*Ràdio Web MACBA most listened podcasts - July 20161-SON[I]A #229. Andrea Fraser*
Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/andrea-fraser/capsula Andrea Fraser talks about the challenges and limitations of cultural activism, about the sub-fields of art, the relationship between artists and the market, and the museum in the neoliberal era. *2- COMPOSING WITH PROCESS <http://rwm.macba.cat/en/composingwithprocess_tag> series. Curated by Mark Fell and Joe Gilmore*Link <http://rwm.macba.cat/en/composingwithprocess_tag>: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/composingwithprocess_tag <http://rwm.macba.cat/en/composingwithprocess_tag> COMPOSING WITH PROCESS <http://rwm.macba.cat/en/composingwithprocess_tag> is a series, curated by Mark Fell and Joe Gilmore, which explores generative approaches to composition and performance primarily in the context of experimental technologies and music practices of the latter part of the 20th Century. Each episode is accompanied by an additional programme, entitled EXCLUSIVES <http://rwm.macba.cat/en/exclusives-tag/>, featuring unpublished sound pieces by leading sound artists working in the field. *3- PROBES series. Curated by Chris Cutler <http://rwm.macba.cat/en/probes_tag>* Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/probes_tag PROBES <http://rwm.macba.cat/en/probes_tag> takes Marshall McLuhan’s conceptual contrapositions as a starting point to analyse and expose the search for a new sonic language made urgent after the collapse of tonality in the twentieth century. The series looks at the many probes and experiments that were launched in the last century in search of new musical resources, and a new aesthetic; for ways to make music adequate to a world transformed by disorientating technologies. *4- * *SON[I]A #228. Christoph Draeger*Link*: * http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/christoph-draeger-/capsula Christoph Draeger talks about disasters and disastertainment, surveillance, copies and originals, critical distance, reenactments, layers of meanings, and provocation. *5- FONS AUDIO #42. Carlos Garaicoa* (only available in Spanish) Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/fons-audio-carlos-garaicoa/capsula Carlos Garaicoa talks about his education in Cuba, about the pressing need to move beyond post-colonial narratives, about his cultural activism, and about 'Yo no quiero ver más a mis vecinos' ('I Don’t Want to See My Neighbours Any More'), which forms part of the MACBA Collection. *6- ON LISTENING. Research process: Jacob Kirkegaard* Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/jacob-kirkegaard/capsula In this podcast, Kirkegaard reflects on the importance of listening and argues that sound art can create purely sensory spaces that go beyond our immediate perception, helping us to grasp the unfathomable. *7- PROBES #18. Curated by Chris Cutler* Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes-18-1-chris-cutler/capsula In this podcast, lowly percussion is raised high and we enter in the hyperreal world of hi-fi stereo, pure listening and exotica. *8-* * SON[I]A #226. Alvin Lucier* http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/alvin-lucier/capsula *9- SON[I]A #201. Georges Didi-Huberman*Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/georges-didi-huberman/capsula Interview with Georges Didi-Huberman about the problems regarding the way in which we see and interpret images, a problematic issue that stems from the definition of what an image is, and from the hierarchy that has historically been imposed on the dialectic between words and images. *10- SON[I]A #221. Enric Farrés Duran. Traducción simultánea* (only available in Spanish) Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/enric-farres-traduccion-simultanea/capsula <http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/enric-farres-traduccion-simultanea/capsula> Para un artista que concibe las presentaciones y visitas guiadas como una parte esencial de su práctica, este episodio especial en el que Enric dobla al español y sobre la marcha su entrevista previa en catalán <http://rwm.macba.cat/es/sonia/enric-farres/capsula>, se puede entender como una pieza más del rompecabezas Farrés. Un poco de doblaje performativo, comentarios sobre comentarios, metainformación y algo de ficción. *+2 you should not miss!**1/ * *OBJECTHOOD #4. Curated by Roc Jiménez de Cisneros*Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood4-nabil-ahmed-arie-altena-agf/capsula The slippery materiality of untraceable objects: from the arsenic poisoning the wells of Bangladesh as told by Nabil Ahmed, to Arie Altena's account of the superstition surrounding the Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia, or the bizarre biology of the vampire squid from hell in a passage of Vilém Flusser’s ‘Vampyroteuthis Infernalis’ read by AGF. *2/* *SON[I]A #221. Franco "Bifo" Berardi* http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/franco-bifo-berardi-heroes/capsula Bifo about mass killings in relation to cinema, mental health, neuroplasticity, friendship, irony and, ultimately, hope. *Enjoy!*
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