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TBA21 on st_ageDecoding Deep Fakes: AI, Ethics, and the Power of MediaWith the rise of artificial intelligence, a new frontier emerges in human cognition and experience. Concepts such as consciousness and creativity are constantly redefined by algorithms and code performances. Extraction, manipulation, and radicalization are some of the intensified side effects of applying computational techniques to traditional media. Can adopting radical transparency, decentralization, and the inclusion of non-human perspectives help us steer this new media toward becoming a productive force of sustainability and regeneration?
One of the central topics of this episode is the concept of deep fakes, an emergent technology with profound societal implications. The episode further delves into its...2024-05-0756 min
TBA21 on st_ageOcean for all. Art for the development of a sign language eco-glossaryFor video podcast in sign language please visit st_age website on the following link: https://www.stage.tba21.org/detail/ocean-for-all
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Abecedarium. The Ocean in Sign Language is the name of a multi-year educational and participatory project in collaboration with ENS, Ente Nazionale Sordi (Italian Deaf Agency), and CNR ISMAR, Institute of Marine Sciences.
The main idea of the project is to create an eco-glossary in sign language, beginning with Italian sign language, before moving to other countries and international signs related to the marine world and the climate emergency. The ocean covers almost the entire Earth, and...2024-02-0936 min
TBA21 on st_ageOf History, Habitat, and The Shore: Framing a Caribbean Discourse around Fana Fraser’s “nesting”Born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago, Fana Fraser is currently a U.S. based contemporary dance artist who explores the nature and essence of things within a framework of exploratory embodiment. Her short film, nesting (2023), was filmed both in and near water, at the intersection of physical and philosophical constructs of borders, urgency, and care. It enjoins us to consider the environment, our responsibilities, and our humanity, and, although the film was shot on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, it evokes a feeling of Caribbean consciousness and reality.
Three artists who live and work in the Caribbean...2023-12-2138 min
TBA21 on st_ageTan lejos tan cerca, ruido (So far so close, noise)In this podcast, artist and researcher Susana Jiménez Carmona talks with scientists Claudio Barría, a marine biologist, and Michel André, a bioacoustician. Both are involved to different degrees in the artistic production and research project ruido ê by Silvia Zayas, an audiovisual and performing artist—a fragment of the film ruido ê can be seen on this same platform. Some issues raised by or arising during the development of this project are addressed here by Barría and André, including interspecific coexistence in coastal cities, encounters with elusive electric rays, the effects of anthropogenic noise on living creatures and marine ecosystem...2023-11-0344 min
TBA21 on st_ageClimate MattersThe Climate Matters podcast will delve into the socio-political and economic contexts surrounding the climate change conversation in India. Through engaging discussions and expert insights, our guests will shed light on the frameworks and challenges related to climate policy and environmental law with a special focus on the communities most affected by climate change. The podcast will take a comprehensive approach to unpacking the complexities of climate action in India.
This podcast was produced and hosted by Khoj team members Alina Tiphagne, Head of Media and Communications, and Isha Bhattacharya, Junior Curator and Program Manager, who are accompanied by award-winning...2023-07-1434 min
TBA21 on st_ageRío Manzanares: un teatro para la memoria (The Manzanares River: A Theatre for Memory)This podcast is based on the work of the artist Irene de Andrés, A orillas del Manzanares (On the Banks of the Manzanares River, 2022), whose research originates in a pool shaped like an ocean liner, known as La Isla (the island), which was built in the Madrilenian Manzanares river in the 1930s.
With the help of two experts—Malú Cayetano, landscape designer and forestry engineer, and David Uribelarrea del Val, professor of geomorphology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid—we open a conversation about the Manzanares river, understood as a theater of memory, that puts into circulation the layers and fl...2023-06-3021 min
TBA21 on st_ageCreating one's own––The lingering presence of stories and their impact on architectureA piece of architecture is a fraction of a more extensive infrastructure. An experience of a building lingers, capturing the essence of a particular time and place. Modern architecture created motifs that traveled to other cities. Versions of these motifs often evoke a sense of familiarity when their variations are encountered. Some modern monuments' direct relationship to past regimes puts them at risk of being neglected, destructed, repurposed, or even preserved for myriad reasons. Often, there is no comprehensive framework in place to address their significance or ensure their preservation. This podcast delves into the interpretation of monumental projects as...2023-06-1634 min
TBA21 on st_ageCachalotes: Escuchando al Oceáno (Sperm Whales: Listening to the Ocean)Focusing on the fascinating species of the sperm whale, this conversation brings together José Luis Espejo, researcher and curator, and Txema Brotons, biologist specialized in whales and acoustics, and Tursiops' Association scientific director. The podcast proposes an archaeology of the means by which science and other branches of knowledge first began to listen to and classify cetacean sounds. The scientific research carried out can help us understand the impact of anthropogenic sound on the communication systems of whales, with a focus on the cachalots.
The podcast departs from talk took place at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, on May 25, 2023, as a...2023-06-0833 min
TBA21 on st_ageMarine Anthropogenic Noise: Listening to the OceanIn this podcast Carlos Duarte, scientist and oceanographer, discusses how anthropogenic noise—meaning noise produced by human beings and the machines they make and use—produces an impact on marine fauna, and asks how it is possible to reverse this impact of human pollution. Duarte tells us about the efforts to understand how sound communication functions in the Ocean among the different species, and the importance of art in conveying this to the general public in order to put policies into action.
The podcasts consists of interventions by Carlos Duarte, extracted from the conversation with sound artist Jana Winderen, in a ta...2023-06-0826 min
ThyssenEncuentros: obras de la Colección TBA21 en el Museo Nacional Thyssen-BornemiszaEn este capítulo nos sumergimos en un diálogo artístico único entre la colección de arte moderno del museo y una selección de veintisiete piezas de la Colección TBA21, que los visitantes pueden descubrir en las salas de la primera planta hasta el 8 de octubre.
Escuchamos a Paloma Alarcó, jefe de conservación de Pintura Moderna del museo, y a Soledad Gutiérrez, conservadora-jefe de TBA21, para conocer el porqué de este proyecto y a algunos artistas destacados que forman parte de él, como Ai Weiwei, Sarah Lucas o Regina de Miguel, quien nos acompaña también en 2023-06-0235 min
TBA21 on st_ageUmbilical Lands And The Shape-Shifting Lives Of Rivers | Bo Choy and Sayana NamsaraevaArtist Bo Choy speaks with Sayana Namsaraeva, an anthropologist from Buryatia, a republic in Eastern Siberia bordering Mongolia, whose work focuses on the Indigenous cosmologies of the people from her region. Together they delve into animated landscapes that surround Lake Baikal, the deepest and oldest freshwater lake on the planet.
Their conversation considers the intimate connection between these largely untouched landscapes and the rich fabric of belief systems, Indigenous cosmologies, oral traditions, and mythologies that emerge from them. Moving through their shared and diverging influences spanning pre-Buddhism shamanisms, Chinese and Mongolian Buddhisms, Feng Shui, and ancient eastern philosophies, Bo Choy...2023-05-1237 min
TBA21 on st_agePermafrost Hydrofeminism | Astrida Neimanis and Nikita TananaevCultural theorist, Astrida Neimanis’ theory of Hydrofeminism, positions water as an ever-shifting body that connects all beings and archives all histories. Unlike other bodies of water however, the permafrost wishes to remain still. Astrida Neimanis speaks with permafrost hydrologist, Nikita Tananaev to discuss the cultural, philosophical, and ecological implications of permafrost degradation as it disrupts ancient ecosystems suspended in the ice.
This podcast was first released by RW MACBA, before the UK sanctions of the Dissolving Earths program were lifted.
The soundscape and sound-editing is by Either/Or Productions.
