conversations in Denmark 58:48 Outro We are returning to Miami. Here we are talking to one of the owners of the gallery space Dimension Variable located in Little Habana in Miami. His name is Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova. We will also meet the Miami based artist Edison Peñafíel, who was born in Ecuador. In connection with these two conversations in Miami we wi...2023-03-1459 min
Foreignness and FriendshipTvangstekster #3: eksplosion (Dansk) Tredje og sidste del af trilogi af tvangstekster, hvor kunstprojektet pulveriserer og flyver i alle retninger. Vi oplever tre stemmer der gensidigt afbryder og supplerer hinanden. Digtsamlingen "eksplosion" er udgivet af Det Poetiske Bureaus Forlag i 2012. Omslaget er endnu engang lavet af TAT (Monica Hee Eun) på basis af fotografier taget Morten Ranum med kig ind i ruinerne af det nu nedrevne Skala på Axel Torv i København. I podcasten bruges tre forskellige eksplosionslyde: Den første er lavet af Herbert Boland med titlen Cinematicboomnorm: https://freesound.org/people/HerbertBoland/sounds/33637/ Den...2023-03-0542 min
Foreignness and FriendshipTvangstekster #2: fortsættelse (Dansk) Anden del af tvangstekster som foregår under ækvators stærke sol. I podcasten indgår anmeldelse af Thurston Magnus og lektørudtalelse. Digtsamlingen "fortsættelse" er udgivet af Det Poetiske Bureaus Forlag i 2011. Omslagsdesignet er igen lavet af TAT alias Monica Hee Eun som en grafisk manipulering af et mislykket fotograferet portræt af digteren. Fotografiet er taget af Julie Bakulumpagi i 2006 2023-03-0344 min
Foreignness and FriendshipTvangstekster #1: begyndelser (Dansk) Første del af trilogi med tvangstekster. Inkluderer anmeldelse af Thurston Magnus for MetrOrd og lektør udtalelse. Undervejs bliver der reflekteret over tvang og tvangsmekanismer. Debut digtsamlingen "begyndelser" er udgivet af Det Poetiske Bureaus Forlag i 2010. Omslagsdesign er lavet af TAT. TAT eksisterer ikke længere,. Hun kalder sig nu for Monica Hee Eun. Omslaget er lavet ud fra fotografier af Morten Ranum taget i Ellinge Lyng i isfrossen vinter i januar 2010. 2023-02-2741 min
Foreignness and FriendshipFebruary 2023: East Coast Art Scene, South Africa (English) Season IV, 1 - Episode 22 Content: 00:00 Intro 00:55 Abstract 03:44 Where are we? 10:45 East Coast Art Scene 17:53 East Londan and Limani Gallery 42:40 eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality and Durban Art Gallery 53:23 Gqeberha and GFI Art Gallery in Port Elizabeth 58:48 Outro bonus tracks - program info We are travelling along the Eastern Coast of South Africa from the huge port Durban in KwaZulu Natal, renamed eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, towards the very much smaller and lazier town East London and thereafter finally reaching Gqerberha; formerly and also still known as Port Elizabeth.2023-02-131h 00
Foreignness and FriendshipConversation #3: Ilya Bernstein, New York City, USA (English) Season I, 9 - Episode 9 - extract Conversation between Ilya Bernstein (Russian-American poet based in New York City), Mie Mortensen (Danish PhD-student at Columbia University in New York City) and Morten Ranum (Danish poet) about poetry and translation. Ilya Bernstein was in Copenhagen to present his book "BÅDE OG" with translations of his poetry and prose, published by Det Poetiske Bureau and translated by Mie Mortensen. The conversation took place October 23rd, 2021 in Det Poetiske Bureau, Fælledsvej 13, Nørrebro in Copenhagen, and it was originally aired by Foreignness and Friendship on Tremella Rad...2023-02-0845 min
Foreignness and FriendshipConversation #2: Libhongo "Tally" Mbiko, East London, South Africa (English)Season I, 8 - Episode 8 - extract A conversation with Libhongo Mbiko (South African artist) about his work as an artist and training of school children in art practices. The conversation took place at Beachfront Lounge, Quigney Beach, East London in South Africa on September 15, 2021. and was originally broadcasted by Foreignness and Friendship on Tremella Radio, October 26, 2021. Sæson I, 8 - Episode 8 - uddrag I denne podcast møder vi den sydafrikanske performer og dramatiker Libhongo Mbiko fra East London. Han fortæller om sit arbejde med at lave workshops for b...2023-02-0840 min
Foreignness and FriendshipEssay #3: Erotik, litteratur, performance (Dansk)Essay om erotik, erotisk litteratur og iscenesættelse - inklusiv anmeldelse af teaterdokumentar om O's historie af kunstner duoen Astrup & Bordorff opført på Husets Teater i København 30.april - 28 maj 2022. I essayet omtales Marquis de Sade (120 dage), George Bataille (Historien om øjet og Madame Edwarda) og Leopold Sacher-Masoch (Venus i pels). Billede: Pressefoto, Husets Teater (Fotograf Karoline Lieberkind). Oprindeligt publiceret maj 2022 som bonus track på "Foreignness and friendship", Mixcloud.2023-01-2924 min
