Julia Stoschek Foundation

UNBOUND

Arts EN ↓ 6 episodes

The Julia Stoschek Foundation proudly presents UNBOUND, a compelling new podcast hosted by Line Ajan and Lisa Long, with editorial direction by Luise Pilz, that critically examines the evolution of performance art and its intersections with video across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Through in-depth conversations with artists, scholars, and writers, UNBOUND takes into consideration a nuanced understanding of how gender, race, and class have affected these histories up until the present.

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Julia Stoschek Foundation

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Ep. 6: Empowering Voices! From Self-Defense to Self-Representation—with Tarek Lakhrissi and mandla 25.07.2025 43:15

In this final episode of UNBOUND , the focus is on a younger generation of artists who are redefining the medium by moving away from traditional concepts of performance, representation, and subversion. Still invested in the critical and political potentials of performance, these artists differ from previous generations in that they relate to larger structural inequalities through autobiographical...

Ep. 5: The Subversive Potential of Performance—with Greg de Cuir Jr., Ulysses Jenkins, and Salim Bayri. 18.07.2025 46:41

Scholar Greg de Cuir Jr. and artist Ulysses Jenkins takecenter stage in this episode of UNBOUND, celebrating Black identity while challenging racist stereotypes. Their contributions reveal how performance and video can expose and subvert media-driven, discriminatory images of Black people and culture. Known for calling early video an “anti-medium,” Jenkins harnessed its power to resist and reimagi...

Ep. 4: Reframing History: Black Perspectives on the Origins of Performance Art—with Uri McMillan, Howardena Pindell, Greg de Cuir Jr., and Nao Bustamante 11.07.2025 44:48

This episode of UNBOUND reexamines the origins of performance art through Black perspectives, featuring scholars Uri McMillan and Greg de Cuir Jr. and artist Howardena Pindell. We explore how performance and video art have shaped concepts of Blackness, and vice-versa, focusing on the liberating use of alter-egos and avatars. McMillan’s concept of “objecthood” reveals how Black artists have strateg...

Ep. 3: Are We Performing Everyday Life? Images of Protest and Performance in the Digital Age—with Stanya Kahn, Fritjof Mangerich, and Mona Varichon 04.07.2025 1:00:52

This episode of UNBOUND explores the intersections of protest, performance, and digital culture with Los Angeles-based artist and filmmaker Stanya Kahn. We focus on her decade-spanning video work Stand in the Stream (2011-2017), an “ambient digital film” that fuses personal and political narratives. Centering her unique approach to performance and filmmaking, this episode not only highlights Kahn’...

Ep. 2: Performance as Rupture: How Politics Take Place Through Culture—with Amelia Jones and Nao Bustamante 27.06.2025 43:42

This episode of UNBOUND examines the political implications of performance art with Amelia Jones, a leading scholar in performance and gender studies. Jones discusses how performance serves as a powerful tool for critique and disruption, particularly from a feminist perspective. Listeners are invited to reflect on key questions: How does performance expose power structures linked to identity? Can...

Ep. 1: Being Present (or Not)! The Foundations of Performance Art—with Peggy Phelan, peter campus, and Marilena Borriello 06.06.2025 37:55

Together with renowned scholar Peggy Phelan, this episode of UNBOUND explores the foundations of performance art—its essence, limitations, and evolution alongside lens-based and digital technologies. Phelan argues that twentieth century performance is unique because of its elusive nature, as “something (that) could be enacted and then disappear.” This gives performance the potential to be inherent...