RADIOACTIVITY #2 Radio Tomate
RADIOACTIVITY looks into two seminal free radio stations – Radio Alice in Bologna and Radio Tomate in Paris – as singular case studies in which self-management, decentralised organisation and DIY...
View ArticleFONS ÀUDIO #28 Joan Fontcuberta
Joan Fontcuberta talks about his formative years, about the processes by which photography is incorporated into the art world, about post-photography, and about his works in the MACBA Collection.
View ArticleOSKAR HANSEN Open Form, Open Music
David Crowley looks at Oskar Hansen's links to the twentieth-century Polish electroacoustic scene, and the role of the experimental radio studio in Warsaw at the time.
View ArticleFONS ÀUDIO #29 Sergi Aguilar
Sergi Aguilar talks about his initial steps in the field of jewellery and about postmodernism in Spain during the eighties, and offers us an overview of his artistic career and his working methods...
View ArticleFONS ÀUDIO #30 Carlos Bunga
Using ephemeral materials, Carlos Bunga addresses a galaxy of complex notions such as fragility, transience, mutation, and accident. In FONS AUDIO #30 he talks about his early video essays, about how...
View ArticleOBJECTHOOD #3
Anthropologist Martin Holbraad and artist and curator Quim Pujol discuss monsters, otherness, hybrids, agency and fetish.
View ArticleFONS ÀUDIO #31 Alfons Borrell
Alfons Borrell is one of the greatest exponents of Catalan abstract painting. He has gradually established a solid and highly expressive body of work of great intensity. His painting is a unique case...
View ArticleFONS ÀUDIO #32 Jorge Ribalta
Artist, critic and curator Jorge Ribalta talks about his working processes, about the intersections between artistic and social practices, and about the links between creation, pleasure, and knowledge.
View ArticleFONS ÀUDIO #33 Francesc Ruiz
In his exploration of the speculative traces of comics as a cultural form, Francesc Ruiz calls up notions such as détournement, desire, fan culture, window, vignette, and counter-history. In FONS AUDIO...
View ArticleFONS ÀUDIO #34 Daniela Ortiz
Daniela Ortiz and Xose Quiroga carry out artistic research and actions at points where colonial narratives collide with migration control systems and with the consensus that underpins the nation state....
View ArticleFONS ÀUDIO #35 Patricia Dauder
Patricia Dauder creates essential structures as a result of long-term work processes that allow her to set up a fluctuating dialogue between observation of the physical world, experimentation with...
View ArticleFONS ÀUDIO #36 Matt Mullican
Through a series of practices designed to examine all the folds and psychological strata of the real, Matt Mullican circles around notions such as virtuality, cosmology, subjectivity, and the idea of a...
View ArticleOBJECTHOOD #4
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...
View ArticleFONS ÀUDIO #37 Manolo Laguillo
Manolo Laguillo is a photographer, essayist and professor of photography in the Fine Arts Faculty, Universitat de Barcelona. His stark, deserted urban representations illustrate processes of change in...
View ArticleFONS ÀUDIO #38 Dora García
Dora García works on projects that tend towards infinite growth, resorting to practices such as invisible theatre, footnotes, and serendipitous exploration. In FONS AUDIO #38, she talks about her...
View ArticleFONS ÀUDIO #39 Iván Argote
Iván Argote is a multifaceted artist who uses media such as video, photography, sculpture, performance, and installation to question the notion of heritage, and tests the events that govern our social,...
View ArticleFONS ÀUDIO #40 Martí Anson
Martí Anson is an artist of multiple registers who extends and redefines, through his works, the limits of the exhibition space, the possibilities of artistic reception and the status of the artist. In...
View ArticleFONS ÀUDIO #41 Adrian Melis
In FONS AUDIO #41 Adrian Melis talks about contemporary Cuban art, about his formative years in Tania Brughera’s Cátedra de Arte Conducta, about the usefulness of art, and about production systems,...
View ArticleFONS AUDIO #42 Carlos Garaicoa
Carlos Garaicoa talks about his education in Cuba, about the pressing need to move beyond post-colonial narratives, about his cultural activism, and about 'Yo no quiero ver más a mis vecinos' ('I Don’t...
