How do artists engage living bodies as creative material? How do they engage our ideas and assumptions of what we consider a body to be and what a body can do? How do they challenge the principles of what life is and the relations we take for granted?    For this podcast, we invited philosopher, researcher and labour organizer Mijke van der Drift to engage with Agnieszka Anna Wołodźko, lecturer and researcher teaching contemporary philosophy and art-science at AKI Academy of Art and Design ArtEZ. Thinking through the lens of contamination, Agnieszka’s recently published book Affect as Contamination: Embodiment in Bioart and Biotechnology uses bioart projects as provocative case studies to rethink affect and bodily practices. Departing from her book, they reflect upon the desire for transformation and the need for its control in our daily infrastructures, ranging from biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries to food production and healthcare.    What ethical frameworks are needed to organize and guide our actions when confronted with hard questions and uncomfortable situations that come up when engaging living matter as a creative material? How do we recognize what needs to change and for whom? Can ethics and art prompt us to become more joyful and accountable to transformative processes of justice?   We invite you to listen to this conversation and reflect upon the risks involved when artists experiment with bodies and living matter, and to think through which ‘anchors’ can orient us through the transformation that life inevitably begets.   Show notes   -       Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoît Mangin, May the Horse live in me! https://dublin.sciencegallery.com/blood-1/may-the-horse-live-in-me-#:~:text=The%20performance%20May%20the%20Horse,an%20injection%20of%20horse%27s%20blood.   -       The Center For Genomic Gastronomy, Smog Tasting: Smog Synthesizer https://genomicgastronomy.com/work/2015-2/smog-synthesizer/   -       Adriana Knouf, Xenological Entanglements. 001a: Trying Plastic Variations https://tranxxenolab.net/projects/eromatase/ -       Be-wildering by Jennifer Willet & Kira O’Reilly, 2017, performance https://waag.org/en/event/performance-be-wildering-jennifer-willet-kira-oreilly/ -           -       Book Deleuze & Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Shizophrenia 1980   -       Bio artist Boo Chapple invited by Prof. Rob Zwijnenberg’s honours class Who owns Life? at Leiden University     -       Baruch Spinoza, Ethics https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza/#Ethi   -       Špela Petrič, Confronting Vegetal Otherness: Skotopoiesis – semiotic triangle, 2015 https://www.spelapetric.org/scotopoiesis -          Sandilands, Catriona (2017), ‘Vegetate’, in J. J. Cohen and L. Duckert (eds), Veer Ecology: A Companion for Environmental Thinking, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 16–29. https://www.academia.edu/50082847/Vegetate     -       Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoît Mangin, May the Horse live in me! https://dublin.sciencegallery.com/blood-1/may-the-horse-live-in-me-#:~:text=The%20performance%20May%20the%20Horse,an%20injection%20of%20horse%27s%20blood.   -       Donna Haraway, Response-ability in her book Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Durham, NC: Duke University Press Books, 2016. See lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrYA7sMQaBQ   -       Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy? Translated by Graham Burchell and Hugh Tomlinson. London etc: Verso, 1994. See:  https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/deleuze/#WhatPhil   -       Jacques Ellul: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/technology/   -       Michel Serres, Birth of Physics, clinamen press 2000   -       The Center For Genomic Gastronomy   https://genomicgastronomy.com/work/2009-2/community-meat-lab/   -       Adriana Knouf, Xenological Entanglements. 001a: Trying Plastic Variations https://tranxxenolab.net/projects/eromatase/       -       Rossi Braidotti : https://rosibraidotti.com/ -          Lem, Stanisław (2012), Przekładaniec [Layer Cake]. Warszawa: Agora, e-book. Andrzej Wajda, (1968), Layer Cake, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063468/    -       Gilles Deleuze Difference and Repetition. Translated by Paul Patton. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. See: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/deleuze/#DiffRepe   -       Denise Ferreira da Silva, On difference without separability https://static1.squarespace.com/static/574dd51d62cd942085f12091/t/5c157d5c1ae6cf4677819e69/1544912221105/D+Ferreira+da+Silva+-+On+Difference+Without+Separability.pdf   -       Michel Foucault https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/foucault/   -       Immanuel Kant https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant/   -       Paul B. Preciado, Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era. Translated by Bruce Benderson. New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2013   -       Dr Luciana Parisi https://scholars.duke.edu/person/Luciana.Parisi   -       The Commons https://www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/the-theft-of-the-commons     About   Agnieszka Anna Wołodźko, is a lecturer and researcher teaching contemporary philosophy and art-science relations at AKI Academy of Art and Design ArtEZ since 2017. At AKI, Artez she has founded a biolab space where she runs a BIOMATTERs, an artistic research programme that explores how to work with living matters through hands on engagement, where difficult philosophical, ethical and ecocritical questions are not only discussed but also tangibly faced. Her research focusses on post-humanism, ecocriticism, affect theory and new materialism at the intersection of art, ethics and biotechnology.   Her book Affect as Contamination. Embodiment in Bioart and Biotechnology is thus a result not only of her PhD research, but also her work as an experimentative educator, where next to analytical discussion on embodiment she reveals personal, intimate and often difficult because risky implications of being a body outside the possibility of innocence. Contamination equally in her writing and work as an educator, becomes  a way of thinking as well as a way of being that implies reimagination of not only what it means to be a body in the age of biotechnological manipulation, but also how to care and feel responsible when practicing embodiment.   Mijke van der Drift   Mijke van der Drift is a philosopher and educator working on ethics, trans studies, and anti-colonial philosophy. Mijke is a tutor at the Royal College of Art, London. Mijke’s work has appeared in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy, the Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, in various independent publications as well as chapters in The Emergence of Trans (Routledge 2020), and The New Feminist Literary Studies Reader (Cambridge UP 2020). Van der Drift is founding member of the art collective Red Forest. They have made work for the Milano Triennale (2022), the Helsinki Biennale (2023) as part of their research into Extractivism, Fossil Fascism, and cultures of resistance. With Nat Raha, Mijke is writing Trans Femme Futures.      

