Container Podcast: Recent Episodes
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When forty-six year old Hosu Mausi first saw the map of Makoko, Lagos in Nigeria, he was full of excitement. Makoko had not been mapped so extensively before, and now the position of the Oluwatosin Mosque was marked at its exact place, clear on his daughter’s smartphone. The terminal where Mausi disembarked from his fishing […]
Today, I visit a ghost. Not of a person, though I’m sure many have died there. Not of a living thing at all, though now its surroundings are overgrown, flora and fauna clawing over the concrete like a John Wyndham novel. Fiddler’s Ferry power station. To be demolished this year. Or the next. Strange ghost. […]
“Dad I wanna go, Dad I wanna go, Dad I wanna go.” Is part of the audio chorus that accompanies my experience of Squidsoup’s ‘Beyond Submergence’ at Propyard in Bristol. Visiting the “immersive exhibition of light and sound”, a retrospective of works by the established installation art collective from the past few years, at 10am […]
A set of prompts to think about how video games have been disposable, are not separate from infrastructures involved in the destruction of ecosystems, are part of our futures and the potentials in futures and economies of loss. To be played, to be thought upon, to be enacted and to be altered. These were created […]
Effendi Buhing remembers seeing his home, Kinipan, rendered on a map for the first time. Ink black lines on paper marked sacred groves, halted at streams, and curved around ancestral hunting grounds. Neighbours and kin lived in the same forest, but on the map, some were divided into villages, others by revenue blocks. The 54-year […]
Play Élan Vitale A version with reduced animations is available here “In this situation, you’ve got yourself into a place where you shouldn’t be.” Uma Breakdown’s atmospheric, wry, gothic science-fiction text adventure Élan Vitale is the result of their residency with Container Magazine. A broken into flat. A pile of old machinery and energy drinks. […]
‘Maybe that’s the first experience of the Internet: that moment it stops being “the Internet” and just becomes another thing/part of living.’ Hamishi Farah, in Towards a New Digital Landscape I was 14 years old when the image of Sandra Bland in police custody began to circulate on Twitter back in 2015. She later died […]
“Big companies use technology to make money off us, macho computer scientists make it feel exclusive and untouchable, and governments use it to silence and control us. Historically, new technology has always been a source of fear. It’s time we turn the tables around and use these tools to empower ourselves instead. It’s our turn […]
I consider myself as being born and raised by the internet. Born and raised by hidden IRC chatrooms. By message boards about special interests. By writing to friends late into the night about everything from favorite TV shows to our innermost feelings. This formed my understanding of community, quite literally — writing with those strangers […]
Play Élan Vitale A version with reduced animations is available here “In this situation, you’ve got yourself into a place where you shouldn’t be.” Uma Breakdown’s atmospheric, wry, gothic science-fiction text adventure Élan Vitale is the result of their residency with Container Magazine. A broken into flat. A pile of old machinery and energy drinks. […]
In 1940 a cave at Lascaux, in South-West France, was discovered containing almost two thousand paintings and etchings from around twenty-thousand years in the past. A majestic and expansive vault of prehistoric art, Lascaux is one of the oldest examples we have of human creative ancestry. Exhibiting at Bristol Museum in 2023, The Cave Art […]
In collaboration with Control Shift, Container is excited to present this discussion between Russel Hlongwane and Mark Mushiva covering broad topics spanning creative origins in hip-hop, the relevance of cyber punk to Africa, and the conditions and theories of making futurisms from within the continent. The podcast forms part of Russel’s aims to convene a […]
A description of the moments leading up to François Mackandal’s final flight opens Hope Strickland’s film I’ll Be Back! (2022). It’s 20th January, 1758 And a crowd is gathered in what’s now known as Cap-Haitien The rebel slave, François Mackandal, is to be burned alive at the stake Mackandal is condemned not only for his crimes But […]
The garden online I started gardening for the first time this spring. It’s the first time as an adult I’ve lived somewhere with a garden. It’s a small courtyard, with a high brick wall at one end, one raised bed and a border around the house. It felt like pure luxury after a pandemic of […]
From pre-internet to the present day, Container speaks to artists and technologists based in Bristol who have been experimenting with technology in interesting ways from the beginning. Our guests — Ralph Hoyte, Constance Fleuriot, Tarim and Fanny Eaton-Hall — joined host Jon Dovey for a wide-ranging conversation about the past, present and future of art […]
In 2020, Container published a long read on the pandemic’s effect on live performance. We spoke to people involved in theatre, music, and across cultural events about the breakneck evolution of live events, the pace at which new models were tried and adopted and the innovations that emerged under pressure. Two years on, we’re going […]
In this podcast, Cassandra Roxburgh interviews Keval Harie, the Director of GALA Queer Archive in Johannesburg. They talk what it takes to create a living, breathing, contemporary, community archive; the role of digitisation in making queer history more accessible, and how stories of queer lives push against the lack of queer representation in the mainstream […]
In this issue’s podcast, hosted by Teresa Dillon, expert guests Mél Hogan, Sharlene Gandhi, Corinne Stuart and Jenny Brennan discuss the true costs of streaming. The guests discuss who is responsible – is it ‘big tech’ or the individual at fault? – and consider the options for a positive data future that doesn’t cost the planet (possibly by deleting the […]
Container Magazine · Container Podcast 1: Queering VR Welcome to the first ever Container podcast! Our guests – Freya Campbell, Harry Silverlock and Tessa Ratuszynska – discuss DIY culture, hacking and inherent jankiness. They talk safe spaces and the importance of working with queer communities, and, as well as surveying the queer VR content […]