Diversity Stories

In 2021 we made the podcast-series Sounding Places, Listening Places, which is still available at Radio ArtEZ. In it we explored how sound and listening can contribute to realizing more sustainable and reciprocal relations with the earth. Back then, we already dipped our toes in the world of Deep Listening®. In the three-part podcast series Listening to the In-Between we will put this rich practice into a broader context. In Part I researcher and music journalist Joep Christenhusz explores Deep Listening, its connection to space and time, and the interrelations between the outer and the inner world the practice reveals through sonic awareness. He enters into conversations with Ed McKeon and Ximena Alarcón, who are well-experienced deep listeners. Alarcón describes the Intimal App® that she has developed over the last years. The podcast forms a good introduction to the event around Pauline Oliveros’s Deep Listening practice on Wednesday October 5, hosted by ArtEZ Studium Generale in collaboration with Corpo-

On the coldest day of 2021, musician and writer Samira Dainan went to Hoofddorp to meet with Ousmane Ag Mossa, the bandleader of Tamikrest. Named the new legend of Tuareg music, Ousmane speaks on what it means to write music in the solitude of the Saharan desert, while in exile. In this podcast, he speaks on the power and the meaning of his music, and how each song breathes a whole life-world and history. Founded in 2006, in Kidal in Mali, Tamikrest call themselves ‘the children of Ibrahim’, after Ag al Habib, the founder of Tinariwen. In spite of ongoing riots and regional conflicts, which have a gripping effect on their lives, Tamikrest seeks to make music through their Tamasheq poetry and culture: “A desert hosts us, a language unites us, a culture binds us.”   About Samira Dainan:   After finishing her degree in law, Samira’s love for music evoked a long-term research into her Arabic, Berber and African heritage. This brought her to Morocco and the Sahara, where she played and collaborated with local mus

Trigger warning: in deze aflevering wordt er gesproken over zelfdoding. Als dat iets is waar je liever niet naar luistert skip dan naar 15 minuut 50 of sla de aflevering in zijn geheel over. Als je zelf met suïcidale gedachten worstelt en er met iemand over wil praten: de zelfmoordpreventie-hulplijn 113 kun je altijd én anoniem bellen. Voor meer informatie kijk op https://www.113.nl/.    Dagmar Bosma schreef voor Studium Generale ArtEZ en Mister Motley het essay Ik wil een constant orgasme in een prachtig lichaam over de krachtige kwetsbaarheid van trans*lichamen.  In deze aflevering gaat Lieneke Hulshof van Mister Motley met Dagmar in gesprek.  Lees essay hier: https://studiumgenerale.artez.nl/nl/studies/essay/ik+wil+een+constant+orgasme+in+een+prachtig+lichaam/ of hier: https://www.mistermotley.nl/ik-wil-een-constant-orgasme-in-een-prachtig-lichaam/   In deze aflevering komt een citaat voor uit ALL THAT GASZ van Geo Wyeth, luister (of koop) het hele album ATM FM hier:  https://geowyeth.bandcamp.com/album/

Moral Shame Talks is a podcast series of three episodes that explores the complexities of consumers’ moral shame in the context of the sustainability debate within the fashion industry. By tackling moral shame –a form of shame that consumers experience in their consumer behaviour while knowing they are not making sustainable choices – stories can be told about the complexity and systemics of the fashion industry and the sustainability debate in it. In the podcast series Lindy Boerman, finals student of the ArtEZ Master Fashion Strategy, collects different ideas, critical perspectives and personal thoughts. By including personal stories consumers have about moral shame and reflecting on this together with people from various professional background and with various perspectives she gives meaning to, and places moral shame in the contemporary context.   In this episode, Christine (Cimpian, MA Behavioural Science, RU) and Lindy discuss moral shame from a behavioural science point of view. They take a look at wha

Moral Shame Talks is a podcast series of three episodes that explores the complexities of consumers’ moral shame in the context of the sustainability debate within the fashion industry. By tackling moral shame –a form of shame that consumers experience in their consumer behaviour while knowing they are not making sustainable choices – stories can be told about the complexity and systemics of the fashion industry and the sustainability debate in it. In the podcast series Lindy Boerman, finals student of the ArtEZ Master Fashion Strategy, collects different ideas, critical perspectives and personal thoughts. By including personal stories consumers have about moral shame and reflecting on this together with people from various professional background and with various perspectives she gives meaning to, and places moral shame in the contemporary context.   In this episode, Esra (Van Koolwijk, (MA student Sociology Radboud University)) and Lindy discuss moral shame from a sociological perspective. Therefore, this e

