Foreignness and Friendship

Tilskuer til sit eget liv I denne serie undersøger jeg sorgen, smerten ved at miste. Med udgangspunkt i min fars død, men ikke kun. Også spirituelle øjeblikke med glæde, drømme og kærlighed. Hver gang små fragmenter fra hverdagen, pludselig opstået, uventet - et øjeblik. Her i den første om smerten ved langsom at miste sig selv og ikke længere være det menneske du ellers har været, en tilskuer. Ud...

Season I, 3 - Episode 3 - uddrag I anledningen af at min far ville have fyldt 84 år på denne dag, den 13.juli, genudsendes min tale til ham fra 2021. Dengang introduceret på følgende måde: "Finally we will congratulate an 80 year's old man on his birthday. This man is also my father. The private intertwine with the public in period of time where these categories have begun dissolve, but an 80 year...

Alt om min far Min far er død. Jeg genopfører her min tale til min far og mindet om ham, hvordan han lever videre, holdt ved gravøllet på Restaurant Alfa i Vejen, og digte af Piet Hein fremført ved bisættelsesceremonien lørdag den 24.maj. Min far døde om morgenen torsdag den 15. maj 2025, to måneder før han ville have fyldt 84 år, den 13.juli. Udsendelsen er publiceret af Foreignness and Friendshi...

Hvidt lys Et endnu ikke afsluttet langdigt inspireret af systemisk vold. Systemerne har mange navne, men de er alle sammen kun interesseret i deres egen overlevelse, og det enkelte menneske kun en brik i et større spil. Det gælder om ikke at forsvinde i systemets logik. Udsendelsen er publiceret af Foreignness and Friendship søndag 4.maj 2025.

Kontinental fornuft? I mere end 10 år har jeg sat spørgsmålstegn ved det kontinentale, kontinentale begreber og forestillingen om Afrika og om Europa. Jeg opfatter det som koloniale fantasier. Hvis vi fortsætter med at bruge dem, gør vi os også skyldige i at fortsætte historisk produceret ondskab. Jeg forsøger at skrive et essay om kontinental fornuft - eller rettere, som stiller spørgsmål ved om...

Stellenbosch Triennale 2025 Vi præsenterer her en helt ny serie, der egentlig blot næsten uden filter tilbyder reallydsoptagelser "on the rocks". I denne første udgave befinder vi os på Stellenbosch Triennale i Sydafrika. Ind imellem krydret med nogle få betragtninger for at give kontekst, men det handler egentlig kun om lyden og dens rytme. Kunstudstillingen kan opleves frem til og med onsdag den...

Conversation with Khanyisile Mbongwa Khanyisile Mbongwa is the chief curator of the Stellenbosch Triennale, who takes place for the second time this year. It runs until 30 th of April 2025 in Oude Libertas, Rubert Museum and Stellenbosch University Museum in Stellenbosch, an hours drive from Cape Town.  Here she is in a conversation with Morten Ranum telling about her background and discussing the...

Conversation with Kobus Moolman In this conversation Morten Ranum meet Kobus Moolman. Three years ago Morten Ranum published a translation of Kobus Moolman's long-poem "All and Everything" . They meet in Cape Town for the first time, and Kobus Moolman had just the day before launched his new poetry collection "Fall Risk".   We enter into their conversation halfway because they were so eargerly eng...

Sæson VII, 3 - Episode 35 Der er ridser i vinylen, når det kommer til vores betragtninger om moderne kunst.. Endnu engang oplever vi at tekstil og design står øverst på dagsordenen – en bekræftelse af at håndværket og det taktile manifesterer sin position i den moderne kunsts centrum, men spørgsmålet er, hvad det betyder.  Verden lader til at befinde sig i et vakuum. Mennesket er forvirret. Vi er...

Season VII, 2 - Episode 34 Morten Ranum has submitted an essay with the title "The Lost Rrecording of Uhuru Phalafala" to New Contrast Literary Magazine in South Africa. In this podcast you can listen to him reading it. The title is somewhat a weird one. As the title reveals this was not the purpose. His intention was to have a recording of the conversation he had with Uhuru Phalafala in Cape Town...

Sæson VII, 1 - Episode 33 Indhold: 00:00 Intro 02:38 Abstrakt 03:58 Kunsten at have en samtale 13:28 Dag I  14:53 Decolonising the Palestinian Mind 26:08 Dag II 30:00 Dag III 34:20 The Lost Recording of Uhuru Phalafala 38:52 Johannesburg 44:15 Søndag på Bagsværd Sø 47:45 Outro   Det var meningen, at udsendelsen skulle handle om, hvad en samtale er, og hvordan en samtale mellem mennesker kan blive...

Conversation with Karen Jennings We present a conversation between Karen Jennings and Morten Ranum. Karen Jennings is based in Cape Town. She has published several novels. The most recent is Crooked Seeds . The conversation with Karen Jennings took place in Homecoming Centre in District Six in Cape Town during Open Book Festival on Sunday 8th of September, 2024. Published by Foreignness and Friend...

Conversation with Shubnum Khan During Open Book Festival in Cape Town we meet the Durban based South African author Shubnum Khan for a conversation about writing, literature and her most recent novel  "The Lost Love of Akbar Manzil" . The conversation with Shubnum Khan took place in  Homecoming Centre in District Six in Cape Town during the festival on Friday 6th of September, 2024. Published by F...

