SON[I]A

 

Vincent Meessen talks with SON[I]A about journeys, uprisings, and metaphors, about work cooperatives, music groups and constructed scenarios, about the politics of making versus the politics of showing, and about how to revivify lost or dying colonial memories in the present.

 

SON[I]A is the longest standing emission of the radio programme at MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona

 

31’44”

 

Timeline:
02:44 ‘Patterns for (Re)cognition’
07:05 Colonial agents, pioneers of modern art
09:44 An apparatus to avoid being trapped
10:47 The invention of the other
12:17 Intuition and location
14:30 Shaping the tools we need
17:28 Situationists in Congo
22:12 The way you do it
23:52 A question for everybody

 

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