Creative Disturbance

MAP's series of podcasts produced in conjunction with MAP2020: The Further We Roll, the More We Gain that critically examines the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment continues with Artist Aram Han Sifuentes. Aram talks about her projects in support of voting and protests, Official Unofficial Voting Station: Voting for All Who Legally Can't and Protest Lending Library and other related topics, such as who in the U.S. can vote and who cannot and why.

Our guest on this episode is Mark Roseman, the author of Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany. We discuss the Bund, a close-knit group that worked together to save lives in Nazi Germany, the ideas of “functionary” and “perpetrator,” the Wannsee Conference, and much more.

Elizabeth Escalante is a Stone Fellow at the Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology at the UT Dallas who studies ethics issues involved in medical technology. In this episode, Eun Ah Lee and Elizabeth talk about Elizabeth's current study of uterus transplantation as an ethical alternative to commercial gestational surrogacy.

In the second episode of the ArtSciLab Talk Show, host, Maisha Razzaque sits down in a remote skype session with lab member, Jacob Hunwick to discuss his study abroad experience in Marburg, Germany and the launch of the ArtSci Abroad initiative. At Phillips University Marburg, Jacob has been working to research, discover and document exemplars of art-science and well-being.

Link to project mentioned in episode: shorturl.at/nHJT8

Juan Castrillón and Kalpana Subramanian discuss the aesthetics of breath. They ask how one might explore non-Western genealogies of breath in connection with notions of subjectivity, affectivity and ‘becoming.’ Juan sheds light on sonic perspectives of dervishes from the Anatolian peninsula drawing on his own experience of playing the Ney (a reed flute). Kalpana touches upon notions of breath arising from Yoga and Buddhist knowledge traditions.

Editing: Juan Castrillón and Kalpana Subramanian

"Les archives du présent" est un projet de documentation de la Fondation Zinsou qui consiste, selon sa directrice, à redonner aux africains les moyens de se réapproprier leur histoire. Avant d'y venir, Marie-Cécile Zinsou a bien voulu nous faire part de son point de vue sur les contingences locales qui affectent le développement d'une institution telle que la sienne et sur l'importance des femmes dans les structures du continent.

Filmmaker and Educator Katsitsionni Fox (Mohawk) reflects on growing up in the Akwesasne territories of Northern New York, her new film Without a Whisper, which tells the untold story of how Indigenous women influenced the early suffragettes, and her work as an artist and Indigenous educator.

Ouvert en 2005 sous l'impulsion de Marie-Cecile Zinsou, la Fondation Zinsou est un musee qui oeuvre a la promotion de l'art contemporain africain. Il est question dans cette premiere partie de l'entretien du statut des arts au Benin, ancien royaume du Dahomey, de leurs rapports avec les formes vivantes, et de collaborations internationales.

Artist Cauleen Smith reflects upon her work, the value of money and putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, Alice Coltrane, the tools used by the powerful and the flag she designed for MAP2020: The Further We Roll, The More We Gain. MAP2020 commemorates and critically examines the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. MAP commissioned 19 women artists and writers, including Smith, to create work for MAP2020.

Conversation with Anatur Andic and Atif Akin