Talking Culture
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Biotechnologies and the Web of Life
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Synthetic Sacred is a new action-research initiative curated by Lucy Rose Sollitt that explores pathways for ecological restoration amidst hybrid...
Synthetic Life: A future 'Natural History'?
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episodes 19 and 20 of Talking Culture are dedicated to the new action-research initiative 'The Synthetic Sacred', which explores pathways for ecologic...
The Healing Power of Cultural Practice
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Gugulethu Duma aka Dumama is a musician, composer, sonic poet and creative producer from the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Her practice plays...
(Re-)Collecting Europe with Marta Bausells
12 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
(Re-)Collecting Europe is a residency programme devised by the Goethe-Institut London, which gave two journalists the opportunity to travel through th...
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode, Esther Leslie and Louis Porter join us to unpick the mind of one of the 20th century's greatest thinkers Walter Benjamin. In 1935, h...
Lives of Objects: Gala Porras-Kim and James Webb
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast episode is the first podcast episode of the Lives of Objects series. We invited multidisciplinary artists Gala Porras-Kim and James Webb ...
Beyond Hearing
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Through a series of extraordinary sound recordings, Dr. Matthew Herbert pushed us to hear further than we might have thought possible, asking the ques...
The Culture of Artificial Intelligence
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In her talk, “The Culture of Artificial Intelligence”, Mercedes Bunz explores the particular power of AI systems using work from contemporary arti...
Politics – What’s Love Got To Do With It? Mithu Sanyal’s Goethe Annual Lecture 2022
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As German writer Mithu Sanyal confirms, it's a preconceived idea that love and politics don't go together. They are in fact polar opposites. Moreover,...
How can art help us understand quantum computing?
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What exactly is a quantum computer? Have you ever wondered what all the media hype is about or how quantum computing may impact our everyday lives? In...
How We Wanted to Live
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine life beyond crises. A world beyond catastrophe, wars and climate crisis. How would you like to live? And now think ahead to 2050. Looking back...
Contexts of Injustice: Dismantling Colonial Legacies from Berlin to London
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Author and curator Dan Hicks, best known for his book The Brutish Museums (2020), takes stock of the debate around the enduring legacies of empire in ...
Clubbing and Culture in times of Covid
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Goethe-Institut London and the Somerset House Studios are collaborating to establish a new international artist residency programme to support a G...
A Greener Infrastructure for a Sustainable Metropolis
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Going Green and the SouthKenGreenTrail - a greener infrastructure for a sustainable metropolis”. A podcast with artist Natalie Taylor, the archit...
Notes from a Grown-Up Country
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 2020, British author and broadcaster John Kampfner released a new book with a provocative title... . In this episode, we share his 2...
What Does it Mean to Be European?
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With Brexit in the rear view, the decades-long discussion and debate about the role and purpose of the European Union has taken on a new urgency. In t...
Leading the Art World Towards Sustainability
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Art has the power to change the world by highlighting critical issues, but what responsibility does the art world have to make their own changes and t...
“Some Kind of Tomorrow:” Honoring the Visions of Black Feminist Creative Authors
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The creative writing of Black feminist authors has revolutionary potential. It challenges dominant assumptions and expands the horizons of the current...
Why Artists are Working with Blockchain to Reinvent the Arts
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Now, as the world is facing a new economic crisis, how could the arts and civil society benefit from blockchain technologies? Hear from artists, curat...
Why Theatre Matters More Than Ever
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One month into the first lockdown of 2020, we called Kris Nelson, Artistic Director and CEO at LIFT:the London International Festival of Theatre, to f...
Talking Culture: A Futures Podcast (Trailer)
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A special preview of the new and improved Talking Culture. Episode 1 will be available on 28 April. Talking Culture is a platform for thought-provokin...