Reclaiming Pedagogies

As part of Reclaiming Pedagogies, we are very happy to present For a Spring to Come, the first in a number of Speaking Works in multiple episodes, by visual artist, published writer, performer, editor and sometimes filmmaker Yve Lomax who also directs the publisher Copy Press and its online audiovisual platform Becoming Fireflies. 

With identity wars and the domination of wealth producing sadness, misery, despair and death in the world, For a Spring to Come calls out to us to not give up on the good. In seven short episodes, it concerns itself with poverty, being nobody, the authority of the law, and a kiss where giver and receiver can’t be told apart. 


Thank you Yve!

It is March 2016, the destruction of the southern part of the Jungle, an informal refugee camp on the outskirts of Calais, France, is underway. The Jungle rises every day between the end of the land and the beginning of the sea. 10,000 people on the move of more than 15 different nationalities live in this city built with the help and international solidarity of hundreds of people.Passing beyond this space, is the goal of most of those who have arrived here. To trepass, to go beyond, is the very action that lies at the core of the existence of this place.

Nous sommes en mars 2016, la destruction de la partie sud de la Jungle, un camp de réfugiés informel situé à la périphérie de Calais, en France, est en cours. La Jungle s’élève chaque jour entre la fin de la terre et le début de la mer. 10 000 personnes en mouvement, issues de plus de 15 nationalités différentes, vivent dans cette ville construite grâce à l’aide et à la solidarité internationale de centaines de personnes. Dépasser cet espace est l’objectif de la plupart de ceux qui y sont arrivés. Passer, aller au-delà, c’est l’action même qui fonde l’existence de cette ville frontière.

Valeria Muledda is a transdisciplinary artist. Her research focuses on exploring the body-space relationship as an aesthetic and political experience. Attentive to processes of individual and collective, urban and eco-social transformation, her research contaminates physical, contemplative, participatory, sound and linguistic practices, aiming to nourish a renewed relationship with the everyday and a continuously developing awareness. Her work ranges between performance, urban intervention, and sound and installation creation, focusing on what it is to inhabit, lived architecture, and the Earth as an open interspecies environment. In 2012 she founded STUDIOVUOTO – open laboratory of artistic and collaborative practices centered on territory and inhabiting.

Passer was part of the project "Réinventer Calais" with PEROU - Pôle d'Exploration des Ressources Urbaines

Merci beaucoup Valeria !

Pirate Care is a term used to describe creative, public acts that challenge the "organized abandonment" of people in need. In the tradition of civil disobedience, pirate care activists intervene to show compassion and social solidarity for ordinary people. Pirate Care also highlights how the state, markets, or patriarchal families have politicized particular types of care by declaring them unpatriotic, a threat to business revenues, or unacceptably kind to people of the "wrong" citizenship, race, or gender identity. In a new book, 'Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity' (Pluto Press), Valeria Graziano and Tomislav Medak explain the varieties and logics of pirate care. 

Thank you very much David for this podcast!

read more about the PIRATE CARE project
https://pirate.care/pages/concept/

read more about the book
Pirate Care - Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity
by Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745349800/pirate-care/

listen to FRONTIERS OF COMMONING
https://david-bollier.simplecast.com/episodes

What are some of the distinctive ways that precarious arts collectives share resources, support each other, and make art?
This episode of FRONTIERS OF COMMONING, hosted by David Bollier, hears from artists' collectives in three countries to learn how they organize their commoning practices. 
The three collectives are the "-" (dash) collective in Iran (with an artist who goes by the pseudonym "M" for political reasons); Papaya Kuir, a lesbo-transfeminist collective for Latin American migrants in the Netherlands (with Mexican-born Alejandra Maria Ortiz); and Indonesian artists who practice 'nongkrong' (Angga Cipta, aka "ACip," and MG Pringgotono, founder of Serrum and Gudskul).

Listen to the other episodes of FRONTIERS OF COMMONING:
https://david-bollier.simplecast.com/

More on commoning: 
www.Bollier.org

Thank you Costantinos!
Thank you David and all the artists involved in this conversation!

At the African Art Book Fair in Dakar, we talk to photographer and writer Samuel Nja Kwa, who is here to present his new book on Manu Dibango, "Soul Makossa Man".

Samuel talks about connections between the development of jazz, slavery and civil rights, and on the legacy of jazz as a music of emancipation. 

A musical conversation recorded, edited and mixed by Graeme Thomson & Silvia Maglioni with interventions from Fofana, Spooky, Armstrong, Monk, Scott, Moor Mother, Bowie, Morton, Graves, Ayler, Roach, Lincoln, Roberts, Art Ensemble, Shabaka and Davis.

