Conversations in Darkness: Recent Episodes
Julien Thomas
The Conversations in Darkness is a spatialised podcast series that invites artist from around the world to share their thoughts and experiences of this moment in time. In each episode, four artists join the call via www.conversationsindarkness.com, a free spatialised interface that allows participants to talk with each other as if sharing the same physical space. The project is an exploration of how deep listening and spatial sound may enable different forms of conversation and interaction online.
In the third episode Julien talks with a choreographer, an audio performance artist, and a scholar of design and strategic foresight to revisit the question: How do you sense movement (in yourself, in the world), and has that quality of sensation or movement changed in the past 1.5 years?
Ido Feder (Joining from Tel Aviv)
Ido is a choreographer and artist interested in extended choreography, intervening curatorship and rituals of dance and performance.
Marte Boneschansker (Joining from Amsterdam)
Marte is a Dutch audio performance artist. She creates intimate, physical listening experiences with one-on-one conversations as a starting point.
Sean Park (Joining from Hamilton)
Sean is an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University. He teaches courses on human-centred design, creative problem solving and strategic foresight.
Julien Thomas (Joining from Amsterdam)
Julien is an installation artist and social designer who explores the threshold between the spoken and the unspoken. He aims to create environments and objects that present an expanded sense of discursive possibility, and develops performative installations and processes that are jointly explored and discerned through movement, rhythm, sound and voice.
In the second episode Julien talks with an expressive arts scholar, a writer, and a performance maker to revisit the question: How do you sense movement (in yourself, in the world), and has that quality of sensation or movement changed in the past 1.5 years?
Carrie MacLeod (Joining from Vancouver)
Carrie is an artist, scholar and practitioner with 20+ years experience facilitating dialogue, enhancing creativity, and inspiring fresh response through engagement with arts.
Dirk Vis (Joining from Amsterdam)
Dirk writes essays, scripts, poetry, and real-life science fiction, in Dutch and English. Vis spends his time between Amsterdam, Berlin and the forest of Białowieża.
Ana Wild (Joining from Tel Aviv)
Ana is an artist, a young girl, a graceful punk, a memorisation maven, interested in voice, in speaking, in words, in knowledge-structures, in anthropology, history, mythology, poetry, graphic design, electricity, in creation ex-nihlis, in musicality, learning, understanding, repetition, cyclicality, in Hebrew, English, French, Arabic, in translation, in print, in magic, in adventure, in friendship, in agency and in power.
Julien Thomas (Joining from Amsterdam)
Julien is an installation artist and social designer who explores the threshold between the spoken and the unspoken. He aims to create environments and objects that present an expanded sense of discursive possibility, and develops performative installations and processes that are jointly explored and discerned through movement, rhythm, sound and voice.
In the first episode Julien talks with a political theorist, a performance maker, and a multimedia artist/designer to explore the relationship between movement and change. The conversation begins with the question: How do you sense movement (in yourself, in the world), and has that quality of sensation or movement changed in the past 1.5 years?
Cissie Fu (Joining from Vancouver)
Cissie is a political theorist whose practice and research dance at the nexus of politics, philosophy, and performance. She experiments with ways to reimagine the political through digital technology and the creative arts.
Leila Anderson (Joining from Antwerp)
Leila is a performance maker and public arts curator. Her work explores social relations, often between people, place and the natural environment – and relations between ethics and aesthetic experience. She is originally from Cape Town, South Africa, but based now in Belgium.
Yuri Veerman (Joining from Amsterdam)
Yuri is an artist, designer and performer, living and working in Amsterdam. Through posters, books, videos, websites, campaigns, flags or performances, Veerman tells seemingly simple stories about an increasingly complex world.
Julien Thomas (Joining from Dordrecht)
Julien is an installation artist and social designer who explores the threshold between the spoken and the unspoken. He aims to create environments and objects that present an expanded sense of discursive possibility, and develops performative installations and processes that are jointly explored and discerned through movement, rhythm, sound and voice.