OBJECTHOOD <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/objecthood_tag> is a podcast about objects, in particular about theories that have recently brought us new perspectives on objects from contemporary art and theory. Curated by Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, and feat. interviews with McKenzie Wark, Liam Young and Mette Edvardsen, Hito Steyerl, Helen Hester and Roula Partheniou, Florian Hecker, Luciana Parisi and Graham Harman, among others...
////// OBJECTHOOD #6, <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood6-mckenzie-wark-mette-edvarsen-liam-young/capsula> feat. interviews with McKenzie Wark, Liam Young and Mette Edvardsen, and music by Stephan Mathieu. Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood6-mckenzie-wark-mette-edvarsen-liam-young/capsula In this episode, we talk to McKenzie Wark, Liam Young and Mette Edvardsen about space. Space, and the spaces we inhabit as mediating objects. Space as object of desire, as the ultimate “outer”. Space as a medium for extremely strange objects, from heavenly bodies to UFOs and many other myths. A three-way look at the idea of space, from political theory to performance art. *This podcast is part of Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union*. *Music commissioned to Stephan Mathieu. * ///// OBJECTHOOD #5, feat. Hito Steyerl, Helen Hester and Roula Partheniou <http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood5-hito-steyerl-helen-hester-roula-partheniou/capsula> Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood5-hito-steyerl-helen-hester-roula-partheniou/capsula More info: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20171010/Objecthood_5_eng.pdf In this episode, we talk to *Hito Steyerl*, *Helen Hester* and *Roula Partheniou* about a number of ramifications of the idea of object in their respective practices. The 1997 track by Operator & Baffled that opens the programme, 'Things Are Never', repeats over and over again that things are never quite the way they seem. OBJECTHOOD #5 underlines the view of objects as points of convergence of a multitude of social, political, economic relations, trapped in matter and more or less made invisible by their everydayness. //// OBJECTHOOD #4 <http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood4-nabil-ahmed-arie-altena-agf/capsula>. feat. interviews with Nabil Ahmed, Arie Altena and a reading by AGF of Vilém Flusser’s ‘Vampyroteuthis Infernalis’. The slippery materiality of untraceable objects: from the arsenic poisoning the wells of Bangladesh as told by Nabil Ahmed, to Arie Altena's account of the superstition surrounding the Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia, or the bizarre biology of the vampire squid from hell in a passage of Vilém Flusser’s ‘Vampyroteuthis Infernalis’ read by AGF. Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood4-nabil-ahmed-arie-altena-agf/capsula /// OBJECTHOOD #3 <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood3-martin-holbraad-quim-pujol/capsula>. feat. an interview with Martin Holbraad and a text by Quim Pujol Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood3-martin-holbraad-quim-pujol/capsula This third installment of the series delves into those ideas, under a completely different light, as anthropologist Martin Holbraad and artist and curator Quim Pujol discuss monsters, otherness, hybrids, agency and fetish. // OBJECTHOOD #2. <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood2-florian-hecker-erick-beltran/capsula> feat. interviews with Florian Hecker and Erick Beltrán Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood2-florian-hecker-erick-beltran/capsula <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood2-florian-hecker-erick-beltran/capsula> In this second episode, Florian Hecker discusses the idea of sounds as objects and the notion of decomposition in his recent chimerical pieces, and Erick Beltrán addresses different aspects of epistemology, the self and identity that have been part of his artistic practice. / OBJECTHOOD #1. <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood1_graham_harman_luciana_parisi/capsula> feat. interviews with Graham Harman and Luciana Parisi. Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood1_graham_harman_luciana_parisi/capsula This first episode features philosophers *Graham Harman and Luciana Parisi*. Harman's object-oriented ontology opposes Kant's anthropocentrism and the scientistic standpoint, in defence of a radically broad notion of objecthood; while Parisi looks at the relations between things and data, between macrophysical objects (or blobjects, as Karim Rashid called them) and the algorithms that create them. ////// The complete series and further information can be found here: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/objecthood_tag / ENJOY /
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