Best Omar Kholeif Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 7 Dr. O with Hrair Sarkissian 1:10:30

5M ago1:10:30

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Listening with Artists Dr. O with Hrair Sarkissian Season 2 finale In the finale of season 2, Dr. O convenes with long-time friend and collaborator, Hrair Sarkissian for an intimate tête-à-tête about life and art. One of the leading conceptual photographers of our time, Sarkissian, unfolds entertaining details of his life, from growing up in his fa…

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A Listening with Artists Special by Prof. Sarah Perks, with Dr. O and Trevor Paglen 53:30

11M ago53:30

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In our first podcast take-over, Professor Sarah Perks invites listeners into a special workshop-led podcast and meditation session with a dollop of karaoke thrown in to boot! Sarah weaves in around a conversation held in NYC between Dr. O aka Omar Kholeif, and pluridimensional, award-winning artist, Trevor Paglen. Here, you are invited to deep list…

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Season 2: Episode 5 - Zach Blas 41:42

12M ago41:42

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Zach Blas takes us on a journey from Point Pleasant, West Virginia through to Dorothy’s Yellow Brick Road in The Wizard of Oz. The significance of Queer Technologies, Tori Amos, and media archaeology unfold in this conversation mapping over a decade of friendship between artist and theorist, Zach Blas and Dr. O. Season 2 of the Listening with Artis…

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Season 2: Episode 4 - a Listening with Artists Special with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Dr. Omar Kholeif 44:57

1y ago44:57

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In this Listening with Artists special, Hans Ulrich Obrist—widely acknowledged to be the world’s most prolific living curator interviews author and curator, Omar Kholeif about their new memoir,Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs—together, the duo freewheel from subjects as varied as the poetry of Etel Adnan to gold book cove…

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Season 2: Episode 3 - Haroon Mirza 1:11:18

1+ y ago1:11:18

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Haroon Mirza and Dr. O aka Dr. Omar Kholeif convene to discuss frequencies of sound and experience. This free-wheeling session encompasses fervent debates about electricity, psychedelics, and memory. Careening down lanes of memory, sh$t gets emotional. While listening to Alt Bollywood soundtracks, the pair venture into the details of generative art…

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Season 2: Episode 2 - Lynn Hershman Leeson 1:13:00

1+ y ago1:13:00

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In this intimate conversation, Dr. O aka Dr. Omar Kholeif sits down with the pioneering artist, Lynn Hershman Leeson. Together, they explore antecedents to contemporary avatars, Artificial intelligence, psychoanalysis, speech, and the power of silence. Across the hour, they revisit the artist’s path-breaking experiments in art, film, and technology…

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Season 2: Episode 1 - Cory Arcangel 1:05:07

1+ y ago1:05:07

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Season 2 kicks off with a series of encounters with some of contemporary culture’s living legends. The first of these is artist, composer, and writer, Cory Arcangel, whose experiments with art, tech, and music have pioneered how people see, hear and feel the world around us. Together, Dr. O and Arcangel freewheel from Buffalo, NY to Pasadena, CA—re…

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Episode 8 with Hayv Kahraman and Omar Kholeif 1:09:59

1+ y ago1:09:59

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In the season 1 finale, Dr. O aka Dr. Omar Kholeif sits down with Iraqi-American-Swedish artist, Hayv Kahrman to discuss what listening means to her. For Kahraman, music serves as a haunting, a spectre of a past skin, one that has been shed and left behind across numerous places. In this rare interview, Kahrman opens up about her frustrations and h…

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The artPost21 Podcast/Episode 7: Simon Denny with Dr. O 1:36:36

1+ y ago1:36:36

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Who is Simon Denny, asks Dr. O aka one of the avatars of Omar Kholeif? More than just a superstar artist, Denny is a pop psychologist with a pan-optical purview, a mentor, a collaborator with an infectious spirit, as well as an educator and scholar of all things weird and wonderful. In this special Xmas edition of the artPost21 Podcast, the duo dig…

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Episode 6: What is the Metaverse with Dr. O & Dr Omar Kholeif 30:17

1+ y ago30:17

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What the heck is the 'metaverse'? Are you curious about the #metaverse space? #Web3? Decentralised everything? Journey with Dr. O on this extra special episode as they deconstruct the concept of metaverse, revealing how avatars have roamed the Earth throughout history, what will you become? Produced and developed in collaboration with Moe Chocair. …

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1-54 Forum London 2022 | Being “African” in the so-called “Middle East”: Curating our Multiple Selves with Touria El Glaoui, Dr. Omar Kholeif and Dr. Ridha Moumni. 1:19:36

