Tenderness, Death Valley and the Blues - with Arjuna Neuman

Drawing from notes and recordings made during the Sonic Acts residency programme Overexposed x Lives of Deltas, sound artist Minji Kim aka Unknown Kim tells us about her ongoing research into the sonic qualities of the Zandmotor 'sand engine' experiment in the Netherlands. In this episode of the Overexposed Podcast made by Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee radio, Andrea Gonzalez speaks with Minji Kim, discussing the interplay between human life and the environment, the sonic qualities of wind and the use of auditory technologies in tracing diverse forms of decay.Overexposed Podcast by Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee interviews participants of Sonic Acts’ OVEREXPOSED artistic research residency about artefacts that have moved their artistic practice in a lasting way.

Departing from Eliot Porter’s photograph "Trees and pond, near Sherborn, Massachusetts, April 1957”, Sonic Acts resident artists lucky dragons discuss the watery connections between toxicity and bodies in their 2022 Sonic Acts commission Sentences About Rivers and Cancers. In this episode of Overexposed Podcast, Arif Kornweitz of Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee radio speaks with the duo, Sarah Rara and Luke Fischbeck, navigating collaborative networks, hydrofeminism and experiences of crip-time during cancer treatment.

Discussing the essay ‘Breaking the Silence: Language and the Making of Meaning in Plants’ by Monica Gagliano and Mavra Grimonprez, multidisciplinary artist pantea considers the role of listening in her artistic practice, observing that “to me listening is not only about sounds but how you intercept that listening process for yourself.” In our latest episode of the Overexposed Podcast, made in collaboration with Sonic Acts, Andrea Gonzalez and Arif Kornweitz speak with pantea, exploring topics of wetlands, Iranian rhythm traditions, the importance of slower artistic practices, and non-hierarchical approaches to the non-human. Recorded in the lead-up to Sonic Acts Biennial 2022, pantea talks about her collaboration with Soundcamp, leading a soundwalk titled ‘search for the ⬤’, and her audiovisual work ‘Fragile Fragments’ made with artists u-matic & telematique.Over the course of 2021 and 2022, Sonic Acts hosted two artistic researchers as part of their second OVEREXPOSED home-based residency programme, which addresses pollution and its effects on everything living and non-living.pantea is a multidisciplinary artist from Iran engaging with narratives of ecological and more-than-human connection. Her work has incorporated performance, creative nonfiction, film, photography, and music. More recently, pantea is focused on developing a socially engaged practice by exploring possibilities brought about by sound and listening. She is also one half of the design group Studio Informal and a member of Khamoosh, an artistic research group dedicated to preserving and archiving Iranian sonic heritage. pantea's website is at pantearm.github.io   Hosts: Andrea Gonzalez and Arif Kornweitz Edit: Andrea Gonzalez Post: Yper Audio Text: Alice Johnston Rougeaux Graphic Design: Toni Brell

On the wall of Maryam Monalisa Gharavi’s studio is a still from Buñuel’s ‘Los Olvidados’, showing a blind man staring at a chicken. In our latest episode of the Overexposed Podcast, made in collaboration with Sonic Acts, Andrea Gonzalez talks to Monalisa about demonology, infrastructure and how any blockage to the vision of regimes that govern by making visible, is seen as a threat. Addressing the similarities between the commodities oil and data, Monalisa points to extraction as a defining factor of capitalism. Reading from her manuscript ‘Exhaust’, she states: ‘Capital is dead labor, vampire-like, living only by sucking living labor.” Sonic Acts hosts six participants in the home-based residency programme 'Overexposed' which deals with pollution and its effects on everything living and non-living. Maryam Monalisa Gharavi is an artist, poet, and theorist whose work deals with the paradoxes of our interactions with matter and immateriality, the seen and unseen, underlying everyday life and its common preconceptions. Read more about her work here. Andrea Gonzalez hosted and produced this episode for Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee.