If you want to delve deeper into the permafrost, visit the fu...2023-04-2149 min
ThyssenTBA21: El arte como iniciativa para concienciarEn este capítulo hablamos sobre cómo el arte puede convertirse en una herramienta poderosa para concienciar. Para ello, nos acompañan la directora de la Fundación Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), Rosa Ferré, y su conservadora-jefe, Soledad Gutiérrez, responsable de la exposición “De ballenas”, la primera muestra individual de la artista Wu Tsang en España que se puede visitar hasta el 11 de junio en el museo.2023-04-1332 min
TBA21 on st_ageNature As Book: Emblems, Divination, and GeomancyDrawing on the importance of poetry and the practice of symbolic interpretation for an evolving politics in Omarzad’s practice, this podcast is hosted by philosopher and writer Federico Campagna, who is joined by contributors Dr Lucy Mercer, lecturer of creative writing at Goldsmith University and author of the recent poetry book Emblem (Prototype, 2022), and Arianna Dalla Costa, from the Warburg Institute, researcher on the ancient arts of divination and geomancy.
Two areas of tension are explored: poetry and politics; magic and science. Emblems, as thresholds between image and text, are discussed with Dr Mercer: their origin and definition, symbology an...2023-03-1727 min
TBA21–Academy RadioMagical Fresh & Salty Conversation: More-than-Human Underwater FilmingThis episode of Magical Fresh & Salty Conversations features the artist and STARTS resident Sonia Levy in conversation with Erika Balsom, a London-based scholar and critic working on cinema, art, and their intersection. During their STARTS residency, Sonia Levy and her collaborators, environmental anthropologist Heather Swanson, ecologist Meredith Root Bernstein, and landscape architect Alexandra Arènes, looked at the Venetian Lagoon through the lens of nature-based solutions to mitigate flood risks. What issues arise from Venice’s long history of taming its waterscape? With a shared commitment to noticing more-than-human worlds, the group strived to forge their own understanding of the con...2023-01-1238 minTBA21–Academy RadioMagical Fresh & Salty Conversation: Seascape Epistemology and the Venetian CocoonEvery living being is an experiment made out of the flesh of the planet. In order to navigate it, the stars have to become a part of you. This episode of Magical Fresh & Salty Conversations features two discussions that touch upon the interests of the STARTS residents: Sonia Levy is joined by scholar, writer, and surfer Karin Amimoto Ingersoll, while her collaborator Meredith Root-Bernstein talks to philosopher Emanuele Coccia. Together, our guests look at the possibiliy of knowledge otherwise emerging from our interactions with watery spaces. How can immersed perspectives generate epistemologies that challenge imperial structures? How can thinking at...2023-01-051h 01TBA21–Academy RadioMagical Fresh & Salty Conversation: Radio AmnionIn this episode, we are joined by Jol Thoms, a London-based artist and researcher teaching the MA program Art & Ecology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Thoms is the founder of a multi-year sound project called Radio Amnion, commissioning artists and researchers to stream sonic composition from the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Radio Amnion explores the magical spaces of intersection between cultural and scientific cosmologies and also joined the STARTS artists-in-residency for their final showcase event at Ocean Space in Venice on the summer solstice in 2021.
In a conversation with Elisa Resconi, an astrophysicist from the Technical University of Munich...2022-12-2233 minTBA21–Academy RadioMagical Fresh & Salty Conversation: Rhythmic BodiesIn this episode, "Rhythmic Bodies: A Walk Through the Performance-Expedition, Breathings of the moon,” we are joined by curator of performance and ecology Lucia Pietroiusti, who interviews the S+T+ARTS artists in residence Diego Delas and Leonor Serrano Rivas to discuss the performance-expedition they developed during their residency in Venice.
In his work Mundus Subterraneus, published in 1665, the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher devised a theory on the movement of water, claiming that water moves in an upward motion from the sea to the mountains. Although incorrect, this theory was the departing point for Diego Delas and Leonor Serrano Rivas to...2022-12-1537 min
TBA21 on st_age‘«Islas adyacentes»: Decolonizando el Mar Caribe desde Puerto Rico’This podcast accompanies the work Pájaro, cómeme (2022) by artist Beatriz Santiago Muñoz. Hosted by María Montero Sierra, Head of Program of TBA21–Academy, it deals with the role that the Ocean takes in the practices of decolonization in the Caribbean, and how these affect particularly to Puerto Rico, today a non-incorporated territory of the USA, a free associated state with self-government status. Montero Sierra is joined by contributors Reniel Rodríguez Ramos, Doctor of Anthropology at the University of Florida and Professor of the Social Sciences Program of the Universidad de Puerto Rico, who is specialized on Isth...2022-12-1530 minTBA21–Academy RadioMagical Fresh & Salty Conversation: The Problem of ImaginationIn this episode, “The Problem of Imagination: The Triangle of Magic-Imagination-Science,” our guests examine three concepts that have historically framed the notion of nature. The hosts, S+T+ARTS artists in residence Diego Delas and Leonor Serrano Rivas, engage in a conversation with philosopher and writer Federico Campagna and professor of history of art, science, and folk practices John Tresch.
How do we imagine nature in the time of climate change? Can we redefine scientific knowledge through art? Do fiction and imagination have a reality-altering potential that could help us surpass the dichotomy of problem versus solution? In their conversation, gues...2022-12-0843 min
TBA21 on st_ageLandscape that Speaks Without WordsThis Spanish-language podcast, hosted by curator and researcher Carolina Jiménez, accompanies the premiere of the documentary Aquel verano del 22. Las leyes [The Summer of ‘22. The Laws] by artist and filmmaker Lorenzo Sandoval for TBA21. Carolina and Lorenzo have been in conversation over the years, often pursuing collaborative research together, as with their current project Rhythmepistemologies, which they are working on under the name Office for the Edition of Patterns and Poetics of Repetition. OEPPR is an organization for the analysis, production, and redistribution of the intersections between infrastructures and cosmovisions.
In this podcast they explore the continuities between body and...2022-11-1829 min
TBA21 on st_ageThe Stories We TellThis podcast, which accompanies the video work The Mountain That Hid by Sim Chi Yin on TBA21 on st_age, is hosted by researcher and curator Kathleen Ditzig. Through the perspective of literature and the work of Tash Aw and Preeta Samarasan, it examines how poetic license and personal family stories can speak to uncomfortable political Cold War histories that are part of nation-building projects in Southeast Asia. Aw and Samarasan are two diasporic Malaysian writers, whose works have included familial and generational narratives to speak to the long reach of the region’s and Malaysia’s racial and political hist...2022-11-0736 min
TBA21 on st_ageThe Dose that Makes the PoisonThis podcast, which accompanies the performance Carried Away: Beyond a Rooted Condition by Madison Bycroft, Nana (Anaïs) Pinay, and Léo Landon Barrett for TBA21 on st_age, is hosted by researcher and writer Jess Saxby. It draws links between the artwork’s themes of naming, taxonomy, and categorisation to the broader discipline of botany, and considers the performance’s location in the botanical gardens of Córdoba. Samir Boumediene is a historian whose research focuses on the search for medicinal plants in the 15th century, and Chanelle Adams is a multidisciplinary essayist, researcher, and translator who is currently working...2022-10-1727 min
TBA21 on st_age“Minor” OrnithologiesThis podcast, accompanying Laia Estruch’s performance project for TBA21 on st_age, is hosted by curator, writer, and lifelong birder Max Andrews. It takes flight into the realm of birds, looking at politics and practices that disrupt dominant historical narratives and exceed scientific and cultural boundaries. Alex Holt is a spokesperson for Bird Names for Birds, a movement to decolonise bird names, and Hollis Taylor is a zoömusicologist specializing in birdsong. Through their perspectives we glimpse new and speculative kinds of human–bird narratives; what Anna-Sophie Springer and Etienne Turpin have described as “minor ornithologies.”
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Contributors: Alex Holt and H...2022-09-2734 min
TBA21 on st_ageFeral Ecologies: Infrastructures and Modes of InterventionIn this podcast, anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Aarhus University, Denmark, meets Heather Anne Swanson, a fellow anthropologist at Aarhus University and collaborative partner for Sonia Levy’s film Creatures of the Lines (2021) previously presented on TBA21 on st_age. Tsing is the author of several books, including The Mushroom at the End of the World, as well as a co-editor of the digital project Feral Atlas together with Jennifer Deger, Alder Saxena Keleman, and FeiFei Zhou.