View ArticleFONS AUDIO #43 Mircea Cantor
Mircea Cantor talks about his work 'Chaplet' (2007), about the impact of borders and the society of control, and about the poetic resonance of tracks, materials, and other physical traces.
View ArticleFONS AUDIO #44. Malcolm Le Grice
Malcolm Le Grice talks about his 1970 work "Berlin Horse", which is part of the MACBA Collection and moves on to expanded cinema, materialist structuralism, latency, suspense, and the representation of...
View ArticleFONS ÀUDIO #45 Cildo Meireles
Meireles has the ability to materialise philosophical ideas through small gestures and a great economy of means. His processes are simple, owing to his propensity to not complicate things. In FONS...
View ArticleFONS AUDIO #46 Rogelio López Cuenca
Rogelio López Cuenca looks back at some of the key aspects that led to the creation of three works now in the MACBA Collection: 'No (W) here Postcards' (1998), 'Beaux Arts' (1992), and 'Musée Élan'...
View ArticleSTAPLES AND INK Some reflections on the small press boom in the art world
Independent publishing is experiencing a boom in the art world. Before the bubble bursts, we speak to Kit Hammonds and Bernhard Cella about the boom, the recovery of supposedly obsolete printing...
View ArticleRADIOACTIVITY #3 Lizzie Borden and "Born in Flames"
Pirate radio became one of the protagonists and main motifs of the narrative thread of Lizzie Borden's 'Born in Flames'. In this short excerpt, the cult and self-taught filmmaker Lizzie Borden shares...
View ArticleFONS AUDIO #47 Andrea Fraser
In FONS ÀUDIO #47, Andrea Fraser comments the work 'Little Frank and His Carp', in the MACBA Collection, which registered her performance in the atrium of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in 2001. Recorded...
View ArticleFONS ÀUDIO #48 Akram Zaatari
In FONS ÀUDIO #48, Akram Zaatari contextualises his work 'Nature morte', which is part of the MACBA Collection. This film was produced for the 2008 exhibition 'Les Inquiets – 5 artistes sous la...
View ArticleRADIOACTIVITY #4 Elektronmusikstudion (EMS)
In 1953, after attending the first Swedish Radio and Fylkingen Society electronic music concert with Pierre Henry and Pierre Schaeffer, Swedish artist Öyvind Fahlström wrote a manifesto for concrete...
View ArticleOBJECTHOOD #5
Things that are more than things: frozen embodiments of social relations, petrifications of desires and energies, replicas disguised as everyday objects. Images, microwave, post-its, money, inhalers,...
View ArticleRADIOACTIVITY #5 The seminal Pirate Radio scene in London
Media studies expert Matthew Fuller talks about the origins and legacy of pirate radio culture in London, focusing on this fertile period of DIY resurgence, when radio resumed a prominent role in a...
View ArticleOBJECTHOOD #6
Lithium mines, Trotskyist sects, black boxes, planetary exodus, augmented architecture, a city as big as the entire planet Earth, the mythology of Area 51. McKenzie Wark, Liam Young and Mette Edvardsen...
View ArticleTHERE ARE NO MORE TICKETS TO THE FUNERAL
This project by the researcher and curator Marta Echaves is structured as a web of complementary, interconnected narratives that reconstruct the silenced history of a generation marked by heroin and...
View ArticleFONS ÀUDIO #49 Peter Downsbrough
In FONS ÀUDIO #49, Peter Downsbrough takes his works from the MACBA Collection as a springboard to talk about a relationship with photography spanning almost half a century, and about how it fits into...
View ArticleALTARS, SUGAR, AND ASHES #1 Anti-racism and anti-colonial resistance from the...
We talk with Lucía Piedra Galarraga, Diego Falconí Travez and Karo Moret from the Study Group on Afro/Black Ideas, Practices, and Activisms about altars, ekekos, nefandos, Saint Barbara, and Valdivia's...