How do we work with research within our educational programs? Which methods do we need and use? And what does this mean for BA and MA students? In the podcast series Research in Art Education, Fabiola Camuti interviews students, researchers, teachers, and managers working in university of the arts to discuss the importance, challenges, and possibilities of conducting research within arts academies. The KUO (national art education sector) Strategic Plan 2021-2025 identifies ‘research’ as one of the three key areas art universities should focus on in the coming years. Research is essential not only to the arts and professional art education, but also to our relationship with the world and society. Research already takes on an important role within universities of the arts, however, practices and ideas on the role, methods, ways of conducting research and its embedment within each and every institution, still leave space for further development, investigation, and actions to be taken. For this reason, starting 2022, a national ‘Research in Education working group’ works together to strengthen the knowledge ecosystem and the research culture within our academies. This podcast series is connected to the events organized by the working group around the question: how can we make research sustainable in our academies? The podcast is sponsored by the Vereniging Hogescholen and hosted by Radio ArtEZ for Studium Generale.   The second episode of the series, titled, The Circle of Doing Research: a tool for art students, addresses the possibilities and mechanisms of this model, created by teachers-researchers of the Research Station of the Willem de Kooning Academy (WdKA), with and for the educational departments. Joining the conversation are the developers of the circle, Miriam Rasch, philosopher, writer, and coordinator of the Research Station at the WdKA, Jojanneke Gijsen, researcher, art historian, and art educational developer, and Harma Staal, graphic designer and educational developer.     The Circle of Doing Research       Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harmastaal https://www.wdka.nl/stories/zoom-in-fifteen-film-portraits-of-graduates-2020-2021 https://www.wdka.nl/research/the-circle-of-doing-research#:~:text=With%20these%20questions%20the%20Willem,and%20to%20reflect%20on%20research. https://www.miriamrasch.nl/

