During 2020 Index’ ongoing research process of looking into how artists

deal with and reinvent formats for distribution, has itself been

re-distributed - frozen - sped up - paused - and accelerated by the

global turn. The rollercoaster of stillness and intensity has put a new

lens on how we see the movement of information, the movements of our

bodies and the material realities of distribution.

As part of this, Tracking Distribution interns Mmabatho Thobejane and

Lili Huston-Herterich joined us as co-researchers, learning and sharing

within the summer course ‘Art and Distribution: Exhibition practitioners

and other ways to distribute’, organized by Index and Konstfack

University of the Arts. Now active at Index throughout the summer,

Mmabatho and Lili play an important part in the course unfolding,

tracking its distribution and formulating how artistic practices are

taking on other modalities in responding to a distributed world. 

The conversation shared in this podcast was recorded during the first

intense week of seminars and lectures at Index and is a moment of

getting to know the term distribution from their personal

perspective and how they use distribution as a concept within their own

practices.