1+ y ago1:19:36

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Being “African” in the so-called “Middle East”: Curating our Multiple Selves with Touria El Glaoui, Dr. Omar Kholeif and Dr. Ridha Moumni. How does one define one’s sense of ‘African-ness’ in an age where slippages around both language and its comprehension; visuality and its contradictions, are no longer subject to the binary of a singular form of…

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1-54 Forum London 2022 | The Poetry Salon: (My) Episodes of Everyday Racism, Interrupted with Raymond Antrobus, Phoebe Boswell, Lakwena Maciver, Andra Simons, and Dr. O. 1:16:09

1+ y ago1:16:09

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The Poetry Salon: (My) Episodes of Everyday Racism, Interrupted with Raymond Antrobus, Phoebe Boswell, Lakwena Maciver, Andra Simons, and Dr. O. Drawing inspiration in-part from Grada Kilomba’s book, Plantation Memories, and Lola Olufemi’s Feminism, Interrupted, the FORUM’s second edition of the poetry salon invites artists and writers to present a…

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1-54 Forum London 2022 | Introduction & Exhibition Itineraries with Dr. ‘Ugochukwu-Smooth’ Nzewi and Dr. Omar Kholeif 39:41

1+ y ago39:41

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Introduction & Exhibition Itineraries with Dr. ‘Ugochukwu-Smooth’ Nzewi and Dr. Omar Kholeif ‘Ugochukwu-Smooth’ Nzewi is an artist, art historian, and curator who currently serves as the inaugural Steven and Lisa Tananbaum Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York. Both trained as artists, Nzew…

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1-54 Forum London 2022 | Ageing Ruins…: A Listening Session with Otobong Nkanga and a response by Dr. O. 51:06

1+ y ago51:06

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Ageing Ruins…: A Listening Session with Otobong Nkanga and a response by Dr. O. Otobong Nkanga, one of the leading artistic voices of her generation, returns to FORUM to present four tracks from her forthcoming vinyl record release, developed from her award-winning installation, ‘Ageing Ruins Dreaming Only to Recall the Hard Chisel from the Past,’ …

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1-54 Forum London 2022 | Narrating our “Pan-Afrikan” Connections: Claudette Johnson and Marlene Smith in-dialogue with Lubaina Himid 48:12

1+ y ago48:12

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Narrating our “Pan-Afrikan” Connections: Claudette Johnson and Marlene Smith in-dialogue with Lubaina Himid Marlene Smith is a multi-disciplinary artist and curator recognised for her research on Black Artists and Modernism in the UK. Claudette Johnson, known for her large-scale figurative drawings, are acknowledged for their ‘defiant’ contribution…

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1-54 Forum London 2022 | Introduction & Overture Number 2/A Re-Play: Koyo Kouoh: The Curator as Storyteller with Dr. Omar Kholeif 45:10

1+ y ago45:10

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Intro to FORUM & Overture Number 2/A Re-Play: Koyo Kouoh: The Curator as Storyteller with Dr. Omar Kholeif Koyo Kouoh, Executive Director, and Chief Curator of Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town and Founding Director of RAW Materials Company in Dakar, in conversation with Kholeif, narrates a path — as a storyteller who weaves and builds upon the intimacies of …

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Episode 5: Godard Tribute by Peter Webber with Omar Kholeif 1:20:11

1+ y ago1:20:11

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An homage, not a memorial, to late New Wave filmmaker, Jean-Luc Godard. Featuring special guest, Peter Webber, Director of films such as, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Inna De Yard: The Soul of Jamaica, Hannibal Rising, and more.By Omar Kholeif

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Episode 4 Listening with Otobong Nkanga and Omar Kholeif 57:49

1+ y ago57:49

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Longing and Belonging with Otobong Nkanga Regarded globally as one of the most important contemporary artists of our time, Nigerian-born, Antwerp-based artist, Otobong Nkanga invites listeners into her studio after a long day's work. Here, the artist describes rarely known aspects of her artistic biography, specifically, the love and longing found …

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Episode 3 Curating the Summer Pt.2 with Professor Sarah Perks 39:46

2y ago39:46

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Summer’s almost over, but the “Art Pop” continues. In Part 2 of the aP21 Listening with Artists summer special, Professor Sarah Perks reflects on her collaborations, including the exhibition La Movida about Spain's countercultural movement. Here, Professor Perks and Dr. O explore the contours of political correctness, alongside perceptions of race,…

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Our Stone-Age Brains, with Maren Urner 39:03

