Foreignness and Friendship

Sæson I, 7: Episode 7 & Sæson I,8: Episode 8 - uddrag Vi har alle sammen her på stationen været til Art Week Copenhagen, og det giver anledning til nogle egentlig ikke nye overvejelser om kunstens vilkår lige nu, men nogle dage senere sidder vi og indtager et overdådigt måltid hos Art Hub og der opstår nogle langt mere interessante tanker om kunstens væsen og dens rolle. I anden del af reportagen...

En stor fotografisk begivenhed i kolonihistoriens centrum Paris Photo samler de største og tungeste navne i branchen til fremvisning i kolonimagtens gamle centrum. Også Danmark er repræsenteret gennem Galleri Asbæk og Galleri V1 fra Kødbyen – den frække m/k i klassen. Billede: Fotografi af Pilar Albarracin med titlen "No Comment", 2018, Præsenteret på Paris Photo af Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nath...

Season I, 7 - Episode 7 - extract A conversation between Natalia Molebatsi (South African poet) and Morten Ranum (Danish poet) about her book "Wild (Im)Perfections". It is an anthology of womanist poems, written by women from all over the world. Natalia Molebatsi is a poet, editor and performer from South Africa based in Johannesburg.  The conversation took place in Exclusive Books in Hype Park in...

Season I, 1 - Episode 1 - extract Content: 02:05 - Reviews of Audre Lorde in Danish translation 12:12 - Essay of anger In my footstep is reading from reviews of Audre Lorde's poetry and essays from Sister Outsider. All translated into Danish by the magnificent Shadi Angelina Bazeghi. Afterwards Morten Ranum talk about anger inspired by Lorde's essay "Eye to Eye", not yet translated into Danish Mor...

Season II, 3 - Episode 14: Content: 00:00: Intro 02:36: Abstract 06:46: Paradis Latin Cabaret 10:06: Art Paris 37:10: 1-54 Contemporary African Art 59:20: Outro This episode will be in English, because we are in Paris. It does not make sense. It is over midnight and my birthday. Today I am 58 – well last week I turned 58. What does it mean? Ironically I am translating another man's poems, and he a...

Season I, 10 - Episode 10 - extended version Content: 00:00 - Intro 01:00 - AKAA - also known as africa 03:56 - Victoria Mann (director of AKAA) 16:30 - Three months later in Johannesburg 21:35 - Michaela Hadji-Minaglou (gallery manager of Afrikaris) 47:35 - Tiffanie Delune (artist) 69:45 - Outro We have been to Paris. It is always a pleasure to be in a truly urban space, a big city. In Paris we p...

Season III, 1 - Episode 18: Content: 00:00 - Intro 02:50 - Abstract 04:56 - Where are we? 14:45 - Art Joburg 58:38 - Outro We are in Johannesburg again on the borderline between South African Winter and Summer. There is a reason, but also multiple purposes displayed in our whereabouts. It is not easy to maneuver. The official goal is to make a broadcast about Art Joburg. The exhibition turns out t...

Season II, 5 - Episode 16: bonus tracks - programbeskrivelse Indhold: 00:00 - Intro 02:45 - Resumé 05:35 - Dagene i Dakar 47:00 - Biennale de Dakar 58:45 - Outro I Venedig fik Blanchot ikke nogen betydning, men vi læste Blanchot en eftermiddag sammen med en espresso på Murano, dagen før det hele gik løs inde på San Marco. Måske forstod vi ikke det hele første gang, men vi begyndte at lytte til ste...

Season II, 1 - Episode 12 Content: 00:00 - Intro 05:45 - Abstract 15.00 - Gallery Trail 33:30 - Oversættelse: (partly in English) 47:45 - Privilegier 58:41 - Outro We have taken a break. It has been a long January with many experiences. Welcome back to a new and second season of foreignness, alienation and hopefully many new friendship. In our break we have spent time in South Africa. Not only in...

Season II, 6 - Episode 17: We will once again - as we did in Venice - give the word to Morten Ranum, because we do not only intent to bring report from Documenta Fifteen in Kassel, but also compare Kassel to Biennale di Venezia, although it might seem an impossible mission, because the two exhibitions are very different. In Kassel they are dissolving the idea of contemporary art, while in Venezia...

Season II, 4 - Episode 15: In this episode we bring a report from the Venice Biennale. ´We stay in a small hotel in Murano Island, which is not a success. In the second part we review a Theatre Documentary version of Pauline Reage: "The Story of O" and bring an essay about erotic literature and performance written by Morten Ranum in 2015, orginally published in the magasin Det Poetiske Bureau. Vi...

Season III, 2 - Episode 19: We are thinking about identity politics. There are many ways of expressing an identity. Very often it is done through separation, by segregating yourself from a norm in society. We are searching for a form of identity, which does not use separation as a tool, but identities with an open mind and inclusive of others. During this journey we will revisit Art Joburg and an...