Moral Shame Talks is a podcast series of three episodes that explores the complexities of consumers’ moral shame in the context of the sustainability debate within the fashion industry. By tackling moral shame –a form of shame that consumers experience in their consumer behaviour while knowing they are not making sustainable choices – stories can be told about the complexity and systemics of the fashion industry and the sustainability debate in it. In the podcast series Lindy Boerman, finals student of the ArtEZ Master Fashion Strategy, collects different ideas, critical perspectives and personal thoughts. By including personal stories consumers have about moral shame and reflecting on this together with people from various professional background and with various perspectives she gives meaning to, and places moral shame in the contemporary context. In this episode, Chloe (Chen, (BA psychology National Cheng Kung University Taiwan and first-year student ArtEZ MA Fashion Strategy)) and Lindy explore the discon

Yes, another miniseries! In this introductory episode, Dennis talks to master student Lindy Boerman, who made the three part series Moral Shame Talks for Radio ArtEZ.  Moral Shame Talks is a podcast series of three episodes that explores the complexities of consumers’ moral shame in the context of the sustainability debate within the fashion industry. By tackling moral shame –a form of shame that consumers experience in their consumer behaviour while knowing they are not making sustainable choices – stories can be told about the complexity and systemics of the fashion industry and the sustainability debate in it. In the podcast series Lindy Boerman, finals student of the ArtEZ Master Fashion Strategy, collects different ideas, critical perspectives and personal thoughts. By including personal stories consumers have about moral shame and reflecting on this together with people from various professional background and with various perspectives she gives meaning to, and places moral shame in the contemporary co

This three-part miniseries centers around Deep Listening®, the lifework of composer, musician, writer and humanitarian Pauline Oliveros. Aspects of this creative and meditative practice are shared from the perspectives of Sharon Stewart, Tina Pearson and Lisa E. Harris, Deep Listening certificate-holders.   In the third and final mini-episode Sharon Stewart asks Deep Listening practitioner, interdisciplinary artist, creative soprano, and composer Lisa E. Harris from Houston Texas to tell us about her connection to Deep Listening and share with us some scores she has written. For those of you who love participatory vocalising, this one is for you!   Shownotes: Sharon Stewart, ‘Listening to Deep Listening. Reflection on the 1988 Recording and the Lifework of Pauline Oliveros’ Journal of Sonic Studies, 02 (2012) LI(SA((E.))HARRIS website Undocu meant it. A psychic declaration by lisa e harris, In support of immigration rights and human rights for all of humanity. Sounding Places - Listening Places was commiss

In contemporary Western culture we seem to have lost an intimate connection with the land. More often than not we consider our surroundings as a passive backdrop in which humankind can take center stage: controlling the landscape, developing infrastructures, and extracting resources at will. This rather anthropocentric position has become unviable, however, as recent human-driven ecological crises – like climate change, the dramatic loss of biodiversity and large-scale destruction of habitats – are clearly indicating. If we wish to develop a more sustainable future, we urgently need to reconnect to our environment and restore a more reciprocal relationship with the earth.  In the context of the project Land, studium generale commissioned the Radio ArtEZ series Sounding Places / Listening Places in which writer and music journalist Joep Christenhusz and creator of sound works, musician, writer, poet, and Deep Listener Sharon Stewart enquire how sound and listening can help us to do so.   In this third episode

