This podcast reveals the current situation and condition of art in Yogyakarta by tracing artistic works and cultural actions from the early days of the national awakening to contemporary times. A series of statements, poems, plays, songs, and conversations.
Listen to this playlist of artists from Yogyakarta and their current releases.
An exploration of Dhaka’s transformation towards digitization and its ramifications for artists living and working in the capital of Bangladesh.
Curating exhibitions has often been a one-dimensional endeavor. Here, the curator Basak Senova suggests an approach that prioritizes constant feedback between artists and audience, as well as improvisation.
In this photo essay, Monia Acciari visualizes a curatorial process attempting to reconcile intimate and public absences, loss, and creativity.
As a child, our writer made mixtapes out of recorded radio shows. In this personal essay, she explains how she disobeyed the station’s official music curation.
Even at a time of fragmented digital selves, people often align with a single self-description, suppressing their multiplicities. In this essay, our author attempts to re-sample the embattled term (self-)curation, in search of its supposed emancipatory potential.
What happens when curation resists any form of guidance? For Rebecca Salvadori, video artist and artistic co-curator of Norient Festival 2022, this led to a silent rush of creativity. A claim for positive disorientation.
How can we decentralise the power of curatorial spaces? According to our writer, we need to take into account irrationality as a creative process.
How does sound shape visual perception in a movie? Watching «Memoria» by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, film scholar Sulgi Lie is shaken by a heavy bass that has no visible source.
A portrait of Montréal’s diverse music scenes, their global connections and historical roots; and an exploration of the effects of gentrification.
