In Episode 3 of Parties, artist Philip Vermeulen talks to us about bringing the club to the art world through his large-scale audiovisual kinetic installations, how his work replicate different states of mind in clubbing, and how he got so good at sober partying.

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In episode 2 of “Parties”, Rae and Yun talk to professional party animal, DJ, record label owner, mentor, and party organizer Khalil Riyahi. Khalil gives us the scoop on how he started his nightlife career, what makes a good party, the Dutch concept of a ‘night mayor’, and what alternatives people are exploring during the pandemic.

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In season 3 we explore parties. For many of us it's been about a year since we've danced in a crowd, flirted in dark spaces, felt bass pumping through our bodies. So we're taking the time to look deep into different aspects of nightlife.

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In the final episode of our miniseries on Care, we talk to Sharona Lautoe and Xiomara Vírdo from the Black Trans Art and Joy Fund (BTAJF). We ask questions like what does it take to start a mutual aid fund? What does genuine allyship and solidarity look like? Why choose mutual aid instead of a charity model? And how do you create an environment where people feel comfortable reaching out for help?

The BTAJF team is a combination of black trans and black and white cis people who are focused on tangible change for the black trans community worldwide.

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In episode three of our miniseries on Care, we wanted to look at interspecies care. Is it possible to do genuinely? To explore this question, we talk to recording engineer and cognitive musicology student Lilita Dunska about human-animal music playing practices for non-human animals, online community building through pet playlists, the trend of pet humanization, and critical anthropomorphism.

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In this second episode of Care, Yun and Rae speak with Damani Leidsman about community care, power building, the dutch cultural sector and mentorship.

Damani Leidsman grew up in The Netherlands and Suriname. He is a performance artist, maker, educator, and freelance consultant and producer. Damani is mostly busy with  strengthening queer and black communities to create room for new radical art. Alongside his creative projects, he advises organisations on issues of talent development, art education, diversity and how to create a healthy creative climate.

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In our last episode of the series “Language as an Organism”, artistic researcher Minsook Kang tells the story of how Hangeul, the Korean alphabet, got imported to the Cia-Cia tribe in Indonesia. Minsook was about to go on a field trip to Indonesia in order to dive further into her research when the coronavirus hit, so follow this story as it unravels political and cultural questions, historical significance, media misrepresentation, and a few yet-to-be answered questions.

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In this third episode of BARTALK: Language as an Organism, Yun and Rae talk to their Dutch teacher Marik de Koning about Harry Potter, regional accents, gendered languages, idioms and more.

In this second episode of Language as an Organism, Yun & Rae talk to performance artist Natalia Papaeva about her work Yokhor, in which she sings the only two lines she remembers from her favourite song in her mother tongue Buryat. Natalia answers questions from the audience and discusses losing a language, gaining new ones, layers of repetition, performing grief and more.

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