This three-part miniseries centers around Deep Listening®, the lifework of composer, musician, writer and humanitarian Pauline Oliveros. Aspects of this creative and meditative practice are shared from the perspectives of Sharon Stewart, Tina Pearson and Lisa E. Harris, Deep Listening certificate-holders.    In the second mini-episode Sharon Stewart draws upon her own scores and the work of Canadian composer, multimedia artist and Deep Listener Tina Pearson, inviting you to contemplate some ways we can involve ourselves in a respectful, listening and playful dialogue with our sonic environment.    This interview forms part of Sharon Stewart's current area of inquiry for the ArtEZ Professorship Theory in the Arts, namely: ethics and ethical practices within artistic research and the creative arts.   Shownotes: Masterclass Pauline Oliveros at Sonic Acts 2021: ‘Introduction and Background of Deep Listening’ (Stories start around 15m30s) Oliveros’ 1976 article “On Sonic Meditation” in Software for People YouTube

In contemporary Western culture we seem to have lost an intimate connection with the land. More often than not we consider our surroundings as a passive backdrop in which humankind can take center stage: controlling the landscape, developing infrastructures, and extracting resources at will. This rather anthropocentric position has become unviable, however, as recent human-driven ecological crises – like climate change, the dramatic loss of biodiversity and large-scale destruction of habitats – are clearly indicating. If we wish to develop a more sustainable future, we urgently need to reconnect to our environment and restore a more reciprocal relationship with the earth. In the context of the project Land, studium generale commissioned the Radio ArtEZ series Sounding Places / Listening Places in which writer and music journalist Joep Christenhusz and creator of sound works, musician, writer, poet, and Deep Listener Sharon Stewart enquire how sound and listening can help us to do so. In this second episode

This three-part miniseries centers around Deep Listening®, the lifework of composer, musician, writer and humanitarian Pauline Oliveros. Aspects of this creative and meditative practice are shared from the perspectives of Sharon Stewart, Tina Pearson and Lisa E. Harris, Deep Listening certificate-holders. In the first mini-episode Sharon Stewart offers facets of her connection to Deep Listening along with some of the history of the practice, as related to the sonic environment – or the sonosphere – with pertinent excerpts from Oliveros’ text scores. Together with Sharon Stewart you can perform a seminal Sonic Meditation, number VIII: Environmental Dialogue. Shownotes: “Listening to Deep Listening: Reflection on the 1988 Recording and the Lifework of Pauline Oliveros”, by Sharon Stewart, Journal of Sonic Studies, 2012 Excerpt from an essay from 2007 – entitled My “American Music”: Soundscape, Politics, Technology, Community. This essay can be found in the book Sounding the Margins by Pauline Oliveros. Exce

In contemporary Western culture we seem to have lost an intimate connection with the land. More often than not we consider our surroundings as a passive backdrop in which humankind can take center stage: controlling the landscape, developing infrastructures, and extracting resources at will. This rather anthropocentric position has become unviable, however, as recent human-driven ecological crises – like climate change, the dramatic loss of biodiversity and large-scale destruction of habitats – are clearly indicating. If we wish to develop a more sustainable future, we urgently need to reconnect to our environment and restore a more reciprocal relationship with the earth.  In the context of the project Land, studium generale commissioned the Radio ArtEZ series Sounding Places / Listening Places in which writer and music journalist Joep Christenhusz and creator of sound works, musician, writer, poet, and Deep Listener Sharon Stewart enquire how sound and listening can help us to do so. In this first episode

In contemporary Western culture we seem to have lost an intimate connection with the land. More often than not we consider our surroundings as a passive backdrop in which humankind can take center stage: controlling the landscape, developing infrastructures, and extracting resources at will. This rather anthropocentric position has become unviable, however, as recent human-driven ecological crises – like climate change, the dramatic loss of biodiversity and large-scale destruction of habitats – are clearly indicating. If we wish to develop a more sustainable future, we urgently need to reconnect to our environment and restore a more reciprocal relationship with the earth. In the context of the project Land, studium generale commissioned the Radio ArtEZ series Sounding Places / Listening Places in which writer and music journalist Joep Christenhusz and creator of sound works, musician, writer, poet, and Deep Listener Sharon Stewart enquire how sound and listening can help us to do so. This short announcement

In this episode of Radio ArtEZ, visual artist and master student Education in Arts Lobke Meekes and Mexican/Canadian researcher and curator Irene Urrutia explore our relationship to plants. How does a plant live and feel? What can we learn from plants? And how can experience, conversations, and art help us explore new ways of understanding and living in connection? Inspired, want to know more? Then check in at their online workshop on April 22, on worldwide Earth Day. Produced by Jozien Wijkhuijsfor Studium Generale ArtEZ. Studium Generale curator for this episode: Mirjam Zegers Tune: Daan van Haaren