In the podcast, Tsing and Swanson discuss several of Tsing’s recent projects, while also descr...2022-08-1839 min
TBA21–Academy RadioAridity Lines: Violence, climate change, and shifting shorelinesIn the final episode of Aridity Lines, Eyal Weizman (professor of spatial and visual cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the founding director of Forensic Architecture) recontextualizes his research on the aridity line, stemming from his 2015 book The Conflict Shoreline, and discusses how it can be understood today. Addressing issues of environmental colonialism and its entanglement with structures of violence, namely in occupied Palestine and the Mediterranean region, Weizman reflects on the use of scientific tools and inherited forms of knowledge in his work as well as reconsidering a futurity imbued with unconventional signifiers.
Guest: Eyal Weizman
Hosted by...2022-07-0643 min
TBA21 on st_ageLas voces de los ch'olti’ hablan al presenteDeparting from the work of Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa ‘Hocho’ (Abrirse las orejas / To Open One's' Ears, 2022) this podcast is hosted by the activist and researcher Aura Cumes, who is accompanied by the historian and anthropologist Edgar Esquit, and the economist, poet, creator, musician, and editor Kaypa' Tz'iken. Also taking Fray Francisco Morán’s 1695 Spanish-Ch’olti’ dictionary, Arte y vocabulario de la lengua Ch’olti’ as a reference, this podcast explores the geography and history of the Ch’olti’ community, as well as the process of christianization, colonial violence, genocide, and ethnocide to which this people were subjected together with other Mayan cultures...2022-06-2032 min
Phenomenal OceanOCEAN WANTS: 03 Rise of Slime feat. Lisa-Ann GershwinFive hundred million years ago the ocean was dominated by jellyfish. Thanks to us, humans, they might dominate the ocean again.In the third episode of the podcast Ocean Wants, speculative writer Ingo Niermann, most recently of the book Mare Amoris, is talking to Lisa-ann Gershwin, a marine biologist with a unique dedication and enthusiasm for jellyfish. She speaks from her home in Tasmania.— Ocean Wants, Institut Art Gender Nature dertank.ch and TBA21–Academy, ocean-archive.org2022-06-0157 minPhenomenal OceanOCEAN WANTS: 02 Self-Conscious Fish feat. Alex JordanFish are compassionate, recognize themselves in the mirror, and fancy designed shelters over natural ones. Recent experiments contest common ideas of what distinguishes humans from smaller, non-mammalian creatures of the sea.In the second episode of the podcast Ocean Wants, speculative writer Ingo Niermann, most recently of the book Mare Amoris, is talking to Alex Jordan, Principal Investigator at the Department of Collective Behaviour at the Max Planck Institute in Konstanz, Germany. We speak at this home near Lake Constance.— Ocean Wants, Institut Art Gender Nature dertank.ch and TBA21–Academy, ocean-archive.org2022-06-011h 28Phenomenal OceanOCEAN WANTS: 08 Pain-Free Sea feat. David PearceShouldn’t the reduction of suffering be our priority when taking care of others’ needs—particularly the needs of those we can’t ask? Soon, CRISPR edited gene drives could alter the pain perception and hedonic range of any sexually reproducing species.In the eighth episode of the podcast Ocean Wants, speculative writer Ingo Niermann, most recently of the book Mare Amoris, is talking to David Pearce, a transhumanist philosopher who advocates the abolition of all negative feelings. He speaks from his home in Brighton, UK.— Ocean Wants, Institut Art Gender Nature dertank.ch...2022-06-011h 13Phenomenal OceanOCEAN WANTS: 05 Translating Whales feat. David GruberTo know what other humans want, we can ask them. But pets aside, modern societies lost the confidence and interest in communicating with nonhumans. Could advanced machine learning allow for an interspecies conversation, even with creatures that spend most of their time away in the deep?In the fifth episode of the podcast Ocean Wants, speculative writer Ingo Niermann, most recently of the book Mare Amoris, is talking to David Gruber, marine biologist and leader of CETI, a multidisciplinary project on understanding the acoustic communication of sperm whales. He speaks from his home in New York.2022-06-0158 minPhenomenal OceanOCEAN WANTS: 10 Ocean Nation feat. Markus ReymannWhile the land is ruled by nations and super nations, the ocean is subject to the tragedy of the commons. What if the ocean turned into a nation of its own—the largest nation in the world?In the tenth episode of the podcast Ocean Wants, speculative writer Ingo Niermann, most recently of the book Mare Amoris, is talking to Markus Reymann, director of TBA21-Academy and its Ocean Space in Venice. We speak at his office in Madrid.— Ocean Wants, Institut Art Gender Nature dertank.ch and TBA21–Academy, ocean-archive.org2022-06-0152 minPhenomenal OceanOCEAN WANTS: 07 Canceled Ice Age feat. William RuddimanFor the past 7000 years, humans have stabilized the global climate. The greenhouse gases emitted through deforestation, agriculture, and husbandry prevented the onset of a new glaciation. Only since the industrial revolution has human influence gotten out of hand, causing rapid rises in temperature and sea level.In the seventh episode of the podcast Ocean Wants, speculative writer Ingo Niermann, most recently of the book Mare Amoris, is talking to William Ruddiman, geologist and originator of the early Anthropocene hypothesis. He speaks from his home in Virginia.— Ocean Wants, Institut Art Gender Nature de...2022-06-0156 minPhenomenal OceanOCEAN WANTS: 01 Coral Renaissance feat. Marah J. HardtWe celebrate coral reefs as the colorful rain forests of the ocean. How could we not just save and restore existing coral reefs but allow them to spread?In the first episode of the podcast Ocean Wants, speculative writer Ingo Niermann, most recently of the book Mare Amoris, is talking to Marah J. Hardt, marine biologist, storyteller and director of discovery at the non-profit Future of Fish. She speaks from her home in Hawaii.— Ocean Wants, Institut Art Gender Nature dertank.ch and TBA21–Academy, ocean-archive.org2022-06-011h 01Phenomenal OceanOCEAN WANTS: 09 Deep Frontier feat. Diva AmonWe can see stars thousands of light years away with our naked eye. About life in the deep sea we started to know only 200 years ago—and we still know very little. How do we have to reinvent ourselves to serve the needs of the deep sea and tame endeavors to exploit its habitats?In the ninth episode of the podcast Ocean Wants, speculative writer Ingo Niermann, most recently of the book Mare Amoris, is talking to Diva Amon, a marine biologist focused on the deep ocean. She is also a founder and director of SpeSeas, an NG...2022-06-011h 11Phenomenal OceanOCEAN WANTS: 06 Conservation Libido feat. Eva HaywardThe ocean refuses empathetic ethics based on sameness with us humans. What does the urge to save nature—in certain ways—reveal about us and our desire?In the sixth episode of the podcast Ocean Wants, speculative writer Ingo Niermann, most recently of the book Mare Amoris, is talking to Eva Hayward, historian of science and faculty member in the Department of Gender and Women Studies at the University of Arizona.— Ocean Wants, Institut Art Gender Nature dertank.ch and TBA21–Academy, ocean-archive.org2022-06-011h 27Phenomenal OceanOCEAN WANTS: 04 Cephalopods on Land feat. Danna StaafBefore fish and other vertebrates proliferated, it was the heyday of the cephalopods. Their descendants — squid, cuttlefish, octopus, and nautilus—are still around, coping better with human dominance than many fish.In the fourth episode of the podcast Ocean Wants, speculative writer Ingo Niermann, most recently of the book Mare Amoris, is talking to Danna Staaf, a trained marine biologist who wrote the history of the cephalopods. She speaks from her home in San Jose, California.2022-06-011h 02
TBA21 on st_age‘Speak Up for Antarctica Now. Three Antarctic Resolutions’Released on the occasion of the 44th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting held in Berlin (May 23 - June 2, 2022), this podcast presents a conversation between Giulia Foscari (founder of UNLESS), Alan D. Hemmings, Carlo Barbante, and James N. Barnes on the urgencies facing the Antarctic and, in turn, planet Earth.
This conversation offers data and concrete arguments in support of the call to ‘Speak Up For Antarctica Now’ and sign the three Petitions for the protection of the Antarctic available here. The urgencies can be summarized as follows:
To meet the Paris Agreement targets of limiting global temperature increase to 2°C above pre-i...2022-05-2626 min
Creators facing Climate EmergencyHow to save Venice? (with TBA21/Ocean Space)Founder and Chair of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza is an activist, philanthropist and patron of the arts. She has supported many artists in the production and creation of works that engage with the most pressing issues of our times, including commissions by artists Olafur Eliasson, Claudia Comte, Ragnar Kjartensson, Walid Raad, Rikrit Tiravanija and Ai Weiwei. In 2011, she co-founded the TBA21–Academy.