2y ago39:03

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S2 E29: Our Stone-Age Brains “We have mental mechanisms that have been there since the Stone Age and no longer function in this environment” Short-term thinking, lazy reasoning and stereotyping, and too much focus on what’s bad (the ‘negativity bias’)… all are throw-backs to our last major evolutionary stage, when humans lived in a world of scarcit…

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Episode 3 Curating the Summer Pt.1 with Professor Sarah Perks 44:46

2y ago44:46

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It’s the summer, baby! Well, at least it feels like it somewhere. In Part 1 of this summer special, Dr. O meets up with Professor Sarah Perks—one of the youngest female-identifying professors and art leaders in the UK, to discuss her beginnings in a call centre, working at Cornerhouse and the life of the Manchester art scene. They close out with in…

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Episode 2 with isolarii 1:05:55

2y ago1:05:55

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Dr. O takes us deep into the metaverse of island books with actress and author, India Ennenga and publishing polymath, Sebastian Clark—the duo behind isolarii, the avant-garde media company that they founded in 2020. The episode features a reading and insights into the duo's latest release, In the Face of War: Ukraine 2022, an exhibition catalogue …

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This is the Pilot with Lawrence Abu Hamdan 57:40

2y ago57:40

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Turner-Prize winning artist and Private Ear, Lawrence Abu Hamdan is known for the explosive revelations that emerge from his investigations with sound. Presenting us with sonic images that reveal “dirty evidence” –Abu Hamdan unspools that which is buried or dormant. Perhaps most well-known for giving voice to marginalised figures through performanc…

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1-54 Forum New York 2022 | Interlocking Histories 1:02:06

2y ago1:02:06

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1-54 FORUM New York 2022 May 21-22, 2022 (22/05/2022) Interlocking Histories (4:00 pm EST) Two new exhibitions opening in October 2022 examine the engagement of African and African American artists creating new art in the 1940s through the 60s, that fostered transnational conversations and upended notions of modernity depicted by African artists. K…

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1-54 Forum New York 2022 | Archiving, Reclamation, and Authoring Your History 56:12

2y ago56:12

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1-54 FORUM New York 2022 May 21-22, 2022 (22/05/2022) Archiving, Reclamation, and Authoring Your History (2:00 pm EST) The renaissance of archival resources and collections that center global Black experiences has fostered an appetite for a better understanding of how we define archives and how archival collections can be employed in the cultural a…

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1-54 Forum New York 2022 | Textiles and the Global Politic of the Black Arts Movement 56:03

2y ago56:03

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1-54 FORUM New York 2022 May 21-22, 2022 (21/05/2022) Textiles and the Global Politic of the Black Arts Movement (4:00pm EST) A conversation with Harlem-born fiber artist Dindga McCannon and art collector and gallerist Lewis Long will explore the influence of McCannon’s Harlem upbringing, the politics that gave way to the creation of the Weusi Arti…

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1-54 Forum New York 2022 | Under the Influence of Édouard Glissant 47:02

2y ago47:02

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1-54 FORUM New York 2022 May 21-22, 2022 (21/05/2022) Under the Influence of Édouard Glissant (1:00pm EST) Martinican poet, novelist, philosopher, and academic, Édouard Glissant (1928-2011), is considered one of the greatest writers and thinkers of his generation. What can the theories and writings of Glissant help us to understand about navigating…

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1-54 Forum Paris 2022 | Closing Remarks - Motorised Justice: A Poem for the Drifters 5:10

2y ago5:10

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1-54 Forum Paris 7 - 10 April 2022 (09/04/2022) Closing Remarks - Motorised Justice: A Poem for the Drifters 1-54 Forum Curator Dr Omar Kholeif closes the day with a lyric poem authored during the course of the Fair and Forum https://www.1-54.com/By 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair

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1-54 Forum Paris 2022 | FOCUS: Zina Saro-Wiwa followed by an in-person Q&A with Professor Sarah Perks 46:46

2y ago46:46

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1-54 Forum Paris 7 - 10 April 2022 (09/04/2022) FOCUS: Zina Saro-Wiwa followed by an in-person Q&A with Professor Sarah Perks(14:45 pm – 16:15 pm CET) Esteemed artist and filmmaker, Zina Saro-Wiwa, presents a specially curated screening and in-person conversation on her film and video work, including a special preview of an in-development epic feat…

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1-54 Forum Paris 2022 | Have We Ever Been Modern? 54:04