Thank you, Samuel!

*with the precious support of Ecoversities
https://samuelnjakwa.com/

During the African Art Book Fair in Dakar we meet Rosanna Puyol.

Rosanna is a poet, editor and co-founder of BROOK press who publish French translations of books engaged in feminism and antiracism, texts both poetic and political. Recent Brook publications include French translations of texts by Fred Moten & Stefano Harney, Saidiya Hartman, José Esteban Muñoz, Laura Mulvey, José Esteban Muñoz, Shulamith Firestone, Jill Johnston. Rosanna organizes reading groups as well as writing and translation workshops.

In our conversation we focus on the collective translation of The Undercommons, the notion of the book as a social space of conviviality and the joy of "study" as a way to escape neoliberal individualism, the attention deficit economy and the solitude of precarious labor. 

Thank you, Rosanna!
Thank you, Fred!

Recorded, edited and mixed by Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson, in musical conversation with Fred Moten, Brandon Lopez, Gerald Cleaver, Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell.

*with the precious support of Ecoversities

BROOK
https://brook.pm/info.html

See the whole performance by Fred Moten, Brandon Lopez, Gerald Cleaver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDtlHQvzxo0

Dakar. We are at Cheikh Anta Diop University to meet Professor El Hadji Dieye, specialist in African linguistics.

With El Hadji we discuss national and indigenous languages in Senegal, as well as the burning question of disappearing idioms and grassroots initiatives to protect them. We also consider the links between words and forms of life, the question of opacity and the power of spirituality as forces of resistance to Western domination. He tells us how they are compiling dictionaries as collective spaces of resilience.

Thank you El Hadji!

Recorded, edited and mixed by Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson, in musical conversation with "Ears of the People: Ekonting Songs from Senegal and The Gambia".

*with the precious support of Ecoversities

In Ouakam - Dakar, we talk to psychologist and social activist Laura Zini.

After living for many years in Western Africa, Laura shares her multiple life stories, from her decision to quit working in "development" projects in Senegal to retrain to accompany migrants in Italy to face the difficulties of integration and possible return to their homelands, from her formative experience working in a psychiatric clinic in Dakar to learning about local healing practices and unlearning some of her western assumptions about mental health and community.    

Thank you, Laura!

Recorded, edited and mixed by Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson, with music from Ballaké Sissoko & Derek Gripper, Tidiane Thiam.

*with the precious support of Ecoversities

KENU: Lab’Oratoire des Imaginaires" (60 minutes, May 2024)

In Oukam - Dakar, we meet multidisciplinary artist and musician Alibeta, founder of KENULAB. 

KENU (meaning "pillar") is an inspiring collective space whose approach and artistic methods are informed by local community knowledges. As well as hosting residencies, they run another space, ARTISTE DOU DAANU ("Artists don't fall")  that houses production and rehearsal studios, providing an alternative professional hub for actors, researchers, musicians, filmmakers, activists and artists of all kind, as well as being a popular hangout for both locals and travelers. For several years, KENU has developed collaborative initiatives related to the territory and its burgeoning imaginaries.

Our conversation touches upon a number of topics, from the challenges posed by decoloniality to strategies of autonomy, fugitivity and refusal, from the importance of a holistic approach to art to building possibilities for the coexistence of different cosmologies and visions in imagining alternative modernities for the futures of the African continent. 

Thank you, Alibeta!

Recorded, edited and mixed by Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson, with music from Alibeta & Index, Ibaaku.

https://kenulab.org/

http://www.alibeta.net/

* with the precious support of ecoversities

RADIO PRACTICES AND RADICAL FORMS OF ORGANIZATION

with Silvia, Graeme, Nikolas (firefly frequencies), Gregoire (Station of Commons), Juan, Sandro, Andrea (Radio Tropiezo), Matteo (Cashmere Radio)

In the context or the Miss Read Pre-fair Program (September 2023) this public discussion involved some members of the Lumbung netwerk and focused on radio practice as a radical form of collective organization. How can audio practices operate together in terms of shared resources, contributions, economics, and overall planning? What are the main aims and ways of doing radio and how does radio situate itself (as a media) within the current neoliberal landscape?

Lumbung radio is an inter-local online community radio initiated as a part of documenta fifteen. It’s an open online broadcast that comprises an inter-local network of radio stations spread through many different geographies, comprising over 25 stations from around the globe. It operates in no specific time zones, and streams multiple languages, music, and art. Lumbung operates as a decentralized network of nodes that uses internet without its hegemonic agency. The intention is to produce an audiophonic common space built on the multiplication of the existing practices of its contributors.

Edited by Silvia Maglioni
https://lumbungradio.org