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The DRIFT podcast is part of iniva’s postnational digital pavilion reflecting on the entanglement between land, water, movement and m/otherlands.

This third and final episode explores Migration & Movement, considering the relationship between movement of people and sound, and the role of sound in community building, particularly in the diaspora.

We’ll be weaving these questions alongside conversations and interviews from curators, artists, and creative practitioners invited by iniva, in order to explore, What is Nation?

This episode features contributions from (in order as they first appear):

• Yuki Kihara
• Sonia Boyce
• Rudy Loewe
• Ana Victoria Bruno
• Shenece Oretha
• Meera Shakti Osbourne
• Sepake Angiama
• Zineb Sedira
• Stan Douglas

Produced by:

Tobi Alexandra Falade (Curatorial Trainee)

Kaitlene Koranteng (Archivist and Engagement Producer)

Beatriz Lobo (Curator)

Edited and mixed by:

Lucia Scazzocchio

You heard music and sounds from the works of Yuki Kihara, Sonia Boyce, Shenece Oretha, Zineb Sedira and Stan Douglas.

The DRIFT podcast is part of iniva’s postnational digital pavilion reflecting on the entanglement between land, water, movement and m/otherlands.

This second episode explores M/otherlands, and considers: what does it mean to belong to a diaspora? How can you create space for yourself in spaces where you are othered? and what does it mean to have the archipelagic as a part of your practice?

We’ll be weaving these questions alongside conversations and interviews from curators, artists, and creative practitioners invited by iniva, in order to explore, What is Nation?

This episode features contributions from (in order as they first appear):

Stan Douglas

Zineb Sedira

Andrius Arutiunian

Sepake Angiama

Yuki Kihara

Lola Olufemi

Rahila Haque

Yang Li

Sonia Boyce

Produced by:

Tobi Alexandra Falade (Curatorial Trainee)

Kaitlene Koranteng (Archivist and Engagement Producer)

Beatriz Lobo (Curator)

Many thanks to Anthony Badu and Chloe Tayli for their contributions to the production of this episode.

Edited and mixed by:

Lucia Scazzocchio

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The DRIFT podcast is part of iniva’s postnational digital pavilion reflecting on the entanglement between land, water, movement and m/otherlands.

This first episode explores imagination and borderlessness, with questions like how do you unbuild a nation, who gets to imagine borderlessness and how multiple imaginaries of nations can coexist?

We’ll be weaving these questions alongside conversations and interviews from curators, artists, and creative practitioners invited by iniva, in order to explore, What is Nation?

This episode features contributions from (in order as they appear):

Sonia Boyce

Yuki Kihara

Catherine Chiang (Hyun Seo)

Kirsty Flockhart

Tsherin Sherpa

Stan Douglas

Zineb Sedira

Hosted by:

Tobi Alexandra Falade (Curatorial Trainee)

Kaitlene Koranteng (Archivist and Engagement Producer)

Beatriz Lobo (Curator)

Edited and mixed by:

Lucia Scazzocchio

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Curator Xiaoyi Nie joins our host Chloe Austin to discuss her research, titled ‘Collective Marching As A Curatorial Method’, focusing on the curatorial project ‘Long March: A Walking Visual Display’ (2002). In the library she worked on compiling a bibliography of the curator Hou Hanru and transcribing some of Hanru’s recordings of interviews with Chinese artists which he made during his trip to China in 1994.

Episode 5 of Chatting in the Stacks featuring Rashi Rajguru

Artist Rashi Rajguru joins our host to discuss her work in the Stuart Hall Library which was split between working to improve access to the audiovisual collection by transcribing materials and researching for her new publication which takes the first ever image of a black hole, created by the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration as its starting point.

Find out more on the Iniva website.

Episode 4 of Chatting in the Stacks featuring Kaya Birch-Skerritt.

Member of mother tongues - an interdisciplinary and research-led project which applies decolonial, feminist and queer theory to explorations of language and identity - Kaya joins Chloe to discuss zine culture, DIY movements, consumerism and Kaya’s use of zines as source material for her degree in Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London.

Find out more about the series and the texts discussed here: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/chatting-in-the-stacks/

Episode 3 of Chatting in the Stacks features Curator, I-Ying Liu.

I-Ying joins our host to discuss her projects By Way of Returns, and Infiltrating the In Between. They touch on topics including transitional justice in Taiwan, deconstructing the idea of Chinese Art and alternative forms of curation while exploring I-Ying’s main research interests: migration, language, translation and the concept of history.

Find out more about the series and the texts discussed here: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/chatting-in-the-stacks/

In the second episode of Chatting in the Stacks our host Chloe Austin chats with Stephen Weller about Net Art.

They chat about the emergence of Net Art, networked culture, exhibiting and archiving Net Art as well as touching on the work of Mendi and Keith Obadike, Devin Kenny, Keith Piper, Donald Rodney, E. Jane, Olia Lialina and even Jennifer Lopez.

Find out more about the series and the texts discussed here.

Episode 1 of Chatting in the Stacks features Cheraine Donalea Scott, library volunteer and doctoral candidate at New York University.

Cheraine joins our host to discuss grime, punk and politics while delving into the library’s collection, reading excerpts from Syd Shelton’s, Rock Against Racism, Race Today magazine and more.

Find out more about the series and the texts discussed here.