Episode 10: Chus Martinez - a podcast by Can Altay

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 and perhaps necessary end of the art institution as we know it, and on what can be done to imagine other art sustaining environments. Towards an understanding of art, that is more in tune with the growing complexity of life, and one that is more at peace with its transformative role within this complexity.

Chus has an internationally acclaimed curatorial practice that spans over almost two decades that generated myriad exhibitions, publications, and at times some of the most unexpected forms of cultural production.

She is currently the director of the Art Institute at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel. https://institut-kunst.ch/en/we-are/studium-master/

Chus was writing a short story a day and keeping the doctor away during the first COVID-19 outbreak. She published her stories through Instagram and later on compiled them into a book titled “Let life Happen to You” published by Lenz Press. https://lenz.press/products/corona-tales-let-life-happen-to-you

Suzi Gablik is an artist, author and art critic, and a professor of art history and art criticism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzi_Gablik

Deep ecology is an environmental philosophy which promotes the inherent worth of all living beings regardless of their instrumental utility to human needs, plus the restructuring of modern human societies in accordance with such ideas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ecology

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is a writer, art historian and curator whom was the Artistic Director of dOCUMENTA (13).

TBA21–Academy is an institutiton that promotes ocean literacy, research, and advocacy through the arts. The Academy is dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding of the ocean in order to engendering creative solutions to its most pressing issues. https://www.tba21.org/#item--academy--1819

Donna Haraway is a leading scholar in the field of science and technology studies with a focus on contemporary ecofeminism, associated with post-humanism and new materialism movements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Haraway

Stephen Wright is a writer and gardener based in France. He was the guest of the first episode of Ahali. https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-1-stephen-wright

Promise No Promises! is a podcasts series produced by the Womxn’s Center for Excellence, a research project between the Art Institute and the Instituto Susch—a joint venture with Grażyna Kulczyk and Art Stations Foundation. It features a special chapter titled Feminism Under Corona chapter with Sonia Fernandez Pan is a Spanish thinker, curator and writer and according to Chus, a fantastic person :) https://institut-kunst.ch/we-explore/podcast-promise-no-promises/

Phenomenal Ocean is a podcast series produced by Institut Kunst and TBA-21 Academy to pose questions in pursuit of a non-binary understanding of the coexistence of culture and nature, of us as living beings and the ocean. https://institut-kunst.ch/we-explore/podcast-phenomenal-ocean/

Joan Jonas is a pioneer artist whose work typically encompasses video, performance, installation, sound, text, and drawing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Jonas

Jon Mikel Euba is an artist whose work is grounded in drawing as a procedure, and sculpture as a program, resolved in diverse media. https://dutchartinstitute.eu/page/6012/jon-mikel-euba

Itziar Okariz is an artist whose work examines the ties between landscape and architecture, sign and ritual, or sexuality and territory.

Joan Jonas’ work “Moving Off the Land" (2016–ongoing) includes video, sculpture, drawing, and sound, centring on the oceans as a totemic, spiritual, and ecological touchstone. The performance was commissioned by TBA21–Academy and first presented in parallel to the 2016 Kochi – Muziris Biennale, and again in collaboration with Tate Modern at the Turbine Hall in 2018. https://www.ocean-space.org/exhibitions/joan-jonas-moving-off-land

David Gruber is an American marine biologist, a Presidential Professor of Biology and Environmental Sciences and a National Geographic Explorer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gruber

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