Season 3: Episode 8 Chinese artist and curator Katze Shaw talks about her work, collecting memories across time.   This season I am talking to artists about their first solo. I met Katze in 2020 and saw her audio work, Personal Memory in 1989. She had interviewed Chinese people of different ages and backgrounds about their memory of 1989. Her work reminded me of my recent audio work, and the power of the human voice and human memory. We met up in her publishing house where she and her creative partner create handmade books. There we talked about this project as well as her collaborative ..read more

Season 3: Episode 7 Musician Shasta Ellenbogen talks about changing the audience for classical music.   This season I am talking to artists about their first solo. Shasta Ellenbogen is a musician, violist and founder of Classical Sundays. I met Shasta in the summer of 2020 at a socially distanced Classical Sunday’s concert at gallery Wiesenberg, in Wedding, Berlin. Shasta has a vision for growing a new audience for classical music. Her approach is experimental, cross cultural, and successful as Classical Sunday’s has reached over 1,000 people and expanded to play in multiple venues acros ..read more

Season 3: Episode 6 Radio producer Gabi Schaffner talks about recording in the field.   This season I am talking to artists about their first solo. Gabi Schaffner’s audio and radio works push the boundaries of the formats she works in. She has created vinyl albums based on music she composes from field recordings, and stretched the scope of live radio, from her collaborations, inviting artists to perform live in the garden. This conversation will give you a window into Gabi’s creative process and the imagination that infuses her work. In a way you are invited to step into a reality that ..read more

Season 3: Episode 5 Artist Maria Thereza Alves’ work bears witness as she investigates particular localities and their colonial echoes.   This season I am talking to artists about their first solo. Brazilian born artist Maria Thereza Alves has been investigating the histories and circumstances of particular locations to bear witness to stories that have been silenced. I first experienced her work at the Botanical Gardens in Berlin where she collaborated with Columbian sound artist Lucrecia Dalt at the CTM sound arts festival, back in February 2020. That work, You Will Go Away One Day But ..read more

Season 3: Episode 4 Visual Artist and Author Jennifer Bennett talks about boundaries and otherness. This season I am talking to artists and thinker about the art of listening. Jennifer Bennett works with clay, photography, performance and words. I met Jennifer at a reading of her book, SAVE, which is a genre breaking book that documents her travels from Paris to Copenhagen, Argentina, Chile, Mexico and the US as she examined the ideas of boundaries, otherness, the ways society organizes itself, be it focusing on inclusion or exclusion. Jennifer’s look at boundaries was both personal and presc ..read more

Season 3: Episode 3 Sound Artist Jens-Uwe Dyffort talks about architecting acoustic space.   Sound artist Jens-Uwe Dyffort listens to the architecture of space and along with artist Roswitha von den Driesch, creates spatial audio installations and environmental audio work for galleries and public spaces. The work, through a web of sound that bounces, moves, swells, and circles, brings a new awareness to the places we occupy. In February we met up and spoke about the process of creating spacial audio work. This season I am talking to artists about their first solo. Our conversation starte ..read more

Season 4: Episode 5 Human rights activist Cleapatra Kambugu talks about giving voice to the minoritized, staying resilient, and planting seeds of change.   This season I’m talking about how empathy and storytelling can help bridge divides. Today I am in conversation with Cleopatra Kambugu, a biologist, activist and transgender film personality. Cleopatra’s wish to better understand her gender expression led her to study genetics and molecular biology in university and later undergo surgery to help others decode what she already was. As she says, “This is what I am, do you read me?” We ta ..read more

Season 3: Episode 2 Artist Mikala Hydig Dal housing politics and radical optimism.   Cultural worker, artist, curator and author Mikala Hyldig Dal’s work embodies a deep examination of current global political struggles and echo a call for social justice. Mikala’s first solo, Who’s Afraid, looked at ISIS propaganda videos of 2014 and their relation to iconoclasm, bodies and political role plays. Today she employs radical optimism combined with realism to engage with complex issues like housing politics and gentrification, where increasingly one person’s home is another person’s windfall ..read more

Season 4: Episode 4 A conversation with Tom Kellner about the impact of translating culture in literature   Today I am in conversation with Tom Kellner, a post-doctoral researcher at the Martin Luther Universität in Halle, Germany. Her research examines German translations of contemporary Israeli literature from 1989-2019. One of her interests is the notion of translatability. We met in the fall heading to an exhibition at Kuba Kultur Bahnhof and started talking about translation. I became interested in Tom’s research and how culture crosses borders through the books that we read. In tod ..read more

Season 3: Episode 1 Performance Artist Tone Haldrup Lorenzen talks about her first solo and overcoming the voice in her head.   Many of us have a voice in our head that keeps us from doing our work. Tone Haldrup Lorenzen, a performance artist, director and co-founder of the feminist theater, had such a voice. This season I am talking to artists about their first solo show. Tone shares about overcoming this destructive voice and pushing forward, performing her first solo and shortly after that directing her first theater productions. She shares about learning from the bumps along the way ..read more