ZEITGEIST19 Curated Podcast

Episode Summary: In this episode we meet Talimka Yordanova, the CEO of the Global Citizen Forum , who speaks with us about the concept of interconnectedness, the consequences of interrupted travelling access and the radical idea of a Global Governance. Talimka shares with us how she envisions the notion of progress by changing the way dialogues are taking place and by building on the conversation...

Episode Summary: In this episode, together with our co-host Kiana Talebpour from Milan based MdA design agency we meet Hormoz Hematian founder of the Dastan - a multidimensional program focusing on Iranian contemporary and modern art, including Dastan's Basement, Dastan+2 and Dastan:Outside, as well as Teer Art Tehran, a private-sector initiative that runs Teer Art Fair and Teer Art Week. By means...

Episode Summary: In this episode, co-hosted with MdA Design Agency, we meet architect, researcher and film producer Bahanur Nasya. She talks about how we can improve the conditions for people living in rural and coastal areas, meanwhile delving deeper into the notion of ’togetherness’ and suggesting new ways of being and feeling more connected. Bahanur grasps into what strengthens social freedom a...

Episode Summary: Co-hosting this episode with MdA Agency, Milan based Design studio, as part of our series dedicated to cultural pluralism, we meet prof. Ingrid Paoletti, who shares her invaluable knowledge with us reflecting on multicultural memory and the contemporary notion of ‘habitus’, translating from latin as ‘Conditions suitable for an organism or population of organisms to live’. Question...

Episode Summary: In this episode we meet Wallpaper's China editor Yoko Choy, who speaks about the consequences of Covid-19 in the design industry and business, the most recent promising projects oriented towards social well-being and the importance of collaboration. In the multi-faceted reality in China, Yoko expresses her vision on contemporary design, still in flux but yet to be shaped in a more...

Episode Summary: In this episode we continue exploring the notion of stage and performance art, this time meeting British musical-theatre choreographer Gillian Bruce, who speaks with us about reshaping musicals in a post-pandemic reality. Facing numerous restrictions due to the health risks, she shares with us her challenges on directing through distance and her high hopes for the future of theatr...

Episode Summary: «Искусство никому ничего не должно. У него нету каких то целей и задач, как и у коронавируса..»,- так размышляет наш сегодняшний интересный собеседник, ученик Кирилла Серебренникова, талантливый режиссёр Гоголь-центра Илья Шагалов, которого пандемия застала в Берлине. О новом формате онлайн-театра, о первом в своем роде десктоп спектакле «Феи», о классике видеоарта Билле Виоле, о...

Episode Summary: 'Art doesn’t owe you anything’, says our today’s guest speaker Ilya Shagalov, ‘It doesn’t have goals or objectives, just like coronavirus”. One of Russia’s most talented and emerging video artists and theatre directors, student of Kyril Serebrennikov, and member of Russia’s leading avant-guard theatre Gogol Centre, Shagalov, who finds himself in Berlin during the pandemic speaks t...

Episode Summary: In this episode we meet fashion designer Francesca Liberatore, who shares with us her vision on reimagining the world of fashion. She is a firm believer that fashion can be a a platform for positive social good and we have to rethink the way we manufacture and consume fundamentally. Francesca speaks to us about creating new paths which are more considerate for humanity and the env...

Episode Summary: In this episode we meet Dr. Roberto Ridolfi, who speaks with us about the rising inequalities, the phenomena of nationalism and the fragile side of globalisation. Through the lens of multiculturalism, he explains to us why we are in the same storm but not in the same boat and how different cultures are responding to COVID-19’s paralysis according to their assets and beliefs. Rober...

Episode Summary: In Episode VII, one of the leading voices of our generation, Arturo Galansino, Director of Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, transports us to the capital city of Tuscan region, as we dive into a timely conversation about how art can reconnect us with the environment, how a museum can turn into a laboratory for experimentation and join forces with the science; and how the foundation is...

Episode Summary: In this episode we meet green tech entrepreneur Lubomila Jordanova, who shares with us her vision on a carbon neutral and conscientious economy. She is a firm believer that each of us has the power to pave the way to a more sustainable future of the world. Lubomila talks about the most recent challenges in fighting Global Warming and the importance of every small act. She also sug...

Episode summary: “We are literally surrounded with data. How can we imagine this invisible dimension of reality that is shaping our future?” In the current environment, today’s episode with an artist and designer Richard Vijgen (1982), whose work provides poetical interpretations of data and proposes a dialogue between the human perspective and the disembodied world of digital networks, algorithms...

Episode summary: What is principal to an art institution when it comes to big commitments such as commissioning? To what extent museums can contribute to the discourse about socio-ecological emergencies and How to remain relevant if people can’t physically visit the space? In this week’s episode, Suad Garayeva-Maleki, the Artistic Director of YARAT Contemporary Art Space in Baku, Azerbaijan, dives...

Episode Summary: In this episode we meet Brazilian artist Maria Thereza Alves, whose work feels particularly urgent in the current environment we find ourselves in. Her research-based, highly poetic, and astonishingly courageous practice continuously addresses ecological and social issues for the betterment of humanity. In this genuine and intimate conversation, Alves discusses her childhood exper...

Episode Summary: In this episode we meet designers Andrea and Simone from Studio Formafantasma, who share with us their vision on regenerating design through continuing the discipline by integrating more intelligent contemporary interventions, while taking a step back towards nature. In the current context of the pandemic, two of their exhibitions, 'Cambio' in Serpentine Galleries and Rijksmuseum'...

Episode Summary The world’s biggest and most renowned design and furniture fair Milan’s Salone del Mobile, which was supposed to happen last month, has been officially cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic - first time in its history, since its very launch in 1961. Today, ZG19 is meeting (at distance) one-of-a-kind Milan gallerist Nina Yashar, whose legendary Nilufar space is a must-se...

EPISODE SUMMARY. On this episode of ZEITGEIST 19, Peter Pichler has a coffee with us as he discusses the role of architecture and its potential for a greener future. THE SPEAKER. An architect, winner of the LICC award ‘Artist of the Year' and a former student of Zaha Hadid, Peter Pichler is a leading voice in the cutting edge design and building industry. “There has to be a radical change - to thi...

EPISODE SUMMARY. On this episode of ZEITGEIST 19, Ibrahim Mahama speaks with us about his deep research on communities, the relationship between culture and nature, his perspective on the role of the artist, creative freedom and more. THE SPEAKER. Ibrahim Mahama was born in Tamale, Ghana in 1987. A central feature of his artistic practice is the utilization and transformation of materials to explo...