Artery. A podcast on art, authorship and anthropology

Florentina Manuel Martínez is a textile artist originally from the state of Veracruz, in the municipality of Chicontepec, in the community of Ateno. She is a Náhuatl language speaker. Currently she is living in Tamaletom (the municipality of Tancanhuitz, in the state of San Luis Potosí, México). Florentina is married to a Tének flyer man of Tamaletom. (Tének is an Indigenous group of Mexico and fl...

Musicologist Dr Adèle Commins is Head of Department of Creative Arts, Media and Music at Dundalk Institute of Technology. Her PhD from Maynooth University focused on the music of Irish-born composer Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. Her recordings include contributions to an album of Irish piano accordion music released by Comhaltas in 2014 and vocal soloist on an album by Irish composer Sr Marie Dun...

Alex Ungprateeb Flynn is Assistant Professor and Graduate Vice Chair at the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, University of California, Los Angeles. Working with activists, curators, and artists in Brasil, Alex investigates the prefigurative potential of art in community contexts to theorize the production of knowledge, notions of utopia, and social and aesthetic dimensions of form. Fra...

Ayala Gazit is a visual artist who specializes in photography and installation. Born in Israel, she is currently living and working in Berlin. Prior to moving to Berlin she lived in New York city, where she completed, with honors, a BFA in Photography in The School of Visual Arts. Ayala has presented works in art venues around the globe, including in Germany, USA, Australia, New Zealand, and Israe...

Eliana Otta Vildoso (Lima, 1981) holds a degree in art, an MA in Cultural Studies from the Universidad Católica del Perú, and a PhD in Practice from the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. She co-founded the artist collective Bisagra in Lima and the ecofeminist collective Mouries in Athens. She coordinated the curatorial team for the permanent exhibition at Lugar de la Memoria, la Tolerancia y la Inclus...

Elzė Sigutė Mikalonytė  is a Research Associate at the Department of Psychology and a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College , University of Cambridge. Her research interests are in aesthetics, metaphysics, experimental philosophy, and philosophy of cognitive science. She currently works on the project “Higher Values: Aesthetic Experiences, Transcendence, and Prosociality” with Prof. Simone Sch...

Xasan Daahir Ismaaciil (‘Weedhsame’) is a Somali poet currently based in Hargeysa, Somaliland. Mentored by the beloved late poet Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac ‘Gaarriye’, his work includes hundreds of poems and song lyrics on themes including politics, migration and love. He is widely considered one of the most influential poets of his generation. Trained as a mathematician, Weedhsame currently teaches So...

Jonas Tinius is a sociocultural anthropologist, and currently scientific coordinator and post-doctoral researcher in cultural anthropology in the ERC project Minor Universality: Narrative World Productions after Western Universalism based at Saarland University. He completed a PhD in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, before joining the Centre for Anthropological...

寂空 (JACK) is a shamisen musician and frontman of the band The Shamisenists. His approach to composition is one of continuous movement across boundaries, inspired by his own travel to different parts of the world. As a result, his music often exhibits a diversity that escapes categorization. Jack performed at the Rugby World Cup official reception at the Yokohama Arena in 2019. In 2022, The Shami...

Tamaki Ueda, aka Banetoriko, is a Japanese noise music artist who was born in Nara, moved to Los Angeles, and finally established herself in Osaka. Her music, composed with a self-made metal instrument named Banetek, is inspired by yokai, the supernatural creatures from Japanese folklore to whom she has dedicated a great part of her life. Her last album, Yorioto Hogiokuri, which could be translate...

Mike Williams is a lifelong Silat martial artist, teacher and performer. He is experienced with Pencak Silat since 1992 and has travelled many times to Malaysia, Sumatra and Java in Indonesia. He developed his expertise in at least 6 styles of Silat from at least 5 distinct lineages, these styles are called Panglipur, Cimande, Sera, Silek Harimau as well as partial training of Harimau Berantai and...

Asimina Chremos (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist and dance improviser, with over thirty years of experience in dance-making. Asimina’s practice flows within and between creative ecosystems, including movement improvisation, textile design, and digital art. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Asimina created Quarantine Dance Practice Diaries, expanding on her self-videographic improvisation pract...

