[spectre] Ràdio Web MACBA most listened podcasts January 2020

[Radio Web MACBA]

*Ràdio Web MACBA most listened podcasts January 2020*

*1/ *Professor Oyèwùmi: "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

*2)* Peter Zinovieff:
<https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-286-peter-zinovieff-peter-zinovieff>“I
wrote a paper in 1966 which suggested that my pathetic computer would be
able to — if I could program it — be an emotional machine which could
interpret emotional input to make a beautiful piece of music. Let alone in
the 1960s… this is completely impossible now and in the foreseeable
decades. But I was dead serious about it.”

In this podcast, Peter Zinovieff
<https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-286-peter-zinovieff-peter-zinovieff>talks
about how he assembled the world's first personal computer, his time at EMS
and the team that accompanied him, about the listening room, academia;
about engineering, experimentation and how not to keep a sound archive;
about Unit Delta Plus, how to run a synthesiser off a windmill, and how to
kindly ask a computer to make us a beautiful composition.

Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-286-peter-zinovieff-peter
-zinovieff

*3)* Monica Narula:
<https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/raqs-media-collective-monica-narula/capsula>“One
of the reasons we stay together is because we never had a manifesto. A
manifesto means you want something done. But for us being in a collective
is just a way of living, a way of doing things in which there is a lot of
debate and discussion and a lot of challenges. It’s not easy. But I don’t
like what is easy.”

In this podcast Raqs Media Collective founder Monica Narula
<https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/raqs-media-collective-monica-narula/capsula>
talks
about raga, the technological body, public domain, the ineffability of
time, the Mahabharata, politics of language, exhaustion, dilation and the
legibility. The collective’s output places them at the intersections of
contemporary art, philosophical speculation and “concrete” research — and
it often takes the form of exhibitions, installations, books, films,
encounters, essays and online projects. There is neither a clear succession
nor distinction between theory and practice or action and reflection in
Raqs’ work process. As in much of their practice, categories collapse.  *Music
commissioned to Caterina Barbieri. *

*Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/raqs-media-collective-monica-narula/capsula
<https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/raqs-media-collective-monica-narula/capsula>*

*4) John Baldessari:
<https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/uncertainty-principle-communication-and-ambiguity-work-john-baldessari>*"One
way you could look at my work is as a piece of writing, and look at the
imagery syntactically as you would look at a sentence".

Very sad to hear that* John Baldessari* (1931-2020) sadly left us early
this year. As a homage to his work and wisdom, we dig up his voice and his
words from our conversation in 2010. John Baldessari
<https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/uncertainty-principle-communication-and-ambiguity-work-john-baldessari>'s
work as an artist, and also as a theoretician and educator, fits in
perfectly with the analogy made by Neils Bohr, Nobel Laureate in Physics,
when he said that "when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in
poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as
with creating images and establishing mental connections." And it is
precisely this veil of uncertainty over Baldessari’s compositions that
transforms the everyday into something singular, into an emergent cognitive
experience that avoids single perspectives.

RIP.

Link:
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/uncertainty-principle-communication-and-ambiguity-work-john-
baldessari


*5) **Céline Gillain:* 'E*ven since I was a child, and especially when I
became a teenager, I've felt that I was never a good woman.'*

In this podcast, we talk with Céline Gillain
<https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-304-celine-gillain> at lenght about
her incursion into the music industry, stage fright, the power of fragility
and depression as a form of resistance today. Paradoxically, her current
media of choice are a mix of pop songs, motivational speeches, and updated
fictions from the entertainment world, which run through everyday life in a
darkly humorous, inimitable way.

Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-304-celine-gillain


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