The Art of Social Change

In our 15th episode with Asli Seven, albino crocodiles rub shoulders with mutant tourists, submerged islands and power plants. Asli Seven is a researcher, writer and a curator based between Istanbul and Paris. During this new episode, we discussed how we can be inspired by art to create tools to engage with the world that surrounds us. And how exhibition making and fiction can serve us to imagine...

This new episode of the The Art of Social Change Podcast proposes another layer of appreciation for jazz. What if musical forms, such as jazz improvisation, could inspire new ideas for our political structures? For our 14th episode we conversed with French anthropologist Alexandre Pierrepont. We spoke about the road that led him to study jazz through anthropology, about how he founded the musical...

For our 13th episode we interviewed Flora Fettah, vice-President of the French nonprofit association Contemporaines. With a name that translates as « contemporary women », Contemporaines’ mission is to support young women artists and art professionals in a caring way by helping them overcome obstacles linked to historical inequalities in the arts. During our interview we conversed about what its l...

For our 12th episode we conversed with curator Jennifer Teets. During the interview, she went from sharing her first experience as a young curator in Mexico, to how she developed her own language as a curator. From subjects like the impact of floods on goats, to fluids, or healing earths, Jennifer Teets applies a method of inquiry to all her interests. Her practice takes multiple forms often mergi...

For our 11th episode we conversed with Colombian artist Daniel Otero Torres. During the interview, Otero Torres talked to us about his techniques and inspirations. From his incredibly realistic hand-drawn portraits to his large-scale hydraulic installations, each of his works reveals surprising references from Otero Torres’ experiences as an artist. We talked about the displaced bird species that...

For the 10th episode we invited Elena Sorokina, a Russian author and curator based in Paris. During our interview, she shared what it means for her to curate exhibitions, as a way to support artists, to put ideas and art into space, and to ask questions. We discussed the subjects that nourish her practice such as extractive capitalism of the economies of care. She gave us an insight into the incre...

For the 9th episode we invited Matylda Taszycka, an art historian leading the scientific programs of the AWARE association, in order to discuss the place of women in art. AWARE is a non-profit association founded in 2014 and directed by Camille Morineau, a curator and art historian specialized in women artists. With a telling acronym, the Association's name stands for Archives of Women Artists, Re...

For our eight episode, we had the pleasure of meeting with Franco-Algerian artist and film director Katia Kameli. Born in 1973, Katia Kameli has developed a research-based approach on history and memory. With a variety of media such as film, photography, and installations, she explores the power of narratives and images in the construction of identities. From narrating the story of a postcard sale...

In this episode we had the pleasure of speaking to French artist Emmanuel Guillaud about his life and works. Born in 1970, Guillaud’s artistic practice is based on performative strategies that immerse each visitor inside a phantasmagoric universe.

For this episode we interviewed Ecuatorian artist Estefania Peñafiel Loaiza. We talked about the current events that inspired her series of works about the Bois de Vincennes in Paris, while discussing her views on migration, surveillance and anonymity. We even got a sneak peak on the project she will be creating during her upcoming stay in the Villa Medici in Rome.

For this episode we had a conversation with Colombian artist Iván Argote, whose work generates questions about how we relate to others, traditions, and patrimony. We discussed his new public sculpture at la Defense, in Paris, his tactics for not getting arrested, how to renegotiate the colonial narrative and his participation in the exhibition Global Resistance at the Pompidou Museum.

For this episode we interviewed Ali Cherri, a visual artist from Lebanon who spoke to us about his past, present and future projects including his participation in Manifesta 13, which is currently on view in Marseille, France and his upcoming film based in Sudan. If you would like to see images of the works discussed in this podcast follow our Instagram account @theartofsocialchange.

For this episode we invited writer, editor and curator Marisol Rodríguez to talk about AMEXICA, the exhibition she is currently curating with the Servais Family Collection in The Loft, Brussels. This art exhibition deals with the complexities of a nation beyond the purely geographic. Book your visit starting this July at www.amexica.me . For visuals of the works stay tuned on our Instagram account...