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• 16 November 2023

  The Healing Power of Cultural Practice

  Gugulethu Duma aka Dumama is a musician, composer, sonic poet and creative producer from the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Her practice plays with the…

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• 12 August 2023

  (Re-)Collecting Europe with Marta Bausells

  (Re-)Collecting Europe is a residency programme devised by the Goethe-Institut London, which gave two journalists the opportunity to travel through the UK for f…

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• 23 June 2023

  The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

  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, he wrote an…

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• 28 April 2023

  Lives of Objects: Gala Porras-Kim and James Webb

  This podcast episode is the first podcast episode of the Lives of Objects series. We invited multidisciplinary artists Gala Porras-Kim and James Webb to discuss…

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• 21 March 2023

  Beyond Hearing

  Through a series of extraordinary sound recordings, Dr. Matthew Herbert pushed us to hear further than we might have thought possible, asking the question: “How…

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• 20 January 2023

  The Culture of Artificial Intelligence

  In her talk, “The Culture of Artificial Intelligence”, Mercedes Bunz explores the particular power of AI systems using work from contemporary artists to reveal…

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• 8 December 2022

  Politics – What’s Love Got To Do With It? Mithu Sanyal’s Goethe Annual Lecture 2022

  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, love has…

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• 28 October 2022

  How can art help us understand quantum computing?

  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 this epis…

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• 3 August 2022

  How We Wanted to Live

  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 on your p…

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• 25 February 2022

  Contexts of Injustice: Dismantling Colonial Legacies from Berlin to London

  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 our museum…

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• 17 December 2021

  Clubbing and Culture in times of Covid

  The Goethe-Institut London and the Somerset House Studios are collaborating to establish a new international artist residency programme to support a Germany-bas…

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• 13 October 2021

  A Greener Infrastructure for a Sustainable Metropolis

  “Going Green and the SouthKenGreenTrail - a greener infrastructure for a sustainable metropolis”. A podcast with artist Natalie Taylor, the architecture and des…

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• 7 July 2021

  Notes from a Grown-Up Country

  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 2019 Brady…

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• 18 June 2021

  What Does it Mean to Be European?

  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 this episod…

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• 9 June 2021

  Leading the Art World Towards Sustainability

  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 take invent…

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• 26 May 2021

  “Some Kind of Tomorrow:” Honoring the Visions of Black Feminist Creative Authors

  The creative writing of Black feminist authors has revolutionary potential. It challenges dominant assumptions and expands the horizons of the current literary…

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• 12 May 2021

  Why Artists are Working with Blockchain to Reinvent the Arts

  Now, as the world is facing a new economic crisis, how could the arts and civil society benefit from blockchain technologies? Hear from artists, curators, techn…

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• 28 April 2021

  Why Theatre Matters More Than Ever

  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 find out ho…

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• 14 April 2021

  Talking Culture: A Futures Podcast (Trailer)

  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-provoking discussi…

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