In 2022 onderzochten Tanja Koning en Annemarie van den Berg de vraag hoe ruimte in het onderwijs van Art&Design Arnhem gemaakt kan worden voor collectief maken. In deze podcast vertellen ze over wat ze geleerd hebben en waar zij kansen zien voor ArtEZ om collectiviteit aan te jagen. Daarnaast vertellen de leden van het studentencollectief WIJ² hoe zij in hun examenjaar bij DBKV als collectief zijn opgetrokken. Een muurschildering van 16 bij 6 meter, een wekelijkse ontdekkingstocht langs de Rijn, het formeren van een tijdelijk collectief, het herontdekken van een gebouw en het radicaal gelijkwaardig samenzijn als startpunt van kunstonderwijs: onder de noemer Collective Making vonden, ondersteund door de ArtEZ Kwaliteitsafspraken, tussen januari 2022 en januari 2023 vijf onderwijsprogramma’s plaats bij  ArtEZ Art&Design in Arnhem. Samen met studenten, docenten en kunstenaarscollectieven werd er binnen deze onderwijsprogramma’s ruimte gemaakt om collectief maken in de praktijk te brengen, te onderzoeken en te ontdekken. Als vervolg op dit onderzoek werd samen met online kunstmagazine Mister Motley en interviewer Luuk Heezen de podcast ‘Kunst is Collectief’ opgenomen waarin 10 collectieven vertellen hoe hun samenwerking er van binnen en van buiten uitziet. Waarom werken ze samen? Noemen ze zichzelf wel een collectief? Hoe verhouden de afzonderlijke leden zich tot het geheel? Hoe neem je gezamenlijk beslissingen? Kun je eigenaarschap delen? Tanja Koning is alumnus van DBKV Arnhem. Ze werkt als freelance curator en onderzoeker in kunst, wetenschap en wetenschap en technologie. Annemarie van den Berg is alumnus van de KABK (GD) en Piet Zwart Instituut. Ze is onderdeel van Collectief Pink Pony Express en afstudeer/procesbegeleider aan St. Joost School of Art & Design. WIJ² bestaat uit Bert, Mika, Irene & Nino, alle vier studeerden zij afgelopen zomer (2023) individueel en als collectief af bij DBKV Arnhem. Als collectief onderzochten zij wat het betekent om -binnen de muren van ArtEZ- een collectief te formeren en samen werk te maken.

Art at War is een serie over… oorlog en kunst. Elke aflevering onderzoekt schrijver en ArtEZ alumna Lisa Weesaat kunst kan doen in tijden van conflict, samen met een speciale gast. In deze aflevering is die gast Mina Etemad.  Mina Etemad is journalist en podcastmaker en houdt zich bezig met thema’s als migratie en dierenrechten, en verdiept zich graag in allerlei vormen van kunst en cultuur. Momenteel is ze presentator van de podcast DOCS, schrijft ze voor diverse media en maakt radiodocumentaires en podcasts. In het verleden werkte ze als redacteur bij de VPRO-programma’s Nooit Meer Slapen en Mondo. In 2021 deed ze mee aan de Oorzaken Podcast Academy, organiseerde ze samen met anderen het Podcastfestival en verscheen haar radiodocumentaire Volwassenen lachen niet bij de podcast DOCS. Daarin onderzoekt Mina de vraag of ze de dag waarop ze naar Nederland kwam moet vieren of herdenken. Audiodocumentaaire Volwassenen lachen niet. https://www.2doc.nl/docs/2021/38-Volwassenen-lachen-niet.html Violg Mina op instagram voor updates over de situatie in Iran en al haar andere werk: https://www.instagram.com/mina.etemad87/ Mina’s website: https://minaetemad.nl

Art at War is a series about, well… Art and war. Each episode writer and ArtEZ alumna Lisa Weeda explores what art can do in times of conflict with a special guest. In this episode that guest is Bakr Al Jaber. Bakr Al Jaber is a Syrian poet, currently residing in The Hague. His work explores the relationship between universal beauty, war and the duality of existence. He has a published project let’s talk loudly and laugh a lot in collaboration with Dutch photographer Hillie de Rooij, he was shortlisted for the El Hizjra literatuurprijs 2020. Right now he is working on new poetry. Check out the projects by Bakr Al Jaber: https://bakraljaber.com/Projects Follow him on instagram https://www.instagram.com/bakraljaber/ The book Bakr made with Hillie de Rooij is sold out, sadly

