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Hallie Ayres speaks to Emily Apter and Aliza Shvarts. The conversation was scheduled following the opening of Aliza Shvarts: Purported at Art In General on February 20, 2020. Aliza Shvarts is an artist and theorist who takes a queer and feminist approach to reproductive labor and language. Her current work focuses on testimony and the circulation of speech in the digital age. She received her BA f...

Conversation with editors Maria Lind, Michele Masucci, and Joanna Warsza following a postponed book launch at e-flux for Red Love: a reader on Alexandra Kollontai , presented by CuratorLab at Konstfack University, Tensta konsthall, Cabinet and Sternberg Press. The reader is accessible in open access on Konstfack's website . Maria Lind is a curator, writer, and educator based in Berlin and Stockhol...

Amidst a climate of uncertainty and social distancing due to COVID-19, writer and e-flux journal contributing editor Elvia Wilk and artist Anicka Yi discuss various changing global ecologies, viral and otherwise. Their original in-person conversation was planned on the occasion of Tate Modern's selection of Yi for the annual Hyundai / Turbine Hall commission.  A symbiotic organism in its own right...

e-flux journal editor Brian Kuan Wood speaks to iLiana Fokianaki and Laura Raicovich on the occasion of Rojava Film Commune: Forms of Freedom at e-flux. The exhibition is curated by Fokianaki and on view through April 4, 2020.  iLiana Fokianaki is a Greek curator, researcher and writer based in Athens and Rotterdam. She is the founder and director of State of Concept, Athens, cofounder, with Anton...

Elizabeth LeCompte and Kate Valk of The Wooster Group speak with Peter Scott of Carriage Trade Gallery.  The exhibition mentioned in this episode, The Wooster Group  at Carriage Trade Gallery, is on view in New York through February 16, 2020. The exhibition features archival material, props, and performance documentation emphasizing the group's significant contribution to both performative and vis...

Live recording from the opening of Goldin+Senneby's exhibition, Insurgency of Life , at e-flux. The exhibition is on view until February 8, 2020. Goldin+Senneby is a Stockholm-based artist subject. Since 2004 their work has explored the structural correspondence between conceptual art and finance capital, drawn to its (il)logical conclusions. Recent works include a ghostwritten detective novel abo...

Andreas Petrossiants speaks with author Leigh Claire La Berge about Wages Against Artwork: Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art, published in November 2019 by Duke University Press.  " The last twenty years have seen a rise in the production, circulation, and criticism of new forms of socially engaged art aimed at achieving social justice and economic equality. In Wages Again...

Mariana Silva speaks to Sophie Lewis about her book, Full Surrogacy Now , on the occasion of her talk at e-flux, " Wages for Womb-Work, Polymaternalism, Critical Firestonianism ." The introduction from Full Surrogacy Now was also published in issue 99 of e-flux journal . Sophie Lewis is a writer and part-time faculty member at the Philadelphia branch of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research....

Curator Sohrab Mohebbi speaks to artist Christian Nyampeta on the occasion of his exhibition at SculptureCenter, École du soir (The Evening Academy) , on view through December 16, 2019. As part of the related public program, e-flux hosted an evening with philosopher Isaïe Nzeyimana, in dialogue with anthropologist Natacha Nsabimana and Christian Nyampeta on Wednesday, October 23 at e-flux.  Excerp...

Rachel Ichniowski talks to three representatives from the New Museum Union's Bargaining Committee—Dana Kopel, Francesca Altamura, and Gabe Gordon—about the decision by staff to form a union, and the details of their first five-year contract, which was agreed upon with the museum on October 1, 2019. Staff at the New Museum voted to unionize in January 2019. The formation of the union, which is a pa...

Brian Kuan Wood talks to Daniel van der Velden of Metahaven (Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden) on the occasion of their exhibition at e-flux titled Turnarounds . Turnarounds consists of the film installation Hometown (2018), a new series of textile pieces, and an essay in e-flux journal . Hometown focuses its ultra-wide, hypnotic gaze on two cities—Beirut and Kyiv—that merge into a fictional h...

Erin talks to  Interference Archive volunteers Louise Barry and Rob Smith about the archive, and the exhibition Resistance Radio: The People's Airwaves , on view through September 29, 2019.   Resistance Radio: The People's Airwaves focuses on the people, stations, and organizations that have battled to bring their defiant programming onto the airwaves, and particularly when these actions were in s...

e-flux journal editorial assistant Andreas Petrossiants speaks to Franco "Bifo" Berardi following his recent texts " (Sensitive) Consciousness and Time: Against the Transhumanist Utopia " in issue 98, and " Game Over " in issue 100. Franco Berardi , aka "Bifo," founder of the famous Radio Alice in Bologna and an important figure in the Italian Autonomia movement, is a writer, media theorist, and s...