Markus Reymann is co-founder and Director of TBA21–Academy, which fosters interdisciplinary dialogue and exchange surrounding the most urgent issues facing our oceans today.
In 2019, TBA21–Academy launched Ocean Space, a new global port for o...2022-04-141h 02
TBA21 on st_ageBackst_age | TBA21 20 Years of Commissioning Art | The Dream of Reason Produces MonstersThis podcast is a live recording from the talk between artist Janet Cardiff and essayist and professor Estrella de Diego Otero, which took place at the Real Academia de Bellas de San Fernando in Madrid on February 16, 2022. This event marked the beginning of the twenty-year anniversary celebrations of TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Introduced by Deputy Director and Treasurer of the Academia, Alfredo Pérez de Armiñán y de la Serna, and the Chairwoman of TBA21, Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, this dynamic conversation explores the work of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, an artist duo whose collaboration has been central to the...2022-03-2541 min
TBA21–Academy Radio2.08.(De)constructing Venice. Reflections from the OutsideENG.
2.8 (De)constructing Venice. Reflection from the outside, with Abiba Coulibaly (geographer) e Ella Navot (visual anthropologist). Ocean Fellowship 2021, TBA21–Academy.
How is Venice seen from the outside? Is it possible to deconstruct the multiple overlapping images associated with Venice? Have you ever imagined Venice as a place of alienation, and segregation? What symbols and images are conjured up for people that come from aboard?
Can we reflect on how to deconstruct political and social images of cultural representation in Venice?
In this episode, entitled “(De)constructing Venice. Reflection from the outside”, we’re going to present a very special collabor...2022-02-2346 min
TBA21–Academy RadioAridity Lines: Scarcity, Development Politics, and Corruption: Beirut’s Water Systems W/ N.ChristidiIn the fourth episode of Aridity Lines, researcher, writer, and arts practitioner Nadia Christidi discusses water supply systems and water-mediated social relations in Beirut as an entry point into a better understanding of water scarcity or aridity in the Mediterranean as a hydro-social, rather than purely hydrological problem.
Guest: Nadia Christidi
Hosted by Reem Shadid
Edited by Barbara Casavecchia and Reem Shadid
Introduction and credits voice-over: Jinane Chaaya
Sound editor: Moe Choucair
Produced by María Montero Sierra
Aridity Lines was commissioned by TBA21–Academy and co-produced with Radio Ma3azef as part of The Current III: “Mediterraneans: ‘Thus waves come in...2022-02-1658 minTBA21–Academy Radio2.7 Nowtilus: Come si nutre una città? In giro per cucine, campi e cantineITA.
Come si nutre una città? In giro per cucine, campi e cantine.
Con Chiara Spadaro (Università Ca Foscari), Marco Bravetti (Tocia! Cucina e Comunità) e Francesco Molinari (Adriatico Mar).
In questo episodio ci occuperemo di cibo, del suo ruolo nello scenario culturale della città, non solo nei contesti della ristorazione, ma anche e soprattutto nella sua complessità che non è mai disgiunta da un approccio multiculturale. Cibo da trasformare, cibo che nasce a Venezia o che arriva da lontano, in cui identificarsi, attorno a cui trovare delle comunità, con cui attivare delle riflessioni. A bordo di “Nowtilus” ascoltiamo i pensieri e le storie...2022-02-0954 minTBA21–Academy Radio2.6 Nowtilus: Contro/Correnti. Grandi navi, rampe da skate e attivismo rinnovatoIT.
“Contro/correnti. Grandi navi, rampe da skate e attivismo rinnovato" con Marco Baravalle (S.a.L.E. Docks, Comitato No Grandi Navi - Laguna Bene Comune), Francesca Guarnotta (Venice Calls), Andrea Curtoni e Giulia Mazzorin (Biennale Urbana).
Il sesto episodio di “Nowtilus" è dedicato alle azioni di rigenerazione culturale e difesa dell’ambiente lagunare. Andremo alla scoperta di alcune pratiche e esperienze di cura, difesa e re-immaginazione della città che sono sorte da dinamiche cittadine spontanee, fuori dagli schemi istituzionali. Come in ogni città, anche Venezia ha visto il sorgere, negli anni, di progetti, associazioni, gruppi, comitati, che si interrogano sulle nec...2022-01-2655 minTBA21–Academy Radio2.5 Nowtilus: Arrivi e Partenze. Piccola mappa di migrazioni, esodi e desideriIT.
“Arrivi e partenze. Piccola mappa di migrazioni, esodi e desideri” - il quinto episodio di questa stagione di “Nowtilus” si immerge nelle dinamiche delle migrazioni sociali, storiche e contemporanee, a Venezia, sfatando alcuni luoghi comuni su tempi, modi e cause dello spopolamento della città.
In compagnia di Federico Barbierato, professore di Storia Moderna all’Università di Verona, conosciamo le correnti di popoli che intersecavano e arricchivano la Serenissima nell’epoca moderna, scoprendo un concetto di straniero del tutto diverso da ciò che ci aspetteremmo. Insieme a Clara Zanardi, antropologa, scopriamo le dinamiche dell’esodo e del turismo nella seconda metà del XX secolo...2022-01-1247 minTBA21–Academy Radio2.4 Nowtilus: Musei fuori rotta. Pesci scomparsi, tesori nascosti e lazzarettiIT.
Spostando lo sguardo verso ciò che è meno conosciuto, ma non per questo meno importante, Nowtilus si imbarca a caccia di “Musei Fuori Rotta. Pesci Scomparsi, Tesori Nascosti e Lazzaretti” dove la rotta speriamo che venga invece volontariamente invertita.
Siamo spesso portati a pensare che Venezia sia un museo in ogni suo lato e luogo, ma ci sono molte realtà museali meno note che sfuggono anche agli occhi dei conoscitori più attenti della città. È possibile uscire dalle correnti turistiche che affollano i siti culturali più importanti, ed ampliare la visione e la conoscenza delle collezioni più piccole e/o più decentrate ge...2021-12-2842 minTBA21–Academy Radio2.3 Nowtilus: Ma che musica, Venezia! La biondina in gondoeta, Luigi Nono e altri suoniIT.
Una storia d’amore secolare quella tra Venezia e la musica. La città è stata, da sempre, un approdo per i musicisti da tutto il mondo, considerata una vera capitale della musica tra ‘500 e ‘700. Quanto conosciamo questo rapporto e cosa è emerso nell’ambito della musica contemporanea oggi?
Il terzo episodio di Nowtilus, “Ma che musica, Venezia! La biondina in gondoeta, Luigi Nono e altri suoni” si spinge non solo a narrare l’importanza della musica durante la Serenissima ma anche le sue identità contemporanee, dalle sperimentazioni di musica elettronica, al reggae, fino al repertorio popolare veneziano e veneto, ripreso negli anni ’60 da musici...2021-12-1549 min
TBA21–Academy RadioAridity Lines: On new seasons and constructed infertility W/ Cooking SectionsIn the third episode of Aridity Lines, Cooking Sections (artists Alon Schwabe and Daniel Fernandez Pascual) delve into their research on climate emergency and its effects on human eating patterns, which they deploy to examine “systems that organize the world,” as they describe it. We focus on their long-term project Climavore, started in 2015, and their recent explorations of shifting seasons and regions in the Mediterranean area for their recent exhibition “Seasons Made to Drift” at SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul. We discuss the relationship between climate change, aridity and fertility, water buffalos and their watering routes, bird language in northern Turkey, and the M...2021-12-1543 minTBA21–Academy Radio2.2 Nowtilus: Delitto e caìgo. Fatti, misfatti e altri crimini nelle nebbie lagunariITA.
Il secondo episodio, “Delitto e caìgo. Fatti, misfatti e altri crimini nelle nebbie lagunari” è dedicato al rapporto tra la criminalità e Venezia.