Art at War is a series about, well… Art and war. Each episode writer and ArtEZ alumna Lisa Weeda explores what art can do in times of conflict with a special guest. In this episode that guest is Mariia Ponomarova. Mariia Ponomarova is a Ukrainian film director, producer and artistic researcher based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Mariia studied film directing and screenwriting at Karpenko-Karyi Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television. She graduated with a master’s degree in the Film Artistic Research program of the Netherlands Film Academy. Her short films were screened during international and national film festivals Go Short ISFF, Sarajevo Film Festival, Vancouver IFF, Molodist IFF, ArtDocFest, Netherlands Film Festival, CineDOC-Tbilisi, VIS Vienna Shorts, Regensburg Short Film Week and many more. She currently works on the documentary Nice Ladies. Follow Mariia Ponomarova on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ponomarova/ See if you can find the film Fragile Memory, for which Mariia wrote the screenplay. Check out the teaser: https://youtu.be/jYDt97CqG5Q

Art at War is a series about, well… Art and war. Each episode writer and ArtEZ alumna Lisa Weeda explores what art can do in times of conflict with a special guest. In this episode that guest is Anastasia Taylor-Lind.  Anastasia Taylor-Lind is an English/Swedish photojournalist who works for leading editorial publications all over the world on issues relating to women, population and war.  She is a 2016 Harvard Nieman Fellow, a TED fellow and a 2017 non-fiction Logan Fellow at The Carey Institute for Global Good. Her first book MAIDAN – Portraits from the Black Square, which documents the 2014 Ukrainian uprising in Kiev, was published by GOST books the same year.  Anastasia’s  work has been exhibited internationally, in spaces such as The Saatchi Gallery, The Frontline Club, and The National Portrait Gallery in London. She also writes poetry. Check out Anastasia’s website to get a grasp of her  work and portfolio: http://www.anastasiataylorlind.com Read a poem by her hand: https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2022/apr/25/poem-of-the-week-welcome-to-donetsk-by-anastasia-taylor-lind or look for her first poetry collection ‘One Language’. And follow her on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anastasiatl/

Myrthe Oomen, student ArtEZ Creative Writing, schreef het essay 'Mijn lichaam en de elektriciteitsmast'. Het essay leest als een collage van fragmenten over de (on)mogelijkheid om je onderdeel te voelen van een landschap. De taal van schrijvers als Annie Ernaux, George Perec en C.O. Jellema helpen haar kwijtgeraakte woorden terug te vinden. Het essay is na te lezen op de website van Studium Generale:  https://studiumgenerale.artez.nl/nl/studies/all/essay/mijn+lichaam+en+de+elektriciteitsmast/ Daar vind je ook een kort interview met Oomen:  https://studiumgenerale.artez.nl/nl/studies/all/interview/myrthe+oomen+interview/ Poëzie Vandaag van Ellen Deckwitz is te vinden in de meeste podcastapps:  https://podtail.nl/podcast/poezie-vandaag/  

In Research in Art Education, artist-researcher Fabiola Camuti interviews students, researchers, and managers working in university of the arts to discuss the importance, challenges, and possibilities of conducting research within arts academies. The KUO (national art education sector) Strategic Plan 2021-2025 identifies ‘research’ as one of the three key areas art universities should focus on in the coming years. Research is essential not only to the arts and professional art education, but also to our relationship with the world and society. Research already takes on an important role within universities of the arts, however, practices and ideas on the role, methods, ways of conducting research and its embedment within each and every institution, still leave space for further development, investigation, and actions to be taken. For this reason, starting 2022, a national ‘Research working group’ will work together to strengthen the knowledge ecosystem and the research culture within our academies. This podcast series is connected to the events organized by the working group around the question: how can we make research sustainable in our academies? The podcast is sponsored by the Vereniging Hogescholen and hosted by Radio ArtEZ for Studium Generale.     Shownotes:   In episode 1, Sharing Best Practices, Fabiola Camuti has interviewed the following guests: Lulu Linders, 3rd year student audiovisual design at the WdKA, she has a BA from the University of Amsterdam in Future Planet Studies and is working towards becoming a documentary director.   Els Cornelis is a relational artist and teacher at HKU. In addition, she initiated and started a collective research project with the name Pluriversity of the Arts.   Dorothea van der Meulen, Dean Minerva Academy Groningen and member of the KUO national research working group.   Best practices discussed during the episodes:   ArtEZ Univeristy of the Arts: Next Generation: the two-days No University festival for research, experiments, and arts for the education of the future, presented by Arjen Hosper Willem de Kooning Academy: The Circle and Crash Course of Doing Research – creating an equal footing in research skills for all first-year students, presented by Jojanneke Gijsen and Harma Staal Minerva Art Academy: From a question of the working field to an educational pilot: A practice-based research in Arts & Health, presented by Asa Scholma and Jedidja Smalbil   Other best practices that were mentioned:   HKU: How can research be sustainably connected to art education? The case of the Expanding Narratives project, presented by Jorrit Thijn and Nirav Christophe 2.     Fontys School of Fine & Performing Arts: The project ‘Sociaal Artistiek Theater’: the work of the teacher researcher, presented by Lieke van Hoogenhuijze and Erica Smits Codarts University of the Arts: The Research Festival: an annual event for research in education, presented by Erik Zwiep       Links: https://research.hanze.nl/en/publications/we-people-in-transition-ik-zie-ik-zie-wat-jij-niet-ziet https://www.artez.nl/en/agenda/2022-09-23-next-generation-no-university-manifestation-2022-research https://research.wdka.nl/index.php/publications/circle-of-doing-research/  