Foreignness and FriendshipEssay #2: Magisk realisme (Dansk) Essay om "magisk realisme" af Morten Ranum med inddragelsen af argentinske, mexicanske og danske forfattere. Essayet efterfølges af forkærlighed for lyden af bestemte spanske ord, kærlighedsdigte på engelsk skrevet til een bestemt kvinde (2017-20) og digte på dansk fra samlingen "Saftig lørdag" (2015). Essayet er en indlæst version af foredrag holdt på København Universitet den 28.september under Festival de Literatura de Copenhague i 2021 (den årligt tilbangevendende festival for spansksproget litteratur). Læs mere om "Fremmedhed og bekendtskab" 2023-01-2930 min
Foreignness and Friendship06.12.2022: Miami Beach (Dansk)Season III, 4 - Episode 21 Content: 00:00 Intro 02:44 Abstract (English) 06:33 Where are WE? 11:03 Miami Beach 28:43 Art Basel 33:15 Pinta Art 40:55 Dimension Variable 48:45 Outro bonus tracks - program info The Grand Finale of the year in Miami. Miami of all places host a number of art exhibitions, art shows and art fairs towards the end of the year. Not only the super commercial Art Basel’s show in Miami, but also the upcoming Untitled Art and the Latin American Pinta Art Miami. In addition there is also Miami Art wi...2023-01-2749 min
Foreignness and Friendship01.11.2022: Farverne (Dansk)Season III, 3 - Episode 20 Content: 00:00 Intro 02:43 Abstract (English) 05:17 Who are WE? 08:25 Blue, yellow and red 58:38 Outro WE have met the primary colors during the last six month – the color blue, the color yellow and the color red. In this episode WE will continue OUR investigation of contemporary art by focusing on colors, form and how they intertwine, but also be influenced by the fact that we are heading back into the past to recapture what we have seen before and rethink how WE ought to proceed. It was in...2023-01-2659 min
Foreignness and FriendshipReportage #3: Copenhagen Art Week 2021 (Dansk)Sæson I, 7: Episode 7 & Sæson I,8: Episode 8 - uddrag Vi har alle sammen her på stationen været til Art Week Copenhagen, og det giver anledning til nogle egentlig ikke nye overvejelser om kunstens vilkår lige nu, men nogle dage senere sidder vi og indtager et overdådigt måltid hos Art Hub og der opstår nogle langt mere interessante tanker om kunstens væsen og dens rolle. I anden del af reportagen fra Copenhagen Art Week fortsætter vi overvejelserne om, hvorvidt en kunstsamtale er en mulighed. Foto: Lara Osorio (oplevbyen.dk) 2023-01-2320 min
Foreignness and FriendshipReportage #2: Paris Photo 2021 (Dansk)En stor fotografisk begivenhed i kolonihistoriens centrum Paris Photo samler de største og tungeste navne i branchen til fremvisning i kolonimagtens gamle centrum. Også Danmark er repræsenteret gennem Galleri Asbæk og Galleri V1 fra Kødbyen – den frække m/k i klassen. Billede: Fotografi af Pilar Albarracin med titlen "No Comment", 2018, Præsenteret på Paris Photo af Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois i Paris. Essayet blev første gang udgivet som artikel i online magasiset Solidaritet den 2.december 2021. Podcasten er en indlæst version af artiklen. Yderligere information...2023-01-2320 min
Foreignness and FriendshipConversation #1: Natalia Molebatsi, Johannesburg, South Africa (English) Season I, 7 - Episode 7 - extract A conversation between Natalia Molebatsi (South African poet) and Morten Ranum (Danish poet) about her book "Wild (Im)Perfections". It is an anthology of womanist poems, written by women from all over the world. Natalia Molebatsi is a poet, editor and performer from South Africa based in Johannesburg. The conversation took place in Exclusive Books in Hype Park in Johannesburg on September 21, 2021. Originally broadcasted by Foreignnesss and Friendship on Tremalla Radio October 12, 2021 Sæson I, 7 - Episode 7 - uddrag Denne podcast er en sam...2022-12-3037 min
Foreignness and FriendshipEssay #1: Vrede og Audre Lorde (Dansk) Season I, 1 - Episode 1 - extract Content: 02:05 - Reviews of Audre Lorde in Danish translation 12:12 - Essay of anger In my footstep is reading from reviews of Audre Lorde’s poetry and essays from Sister Outsider. All translated into Danish by the magnificent Shadi Angelina Bazeghi. Afterwards Morten Ranum talk about anger inspired by Lorde’s essay “Eye to Eye”, not yet translated into Danish More info: Foreignness and Friendships Sæson I, 1 - Episode 1 - uddrag Essay om vrede af Morten Ranum inspireret af Audre Lord...2022-12-3039 min