2y ago54:04

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1-54 Forum Paris 7 - 10 April 2022 (09/04/2022) Have We Ever Been Modern? Joël Andrianomearisoa Christine Eyene Marie-Cécile Zinsou Moderator: Marie-Ann Yemsi How do we negotiate the tension between the notion of old and new; the ‘traditional’ and the contemporary culture produced on the African continent and its diaspora today? Rather than retreat…

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1-54 Forum Paris 2022 | Painting a New Expressionism: A Keynote conversation between artist, Anuar Khalifi and Dr Omar Kholeif 51:26

2y ago51:26

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1-54 Forum Paris 7 - 10 April 2022 (09/04/2022) Painting a New Expressionism: A Keynote conversation between artist, Anuar Khalifi and Dr Omar Kholeif (11:45 am – 12:45 pm CET) One of the most exciting artists working in painting to emerge onto the international scene in recent memory, Anuar Khalifi, who splits his time between Barcelona and Tangie…

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1-54 Forum Paris 2022 | Opening Remarks / A Memento to Marrakech & Enter the Frame with Hassan Hajjaj 40:37

2y ago40:37

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1-54 Forum Paris 7 - 10 April 2022 (09/04/2022) Opening Remarks / A Memento to Marrakech (11:00 am – 11:15 am CET) Forum Curator Dr Omar Kholeif introduces 1-54 Forum Paris. Enter the Frame with Hassan Hajjaj (Video Address and Conversation, 11:15 am – 11:45 am CET) 1-54 Forum begins by reflecting on the complex cultural constellations of Marrakech…

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The Spirituality Movement, with Jules Evans 59:57

2+ y ago59:57

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S2 E28: The Spirituality Movement “A lot of those who’ve left the church tend to be younger people, who nonetheless still consider themselves spiritual. They’ve been turned off by churches, but they haven’t necessarily gone full atheist, materialist…” Religion is declining around the world. Even in America, the great outlier of the post-Christian W…

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Generational Politics, with Bobby Duffy 48:16

2+ y ago48:16

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S2 E27: Generational Politics “If you truly understand what’s different between generations, you have a much better idea of what’s coming up in the future.” It turns out there are very real differences between the generations. Key external events - a world war, a crippling global financial crash, 9⁄11, or even a pandemic - will mark a generation in…

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1-54 Forum London 2021 | In the Last Days of the City Q&A 59:35

2+ y ago59:35

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1-54 Forum London 2021 14 - 17 October In the Last Days of the City Q&A A Q&A with the film’s director Tamer El Said and the film’s star Khalid Abdalla led by Dr. Omar Kholeif. In the Last Days of the City, Tamer El Said’s ambitious debut feature, tells the fictional story of a filmmaker from downtown Cairo played by Khalid Abdalla (The Kite Runner…

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1-54 Forum London 2021 | The Walk Towards the Future (French) 1:09:21

2+ y ago1:09:21

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1-54 Forum London 2021 14 - 17 October The Walk Towards the Future (French) This open-ended conversation explores the concept of artist as philanthropist; the artist as the maker and progenitor of institutions, and the diverse ways that they approach this aspect of their practice. Is institutionalism a form of artistic practice? Or rather, is it a …

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1-54 Forum London 2021 | The Walk Towards the Future (English) 1:09:09

2+ y ago1:09:09

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1-54 Forum London 2021 14 - 17 October The Walk Towards the Future (English) This open-ended conversation explores the concept of artist as philanthropist; the artist as the maker and progenitor of institutions, and the diverse ways that they approach this aspect of their practice. Is institutionalism a form of artistic practice? Or rather, is it a…

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1-54 Forum London 2021 | Poetry Salon: On Fragile Ground 1:34:20

2+ y ago1:34:20

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1-54 Forum London 2021 14 - 17 October The Poetry Salon: On Fragile Ground In this curated poetry salon, five artists-writers present a collective dreamscape. Newly commissioned pieces of lyric, poem and song exploring themes of environmental justice will converge in myriad life-like forms—the drift resuscitated. Join Anaïs Duplan, Lubaina Himid CB…

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1-54 Forum London 2021 | A History of Echoes 55:32

2+ y ago55:32

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1-54 Forum London 14 - 17 October 2021 A History of Echoes Amidst this symphony of voices: curators, artists and creative collaborators discuss the exhibitions fashioned from the imagination of the late Nigerian curator, Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019). By exploring the sediments of the past, the collective voices herein sketch out a path for listeners t…

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1-54 Forum London 2021 | Performance : Objective Romance and Scarce New Flowers 26:01