A bordo di Nowtilus salgono Davide Busato, autore di diversi libri sulla storia della criminalità nella Serenissima, che ci accompagna in un viaggio nel tempo, raccontandoci dinamiche e aneddoti di cronaca nera antica; il giornalista Carlo Mion che prova, sfatando qualche mito, prova a illustrarci come è cambiata la criminalità negli ultimi anni; e il musicista Giovanni Dell'Olivo, che ci farà rivivere l'affascinante vicenda del leggendario bandito Kociss, a cui ha dedicato un progetto editoriale, musicale e teatrale.
U...2021-12-0155 min
TBA21–Academy RadioAridity Lines: Blood in the Water: interspecies alliances in the Mediterranean SeaIn the second episode of Aridity Lines, my guest is Ala Tannir, an architect, researcher, and curator from Beirut, Lebanon. We focus on her work and research concerned with exploring the Mediterranean Sea as a space of resistance and possible interspecies alliances. Where Tannir maps out new currents of movement of jellyfish and humans at risk in the Mediterranean Sea. She connects the undefeated underwater species, which thrive in ailing seas where oxygen levels are low, with the movement (or the denial thereof of vulnerable human beings) above water to help us understand how the crisis of climate change and...2021-11-2542 minTBA21–Academy Radio2.1 Nowtilus: Schermi Sull’acqua. Pane, Tulipani, Indiana Jones E Laguna A 35mm.IT.
Il primo episodio, “Schermi sull’acqua. Pane, Tulipani, Indiana Jones e laguna a 35mm” è dedicato al rapporto tra il cinema e Venezia.
A bordo di "Nowtilus" salgono Mauro D’Avino, autore del libro "Venezia si gira!" (Gremese Editore, 2013) che ci racconta come la città sia stata e continui a essere un set affascinante per registi di ogni epoca e geografia; la regista Gaia Vianello ci racconta il progetto "Rete Cinema in Laguna", che ripensa collettivamente la città a partire dal cinema; e Edoardo Aruta, ideatore insieme a Paolo Rosso, del "Cinema Galleggiante", rassegna di cinema all’aperto che si svolge comple...2021-11-1749 minTBA21–Academy Radio2.0 Nowtilus: Storie da una laguna urbana del 21esimo secolo (Seconda Stagione)IT.
Nowtilus. Storie da una laguna urbana del 21esimo secolo" è un programma podcast di ricerca, un archivio polifonico di storie, appunti e temi per ripensare Venezia oggi, sfatando i luoghi comuni sulla città e rimettendo la sua laguna al centro dell’attenzione.
Dopo gli undici episodi del 2020 (e due "Nowtilus Live!" dal vivo), il podcast "Nowtilus. Storie da una laguna urbana del 21esimo" secolo torna dal 17 novembre 2021 per una seconda stagione di otto episodi, che condurranno nuovamente le ascoltatrici e gli ascoltatori in un viaggio di scoperta e discussione, affrontando la sostenibilità della laguna oggi, le azioni creative che i suoi...2021-11-1001 min
TBA21–Academy RadioOcean Wants: Ocean Nation, featuring Markus ReymannWhile the land is ruled by nations and super nations, the ocean is subject to the tragedy of the commons. What if the ocean would turn into a nation of its own – the largest nation in the world? In the tenth and final episode of the podcast Ocean Wants, our host, speculative writer Ingo NIermann talks to Markus Reymann, director of TBA21–Academy and its venue Ocean Space in Venice.
Ocean Wants is a series of ten podcasts that playfully explores how nonhumans could like our planet to be. Conceived and hosted by Ingo Niermann, Ocean Wants was commissioned to cele...2021-11-0552 minTBA21–Academy RadioOcean Wants: Deep Frontier, featuring Diva AmonWe can see stars thousands of lightyears away with our naked eye. We only began to know more about life in the deep sea around two hundred years ago – and we still know very little. How do we have to reinvent ourselves to serve the needs of the deep sea and tame endeavors to exploit its habitats? This time, our host Ingo Niermann speaks with Diva Amon, a marine biologist focused on the habitats and animals of the deep ocean. She is also a founder and director of SpeSeas, an NGO dedicated to marine science, education, and advocacy in Trinidad an...2021-11-021h 11TBA21–Academy RadioOcean Wants: Pain-Free Sea, featuring David PearceShouldn’t the reduction of suffering be our top priority when taking care of others’ needs – in particularly of those we can’t ask? Soon, CRISPR edited gene drives could alter the pain perception and hedonic range of any sexually reproducing species. In episode 8. Ingo Niermann hears from David Pearce, a transhumanist philosopher who advocates the abolition of all negative feelings. David speaks from his home in Brighton, UK.
Ocean Wants is a series of ten podcasts that playfully explores how nonhumans could like our planet to be. Conceived and hosted by Ingo Niermann, Ocean Wants was commissioned to celebrate TBA21–Ac...2021-10-291h 13TBA21–Academy RadioOcean Wants: Canceled Ice Age, featuring William RuddimanFor the last seven thousand years, humans have stabilized the global climate. The greenhouse gases emitted through deforestation, agriculture, and husbandry prevented the onset of a new glaciation. Only since the industrial revolution, human influences have gotten out of hand, causing rapid rises in temperature and sea level. Our host, speculative writer Ingo Niermann, is in conversation with William Ruddiman, geologist, and originator of the early Anthropocene hypothesis. He speaks from his home in Virginia.
Ocean Wants is a series of ten podcasts that playfully explores how nonhumans could like our planet to be. Conceived and hosted by Ingo Niermann...2021-10-2656 minTBA21–Academy RadioOcean Wants: Conservation Libido, featuring Eva HaywardThe ocean refuses empathetic ethics based on sameness with us humans. What does the urge to save nature — in certain ways — reveal about us and our desire? In the fifth episode of Ocean Wants, our host, speculative writer Ingo Niermann talks to Eva Hayward, historian of science and faculty member of the Department of Gender and Women Studies at the University of Arizona.
Ocean Wants is a series of ten podcasts that playfully explores how nonhumans could like our planet to be. Conceived and hosted by Ingo Niermann, Ocean Wants was commissioned to celebrate TBA21–Academy’s tenth Anniversary.
Commissioned and prod...2021-10-221h 27TBA21–Academy RadioOcean Wants: Translating Whales, featuring David GruberTo know what other humans want, we can ask them. But pets aside, modern societies have lost the confidence and interest to communicate with non-humans. Could advanced machine learning allow for a proper interspecies conversation, even with creatures who spend most of their time away in the deep? In Ocean Wants #6: Translating Whales, speculative writer Ingo Nierman talks to David Gruber, marine biologist, and leader of CETI, a multidisciplinary project on understanding the acoustic communication of sperm whales, speaking from his home in New York City.
Ocean Wants is a series of ten podcasts that playfully explores how nonhumans could...2021-10-1958 minTBA21–Academy RadioOcean Wants: Cephalopods on Land, featuring Danna StaafBefore fish and other vertebrates proliferated, it was the heyday of the cephalopods. Their descendants – squid, cuttlefish, octopus, and nautilus – are still around us, coping better with human dominance than many fish. In this episode, host Ingo Niermann talks to Danna Staaf, a trained marine biologist, who writes about the history of the cephalopods. She speaks from her home in San Jose, California.
Ocean Wants is a series of ten podcasts that playfully explores how nonhumans could like our planet to be. Conceived and hosted by Ingo Niermann, Ocean Wants was commissioned to celebrate TBA21–Academy’s tenth Anniversary.
Commissioned and prod...2021-10-151h 02TBA21–Academy RadioOcean Wants: Rise of Slime, featuring Lisa-ann GershwinFive hundred million years ago the ocean was dominated by jellyfish. Thanks to us, humans, they might dominate the ocean again. Ingo Niermann in conversation with Lisa-ann Gershwin, a marine biologist with a unique dedication and enthusiasm for jellyfish. She speaks from her home in Tasmania.
Ocean Wants is a series of ten podcasts that playfully explores how nonhumans could like our planet to be. Conceived and hosted by Ingo Niermann, Ocean Wants was commissioned to celebrate TBA21–Academy’s tenth Anniversary.