View ArticleRADIOACTIVITY #6 Xarxa de Ràdios Comunitàries de Barcelona (XRCB)
We talk to Efraín Foglia, founding member of guifi.net and researcher, teacher, and designer of physical and digital interaction platforms, about the challenges of the XRCB project and about how radio...
View ArticleALTARS, SUGAR, AND ASHES #2 Anti-racism and anti-colonial resistance from the...
We talk to Diego Falconí Travez, Lucía Piedra Galarraga and Karo Moret about slavery and love, the Caribbeanization of identities, and violence as a potential resource. They discuss affects, phobias,...
View ArticleALTARES, AZÚCAR Y CENIZAS #3. Anti-racism and anti-colonial resistance from...
We talk to Karo Moret, Diego Falconí and Lucía Piedra Galarraga interculturality, multiculturality, and migrant sit-ins. They share ideas on cosmopolitics, the Hispanic world, atavisms, and...
View ArticleOBJECTHOOD #7
This new episode of Roc Jiménez de Cisneros' OBJECTHOOD series features conversations with Diego Falconi, Rick Dolphijn, Dave Phillips, and music by Kali Malone. A spiral-shaped trip about fire,...
View ArticleFONS ÀUDIO #50. Francesc Torres
Francesc Torres (Barcelona, 1948) is an artist, essayist, poet, collector, and curator, who has been involved with conceptual art since the late sixties. He has been a pioneering figure in the use of...
View ArticleThings that happen... at Ràdio Web MACBA. Programme
As part of the exhibition "Sampler #4. Things that Happen", Enric Farrés Durán turns the tables on us with a proposal to get Ràdio Web MACBA to talk about his practice. In this podcast, we talk about...
View ArticleFONS ÀUDIO #51. Pere Noguera
Pere Noguera is a conceptual artist. Since the early 1970s he has been experimenting with the aesthetic, poetic, and metaphysical possibilities of mud, water, landscape, paper, photocopies,...
View ArticleFONS ÀUDIO #52. Cabello/Carceller
In FONS AUDIO #52 Cabello/Carceller talk about their two works in the MACBA Collection: 'I Don't Care about Your Gaze Anymore' (February 1994) and 'A/O (The Céspedes Case)' (July 2009-July 2010)....
View ArticleOBJETUALIDAD #8
In previous episodes we have hinted at limits as an interesting feature of objects that are often fuzzy or vague, and therefore hard to outline. This time around, we take a radically different approach...
View ArticleFONS ÀUDIO #53. El Palomar
In FONS AUDIO #53 El Palomar tell us about their work in the MACBA collection Not Only Homophiles Are Homosexual, but Also Those Blinded by the Lost Phallus, a project in which they take up an...
View ArticleFONS ÀUDIO #54. Eugènia Balcells
Eugènia Balcells (Barcelona, 1943) began her artistic career in the mid-seventies within the conceptual art scene. A pioneer of experimental film, video art, and video installation, she also works with...
View ArticleFONS ÀUDIO #55. Núria Güell
Núria Güell’s artistic practice always starts with a contradiction or social conflict that she feels directly challenged or affected by. These give rise to long collaborative processes in which...
View ArticleFONS ÀUDIO #56. Fito Conesa
Fito Conesa inhabits many languages and disciplines, stretching the chewing gum of his practice to stick on different forms of knowledge, ways of doing, and conversations that are often found outside...
View ArticleFONS ÀUDIO #57. Bernat Daviu
Bernat Daviu (b. Fonteta, Baix Empordà, 1985) is an artist who considers himself a painter first and foremost. A painter aware that the death of painting has long been anticipated but has not yet...
View ArticleRADIOACTIVITY #7. Edwin van der Heide
In this podcast, we talk with Edwin van der Heide about using radio as a way into the public, outside world, and about radio as a highly regulated space that sometimes resists experimentation. We...
View ArticleFONS ÀUDIO #58. Lucía C. Pino
Artist Lucía C. Pino approaches her sculptural work as a conversation with the materials, the media and the surroundings—in relation to where they come from as well as the place they will occupy—,...
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