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Systems of Systems — with Rebecca Glyn-Blanco
In this episode, we talk with Rebecca Glyn-Blanco about her research project System of Systems that works at the nexus of public programming, publishing and practice to address the use of technology and bureaucracy in migration processing systems in Europe. System of Systems sees importance in the long-term commitment to focus, not just on the individual migrant experience, but specifically on the systems that produce and process migration, under the pretence of security. By collaborating with artists and architects along with policy-makers and activists, they endeavour to examine migration processing systems from multiple perspectives, and render this highly complex system accessible for non-specialists.
The project was initiated in 2016 by Rebecca Glyn-Blanco, Maria McLintock and Danae Io. System of Systems is in solidarity with people on the move. systemofsystems.eu
This episode is part of a series co-produced by A Tale of A Tub
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The pluriversity and knowledge as a weaving — with Aldo E. Ramos
Photo taken by Diana Cantarey
In this conversation we talk with artist, traveller poet, and decolonial storyteller Aldo Ramos about his work on the pluriversity he is co-creating in Colombia. He tells about how he came to do this work, and why it is so important for the pluriversity to exist. Not in resistance to Western forms of knowledge, but as a form of re-existence. This knowledge is profoundly communal, relational and created by a weaving based on the South American concepts of sentipensar and buen vivir.
The pluriversity Aldo talks about is built and shared with many people, among others:
Patricia Botero-Gomez, and Natalia Giraldo Jaramillo.
This episode is part of a series co-produced by A Tale of A Tub
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Rainbow Soulclub – with Saskia Janssen & George Korsmit
In this episode we talk with Saskia Janssen and George Korsmit who in 2005 initiated the Rainbow Soulclub. The RSC consists of weekly meetings and collaborative projects between artists, art students and clients of The Rainbow Foundation that provides shelter and care for homeless people and for users of hard drugs in Amsterdam. The aim is to share ideas for cooperation on every level. The encounters have spawned a whole diversity of activities over recent years: altering street nameplates, drawing, making pottery, shooting videos, hypnosis sessions, cooking, designing new fonts, record music, make costumes, and transmit cosmic energy.
This episode is part of a series co-produced by A Tale of A Tub
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Cultural identity in the face of the climate crisis – the case of Tuvalu –
With MAINA TALIA
In this episode Irene de Craen talked with activist, scholar and native Tuvaluan Maina Talia. Similar to other small island nations, Tuvalu is threatened by climate change and rising sea levels. But the loss of Land also means the loss of a culture and identity. Partly in continuation of Talia’s essay in the 2nd issue of Errant Journal on Slow Violence they talked about the connection between the Land and cultural identity, the role of indigenous knowledge, and the spirit of community that is so important for Tuvaluans. In addition, they discussed the disproportionate effects of climate change, the relation of this type of slow violence and other violences, as well as the need for climate justice.