*The 5 essential podcasts from 2019 for Ràdio Web MACBA’s extended family* *1/ Olivia Plender: ‘All of us, I think, end up with a voice that works on our setting. You end up with the voice that you are somehow rewarded for’* <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/olivia-plender/capsula>
In this podcast, Olivia Plender talks about productivity and care, about suffragettes and museums, and about adolescence and schools. She looks at groups without charismatic leaders, embodied education, and the possibility of transforming errors in honest discussions. And she tells us about women gaining authority through voice training – the material aspect of speech –, and about how, sometimes unconsciously, we adopt a voice for which we feel socially rewarded. Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/olivia-plender/capsula *2/ Helen Pritchard: ‘Within a lot of practices, to get to count means to be able to be counted, so at that point it seemed to me that some of these environmental computing practices were actually starting to say what nature was or wasn’t. What counted as nature was that which could be observed by computing’* <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/helen-pritchard/capsula> In this feature, we talked to activist and researcher Helen Pritchard about her work and collaborative projects, including her “Animal Hacker” PhD research, which considers the entanglement of non-human animals with ubiquitous computing technologies. Orcas and sensors, fossils and fracking, alpaca and recipes, sheep and data infrastructures all found their way into the conversation. Once it was ready, we asked sound artist and researcher Yoneda Lemma to sonically dialogue with the result. She built such a rich, intense, interwoven soundscape, that we decided to produce an extra version, consisting only of the unprocessed material of our conversation with Helen, and release both at the same time. Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/helen-pritchard/capsula *3/ Lyra Pramuk: ‘Role-playing games… is always like a pact, that is: if I step into this world and create a folklore around myself, then I have to believe everyone else’s folklore as well. That totally influences my idea of queerness and transness to this day. I say “I am something”, you believe me; you say “you are something”, I believe you’* <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/lyra-pramuk/capsula> In this podcast, American composer-produce Lyra Pramuk talks about key moments in her childhood and adolescence, which was marked by a rigorous religious and musical education, and about her subsequent journey to deconstruct her assigned identity, taking refuge in her love of science fiction and role-playing games as basic strategies for reinventing herself. We also chat about performativity, resisting the text, non-verbal music, live vs studio work, the recording logic of the music industry, the importance of queer community building, and clubbing in Berlin. Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/lyra-pramuk/capsula <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/lyra-pramuk/capsula> *4/ Nora Sternfeld: ‘I think the best thing that one can do towards the museum, which is a place of so many stolen things, is to steal. Stealing the strategy of stealing’* <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/nora-sternfeld/capsula> >From an extremely critical point of view at the intersection of art and politics, curator and educator Nora Sternfeld constantly breaks the fourth wall of research and curating, shining a light on terms such as ‘exhibition’, ‘gallery’, ‘representation’, ‘museum’, and ‘collectivity’, always looking for cracks and hidden connections. In this podcast, Nora starts by putting forward a few ideas that can help us understand the crisis of the museum as institution, ‘as it happened’, from construction to eventual collapse. Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/nora-sternfeld/capsula *5/ Sofía Olascoaga: ‘How is it that the exportation of a social model coming from Western civilization and through the specific project of Modernity, being imposed to other areas (and here we’re thinking about Latin America in particular) creates the violent consequences of a complete understanding of life being crushed and erased?’ <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sofia-olascoaga-main/capsula>* In this podcast, artist, curator and researcher Sofía Olascoaga gives an overview of the activist history of Cuernavaca, a small city, around 80km south of Mexico City, which from the 1950s to the 1980s attracted several generations of intellectuals and activists, and reflects on how community and self-managed spaces can drive social change, while also looking at the processes of cultural and institutional colonisation by the West in Latin America. Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sofia-olascoaga-main/capsula *List drawn up by Dolores Acebal, André Chêdas, Alicia Escobio, Pablo Martínez, Antonio Gagliano, Antye Greie-Fuchs, Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, Maite Muñoz, Violeta Ospina, Tiago Pina, Anna Ramos, Jara Rocha, Matías Rossi, Anna Irina Russell, Albert Tarrats and María Salgado.*
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