Commissioned and produced by TBA21–Academy
Conceived, hosted, and edited by Ingo Niermann
Music composed and arranged by Ville...2021-10-1257 minTBA21–Academy RadioOcean Wants: Self-Conscious Fish, featuring Alex JordanFish are compassionate, recognize themselves in the mirror, and fancy designed shelters over natural ones. Recent experiments contest common ideas of what distinguishes humans from smaller, non-mammalian creatures of the sea. Ingo Niermann in conversation with Alex Jordan, Principal Investigator at the Department of Collective Behaviour at the Max Planck Institute in Konstanz, Germany. We speak at this home near Lake Constance.
Ocean Wants is a series of ten podcasts that playfully explores how nonhumans could like our planet to be. Conceived and hosted by Ingo Niermann, Ocean Wants was commissioned to celebrate TBA21–Academy’s tenth Anniversary.
Commissioned and prod...2021-10-081h 28TBA21–Academy RadioOcean Wants: Coral Renaissance, featuring Marah J. HardtWe celebrate coral reefs as the colorful rain forests of the ocean. How could we not just save and restore existing coral reefs but allow them to spread? Ingo Niermann in conversation with Marah J. Hardt, marine biologist, storyteller and director of discovery at the non-profit Future of Fish. She speaks from her home in Hawaii.
Ocean Wants is a series of ten podcasts that playfully explores how nonhumans could like our planet to be. Conceived and hosted by Ingo Niermann, Ocean Wants was commissioned to celebrate TBA21–Academy’s tenth Anniversary.
Commissioned and produced by TBA21–Academy
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TBA21–Academy RadioAridity Lines: The keepers and the thieves of water streams W/ Jumana Emil AbboudThe first episode of the podcast series Aridity Lines features artist Jumana Emil Abboud, who takes the listeners along a “water walk” she took with Im Juma’a, an elder from the village of Ein Qiniya in occupied Palestine. The walk, narrated by Abboud, delineates the intertwined journey of water, earth, plants, trees, animals and people across time through various folktales from the area. It is annotated through a live interview with the artist by host Reem Shadid, to expand on key elements; such as the paradox between more-than-human and human land demarcations, the forms of ecological knowledges relative to water...2021-09-2957 min
TBA21 on st_ageCorals: Nature, Symbiosis, and RestorationIn this podcast and thanks to Markus Reymann, director of TBA21–Academy, we dive deeper into the dramatic situation of the coral reefs to better understand Claudia Comte’s work. Marine biologists Denise Henry and David Gruber talk about corals: their importance in the ecosystem, their symbiotic relationships, and their ability to sense oncoming disasters. The notions of shape and time, and the importance of restoration—like the reef rehabilitation work developed by the Alligator Head Foundation in Port Antonio, Jamaica—become key to understanding this aquatic life-form.2021-09-1729 min
Voices On Art - The VAN HORN Gallery Podcast | hosted by Daniela Steinfeld#32 MAREIKE DITTMER | TBA21-Academy, Zürich | Director of Public EngagementMy guest today is Mareike Dittmer, Director of Public Engagement at TBA21-Academy, Zürich, Switzerland. Mareike's skill is communication and she takes us onto an elaborate journey through her life. In the first part of this Episode Mareike talks her upbringing in East Germany, why she first trained in banking before attending art school and her diving into the underground artworld of 90s Berlin, working in London, her years at Frieze Magazine and her engagement with the 9th Futurological Congress and the Museum Susch in Engadin, Switzerland. In the 2nd half of the Podcast she speaks in depth about T...2021-04-2853 min
TBA21 on st_ageCamouflaged words | Part 2Podcast | Camouflaged words: A conversation with Octo-Durga around art and science | Part 2
A two-part conversation with marine biologist Roger Hanlon and TBA21–Academy’s Markus Reymann around the possible connexions between art and science that can be made through octopus tentacles. Their words dance with Octo-Durga, the “post big-bang underwater cephalopod dancer from the depths of one of Jupiter’s moons, from Europa’s oceans” created by Eduardo Navarro and BaRiya. Sounds from the outer space that is the deepest oceans... our best intuition lives under the sea.
Contributors:
Juan Canela, Guest journalist and researcher. | Roger T. Hanlon, Marine biologist, Senior Scien...2020-12-2740 minTBA21 on st_ageCamouflaged words | Part 1Camouflaged words
A conversation with Octo-Durga around art and science | Part 1
A two-part conversation with marine biologist Roger Hanlon and TBA21–Academy’s Markus Reymann around the possible connexions between art and science that can be made through octopus tentacles. Their words dance with Octo-Durga, the “post big-bang underwater cephalopod dancer from the depths of one of Jupiter’s moons, from Europa’s oceans” created by Eduardo Navarro and BaRiya. Sounds from the outer space that is the deepest oceans... our best intuition lives under the sea.
Contributors:
Juan Canela, Guest journalist and researcher.
Roger Hanlon, Marine biologist, Senior Scientist at the Marin...2020-12-2640 minTBA21–Academy Radio1.11 Nowtilus: Tutte le Venezie del Mondo con Alberto Toso FeiAll The Venices of The World. Postcards, Comics, Games, and Curiosities from Alberto Toso Fei’s Collection.
For the last episode of 2020, “Nowtilus. Stories from an urban lagoon in the 21st century” hosts writer and journalist Alberto Toso Fei for a conversation about a truly special collection of objects. In dialogue with Enrico Bettinello, Toso Fei reveals his collection of memorabilia linked to Venice, and explains the often misrepresented, fictionalized, and exaggerated imagery of the most reproduced city in the world. From postcards that represent the “Venices” of other countries, to comics that portray their protagonists struggling with gondolas and canals, to...2020-12-1736 min
TBA21 on st_ageRiding the freq_wave... | Part 2Riding the freq_wave: an exploration of the sounds, rhythms, and challenges facing Planet Ocean | Part 2
A two part series hosted by Chris Watson exploring the interface between the art, science, and rhythms under the surface of the largest and most sound-rich environment on the planet—the seas and oceans.
This freq_wave podcast connects bioacoustics with on-line compositional techniques, and cutting-edge environmental monitoring with an international collection of celebrated artists.
As TBA21–Academy director Markus Reymann suggests: log on, choose an ocean, and dive in!
Contributors in order of appearance:
Lawrence English, Jana Winderen, Leah Barclay and Markus Reymann2020-12-0641 min
TBA21 on st_ageRiding the freq_wave...| Part 1Riding the freq_wave: an exploration of the sounds, rhythms, and challenges facing Planet Ocean| Part 1
A two part series hosted by Chris Watson exploring the interface between the art, science, and rhythms under the surface of the largest and most sound-rich environment on the planet—the seas and oceans.
This freq_wave podcast connects bioacoustics with on-line compositional techniques, and cutting-edge environmental monitoring with an international collection of celebrated artists.
As TBA21–Academy director Markus Reymann suggests: log on, choose an ocean, and dive in!
Contributors in order of appearance:
Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Valeria Vergara and Finnbogi Péturss2020-12-0542 minTBA21–Academy Radio1.10 Nowtilus: Ri-abitare acqua e terra con Giancarlo Ghigi e Laura MascinoResidency, urban regeneration and tourism are among the most complex and most discussed issues concerning Venice and its surrounding area.
Which territories are considered marginal, and why? What is the relationship between these areas, the environment and its inhabitants? What sort of action and mobilization has taken place on the islands of Venice and its mainland in order to affirm and reconsider residency in this unique landscape? These questions are complex and multifaceted, but we will raise some interesting points while discussing them with Giancarlo Ghigi, a computer scientist and vocal activist who we will be talking to about the...2020-11-1946 minPhenomenal OceanCorona Under the Ocean: Viewing from the InsideThe tenth episode, with artist and filmmaker Su Yu Hsin, began with one of her many memories related to water, and how the appearance of light on water is indispensable for her when thinking with water. Su Yu Hsin’s homeland, Taiwan, is an island where water has a strong presence due to typhoons and the island’s atmospheric condition. In her artistic practice, she approaches ecology in its close relationship with technology, also investigating the ideology inherent to map-making throughout history and to this day. This podcast is the result of a conversation between Su Yu Hsin and Soni...2020-11-1750 minTBA21–Academy Radio1.9 Nowtilus: Navigare con lentezza con Elena Tramontin e Silvio TestaAfter the summer break, “Nowtilus. Stories from an urban lagoon in the 21st century” is returning with new episodes and new stories that recount the extraordinary nature of everyday life in Venice, and offer up ideas for preserving and rethinking the city.