Conversation with Mazen Maarouf In 2019 Morten Ranum participated in the festival Louisiana Literature in Louisiana Museum in Humlebæk north of Copenhagen and had a conversation with the Palestinian author Mazen Maaarouf. Maarouf lives in Reykjavik , Island.  His collection of short stories "Vittigheder til krigere" had just been published in Danish translation by Epilog.  The conversation with Ma...

Conversation with Rodrigo Hasbún In 2018 Morten Ranum participated in the festival LitertureXchange in Aarhus and had a conversation with the Bolivian author Rodrigo Hasbún. His book "Affekter" (Los Afectos) had just been published in Danish translation by Jensen & Dalgaard . Morten Ranum wrote a review of Hasbüns book published by Globalnyt in 2018. After the conversation we bring the review. The...

Conversation with José Eduardo Agualusa Our longtime and loyal member of staff Morten Ranum always participated in the festival LitertureXchange in Aarhus, but in the recent years he seems to have taken a break from the festival. Maybe it is time to go back to the middle Jutland provincial town, but until further notice we will bring a conversation with the Angolan author José Agualusa from 2018,...

Sæson VI, 4 - Episode 32 Indhold: 00:00 Intro 02:38 Abstrakt 05:00 Lyd og litteratur 12:10 Afbrydelse I: Refugiets DNA 18:55 Fra tekst til lyd 22:23 Afbrydelse II: Valg i Sydafrika 28:20 Lyden, stemmen og sproget 35:48 Afbrydelse III: Sydafrikas politiske fremtid 38:10 Lyden som pause 40:30 Outro Vi skulle have været i Dakar til kunstbiennale i den forløbne måned, men Dak'Art er blevet udskudt til...

Sæson VI, 3 - Episode 31 Indhold: 0:00:00 Intro 0:02:38 Venedig 0:11:26 Pressekonference 0:22:27 Tekstil og det taktile 0:37:50 Kunsten kan vente 0:41:44 South African Pavilion 1:03:03 Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot 1:06:48 Den kuraterede udstilling forfra og bagfra 1:56:26 Outro I denne maraton version af en podcast beretter vi fra årets kunstbiennale i Venedig. Det kunne ikke gøres kortere, fordi...

Conversation with José Hendo from Uganda In the Venice Biennale we found the Ugandan Pavilion and had a conversation with one of the artists. It is again centered around textile, but this time a different kind of textile.  The conversation took place in Venice on Thursday 18th of April 2024 in the Ugandan Pavilion. Published by  Foreignness and Friendship , Thursday 25th of April, 2024.

Sæson VI, 2 - Episode 30 Indhold: 00:00 Intro 02:38 Resume 04:08 Oversættelser 33:35 Outro I denne måned reserverer vi pladsen til at tale om oversættelse af litteratur. Det vil dels dreje sig om langdigtet "Alt og Alting" oversat til dansk af Morten Ranum, skrevet af Kobus Moolman fra Sydafrika, men vi vil også nævne andre uvurderlige oversættelser som i de sidste par år er blevet gjort tilgængel...

Reportage fra Statens Museum for Kunst om Alberto Giacometti Netop hjemkommet fra Cape Town, hvor vi endnu engang havde haft samtaler om, hvordan tekstil indtager en mere central plads i samtidskunsten, besøgte vi Statens Museum for Kunst i København, som lige nu viser den overbevisende udstilling "Hvad øjet ser" med Alberto Giacomettis skulpturer og tegninger. Her eksploderer rummene. De slanke,...

Season VI, 1 - Episode 29 Content: 00:00 Intro 00:55 Abstract 03:55 Ghosts of Demolition and Contemporary Art 38:38 Outro We are in Cape Town to attend Cape Town Art Fair. It is the missing link in a longer chain of larger art exhibitions around the world – without Cape Town we cannot really discuss contemporary art from a South African perspective. But in Cape Town we are also revisiting previous...

Conversations with Art Formes (Cape Town) and No Man's Art Gallerry (Amsterdam) In Cape Town, South Africa we once again encountered textile - but also clay. In two separate conversaations with two very different galleries we exchange ideas about two materials and their specific tactility.  The conversations took place on the last day of Cape Town Art Fair - February 18th, 2024. Both encounters ar...

Conversation between Laura Vincenti and Morten Ranum We have been in Cape Twon, South Africa to participate in Cape Town Art Fair. The conversation took place a couple of days before the art fair on February 13th, 2024. We met her in Cape Town International Convention Center for a conversation about what to expect of this years edition of the art fair.  Laura Vincenti is an architect, originally f...

Sæson V, 4 - Episode 28 Indhold: 00:00 Intro 02:36 Abstrakt 06:31 Lagos, uge 1 26:29 Aké Art and Book Festival 52:47 Outro Vi befinder os nu i midten af den kontinentale fornuft. Her i Lagos bliver vi mindet om Kampala in the old days, selvom vi bestræber os på ikke at sammenligne. Alligevel slår den tanke ned i os, at der måske er en mere direkte forbindelse mellem øst og vest, end der er mellem...