*New podcast: Artist and researcher Olivia Plender <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/olivia-plender/capsula> talks about historical female-authority voices, her research on Sylvia Pankhurst & The Suffragettes, productivity and care, groups without charismatic leaders and embodied education.*
Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/olivia-plender/capsula Using formal solutions such as installations, films, comics, sound pieces, and performance workshops, Olivia Plender's body of work explores group dynamics, looking into the composition of small communities that have operated decentralised from social consensus throughout history. Plender's research usually focuses on analysing archival materials and aesthetically translating them, narrating little-known episodes that include the Kibbo Kift theory of social credit during the economic crisis of 1929, spiritualist rites that promote self-improvement, and the forgotten radicality of the suffragettes, whose list of feminist demands is, to a large extent, still to be addressed. The implementation of long-term collaboration process in schools and social centres is another important aspect of her practice, exemplifying a politics based on knowledge settling from the bottom up, through close ties that can survive and grow over time. 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. *Timeline* 00:00 Attempting to construct a voice 08:05 Historical female-authority voices 12:46 We end-up with the voice that we are somehow rewarded for 15:49 Sylvia Pankhurst & The Suffragettes 19:14 A larger challenge to the art institution 22:52 Shifting towards collective experiences 25:27 Spiritualists: everybody can be a medium 29:38 A knowledge structure with no charismatic leaders 30:59 Folding archival material in time: The Kibbo Kift 35:45 Productivity and care 39:18 Something you lose and something you get 45:34 School as Sweden in miniature 49:55 A graphic novel including what went wrong *E/N/J/O/Y*
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