Podcasts by Phenomenal Ocean
This podcast series explores the agency of the ocean. Can the ocean think? feel? Act? And yes, it does!
We have been collaborating with TBA21–Academy for some years now in our common pursuit of a non-binary understanding of the coexistence of culture and nature, of us and the ocean. This podcast series should therefore be viewed as the beginning of a series of humble but meaningful productions that address these very issues. Now that we are so worried about our own existence, we should also consider the existence of other nonhuman forms of life. Now that we are so anxious about our future, we may be able to understand the fear held by nature, by the oceans, by all those that have felt threatened by our actions.
Further podcasts by Art Institute HGK FHNW in Basel and TBA21–Academy
Podcast on the topic Bildende Kunst
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OCEAN WANTS: 03 Rise of Slime feat. Lisa-Ann Gershwin from 2022-06-01T12:00
Five hundred million years ago the ocean was dominated by jellyfish. Thanks to us, humans, they might dominate the ocean again.
In the third episode of the podcast Ocean Wants, speculative...
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OCEAN WANTS: 07 Canceled Ice Age feat. William Ruddiman from 2022-06-01T05:20
For the past 7000 years, humans have stabilized the global climate. The greenhouse gases emitted through deforestation, agriculture, and husbandry prevented the onset of a new glaciation. Only s...
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OCEAN WANTS: 01 Coral Renaissance feat. Marah J. Hardt from 2022-06-01T05:20
We celebrate coral reefs as the colorful rain forests of the ocean. How could we not just save and restore existing coral reefs but allow them to spread?
In the first episode of the podcas...
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OCEAN WANTS: 09 Deep Frontier feat. Diva Amon from 2022-06-01T05:20
We can see stars thousands of light years away with our naked eye. About life in the deep sea we started to know only 200 years ago—and we still know very little. How do we have to reinvent ours...
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OCEAN WANTS: 04 Cephalopods on Land feat. Danna Staaf from 2022-06-01T05:20
Before fish and other vertebrates proliferated, it was the heyday of the cephalopods. Their descendants — squid, cuttlefish, octopus, and nautilus—are still around, coping better with human domi...
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OCEAN WANTS: 02 Self-Conscious Fish feat. Alex Jordan from 2022-06-01T05:20
Fish are compassionate, recognize themselves in the mirror, and fancy designed shelters over natural ones. Recent experiments contest common ideas of what distinguishes humans from smaller, non-...
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OCEAN WANTS: 06 Conservation Libido feat. Eva Hayward from 2022-06-01T05:20
The ocean refuses empathetic ethics based on sameness with us humans. What does the urge to save nature—in certain ways—reveal about us and our desire?
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OCEAN WANTS: 10 Ocean Nation feat. Markus Reymann from 2022-06-01T05:20
While the land is ruled by nations and super nations, the ocean is subject to the tragedy of the commons. What if the ocean turned into a nation of its own—the largest nation in the world?
OCEAN WANTS: 05 Translating Whales feat. David Gruber from 2022-06-01T05:20
To know what other humans want, we can ask them. But pets aside, modern societies lost the confidence and interest in communicating with nonhumans. Could advanced machine learning allow for an i...
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OCEAN WANTS: 08 Pain-Free Sea feat. David Pearce from 2022-06-01T05:20
Shouldn’t the reduction of suffering be our priority when taking care of others’ needs—particularly the needs of those we can’t ask? Soon, CRISPR edited gene drives could alter the pain percepti...
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Corona Under the Ocean: Viewing from the Inside from 2020-11-17T08:59
The tenth episode, with artist and filmmaker Su Yu Hsin, began with one of her many memories related to water, and how the appearance of light on water is indispensable for her when thinking wit...
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Corona Under the Ocean: Political Action, Political Imagination from 2020-10-27T06:17
The ninth episode, with ship captain and sea rescue activist Carola Rackete, begins with her early research in the Arctic and Antarctic, and how she was able to sensibly feel the melting of the ...
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Corona Under the Ocean: The colonial conditions of Western knowledge from 2020-10-06T04:28
The eighth episode, with professor and anthropologist Elizabeth Povinelli, begins with her idea of axioms of existence, which put in crisis the abstract and universalist condition of Western phi...
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Corona Under the Ocean: The Sea undoes the Land from 2020-09-15T03:28
The seventh episode, with curator Camila Marambio is an approach to Tierra del Fuego from her personal experience with a part of the world with which she has a strong emotional connection. As sh...
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Corona Under the Ocean: Underwater Projections from 2020-09-03T08:47
The sixth episode, with writer, lecturer, and curator Filipa Ramos is an approach to cinema from the ocean and to the ocean from cinema. Beyond the production of underwater images, there is a po...
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Corona Under the Ocean: Thinking with Water from 2020-07-28T09:01
The fifth episode, featuring feminist philosopher Astrida Neimanis, puts into practice one of the author's methodologies: “thinking with water.” As a material, water not only enables a relationa...
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Corona Under the Ocean: Water has Memory from 2020-07-06T03:44
The fourth episode of the Corona Under the Ocean series, with agent of healing and artist Tabita Rezaire, is dedicated to the memory of water and its existence in flow within bodies. Water has M...
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Corona Under the Ocean: Sea Nomads: The Orang Suku Laut from 2020-06-15T04:04
The third episode of the Corona Under the Ocean chapter, featuring anthropology professor Cynthia Chou, is dedicated to the Orang Suku Laut, a nomadic community from the Malay world sea in South...
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Corona Under the Ocean: We Are Ocean Life from 2020-05-25T03:24
This episode, featuring marine biologist Marah J. Hardt, is dedicated to the vitalism and resilience of the ocean. Outlining her personal journey as a researcher, Marah J. Hardt provides a propo...
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Corona Under the Ocean: Oceanizing History from 2020-05-04T08:16
The first episode of the series Corona Under the Ocean is dedicated to Oceania. Did you know that the Pacific Ocean was named so by Ferdinand Magellan, referring to his feeling that the sea was ...
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Facts and Fiction from 2020-04-25T11:59
Our nature inclines us to listen to stories, not to lists, charts, and equations. To change our mind, we need a compelling narrative that turns obstacles into challenges and chances into hopes. ...
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Law of the Sea from 2020-04-18T02:28
If it’s already difficult to protect nature in our own country, how do we protect nature in the extraterritorial sea? And who is there to protect the nature—and the people—of a country that is d...
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Challenging the Format from 2020-04-12T03:20
Science has to generate output. Art has to cater to an audience. Could art and science join forces to free science from definite outputs and art from definite audiences? Or would art then also b...
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The Beginning of the Line from 2020-04-04T11:01
We affirm ourselves as the center of evolution by saving it from our own destruction. Our new heroism is to keep things, at best, as bad as they are. What does good even mean? We are the joke of...
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Not Enough Data from 2020-03-27T07:43
We can’t exist beyond nature but science can? Now that we’re doomed, can we at least free science from us? Is the era of a true, posthuman science about to begin or will science be destroyed by ...
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Introduction: The Disaster Is Behind Us from 2020-03-20T12:29
We tried to free ourselves from nature but exploited it to the point of self-destruction. Nature seems to have brought us back, but we actually never left. We just forgot about nature—including ...
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