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1-54 Forum London 2021 14 - 17 October Performance : Objective Romance and Scarce New Flowers A short experimental musical performance by Zimbabwean musician, mbira player and poet Hope Masike. With three studio albums, a published poetry book and several collaborative and tour credits to her name, Masike shares her art with audiences across the gl…

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1-54 Forum London 2021 | The Virtual Salon 57:39

2+ y ago57:39

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1-54 Forum London 14 - 17 October 2021 The Virtual Salon The digital, the virtual, the augmented, the real, the imagined; A.F.K versus I.R.L—the lexicon around our digital world both perplexes and invigorates ‘our’ collective consciousness. In the western world, debates of African digitality often summon references to ‘digital divides’ and social i…

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1-54 Forum London 2021 | Overture/Talk - The Continental Drift: Recuperating the Echoes, the Ghosts, the Songs 1:01:35

2+ y ago1:01:35

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1-54 Forum London 14 - 17 October 2021 Overture/Talk - The Continental Drift: Recuperating the Echoes, the Ghosts, the Songs In this opening keynote, 1-54 Forum curator Dr. Omar Kholeif frames the context of Continental Drift. They demonstrate this through the work of continental poets, songwriters, lyricists, and historians deceased and erased; fo…

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1-54 VIP Webinar | Secondary market for contemporary African Art 2020/2021 46:04

3y ago46:04

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1-54 VIP Webinar | Secondary market for contemporary African Art 2020/2021 7 October 2021 Drawing from Corrigall & Co’s latest report, Mary Corrigall will discuss the status of the secondary market for contemporary African art. The findings are based on an analysis of figures from sales that have taken place from January 2020 to June 2021. As the f…

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Political Predisposition, with John Hibbing 54:32

3y ago54:32

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S2 E26: Political Predisposition “40% of the variance observed in political attitudes can be attributed to genetics” Twin studies have suggested that one third of our political orientation can be traced to our genes. But does that mean our politics are predisposed? John Hibbing is one of the greats of Political Psychology in the US. His work spans …

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Emotional Politics, with Omar Kholeif and Jonathan Sklar 43:12

3y ago43:12

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S2 E25: On Emotion “The world that we live in today is fuelled by heightened emotion…” Over the course of these two seasons of On Opinion, we’ve looked at opinions through the lens of philosophy, psychology, social science, anthropology and evolution. But one area we’ve missed is that of feeling. Omar Kholeif and Jonathan Sklar take very different …

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The Journal of Controversial Ideas, with Francesca Minerva 36:02

3y ago36:02

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S2 E24: The Journal of Controversial Ideas “You can’t have a good education if you’re not exposed to ideas you don’t agree with” Twelve years ago, Francesca Minerva published an academic article in the Journal of Medical Ethics giving a moral defence of infanticide. She was overwhelmed by the reaction she received - for an academic article in the e…

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The Evolution of Cooperation, with Nichola Raihani 51:34

3y ago51:34

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S2 E23: The Evolution of Cooperation “Every multicellular being is a collective that operates as a whole - the individual is an ‘invention’ of evolution” Cooperation is at work up everywhere - from our ‘selfish’ genes working together in the genome, through to the democratic societies that regulate our collaboration. Cooperation is what distinguish…

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Psychometrics: measuring ourselves, with John Rust 44:55

3y ago44:55

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### S2 E22: Psychometrics: measuring ourselves > _“Psychometrics is one of the most important or influential areas of applied psychology”_ Psychometrics, the study of personality and ability, began with the Chinese Imperial Court exams, which measured intelligence and civility, as well as archery and horse-riding. Via the East India Company, testin…

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1-54 Forum New York 2021 | Artist talk with Timothy Washington 1:08:32

3y ago1:08:32

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1-54 Forum New York 17 May - 2 June 2021 Artist Talk with Timothy Washington Join artist Timothy Washington and curator Kilolo Luckett as they discuss Washington’s recent work and practice for his solo exhibition, INDUCTION & SUSPICION, currently on view at Duane Thomas Gallery. Alongside they will also be discussing Washington’s life and work in ‘…

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1-54 Forum New York 2021 | THE BLACK FILE: Perspectives of Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Art 1:13:25

3y ago1:13:25

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1-54 Forum New York 17 May - 2 June 2021 THE BLACK FILE: Perspectives of the Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Art Join Igi Lola Ayedun (Artist and Founder, HOA Galeria), Carollina Lauriano (Independent Curator and Co-curator, 13th Mercosul Biennial) and Thiago de Paula Souza (Curator and Researcher) as they discuss the importance of contemporary Afro-Br…

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