Tomoko Hojo is an artist working with the fluidity between sound, music and performance. Recently she has been working on the theme of what makes (women’s) silenced voices audible in history, with a special focus on Japanese women who developed relationships with western countries, such as Yoko Ono and Sadayakko Kawakami. Her works have been exhibited and performed at Tate Modern (London), Issue P...

Lee Ki-Yeon (이기연) is an artist and activist known for her advocacy for democracy during Korea's dictatorship era. In the 1980s, she co-founded Minjung art (민중 미술 people’s art) collective 'Dureong' (두렁) and explored Korean cultural heritages, including mask dances and folktales. Her influence extended into clothing when, in 1984, she initiated the 'Wearing Our Clothes Movement' (우리 옷 입...

Misumi Lancia is a virtual YouTuber (VTuber) idol and metaverse “resident” with developmental disabilities and gender dysphoria. For her, the virtual being Misumi Lancia is a “VRChat existence art,” aiming to escape her physical body by merging with machines and networks. Website https://www.metamisumi.net/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@LanciaMisumi Liudmila Bredikhina is a Ph. D. candidate at Mal...

Rabab Chamseddine (b.1997, Abidjan, Ivory Coast) is a Lebanese (spoken word) poet and film-maker based in Tyre and Beirut, Lebanon. She is currently completing her master’s in Literature at the American University of Beirut. Her poetry unfolds as an exploration of the bilateral theme of love and loss, and the poetics of meaning-making that emerge between them, in that very space of mourning, in Be...

Emiko Agatsuma is a dancer and a choreographer specializing in Butoh, a  dance genre that emerged in Japan in the1960s as a reaction to Western modern dance. Having graduated from Waseda University in Tokyo in 1999, she joined the largest Butoh Company - Dairakudakan founded by Akaji Maro. She had performed in every Dairakudakan production until 2019. She now heads the AGAXART production company f...

Bronagh Lawson is an artist based in Belfast who has written a blog about the vibrant local contemporary visual arts scene for the last ten years. Previously she ran cross-community cross-border development programmes for 13 years. Originally from Portaferry and Strangford, Northern Ireland, she is a Fulbright scholar and graduate of Winchester School of Art. Bronagh is a co-founder of the Hydrang...

Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh BSc. Hons, MLitt, MA is a practice-based opera doctoral researcher at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, in London where she also teaches. Her research engages with the opera “Carmen” drawing on the Tehran Opera Company to forecast what new socio-political futures could be dreamt through opera. Her new libretto of “Carmen” in 2025 will coincide with the 150th ann...

Jesús Guevara Rico is an artist and art conservator, originally from San José Tateposco in the state of Jalisco, Mexico. He trained at the prestigious Western School of Conservation and Restoration (Escuela de Conservación y Restauración de Occidente) in Guadalajara. Now based in Oaxaca City, Jesús works on and oversees the conservation and restoration of colonial heritage throughout the state, es...

Tuguldur Yondonjamts (b.1977, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia) lives and works in Ulaanbaatar and in New York. His work is very much dependent on research and careful analysis of certain environments and materials, often responding to the nomadic culture of Central Asia and the issues affecting Mongolia’s society and economic development. By using investigational logic, he is able to create large scale draw...

Mzuzile Mduduzi Xakaza works as Director of the Durban Art Gallery and also paints and draws on a part-time basis. He has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in South Africa and abroad since the early 1990s. His art is inspired mainly by the love and appreciation of his social and physical environment (landscape) as well as social issues that are subtly evoked by such a theme. Howe...

Maree Clarke is a Mutti Mutti/Wemba Wemba/Boonwurrung/Yorta Yorta artist, from Mildura in northwest Victoria, Australia, now living and working in Naarm (Melbourne).  With over 30 years experience as an artist, Clarke’s work focuses on new ways of telling old/ongoing stories through art-making, much of which occurs in her backyard. https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/maree-clarke/ https://vivien...