This episode is dedicated to traditional watercraft, the boat, the oar and the sail, beginning with the personal story of sisters Elena and Elisabetta Tramontin, who manage the family “Squero”, or shipyard, of Domenico Tramontin and sons, one of the oldest in Venice, and the reflections of Silvio Testa, journalist and writer on traditional rowing and sailing practices of the N...2020-10-2842 minPhenomenal OceanCorona Under the Ocean: Political Action, Political ImaginationThe ninth episode, with ship captain and sea rescue activist Carola Rackete, begins with her early research in the Arctic and Antarctic, and how she was able to sensibly feel the melting of the poles, without the need for scientific data. That was also when she decided to engage in political action in order to have a real impact on the multiple forms of violence the capitalist system perpetrates, both human and environmental, both individual and structural. This podcast is the result of a conversation between Carola Rackete and Sonia Fernández Pan, in which the Covid-19 pandemic was p...2020-10-271h 00
TBA21 on st_age‘Antarctica was a queer rave...,’ 2020‘Antarctica was a queer rave…’ traces the history of conjecture and how the existence of Antarctica was hypothesized. It recounts, in a non-linear fashion, the Western imagination of the savage underworld, an imagination largely based on projection and fear. It turns this same imagination into a utopian desire: a place not populated by horrific freaks with malformed bodies and exquisite tentacles, but free from the normative conditioning of convention and straightness, free from the grids of the map as it dissolves into mists and fog. The music is analogue and recorded rogue, an acoustic rendering of EDM and 1990s rave beats...2020-10-0813 min
TBA21 on st_age‘Lady Antigua,’ 2020Lady Antigua starts at the bow of the boat. Lying in the net, I couldn’t help noticing the bust of a black woman pinned to it. The poem is a fictional biography of her life, pointing to the imagination of black culture in the binaries of slavery and fetishism. And it began to reflect my own complicated displacement and confusion being a brown body in the polar tundra. We made this piece while the world was out on the streets chanting: Black Lives Matter. The pipe organ harks back to early hymns sung in the church, an institution of co...2020-10-0703 minPhenomenal OceanCorona Under the Ocean: The colonial conditions of Western knowledgeThe eighth episode, with professor and anthropologist Elizabeth Povinelli, begins with her idea of axioms of existence, which put in crisis the abstract and universalist condition of Western philosophy. The ocean is not far from Western epistemologies and ontologies. In fact, it is totally entangled in them thanks to their intimate—and strategically invisible—relationship with colonial history and violence. The notion of geontopower, coined by Povinelli, critically revises the Foucauldian notion of biopower. The fictional but real frontier between life and non-life is a political frontier in continuous expansion, even beyond Earth. This podcast is the result of a co...2020-10-061h 26
TBA21–Academy RadioCorona Under the Ocean: The colonial conditions of Western knowledge W/ Elizabeth A. PovinelliThe eighth episode, with professor and anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli, begins with her idea of axioms of existence, which put in crisis the abstract and universalist condition of Western philosophy. The ocean is not far from Western epistemologies and ontologies. In fact, it is totally entangled in them thanks to their intimate—and strategically invisible—relationship with colonial history and violence. The notion of
geontopower, coined by Povinelli, critically revises the Foucauldian notion of biopower. The fictional but real frontier between life and non-life is a political frontier in continuous expansion, even beyond Earth. This podcast is the result of a co...2020-10-061h 26
TBA21 on st_age‘Subcontinentment,’ 2020Subcontinentment is a manifesto that stems from my fieldwork in the polar circles, where I was confronted with my alienness as a brown body in a landscape commonly used for outer-space simulation experiments. As part of a series of fictional ice archives, south asian futurism, renamed subcontinentment, anti-chronicles the geopoetic links between the poles and the subcontinent.
In transforming the text into a soundscape, David and I began finding correspondences and intersections between my polar recordings and the hyper, denuded aural environment of Delhi under lockdown. Cawing crows, a static in the ether of the polyphonous city, intertwined with screeching s...2020-10-0510 minPhenomenal OceanCorona Under the Ocean: The Sea undoes the LandThe seventh episode, with curator Camila Marambio is an approach to Tierra del Fuego from her personal experience with a part of the world with which she has a strong emotional connection. As she states, Tierra del Fuego, "despite its remoteness, is the center of the world". Karokynka is the name by which this area of the world is known by the native Selk'nam people, a culture that still survives in its descendants despite its official death by the modern state of Chile. The fact of proclaiming as dead, a culture that is still very much alive, is part...2020-09-151h 22Phenomenal OceanCorona Under the Ocean: Underwater ProjectionsThe sixth episode, with writer, lecturer, and curator Filipa Ramos is an approach to cinema from the ocean and to the ocean from cinema. Beyond the production of underwater images, there is a political relationship between cinema and the underwater world. As vision devices, the projection room and the tank or aquarium are related in their production of the fiction of a safe environment for the human being. Moreover, there are aquatic creatures capable of producing cinematic images, allowing an expansion of the concept of cinema beyond its own history and human history. This podcast is the result of...2020-09-031h 08
TBA21–Academy Radio1.8 Nowtilus: Murano e il vetro con Alice de Santillana e Marcantonio Brandolini D’AddaNowtilus: Murano and glass between history and innovation with Alice de Santillana (AUTONOMA) and Marcantonio Brandolini D’Adda (LagunaB).
In the eighth episode of our podcast series “Nowtilus. Stories from an urban lagoon of the 21st century”, we will be talking about one of the most deeply-rooted traditions in the history of this city: glass production, which in recent years has been in search of a new balance between innovation and tradition. We’ll be doing this together with Alice De Santillana, artist, designer and co-founder of Autonoma, a research and exchange project that aims to internationalize this art form, and with...2020-07-3035 minPhenomenal OceanCorona Under the Ocean: Thinking with WaterThe fifth episode, featuring feminist philosopher Astrida Neimanis, puts into practice one of the author's methodologies: “thinking with water.” As a material, water not only enables a relational ontology when thinking about the reality that bodies inhabit and produce, but also allows for an understanding of feminism that transcends the human and incorporates a planetary and intersectional scale where race, class, and gender are in constant intra-action. This podcast is the result of a conversation between Astrida Neimanis and Sonia Fernández Pan, where the Covid-19 pandemic was also a constant, an atmospheric condition that is, in turn, political and i...2020-07-281h 07TBA21–Academy Radio1.7 Nowtilus: L’evoluzione della pesca in laguna con Luigi Divari e Matteo Stocco (Metagoon)The Evolution of Fishing in the Lagoon with Luigi Divari and Matteo Stocco (Metagoon)
In the seventh episode of the podcast series Nowtilus. Stories from an urban lagoon in the 21st century we will discover the lagoon and the varieties of aquatic creatures that inhabit it, seeking to understand the changes that have taken place in recent years. We will be doing this in the company of Luigi Divari, an expert in fishing and the sea, author, and painter of magnificent watercolors that feature traditional boats and the aquatic fauna of Venice, and Matteo Stocco, documentary filmmaker, who will talk to...2020-07-1637 minPhenomenal OceanCorona Under the Ocean: Water has MemoryThe fourth episode of the Corona Under the Ocean series, with agent of healing and artist Tabita Rezaire, is dedicated to the memory of water and its existence in flow within bodies. Water has Memory is the result of an intimate, personal, and mostly unscripted conversation between Tabita Rezaire and Sonia Fernandez Pan. It even includes environmental elements, such as rain, showing how words, feelings, and ideas are also part of the flow of life that circulates through bodies. The great connecting element of this conversation is water, understood beyond its usual contexts to think through connections and interactions...2020-07-0652 minTBA21–Academy Radio1.6 Nowtilus: Coltivare la città con Michele Savorgnano e Lorenzo Basadonna Scarpa,Cultivate the City with Michele Savorgnano and Lorenzo Basadonna Scarpa, Ortofoto.
