[spectre] Radio Web MACBA - Most listened podcasts February 2022

[Radio Web MACBA]

*Radio Web MACBA <https://rwm.macba.cat/en> - Most listened podcasts
February 2022*

*1- Clàudia Pagès:
<https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-345-claudia-pages> "El lenguaje
jurídico está lleno de gerundios, que son formas no personales del verbo.
El gerundio lo que hace es desactivar el sujeto, el sujeto ya no existe,
entonces es muy fácil deshumanizar a cualquiera." (only available in
Spanish)*

The work of artist Clàudia Pagés (b. Barcelona, 1990) unfolds and contracts
in many forms. Words, the body, and movement circulate in multiple
directions through her processes, forging a tangled linguistic web of
micro-narratives that involve critically listening to the immediate
environment, and recording it through persistent writing.  In this podcast,
we open Clàudia Pagés’s box of tricks and tools. Repetition, 'zoom-ins',
physical and metaphorical shifts, and translation emerge as some of her
main strategies, while singing, composing, and dancing come together as
desire and a pure space of experimentation and possibility. Writing,
materiality, orality, rhythm, movement... it all involves the body, and it
must all fit into a suitcase too.

Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-345-claudia-pages

*2- Jessica Ekomane:
<https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-346-jessica-ekomane>“I was always a
bit annoyed about this idea that technology is neutral, that certain
knowledge is neutral. It’s like you don’t have a perspective on it, it’s
just this idea of neutrality and rationality. And this is something that is
always quite present in what I do.” *

Jessica Ekomane <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-346-jessica-ekomane> is
a sound artist and composer, and a lecturer in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts
at the Universität der Künste Berlin. Ekomane’s quadraphonic performances
and installations approach algorithmic/computer music as a social practice
that is grounded in questions such as the relationship between individual
perception and collective dynamics, and explores listening expectations and
their societal roots.
Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-346-jessica-ekomane

*3-  Chris Cutler:
<https://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/probes-32>"Harry Partch’s advocacy of a
natural harmonic tuning system was immensely influential, though few other
composers followed him into instrument design.  Mostly they turned to
electronics - because oscillators can be adjusted to deliver any pitch
value one desires. Such a solution, however, would have been anathema to
Partch, for whom music had to be rooted in action and the human body. He
took as his models the Japanese Noh theatre and the classical Greek drama -
and he said that the visual aspects of his instruments were as important to
him as the sounds they made; indeed he designed them in such a way as to
oblige his performers to move athletically as they played."*

In PROBES #32  <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/probes-32>we trace the
history of some newly invented instruments in the 20th century, including
the Chromelodion, the Boo, the Mazdaphone, the Quadrangulis Reversum, the
Crystal Baschets, Harry Bertoia’s Sonambiente, the unearthly Daxophone and
Arthur Harris’ Mother Lap Cello Harp, Whispering Harp and the 14.5 metre
viol, whose lowest strings are inaudible to the human ear.

Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/probes-32

*4- Chris Korda: <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood-8> "Humanity
is not well evolved, or not well shaped by the forces of evolution that
have acted on us in our original environment, to manage threats that evolve
over very long time periods. We’re primarily optimised to manage immediate
threats."*

In OBJECTHOOD #8, <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood-8> Roc
Jiménez de Cisneros, Andrea Ballestero and Chris Korda reflect on limits. A
quite dark and urgent take on boundaries and edges, if you will. This is
not so much about ontological boundaries, but rather about the dangers of
looking at the world with no limits in mind. With music by Jessica Ekomane.

Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood-8

*5 - **Professor Oyèwùmi:
<https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-303-oyeronke-oyewumi> "Part of what I
am doing is to historicize how gender became important in the colonies as
the result of the fact that the colonizers brought their ideas about
gender. That is the crook of the matter."*

In this podcast, Professor Oyèwùmi
<https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-303-oyeronke-oyewumi> talks about
age, seniority, and respect, about unscrupulousness and academia,
dispossession and spirituality. She considers the oxymoron of the notion of
“single mother” from the point of view of Yoruba culture, and she also
notes how observance of community practices from non-Western cultures may
be an unnecessary step as we face the planetary challenges to come.


Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-303-oyeronke-oyewumi

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