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IAS Talk Pieces 鈥� Season 2: Concepts for the New Normal
15 December 2020
The second series of the Institute of Advanced Studies鈥� podcast 鈥楾alk Pieces鈥� will focus on demystifying some of the mass media鈥檚 favourite buzz words 鈥� as well as concepts that we find useful for living in our present times 鈥� through the lenses of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. After the success of our first 15-episode series, we are replicating the format used in the episode entitled 鈥�Is Immunity against a Life in Community?鈥� and inviting six academics and commentators per episode to briefly explain a[n original] concept, with musicians interspersing these ideas with music and an artist contributing a thematic illustration. Each episode aims to be a freestanding artistic piece catering for diverse forms of expressions, from commentaries to poetry or sketch. The objective is to invite the public to think of the multiple nuances that each of us perceive when we are presented with similar concepts or arguments.
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Opening with Afrikan Sciences鈥檚 piece of music 'All Day Speculative', you will hear from Andre M Carrington, thinking through our present conflation of events that no science fiction dared to imagine, inviting us not to abandon or, as Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou follows, to pay attention to marginalised communities opening uncharted spaces where 鈥榚verything is possible鈥�. Active Denial System鈥檚 piece of music of 'Speculations' takes us to Ming Tsao who explores the materiality of speculation through bodies and musical language encounters. His surrounding piece of music Miranda Atemwende听connects us to Paul Celan鈥檚 Atemwende, Breathturn, the concept behind Heide Hinrichs artwork in the cover of this episode. Marina Vishmidt鈥檚 piece closes this episode, accompanied by Sho鈥檚 piece of music titled 'Present, Tense'听bringing us to our current divergence between financial markets and real economy and their unavoidable conflation.听Find more information here.听
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Listen to IAS Talk Pieces season 1听on 'Life in the Time of Coronavirus' here.