Worlding Podcast

Ep #7.3 Detours and Slow Transitions | Worlding Podcast

Often we know the efficient thing to do but what happens when this fills our body with anxiety? How can we revalue the ‘detour’ not as an inconvenience or procrastination but as an active choice to decelerate and sidestep the shortest, fastest and most productive path?

For Natal Igor Dobkin a detour is a question within his/their research into slow transitions where he/they investigate the temporality of slowness as a method for change. Dobkin, a performance artist, facilitator and adjunct professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Ben Gurion University, explores ‘mythical’ linear movements and how they can become radical when done in slow motion, such as with gender transitions, aging and even the process of committing to a relationship. 

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Ep #8.1 Co-living and structures of caretaking | Worlding Podcast

Berlin born and raised shapeshifter, Jacob Hühn is currently dedicated to enabling a new project at Moos Berlin which encompasses an international residency, co-living community and event space.

In this episode Jacob and Renae chat about what it means to facilitate spaces and how Moos is finding its own rituals and structures of caretaking. 

Moos has a mission to become less abstract and find new languages through which to make concrete and practical invitations to the community, both young and old. Jacob also shares his ambition to root into a place and practice ‘listening first’ - whether that be to the neighbourhood or the building itself. 

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Ep #8.2 Peak experiences and a divergence from default reality | Worlding Podcast

“Everyone is working through something on the dance floor” says Ivan March, a curator, artist and raver who is leading a community house in Greece, and the co-creator of the Waking Life festival in Portugal. 

Waking Life is an annual Music Festival for artistic experimentation and collective imagineering of the type of society we could cultivate, if there was freedom to diverge from default reality. In this episode Ivan shares why festival gatherings are such fascinating spaces and how peak experiences can relate to the seasons and weather patterns within our own bodies. 

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Ep #8.3 Unplanting the seeds of hatred | Worlding Podcast

In direct response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, ‘Unplanting the seeds of hatred’ is a project that approaches the body as soil, in which physical and mental seeds can grow. In this episode, Vera Shchelkina - a Russian somatic dance artist and founder of the project - chats to Renae about how the practice has the potential to slow us down and recognise that what is happening mentally is also a process within our bodies. Even by observing the process of seeding we can already begin to change and transform it, encouraging the ‘plants’ to grow in new ways.

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Ep #9.1 Amazonia - the lungs of planet earth | Worlding Podcast

Speaking from her BIPoC perspective, Martha Hincapié Charry - a Colombian artist based in Berlin, with Quimbaya ancestors - reflects on the present, past and future of the Amazon rainforest. Focusing on her recent solo performance/video installation “AMAZONIA 2040”, Martha shares her ideas of home and community during our times of climate chaos and the disappearance of biodiversity. In her artistic and curatorial practice, Martha creates spaces for dialogue between continents, generating a critical reflection on the relationship between humans and nature, the visible and often invisible world.

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Ep #9.2 Decolonising colonial museums is a fallacy | Worlding Podcast

The whole debate on the decolonisation of colonial museums is a misconception. The collection of cultural treasures from other societies in order to modernise the West, demonstrates that modernity has always been influenced by European white racism and required ‘primitive’ societies in order to feel superior. 

Dr. Christoph Balzar - a curator and art scholar with a focus on Postcolonial theory - argues that we cannot remove this cultural heritage from Ethnographic Museums and therefore they should be defunded, in particular the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. Christoph advocates for Decolonisation Councils that work independently from institutions and take up advisory functions, addressing unbalanced power dynamics and deconstructing the colonial ideologies that shape our world. 

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Ep #9.3 Indigenous Imaginaries | Worlding Podcast

In the Andean world the human body, nature and community are united. In colonisation this connection is broken. A good example of this is the Mallqui - a mummy combining two bodies: that of an old man and an indigenous child from the Lower Valley of the Chillon River, which is now on public display at the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. In the West the mummy is considered dead, in the Andean culture the mummy is still alive. 

Daniela Zambrano Almidón is a Peruvian Quechua researcher and interdisciplinary artist with a focus on Andean-Amazonian popular culture. In this episode, Daniela shares how she is furthering the dialogue between Postcolonial time and indigenous Abya Yala time, particularly through her documentary in development - “The Restitution of Dignity” that follows the story of the Mallqui. Daniela explains how she seeks to contextualise and understand the complexity of indigenous societies, as well as the need to restitute their memory and representation.

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Ep #10.1 Crocodilian women from a world yet-to-come | Worlding Podcast

Talking about mutant species and a speculative world yet-to-come, Kat Válastur - a Berlin-based choreographer and performer - shares her interest in film and how the editing process can be used as a tool within choreography and composition. In this episode we focus on her hybrid work ‘Stellar Fauna’: part performance and part film installation, the project merges reality and fiction in a minimal yet expressive way. Inspired by the cardiovascular system of a crocodile, Kat guides us through her processes of making the film, panning in and out on the details of a human body - biting nails, tense lips - and creating a new world shaped by our present. 

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Ep #10.2 When was the last time you changed your mind? | Worlding Podcast

In her practice of art mediation, Viviane Tabach - a Brazilian curator and mediator - seeks to be porous to the visitors and facilitate the creation of a ‘collective body’, where all participants and entities within the gallery become channels of knowledge. Inspired by Paulo Freire, a Brazilian educator and philosopher, Viviane sees Worlding through the lens of the learning process, as Freire states: “No one educates anyone - no one educates themselves. We educate one another with the mediation of the world”. 

Seeking to expand mediation and foster a shared dialogue, Viviane reflects on her experiences working at documenta fifteen and the 11th Berlin Biennale where she facilitated a tour entitled ‘When was the last time you changed your mind?’ that invited visitors to re-think sensitive topics.

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Ep #10.3 My autism shapes everything that I do | Worlding Podcast

Focused on access and inclusion with regards to neuro-difference and disability, Anna Farley shares how she navigates her life and artistic work with support and family, placing her autism front and center. In her work, Anna creates Visual Guides for exhibitions that offer visitors another way of accessing the display without relying only on text or speech. Filled with images and simple short sentences, the guides provide an alternative future for how we talk about art and, more broadly, how we could share important information within public institutions. 

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