In the sixth episode of Nowtilus. Stories from an urban lagoon in the 21st century, we go on an adventure to discover the green spaces of Venice, looking not only for plants and trees, but also for spaces and ideas that promote a new way of cultivating this city. Joining us on this journey are Michele Savorgnano, founder of the F.U.D. (Fattoria Urbana Diffusa/Popular Urban Farm) project, and Lorenzo Basadonna Scarpa, co-creator of the Ortofoto project, along with Giovanni Dal Sasso and Lucrezia Lamera (mapsontheluum). Michele...2020-07-0239 minTBA21–Academy Radio1.5 Nowtilus: Libri sull’acqua e scienze umanistiche ambientali con Sabina Rizzardi e Shaul BassiBooks on Water and Environmental Humanities with Sabina Rizzardi and Shaul Bassi.
In this fifth episode of our podcast series "Nowtilus. Stories from an urban lagoon in the 21st century" we will tell you about ideas, books, and literature, and how they meet in Venice, generating interesting and innovative realities. We will do this with Sabina Rizzardi, co-owner of Libreria Marco Polo and Shaul Bassi, professor of English literature and director of the International Center for the Humanities and Social Change at Ca' Foscari University. Sabina Rizzardi will tell us about fascinating readings that she has selected for us, to get to...2020-06-1843 minPhenomenal OceanCorona Under the Ocean: Sea Nomads: The Orang Suku LautThe third episode of the Corona Under the Ocean chapter, featuring anthropology professor Cynthia Chou, is dedicated to the Orang Suku Laut, a nomadic community from the Malay world sea in Southeast Asia. Thanks to more than three decades of research, Cynthia Chou’s work brings us closer to the worldview and life practices of the Orang Suku Laut, for whom humans are just another element among the many creatures that inhabit oceans and land. Continually moved by the tides, their ancestral relationship with the environment not only puts many aspects of modern societies into question, but shows that an...2020-06-151h 06TBA21–Academy Radio1.4 Nowtilus: Macro-maree e micro-plastiche con Luigi Cavaleri (ISMAR) e Fabiana Corami (CNR-ISP)Macro-tides and microplastics with Luigi Cavaleri (CNR-ISMAR) and Fabiana Corami (CNR-ISP)
The fourth episode of Nowtilus focuses on scientific research in the lagoon. Our first guest, Luigi Cavaleri, physical oceanographer at the Institute of Marine Sciences (CNR-ISMAR), will tell us about the natural evolution of the lagoon’s ecosystem, its relationship with the sea and tidal cycles, both ordinary and extraordinary. Fabiana Corami, biologist and researcher at the Institute of Polar Sciences (CNR-ISP) will introduce us to the theme of invisible micro-plastics that threaten our waters. She will also debunk some of the many false myths on the subject.
Episode av...2020-06-0436 minPhenomenal OceanCorona Under the Ocean: We Are Ocean LifeThis episode, featuring marine biologist Marah J. Hardt, is dedicated to the vitalism and resilience of the ocean. Outlining her personal journey as a researcher, Marah J. Hardt provides a propositional critique of our relationship with the maritime environment, present but not always visible on a global scale. Understanding ocean research as a necessarily interdisciplinary practice, her scientific practice highlights the importance of storytelling as a tool for dissemination of ideas. In We are Ocean Life, she not only reminds us that all forms of life, including human life, come from the ocean, but also brings us closer to...2020-05-2548 min
TBA21–Academy Radio1.3 Nowtilus: Suoni e Sguardi con Nicola Di Croce e Mariateresa SartoriSounds and Glances with Nicola Di Croce and Mariateresa Sartori.
In the third episode of Nowtilus, Nicola Di Croce, researcher and sound artist, and Mariateresa Sartori, artist, tell us about their respective research closely intertwined with the city of Venice. They reflect on this city, its sounds and the human relationships connected to it.
Episode available on Ocean Archive, SoundCloud, Spotify, iTunes and Google Podcast.
Music: Chateau Rouge, by Christian Fennesz, taken from the album "Venice" (2004) and Inner Tales (2014), by Nicola di Croce. Courtesy of Christian Fennesz, Touch Music, and Nicola di Croce.2020-05-2133 minTBA21–Academy Radio1.2 Nowtilus: Le Architetture di “Supervenice” con Sara MariniThe Architecture of "Supervenice" with Sara Marini.
Sara Marini, architect and professor in Architectural and Urban Composition at Iuav University in Venice, tells us about some of her latest editorial projects that analyse and interpret Venice from an architectural point of view and beyond. We will discuss important examples of architectural recovery and re-purposing of buildings in the city, also exploring Sara Marini's research on the re-use of abandoned churches in Venice, with a particular focus on the church of San Lorenzo, now the home of Ocean Space.
Music: Chateau Rouge by Christian Fennesz, taken from the album "Venice" (2004) and...2020-05-0733 minPhenomenal OceanCorona Under the Ocean: Oceanizing HistoryThe first episode of the series Corona Under the Ocean is dedicated to Oceania. Did you know that the Pacific Ocean was named so by Ferdinand Magellan, referring to his feeling that the sea was dull over there? In this conversation Greg Dvorak, Professor of International Cultural Studies at Waseda University in Tokyo, reflects on how the colonizer’s view has affected the region and, on how the word indigenous needs to gain even more political meaning.2020-05-041h 02Phenomenal OceanFacts and FictionOur nature inclines us to listen to stories, not to lists, charts, and equations. To change our mind, we need a compelling narrative that turns obstacles into challenges and chances into hopes. The role of art is to foster that transformation, but also to spoil it wherever it’s lame.Listen to Chus Martínez in conversation with artists Lena Maria Thüring and Teresa Solar.2020-04-2532 minTBA21–Academy Radio1.1 Nowtilus: Narrare Venezia con Tiziano ScarpaNarrating Venice with Tiziano Scarpa.
The first episode from the podcast series ‘Nowtilus. Stories from an urban lagoon in the 21st century’ brings together host Enrico Bettinello, and writer Tiziano Scarpa to answer the questions of how Venetians narrate their city and how foreign writers describe Venice through anecdotes and stories related to the city’s complex and multifaceted charm. Brought to you from Ocean Space in Venice for TBA21–Academy Radio.
Music: Christian Fennesz. Songs: Chateau Rouge, Laguna,Rivers of Sand. Album: Venice (2004). Courtesy of Christian Fennesz and Touch Music.
The podcast is in Italian. English transcripts of all episodes...2020-04-2433 minPhenomenal OceanLaw of the SeaIf it’s already difficult to protect nature in our own country, how do we protect nature in the extraterritorial sea? And who is there to protect the nature—and the people—of a country that is disappearing into the sea?Listen to Chus Martínez in conversation with Francesca Mussi, a researcher in international law.2020-04-1829 minPhenomenal OceanChallenging the FormatScience has to generate output. Art has to cater to an audience. Could art and science join forces to free science from definite outputs and art from definite audiences? Or would art then also be measured by its outcome and science by its audience?Listen to Chus Martínez in conversation with artists Julieta Aranda, Marco Roso, and Elena Mazzi.2020-04-1231 minPhenomenal OceanThe Beginning of the LineWe affirm ourselves as the center of evolution by saving it from our own destruction. Our new heroism is to keep things, at best, as bad as they are. What does good even mean? We are the joke of evolution—and nobody’s laughing.Listen to Chus Martínez in conversation with marine scientist Skye Morét and writer Ingo Niermann.2020-04-0432 minPhenomenal OceanNot Enough DataWe can’t exist beyond nature but science can? Now that we’re doomed, can we at least free science from us? Is the era of a true, posthuman science about to begin or will science be destroyed by our vain efforts to save ourselves?Listen to Chus Martínez in conversation with marine scientist Marzia Rovere and geneticist Alexander Tarakhovsky.2020-03-2734 minPhenomenal OceanIntroduction Phenomenal OceanWe tried to free ourselves from nature but exploited it to the point of self-destruction. Nature seems to have brought us back, but we actually never left. We just forgot about nature—including our very own.Listen to Chus Martínez, head of the Art Institute in Basel; Markus Reymann, director of TBA21–Academy; and marine scientist Skye Morét.2020-03-2021 min