Foreignness and Friendship12.04.2022: Comtemporary Art in Paris (English)Season II, 3 - Episode 14: Content: 00:00: Intro 02:36: Abstract 06:46: Paradis Latin Cabaret 10:06: Art Paris 37:10: 1-54 Contemporary African Art 59:20: Outro This episode will be in English, because we are in Paris. It does not make sense. It is over midnight and my birthday. Today I am 58 – well last week I turned 58. What does it mean? Ironically I am translating another man’s poems, and he also turned 58 recently. Is this symmetry or a coincidence? I don’t care. Really, I do not. Authority is not something I give value. I am interested in wea...2022-12-141h 00
Foreignness and FriendshipReportage #1: AKAA Art and Design Fair 2021 (English)Season I, 10 - Episode 10 - extended version Content: 00:00 - Intro 01:00 - AKAA - also known as africa 03:56 - Victoria Mann (director of AKAA) 16:30 - Three months later in Johannesburg 21:35 - Michaela Hadji-Minaglou (gallery manager of Afrikaris) 47:35 - Tiffanie Delune (artist) 69:45 - Outro We have been to Paris. It is always a pleasure to be in a truly urban space, a big city. In Paris we participated in an art and design fair called “Also Known As Africa”. We were intrigued by the title and how it attempts to crea...2022-12-131h 10
Foreignness and Friendship06.09.2022: Art Joburg (Dansk/English)Season III, 1 - Episode 18: Content: 00:00 - Intro 02:50 - Abstract 04:56 - Where are we? 14:45 - Art Joburg 58:38 - Outro We are in Johannesburg again on the borderline between South African Winter and Summer. There is a reason, but also multiple purposes displayed in our whereabouts. It is not easy to maneuver. The official goal is to make a broadcast about Art Joburg. The exhibition turns out to be a very noisy experience. Therefor we recommend headphones while listening to the show. But are there still people, who listen to...2022-11-031h 00
Foreignness and Friendship07.06.2022: Dakar (Dansk)Season II, 5 - Episode 16: bonus tracks - programbeskrivelse Indhold: 00:00 - Intro 02:45 - Resumé 05:35 - Dagene i Dakar 47:00 - Biennale de Dakar 58:45 - Outro I Venedig fik Blanchot ikke nogen betydning, men vi læste Blanchot en eftermiddag sammen med en espresso på Murano, dagen før det hele gik løs inde på San Marco. Måske forstod vi ikke det hele første gang, men vi begyndte at lytte til stemmen, ikke den stemme der bærer fortællingen, men den anden mumlende og næsten tavse stemme som...2022-11-0259 min
Foreignness and Friendship08.02.2022: Galleries in Johannesburg (Dansk/English)Season II, 1 - Episode 12 Content: 00:00 - Intro 05:45 - Abstract 15.00 - Gallery Trail 33:30 - Oversættelse: (partly in English) 47:45 - Privilegier 58:41 - Outro We have taken a break. It has been a long January with many experiences. Welcome back to a new and second season of foreignness, alienation and hopefully many new friendship. In our break we have spent time in South Africa. Not only in East London by the east coast, but also down south – or west, they call it Western Cape, in small villages outside Cape Tow...2022-11-021h 00
Foreignness and Friendship28.06.2022: Documenta Fifteen, Kassel (Dansk)Season II, 6 - Episode 17: We will once again - as we did in Venice - give the word to Morten Ranum, because we do not only intent to bring report from Documenta Fifteen in Kassel, but also compare Kassel to Biennale di Venezia, although it might seem an impossible mission, because the two exhibitions are very different. In Kassel they are dissolving the idea of contemporary art, while in Venezia they continue to wordship art as we have known it – as artworks, pieces of art you can visit and see and then leave again. ...2022-11-011h 00
Foreignness and Friendship10.05.2022: Venedig Biennalen (Dansk)Season II, 4 - Episode 15: In this episode we bring a report from the Venice Biennale. ´We stay in a small hotel in Murano Island, which is not a success. In the second part we review a Theatre Documentary version of Pauline Reage: "The Story of O" and bring an essay about erotic literature and performance written by Morten Ranum in 2015, orginally published in the magasin Det Poetiske Bureau. Vi bringer i denne udsendelse en reporatge from Venedig Biennalen. Forventningen var at Maurice Blanchot fortsat skulle spille en rolle, men det viser sig ikke at være...2022-10-241h 00
Foreignness and Friendship04.10.2022: Identitetspolitik (Dansk)Season III, 2 - Episode 19: We are thinking about identity politics. There are many ways of expressing an identity. Very often it is done through separation, by segregating yourself from a norm in society. We are searching for a form of identity, which does not use separation as a tool, but identities with an open mind and inclusive of others. During this journey we will revisit Art Joburg and an artist using the pronoun THEY, but also the architecture of Oodi Library in central Helsinki plays an important role. The structure of the show will be Morten Ranum...2022-10-2459 min