Podcasts by Ahali Conversations with Can Altay

Episode 24: Design Studio for Social Intervention from 2022-05-23T05:00

Design Studio for Social Intervention (DS4SI), is a Boston-based “artistic research and development outfit” that operates in response to social justice and...

Episode 23: Marina Otero Verzier from 2022-05-17T05:00

Marina Otero Verzier is an architect, researcher and curator, who is also the current Head of the MA in Social Design program at Design Academy Eindhoven. ...

Episode 22: Mike Nelson from 2022-02-16T18:24:07

Mike Nelson is an artist whose influential works oscillate between salvage yards and dreamscapes. He works with things from the present and the just-past, ...

Episode 21: Ana Devic from 2022-01-25T06:00

Our guest in this episode is curator, author, and educator Ana Devic. She is best known as a member of the curatorial collective What, How and for Whom (WH...

Episode 20: Futurefarmers from 2022-01-06T06:00

Amy Franceschini and Lode Vranken represent Futurefarmers, an international group of artists founded in 1995 including anthropologists, farmers, and archit...

Episode 19: Metahaven from 2021-12-15T06:00

Founded by Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden, Metahaven’s body of work encompasses filmmaking, writing, objects, and graphics. Their activities offer a ...

Episode 18: Nato Thompson from 2021-12-02T21:49:39

Nato Thompson is a curator and the founder of the Alternative Art School. Before setting up this experimental education project, Nato was the artistic dire...

Episode 17: Meriç Öner from 2021-11-02T19:48:20

Meriç Öner is the current Director of Research and Programs at SALT, a cultural, or rather as Meriç elaborates a research institution in Istanbul.  Listen

Episode 16: Lucia Pietrousti from 2021-10-15T12:56:30

We are hosting curator Lucia Pietrouisti; and hearing her take on inhabiting institutions and much much wider ecosystems.

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Episode 15: Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung from 2021-09-09T14:30:23

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, is a curator best known as the artistic director of SAVVY—The Laboratory of Form-Ideas, a self-organized art institution lo...

Episode 14: Jerszy Seymour from 2021-08-10T04:40:55

Jerszy Seymour is a designer who first made a name for his industrial products. His practice soon turned into a much more experimental one that combines ma...

Episode 13: Kathrin Böhm from 2021-07-23T16:09:50

Kathrin Böhm is an artist whose practice focuses on the collective re-production of public space; on economy as a public realm; and the everyday as a ...

Episode 12: Filipa Ramos from 2020-12-18T16:49:42

Filipa Ramos is a writer, curator, and educator, who has been working on the relationships between contemporary art and cinema, and the way environmen...

Episode 11: Collecteurs from 2020-12-18T16:49:30

Collecteurs is an independent public-benefit corporation with a mission to give public access to the world's unseen private art collections. In th...

Episode 10: Chus Martinez from 2020-11-13T20:09:31

Chus Martinez is one of the most speculative and critical minds within contemporary art and the curatorial field. We’ll hear her discussing the possible an...

Episode 9: Mariana Pestana from 2020-10-14T17:25:20

In this episode we are hosting Mariana Pestana, the curator of the 5th Istanbul Design Biennal. Mariana is an architect and independent curator based in London and Lisbon. Her research ...

Episode 8: Fritz Haeg from 2020-10-05T19:33:08

If questions around generating alternatives, and other possibilities of environments for art to foster, intrigue you, make sure you listen to this conversation. Because this episode fea...

Episode 7: Kemi Ilesanmi from 2020-08-07T19:56:23

If you’re curious about the future of cultural institutions, there’s so much to learn from Kemi Ilesanmi. As the executive director of the Laundromat Project we’ll be hearing how she po...

Episode 6: Vasıf Kortun from 2020-07-18T17:15:55

In this episode we are speaking with Vasif Kortun, a colossal figure in the field of contemporary art. Together with him we unpack how cultural institutions deal with the digital turn, ...

Episode 5: Céline Condorelli from 2020-07-11T09:55:19

In this episode we are hosting Céline Condorelli, an incredible artist with a sharp and critical mind. She’s a long-time friend and collaborator. And you will hear how beautifully elabo...

Episode 4: Ben Eastham from 2020-06-24T05:26

Publishing has been a fundamental pillar of contemporary art’s existence. Whether as incubators for mythology-building; or becoming settings for communities to emerge, art is impossible...

Episode 3: Ahmet Öğüt from 2020-06-19T17:15

In this episode, we host globetrotter artist Ahmet Öğüt. With many trades in his pocket, Ahmet is a tireless people’s person as well as a hacker of sorts whose art-making competence all...

Episode 2: Zak Kyes from 2020-06-12T06:10

Zak's studio is called Zak Group. As an international design practice, they create brand identities and digital platforms at the intersection of art, architecture, design, and fashion. ...

Episode 1: Stephen Wright from 2020-06-06T17:10

Stephen Wright is a writer and gardener based in France. He currently teaches the practice of theory at the European School of Visual Arts. As the title of his book "Towards a lexicon o...