Dear friends, we are proud to announce our new Podcast channel! We hope you'll enjoy listening :) Best, Marcela and Janez Aksioma
*----* *Tactics&Practice [podcast]: Scale*https://aksioma.org/podcast August-September 2023 *Tactics&Practice [podcast]* is an audio extension of Aksioma’s discursive programme of the same name, focused on investigative art, society and new technologies. Each year Tactics&Practice <https://aksioma.org/tactics.practice> takes on a specific theme. The 14th edition, held in Ljubljana in the spring of 2023, was devoted to the theme of scale. Journalist and researcher *Neja Berger* followed the entire programme and interviewed some of its protagonists for the podcast channel's first miniseries. Most of the phenomena that affect the social world and underlie the ways in which social powers – economic, political, ideological and military – establish and act take place in realms that are much larger or smaller than the human scale. In this podcast series artists, anthropologists and academic researchers engage in a dialogue about their latest projects in order to make us think outside the human scale. Listeners will be acquainted with intelligent materials, demonic energy infrastructures, local informal networks of data distribution and autonomous weapon systems, and will thereby discover that new paradigms and scales are needed to better understand – and possibly subvert – the world we live in. *EPISODES:* *Scale | Ep.#1: Matter as a Subject [w/ Laura Tripaldi] *🎧* LISTEN HERE <https://aksioma.org/scale-ep.1-matter-as-a-subject-w-laura-tripaldi>* On the nanoscale, materials can appear as vibrant, lively subjects that can even have political implications... [MORE] <https://aksioma.org/scale-ep.1-matter-as-a-subject-w-laura-tripaldi> *Scale | Ep.#2: Alternative Networks in Cuba [w/ Steffen Köhn & Nestor Siré]* *Release: 18 August 2023* Alternative community-based data distribution networks on the local scale have emerged in Cuba as a consequence of the economic sanctions imposed on the country in recent decades... [MORE] <https://aksioma.org/scale-ep.2-alternative-networks-in-cuba-w-steffen-kohn-nestor-sire> *Scale | Ep.#3: Russian Neocolonialism as Demonic Possession [w/ Anna Engelhardt & Mark Cinkevich]* *Release: 25 August 2023 * Infrastructures of abnormous scale are the materialisation of neocolonialism. Megabridges, power plants, military bases are means of dispossession, invasion, extraction perpetrated by bigger countries upon smaller sovereign states... [MORE] <https://aksioma.org/scale-ep.3-russian-neocolonialism-as-demonic-possession-w-anna-engelhardt-mark-cinkevich> *Scale | Ep.#4: Neocolonial Extraction and Surveillance [w/ Anthony Downey]* *Release: 1 September 2023* The concept of scale is intrinsically related to mapping, which is intrinsically related to colonisation and neocolonial military practices... [MORE] <https://aksioma.org/scale-ep.4-neocolonial-extraction-and-surveillance-w-anthony-downey> You can listen to podcast episodes at Aksioma website <https://aksioma.org/podcast> or at SoundCloud <https://soundcloud.com/aksiomaorg>, Spotify <https://open.spotify.com/show/0W3L1xhneSE6HvuxRXjB5k>, Apple <https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aksioma/id1694528895> and Google (coming soon!) podcasts. ----- Host: Neja Berger Guests: Laura Tripaldi, Steffen Köhn & Nestor Siré, Anna Engelhardt & Mark Cinkevich, Anthony Downey Recording and editing: Neja Berger Audio Mix: Staš Kramar Music: Gašper Torkar Scale podcast series Curated by Janez Fakin Janša Produced by Marcela Okretič for Tactics&Practice#14: Scale Production: Aksioma – Institute of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana <https://aksioma.org/>, 2023 Part of: Tactics&Practice konS – Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art The project konS – Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art was chosen on the public call for the selection of the operations “Network of Investigative Art and Culture Centres”. The investment is co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union.
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