In this episode of Radio ArtEZ, vocalist, movement artist and composer Elaine Mitchener offers background to her work and her ideas. She will focus on the unheard voices of statues, rooms, places. Who do monuments represent and who do they speak for? She will introduce some original voices in philosophy and music that deserve more attention and will guide us into ideas of philosophers Fred Moten and Walter Benjamin about resistance and memory. Central to her conversation will be Benjamin’s concept and practice of memory: Eingedenken, that takes remembrance as an act of responsibility. How do we choose to remember? History is written by the victors, said Benjamin, and the consequences resonate for ages. Links: https://www.elainemitchener.com/ Kitchen Table Conversation with Elaine Mitchener: https://studiumgenerale.artez.nl/nl/agenda/kitchen+table+conversation+with+elaine+mitchener/ Blog accompanying this episode:  https://studiumgenerale.artez.nl/nl/studies/podcast/unheard+voices+podcast+with+elaine+mit

Eventually I’d have to disappear Podcast on the traces we leave behind as artists, and how to work with them ethically, philosophically, artistically. Chapter four with Peggy Bouva and Maartje Duin. Dieuwke goes to Pakhuis de Zwijger to talk to Peggy Bouva and Maartje Duin, who collectively worked on the podcast ´The plantation of our forefathers´. Their conversation is about their working process and the difficulties with the archive, and rewriting your history by seeing all perspectives and all narratives. Also in this chapter: my own reveries on personal history and the gaps in it, and again, the amazing music of Warner Slump. Credits Music and sounds: Warner Slump; Keti Koti Memorial Day Zoetermeer: Pakhuis de Zwijger Made possible by ArtEZ Studium Generale Special thanks to Dennis Gaens and Joke Alkema http://www.dieuwkeslump.com/

Eventually I’d have to disappear Podcast on the traces we leave behind as artists, and how to work with them ethically, philosophically, artistically. Chapter three with Fonge Frieling Dieuwke talks to ArtEZ Theatre in Education- student Fonge Frieling, who is now the artistic director of the non-profit foundation TG Signum, on opening the archive of knowledge on deaf culture; her thoughts on living horizontally with the human and non-human; and she asked me some questions in return on my own archiving practises. Also in this chapter: and as always, the amazing music of Warner Slump. Credits Music and sounds: Warner Slump; TG Signum (trailer for their play Asteria) Made possible by ArtEZ Studium Generale Special thanks to Dennis Gaens and Joke Alkema http://www.dieuwkeslump.com/

Eventually I’d have to disappear Podcast on the traces we leave behind as artists, and how to work with them ethically, philosophically, artistically. Chapter two with Anna Schlooz Dieuwke talks to ArtEZ Theatre in Education- graduate Anna Schlooz who is now studying Autonomous Art- Performance in Ghent about real-life maps; the body of documentation; and a rhizome as political tool for documenting your work. Also in this chapter: skype lessons on documentation and the archive by Tina Madsen, and again, the amazing music of Warner Slump. Credits Music and sounds: Warner Slump; Anna Schlooz (trailer for her play Volg Mij) Made possible by ArtEZ Studium Generale Special thanks to Dennis Gaens and Joke Alkema http://www.dieuwkeslump.com/  

Eventually I’d have to disappear Podcast on the traces we leave behind as artists, and how to work with them ethically, philosophically, artistically. The next four weeks we will be bringing you a new mini-series, by an ArtEZ Alumna. Starting from her thesis 'In search of a non coherent narrative. From an oppressive archive towards an anarchive open for all voices, all narratives, all perspectives' Dieuwke Slump created a podcast titled 'Eventually I'd have to disappear. Podcast on the traces we leave behind as artists and how to work with them ethically, philosophically, artistically'. In every chapter of this podcast, Dieuwke invites a guest to join her and talk about their archive, and how they work with or against it. Dieuwke sees the chapters as small works of art, which she completes with sounds and voice-overs. She believes that in this time, it is important to take a look at our history and at how we remember it: which stories are told and which are forgotten, because this shapes our present and our f