Biennial Bytes
Episodes
EP15: Sakiya (Nida Sinnokrot and Sahar Qawasmi) x Natasha Ginwala
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Artists Nida Sinnokrot and Sahar Qawasmi of the collective Sakiya talk to Natasha Ginwala about their participatory ecological practice based in Ein Q...
EP14: Kapulani Landgraf x Megan Tamati-Quennell
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kapulani Landgraf is a Kānaka Maoli artist from Pūʻahuʻula, Kāneʻohe, Oʻahu. In this episode, she speaks about the responsibility to engage in ...
EP13: Mahmoud Khaled x Zeynep Öz
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a wide-ranging conversation with Zeynep Öz, artist Mahmoud Khaled reflects on artistic solitude, futurity and ceremonies that accompany the un...
EP12: Adelita Husni-Bey x Amal Khalaf
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amal Khalaf and Adelita Husni-Bey discuss climate crisis, critical pedagogy and what it means to learn with one’s body. Together they reflect on...
EP11: Pratchaya Phinthong x Alia Swastika
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Artist Pratchaya Phinthong speaks to Alia Swastika about his interest in mitigating the impact of the global climate crisis and the generative possibi...
EP10: Naeem Mohaiemen x Natasha Ginwala
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Natasha Ginwala speaks with filmmaker Naeem Mohaiemen about themes such as death, displacement and cinematic time. Mohaiemen discusses his multilay...
EP09: Ana Iti x Megan Tamati-Quennell
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Megan Tamati-Quennell speaks with Māori artist Ana Iti about the environments, sites and structures—such as Hokianga, the artist’s tribal...
EP08: Hellen Ascoli x Zeynep Öz
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Zeynep Öz, along with artist, educator and weaver Hellen Ascoli, delves into the textile traditions of Guatemala. They discuss Ascoli’s con...
EP07: Stephanie Comilang x Amal Khalaf
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amal Khalaf and Stephanie Comilang discuss her SB16 film installation 'Search for Life II', investigating socio-cultural and technological influences ...
EP06: Citra Sasmita x Alia Swastika
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alia Swastika and Citra Sasmita talk about her collaboration with Kamasan maestra Mangku Muriati for their SB16 project 'Timur Merah Project XV: Poetr...
EP05: Singing Wells x Natasha Ginwala
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Natasha Ginwala and Tabu Osusa, Nairobi-based producer, composer and founder of Singing Wells, dive into the group’s decolonial mission to platf...
EP04: Yhonnie Scarce x Megan Tamati-Quennell
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Megan Tamati-Quennell and artist Yhonnie Scarce shed light on the historical context of nuclear testing on Aboriginal lands in Australia. Her installa...
EP03: Joe Namy x Zeynep Öz
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Zeynep Öz speaks with artist, composer and educator Joe Namy about his sound installations that use samples from loud sound systems in cars, glit...
EP02: Bint Mbareh x Amal Khalaf
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amal Khalaf speaks with artist and sound researcher Bint Mbareh about her work around songs of resistance in relation to land and water sovereignty in...
EP01: Hoor Al Qasimi x Sharjah Biennial 16 curators
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Biennial Bytes Season 2 kicks off with a roundtable between the five curators of Sharjah Biennial 16: Alia Swastika, Amal Khalaf, Megan Tamati-Quennel...
Stay tuned for Season 2!
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to carry? What does it entail to carry a home, ancestors and political formations with you? How do themes of care, grief, history an...
Ep 12: Amar Kanwar — Narrative and Evidence
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What are the ways through which cinema can seek the truth and respond to the times? In a world where evidence has ceased to matter, what is the role o...
Ep 11: Abdulrahim Salem — Tradition and Community
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can artistic techniques capture invisible phenomena such as movement and magic? What are the ways in which can traditional practices be reint...
Ep 10: Mithu Sen — Gender and Glitch
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can the distortion of language resist oppressive power structures? In what ways can depicting the body reveal and defy social strictures? To find ...
Ep 9: Annalee Davis — Planting and Recovering
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can gardens become spaces for healing and community? Can plantations become sites for challenging exploitation and the vestiges of colonialism? ...
Ep 8: Archana Hande — Labour and Technology
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can images bring to life the narratives of labour and materials which make up the story of modernity? In what ways do western ideas of developmen...
Ep 7: Kambui Olujimi —Flight and Freedom
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What happens to a Black body when it stops being weighed down by forces of oppression and is freed from gravity? Can the result be Black rhapsody? T...
Ep 6: Yinka Shonibare — Pastiche and Publics
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How does referencing art of the past reveal social and economic realities that affect us in the present? What does it mean when objects and...
Ep 5: Joiri Minaya — Satire and Camouflage
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How does the use of irony undermine oppressive modes of representation? How can art draw attention to the ways in which historical ways of seein...
Ep 4: John Akomfrah — Memory and Terrain
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How is the social sphere linked to the ecological? What are the ways in which radical politics can be expressed in cinematic language? To find out, li...
Ep 3: Hassan Hajjaj - Music and Ritual
08 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What are the ways in which identity gets stereotyped and commodified in visual media? Can art draw on diverse histories to express solidarities in the...
Ep 2: Mary Sibande - Self and Solidarity
08 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can materials and forms associated with racial oppression be subverted to oppose their original meaning? Can art help us reimagine difficult pasts...
Ep 1: Nari Ward - Redemption and Transformation
08 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Can objects from the past make us see the present in a new light? How does art reframe things that carry histories of oppression? To find out, listen ...