Promise No Promises!

GOING TO THE LIMITS OF YOUR LONGING. Care – Otobong Nkanga


Listen Later

In the episode Care the antwerp-based multidisciplinary artist Otobong Nkanga, focuses on the irrelation between environment, architecture and history. She uses the notion of land as a geological and discursive formation, often taking as her starting point the systems and procedures by which raw materials are locally dug up, technologically processed and globally circulated. From there she follows the threads that intertwine ores, material culture and the construction of desire with the redistribution of power and knowledge.

The episode Care is part of the series Going to the Limits of Your Longing, Research as Another Name for Care, a collection of podcast episodes emerged from the Master Symposium held in spring 2021 at the Institute Art Gender Nature HGK FHNW in Basel. The contributions to the symposium were devoted to ideas and forms of artistic research that center art as a practice in service of the social. They revisit certain moments in our recent history and present of researching, producing, and exhibiting art in the name of such beliefs, namely social justice.

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Promise No Promises!By Institute Art Gender Nature HGK FHNW in Basel

  • 4.5
  • 4.5
  • 4.5
  • 4.5
  • 4.5

4.5

2 ratings


More shows like Promise No Promises!

View all
On Being with Krista Tippett by On Being Studios

On Being with Krista Tippett

10,367 Listeners

Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry by David Naimon, Tin House Books

Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

445 Listeners

The Daily by The New York Times

The Daily

111,441 Listeners

ABC News Daily by ABC

ABC News Daily

126 Listeners

If You're Listening by ABC listen

If You're Listening

314 Listeners

Talk Art by Russell Tovey and Robert Diament

Talk Art

484 Listeners

On the Nose by Jewish Currents

On the Nose

222 Listeners

Informer by Roddy Schrock

Informer

5 Listeners