Listening: die Mute/Unmute Podcast-Empfehlung
Mute/Unmute is an ongoing podcast and seminar by Prof. Dr. Astrid Mania with the support of Noi Fuhrer and Anne Meerpohl (2020-2021/2022) and Rahel grote Lambers. The idea of this podcast which is open to all, is to introduce and discuss art works, theories and incidents that relate to questions like: who is allowed to speak, who’s not? What can be said, what not? Whose voices have been suppressed? What kind of narratives and histories? What violence do we exert when speaking about others? What should we urgently talk about?
The podcast addresses a wide range of topics, from pirate radio stations (episode #2) to HFBK initiatives such as the Institutional Questionnaire of the Critical Diverstiy AG (#11), from the origins of racial bias in photography (#19) to DAGESH-price winner Talya Feldman’s activism as she aims at changing the narratives of right-wing terror. It unmutes women from Iran (#40), mothers in art (#44) and HFBK students who generously share painful and difficult experiences with microracism (#46) or homophobia (#37). It introduces theories and seminal essays such as Barthes’ “Death of the Author” (#26), Spivak’s “Can the Subaltern Speak?” (#28), the notion of “Queer Silence” (#41) or Saidiya Hartman’s concept of “Critical Fabulation” (#35). And of course there’s sound and music, too, as we listen to an interview about the exhibition “Broken Music” (#39) or the riffs of “Heavy Metal Hercules” (#43).
Podcast: Mute/Unmute
#2 - Anna Bromley on Free Radio Stations
#3 - Josefine Flora Green on Utopia
#4 - Mithu Sanyal on sexualized violence
#5 - Saskia Ackermann on feminist public sphere
#6 - Clara Thorsen and Emma Kallan on "Ich bin nicht gut"
#7 - Anna Bochkova on Vchutemas
#9 - Team Podcast #saytheirnames Hanau
#11 - Noi Fuhrer, Marie Pietsch and Ran Altamirano on the institutional questionnaire
#12 - Luísa Telles on the body as a poetical vehicle
#13 - Sarah Drath on Afterwor(l)ds
#14 - Tuhin and The Flatmates on cancelling Polanski
#15 - Seda Kaçak and Burcu Yıldız on the Afro-Turkish singer Esmeray
#16 - Anahita Sadri and Imke Eppelmann introduce Anja Steidinger as one of HFBK's persons of trust
#17 - Javier Mosquera Fesser on the freedom of speech and the Borbón Royal Family
#18 - Manaka Nagai on Esther Eng
#19 - Jana Schwinkendorf on the Origins of Racial Bias in Photography
#20 - Lynn Beckmann on Harriet Powers and her visual storytelling
#21 - Talya Feldman on changing the narratives of right-wing terror (interview by Noi Fuhrer)
#22 - Tigran Saakyan on writing systems
#24 - Nadya Sayapina, artist and guest lecturer at HFBK, on fragile voices
#25 - Emma Kallan & Aslak Warming on how "Softer" rewrite the narrative on tech
#26: Asking Samo Tomšič: (Why) Did Barthes kill the author? Part I and Part II
#27: Samo Tomšič on the Talking Cure
#28: Sohorab Rabbey on Spivak's 'Can the Subaltern Speak?'
#30: Aliaxey Talstou on challenging the secrets of public museums in Belarus
#31: #NotJustBritney - reflections on the #FreeBritney-movement
#32: Emma and Aslak on gender from the perspective of children
#33: Astrid Mania on Vernon Lee
#34: Adrian Pena on the language and grammar of Butoh
#35: Joana Atemengue Owona on Saidiya Hartman's methodology of critical fabulation
#36: Astrid Mania on Les Incohérents
#37: Shinwon Cho on South Korea's Church Silencing Lesbian Love
#38: Yuwen Huang Unmutes Herself
#39: Sven Beckstette on 'Broken Music'
#40: Bahar unmutes women from Iran
#41: Tom Holert on Queer Silence
#42: Chiara Gargiuli on Giving a Voice to Animals: Ethical Considerations about Human Animal Studies
#43: Angela Bulloch introducing "Heavy Metal Hercules", ABCDLP 006, Side A
#44: Manda Steinhauser on Matrescence: Unmuting Mothers in Art
#46: Jiyeong Seo on Microaggressions in Everyday Life
#47: Alisa Sizykh on the Story of the Dragon
#48: Seungyoon Jeon on Blackpink‘s ‘Lovesick Girls‘ Controversey
#49: Hakan Usta on Queer Performance for the Turkish Military