In the three-part podcast series Listening to the In-Between we highlight different aspects of Pauline Oliveros's Deep Listening® practice. We do so by providing backgrounds, practical listening exercises, and by exploring theoretical notions connected to Deep Listening.   In part I researcher and music journalist Joep Christenhusz explored Deep Listening, together with Ed McKeon and Ximena Alarcón, who are well-experienced deep listeners. Alarcón described the INTIMAL App© that she has developed over the last years.   In the second episode, Deep Listener Sharon Stewart invited us to participate in embodied rituals of attention, a practice of listening to or sensing aspects of power and powerlessness in the world that surrounds us. This reconnected her to the ground-breaking work of Audre Lorde, “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power”. In this third and final instalment, 'Thinking with our Ears', Joep Christenhusz returns to Ed McKeon and Ximena Alarcón, featuring Sharon Stewart as well. They consider Oliveros's Deep Listening practice from several theoretical perspectives, thereby taking into account that theory and practice are always closely intertwined in Oliveros’s work.    Starting from the Extreme Slow Walk, an exercise in sonic awareness, they navigate a fluid in-between space, where conventional binaries like theory-practice, self-other, active-passive and subject-environment start to dissolve. This outward and inward journey results in embodied knowledge about, among other things, the nature of attention and concentration, our relation to our environment and our experience of self.   The second part of this episode consists of a conversation with Ximena Alarcón on the notions of the in-between, sonic migrations, and the migratory experience, and reflections on the role of language in the presence and experience of self.   Show Notes In the podcast you hear the following audio fragments: Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Panaiotis, Album Deep Listening, track 1, ‘Lear’, reproduced by permission of PoP and MoM Publications. (Pauline Oliveros Publications & Ministry of Maåt). All Rights Reserved. Members ASCAP References Meditation number 5, ‘Native’, from: Pauline Oliveros (1971). Sonic Meditations. PoP and MoM Publications (Pauline Oliveros Publications & Ministry of Maåt).   Commentary Oliveros on the Extreme Slow Walk, from: Pauline Oliveros (1971), Sonic Meditations. PoP and MoM Publications. (Pauline Oliveros Publications & Ministry of Maåt).   Francois Bonnet (2016). The Order of Sounds, A Sonorous Archipelago, Urbanomic. Pauline Oliveros (2005), Deep Listening, a Composer's Sound Practice, iUniverse Pauline Oliveros (1984/2015). Software for People, Smith Publications/CreateSpace Ximena Alarcón (2014). Networked Migrations: Listening to and Performing the In-Between Space. (99+) Networked Migrations: listening to and performing the in-between space | ximena alarcon - Academia.edu Marianna Ortega (2008). Multiplicity, Inbetweeness, and the Question of Assimilation Multiplicity, Inbetweeness, and the Question of Assimilation (researchgate.net) Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1987). Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza,   Previous episodes and related materials Listening to the In-Between Part 1: Introducing Pauline Oliveros and Deep Listening (artez.nl) Listening to the In-Between Part 2: Sensing Traces of Power(lessness) (artez.nl) Ed McKeon,“Moving Through Time,” published on APRIA in September.   5 Oct. 2022, ArtEZ Zwolle, Sophiagebouw and Conservatory: Extreme Slow Walk – Listening to the In-Between.