Sanna Almajedi talks to composer and trombonist Peter Zummo, and Eve Essex, a musician who performs with alto saxophone, piccolo, voice and electronics. The music heard in this episode was recorded live during the fifth edition of Satellite at Bar Laika on March 12, 2019, featuring Zummo and Essex.  Peter Zummo is a composer and trombonist whose music encompasses both the contemporary-classical an...

Andreas Petrossiants, Editorial Assistant for e-flux journal , speaks to artist Fiona Connor starting from her exhibition at SculptureCenter,  Closed for installation, Fiona Connor, SculptureCenter, #4 .  As the show's press release describes: "Los Angeles-based artist Fiona Connor remakes overlooked everyday objects, including bulletin boards, park benches, community noticeboards, doors of closed...

Artist Karl Holmqvist reads " ANOTHER WAR IS POSSIBLE" and "NUMBERS," and speaks with artist and e-flux founder Anton Vidokle. Karl Holmqvist is known for using a wide range of formats—poetry readings, installation, and sculpture–to bring out the primal qualities of language. He is one of a current generation of artists working with language and text as sculptural or performative material. Holmqvi...

e-flux journal editor Brian Kuan Wood speaks to Kader Attia , artist and founder of  La Colonie , a space in Paris for sharing ideas and discussion. Focussing on decolonialisation not only of people but also of knowledge, attitudes and practices, it aspires to de-compartmentalise knowledge by a trans-cultural, trans-disciplinary and trans-generational approach. Driven by the urgency of social and...

Following a recently published  text  in  e-flux journal  issue 98 (March 2019), Tyler Coburn joins Contributing Editor Elvia Wilk to discuss the project Ergonomic Futures . Coburn's Ergonomic Futures   asks questions about contemporary "fitness" through the lens of speculative evolution. The multi-part project  includes furniture designed with Bureau V and a  website  of stories designed with Luk...

Sanna Almajedi and Andreas Petrossiants speak with Lucie Vítková following her Satellite music series performance at Bar Laika. Lucie Vítková is a composer, improviser, and performer (accordion, hichiriki, synthesizer, voice, and tap dance) from the Czech Republic. She recently organized a performance with OPERA Ensemble on climate change . For Satellite, Vítková performed two pieces, one from "Mu...

Tony Wood and Brian Kuan Wood discuss " Intrusions: Or, The Golden Age Is Not in Us " published in e-flux journal #98, March 2019. The text examines three science-fiction scenarios that for Tony illustrate three collapses of orders of magnitude or scale— Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren , written in the US in the 1970s; Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker , filmed in the USSR in the same decade; and Jeff Vander...

Sanna Almajedi speaks with C. Spencer Yeh following his Satellite music series performance at Bar Laika.  C. Spencer Yeh is recognized for his interdisciplinary activities and collaborations as an artist, improviser, and composer, as well his music project Burning Star Core. Originally conceived in 1993 in Cincinnati, the project was known for its unique blend of musique concrète, ambient, drone,...

Sanna Almajedi speaks with Keith Fullerton Whitman following his Satellite music series performance at Bar Laika.  A composer and performer living in Brooklyn, Keith Fullerton Whitman is currently in the process of realizing geographically and thematically relevant live electronic music under the "Redactions" banner, as well as performing contemporary revisions of his classic "Generators" and "Pla...

Artist Agnieszka Kurant and researcher Tobias Rees in conversation with e-flux journal Contributing Editor Elvia Wilk.   Agnieszka Kurant  explores how complex social, economic and ecological systems can operate in ways that confuse distinctions between fiction and reality or nature and culture. Probing collective intelligence, surveillance capitalism, AI and the evolution of culture, labor and cr...

Artist Agnieszka Kurant and researcher Tobias Rees in conversation with e-flux journal Contributing Editor Elvia Wilk.   Agnieszka Kurant  explores how complex social, economic and ecological systems can operate in ways that confuse distinctions between fiction and reality or nature and culture. Probing collective intelligence, surveillance capitalism, AI and the evolution of culture, labor and cr...

A conversation with Yesomi Umolu, Diedrich Diederichsen, and Anselm Franke on the occasion of Journeys with the initiated , on view at e-flux and Participant Inc through January 13, 2019. The exhibition features artists Malik Gaines, Evan Ifekoya, Grada Kilomba, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, and Virginia de Medeiros, and is curated by Yesomi Umolu with Katja Rivera. Journeys with the initiated is part o...