Andrea and Arif speak to Overexposed resident Angela YT Chan about puddles of water, ecofascism, and living room conversations about nature and its multiple definitions. Sonic Acts hosts six participants in the home-based residency programme 'Overexposed' which deals with pollution and its effects on everything living and non-living. Andrea Gonzalez and Arif Kornweitz of Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee produce this series of conversations with residents about artefacts that have moved their practice in a lasting way. Angela's artefact is a puddle of water. Angela YT Chan (UK) is an independent curator and artist. As a ‘creative climate change communicator’, she focuses on anti-colonial climate justice, knowledge systems, geography, and contemporary speculative fiction. She collaborates widely with artists, activists, speculative fiction authors and youth groups.→ Website: angelaytchan.com

Andrea and Arif speak to Overexposed resident Devin Hentz about embodiment in fashion, garment archaeology and afrofuturism. Sonic Acts hosts six participants in the home-based residency programme 'Overexposed' which deals with pollution and its effects on everything living and non-living. Andrea Gonzalez and Arif Kornweitz of Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee produce this series of conversations with residents about artefacts that have moved their practice in a lasting way. Devin's artefact is an excerpt from the film 'The Last Angel of History'. Devin Hentz is an independent researcher and writer based in Dakar. Devin is interested in exploring the private experience of embodiment in what we choose to wear, as well as the global currents at play in getting certain items on and off of our bodies. Thinking between contemporary art and dress practices, she interrogates and sometimes intervenes in the black visual ecumene. Devin works with words, images and cloth as sites for play and to develop transcultural connections. She is currently pursuing a Masters in Fashion Studies from Parsons School of Design, New York. → Instagram: devinhentz

Andrea and Arif speak to Overexposed resident Ameneh Solati about how the floating schools in the marshlands of Iraq represent overlapping environmental and ethnic struggles. See the photograph that Ameneh sent here: Sonic Acts hosts six participants in the home-based residency programme 'Overexposed' which deals with pollution and its effects on everything living and non-living. Andrea Gonzalez and Arif Kornweitz of Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee produce this series of conversations with residents about artefacts that have moved their practice in a lasting way. Ameneh Solati is a Rotterdam-based architectural designer, researcher, and editor. Her practice engages with interdisciplinary methods in exploring forms of resistance within often overlooked spaces. She completed her MA degree in architecture in 2017 at the Royal College of Art in London. She is an editor and organiser at Failed Architecture and has previously worked with Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam and various architectural practices in Amsterdam and London.

Andrea and Arif speak to Overexposed resident Arjuna Neuman about environmental struggles and tenderness. Sonic Acts hosts six participants in the home-based residency programme 'Overexposed' which deals with pollution and its effects on everything living and non-living. Andrea Gonzalez and Arif Kornweitz of Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee produce this series of conversations with residents about artefacts that have moved their practice in a lasting way. Arjuna Neuman is is an artist, writer, and filmmaker based in Berlin. He works with the essay form with a multi-perspectival and experimental approach in which he explores the economic, social and ideological systems that shape our lived experiences. Selected projects include collaborations with Denise Ferreira da Silva on films and installations Serpent Rain (2016) and 4 Waters-Deep Implicancy (2019). His works have been shown at major biennials and exhibitions such as Berlin Biennial 10, Serpentine Gallery, Whitechapel, Sharjah Biennial, Bergen Assembly, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, etc. He also grows tomatoes and chillies in his studio. www.arjunaneuman.com

Welcome to Overexposed, a podcast on pollution and its effects on everything living and non-living. In each episode, we ask a resident of the Sonic Acts 'Overexposed' programme to send us an artefact that has moved their practice in a lasting way. In this trailer, Andrea Gonzalez and Arif Kornweitz give a small preview of what's coming up. More about Overexposed here: https://sonicacts.com/portal/sonic-acts-announces-six-artists-and-researchers-for-the-overexposed-home-based-residency   This podcast is a co-production of Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee and Sonic Acts.