Branching in, Branching out is a new program of The Other Radio that wants to explore collective learning, situated pedagogies and embodied knowledge practices as ways of propagating new realities. The title comes from an interpretation of the etymology of the verb to educate – latin educere, to draw out, take out but also branch out.
Branching in, branching out is a double movement of reaching and encountering what is afar, being inspired and open to different discourses, but at the same time going into what we have an affection to, rooting ourself, being activated and moved by what stays in our proximity, leaning on the landscape and learning from it.
The Other Radio/Radio Drugega program is financed by Javni zavod GO! 2025 - European capital of culture, Nova Gorica.
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Razvejanja/Branching in, Branching out je nov program Radia Drugega, ki želi raziskati kolektivno učenje, situirane pedagogike in prakse utelešenega znanja kot načine propagiranja novih realnosti. Naslov oddaje izhaja iz razlage etimologije glagola izobraževati – latinsko educere, izvleči, a tudi razvejati.
Razvejanje navznoter in razvejanje navzven je dvojno gibanje doseganja in srečanja s tistim, kar je daleč; biti navdihnjen in odprt za različne diskurze, a hkrati iti v tisto, do česar imamo naklonjenost, se ukoreniniti, biti aktiviran in ganjen s tem, kar ostaja v naša bližina, naslanjanje na pokrajino in učenje iz nje.
Program Radia Drugega/The Other Radio financira javni zavod GO! 2025 - Evropska prestolnica kulture, Nova Gorica.
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Ep. 1 Alessandra Pomarico
Alessandra Pomarico is a curator, writer, educator, cultural producer, and activist based in NY and Lecce (IT). Her work intersects arts, pedagogy, social issues, and nano-politics. Co-founder of the artistic and pedagogical experiment Free Home University, Alessandra serves as steering committee member of the global Ecoversities Alliance.
Recent projects include M.E.D.U.S.E (Mediterranean Ecofeminist Decolonial Union for Self-Education), 2021; #Healing at the New Alphabet School, HKW, Berlin/Dakar, 2021; The School of the We, Rotor, Graz, 2020-20221; Time Forward, V-A-C Zattere, Venice, 2020.
Recent publications: When the Roots Start Moving || First Mouvement: To Navigate Backward || Resonating with Zapatismo (2021); Pedagogies Otherwise (2020) and What’s There to Learn (2018).
Alessandra lives and works in New York (US) and Lecce (IT).
Ep. 2 Lenn Cox
'Focused on self-organised social-ecological communities and collectives, I seek out diverse settings and encounters that inform my practice. From a need for more collectivity in work and life, the question arose: How to develop solidarity alternatives to counterbalance the dominant neoliberal and capitalist systems that are part of our daily lives and nestle into our bodies and clothes, design practices and even education? This question is an ongoing thread in my practice.'
Lenn Cox is a community organizer, designer, educator, programme maker and karateka. Graduated in 2020 from the ArtEZ MA Practice Held in Common, where she initiated and co-created the manual Collective Wandering: Hanging Out with Our Everyday Ecology. Cox explores solidarity economies by immersing herself in self-organised learning-working-living environments While engaging her clothes as correspondence, to carry the exchanges and stories she collects as a topic of conversation. Fashion, for Cox, is an embodied and relational practice rooted in everyday life. As educator and community organizer she initiates spaces and projects that facilitate collective learning.
Cox initiated in 2019 the z o m e r k a m p collective in which she explores and practices what it means to have a collective practice at this moment in time. As linen steward, Lenn learned how to grow, process and craft with a group our everyday textiles and garments by hand, with commoning as a guiding principle.
Cox lives in Arnhem (the Netherlands) and works wandering.
Keywords: social ecology, collective care, relational activism, intentional communities, alternative fashion practices, solidarity economies, collective wandering
Ep. 3 Melissa Appleton
Melissa Appleton grew up near Newport, South Wales and for the last ten years has worked as a curator, spatial designer and producer and has taught at The Ruskin School of Art, the Royal College of Art and The Bartlett (UCL). Melissa has a background in architecture and prior to working with Peak Cymru developed site-responsive programmes where spatial interventions act as mechanisms to access alternative histories, dreams and languages. These include Tonight the World (2019), a collaboration with Daria Martin for Barbican Curve, London & CJM, San Francisco, Quite Suddenly Your Smile is an Architecture (2017), an itinerant exhibition of the publishing projects of poet Jeff Nuttall and Writtle Calling/2 Emma Toc (2012), a radio station in an Essex field.
Ep. 4 Yuri Tuma (Institute for Postnatural Studies)
Yuri Tuma is a multidisciplinary Brazilian artist who focuses on the investigation of contemporary narratives related to diverse ecologies through sound art, installation, and performance as a way to address and reevaluate the human/animal binomial imposed by science and Western thinking. More actively, in addition to academic programming and development, he coordinates the Institute's publishing project, Cthulhu Books, to become a showcase for the political potential of imagining new worlds and possible futures for the planet through academic and artistic research. Starting in 2021, in addition to participating in residencies and coordinating workshops around interspecies thinking, Tuma works with educational and mediation programs through sound art and performance at Spanish institutions such as Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Matadero, La Casa Encendida, INLAND, among others.
The Institute for Postnatural Studies is a center for artistic experimentation from which to explore and problematize postnature as a framework for contemporary creation. Founded in 2020, it is conceived as a platform for critical thinking, a network that brings together artists and researchers concerned about the issues of the global ecological crisis through experimental formats of exchange and the production of open knowledge. From a multidisciplinary approach, the Institute develops long-term research focused on issues such as ecology, coexistence, politics, and territories. These lines of investigation take different shapes and formats, including seminars, exhibitions, and residencies as spaces for academic and artistic experimentation.
www.instituteforpostnaturalstudies.org
Ep. 5 Participants of Inland Academy
With: Antonio Sotgiu, Jean Ni, Grace Denis, Mariana Murcia, Kibandu Pello-Esso
In the fifth episode of Branching In, Branching Out I talked to some of the participants of the first year of Inland Academy, an independent postgraduate programme, that offers tools, theoretical bases, and expertise to define and develop projects that examine and reinvent power dynamics around rurality and conventional contemporary art, bringing together academic and vernacular knowledge through cultural and agroecological praxis.
We discussed their personal experiences, the rural-urban relation, their motivations and desires to take part to Inland Academy, their interests in learning methodologies and para-instutions and their publication "Landing" (2023).
Ep. 6 Sophie Mak-Schram
In the sixth episode of Branching in, Branching Out I hosted Sophie who was one of the participants of this year's summer school of the Academy of Margins. Together we explore what the Academy meant for each of us and what were those meaningful things that remained, left some traces and opened reflections.
Sophie Mak-Schram is an art historian, producer, educator and occasional practitioner researching contemporary alternative educational projects and how these pedagogical propositions enact new political futures.
Ep. 7 Kirsten Spruit and Benjamin Earl
Episode number 7, with Benjamin Earl, designer and creative technologist, and Kirsten Spruit, designer and artist, with whom I discussed about maintenance work on (web)sites, about land pedagogy, about how time defines spaces etc.
Ben is an artist, designer and broadcaster interested in the moments when the digital and the physical world merge together.
Kirsten is a designer and artist based in Rotterdam. With a background in graphic design and strong inclination towards time-based media – particularly sound – and writing, she likes to explore issues relating to information (overload), (non)productivity and (spending) time.
