À PROPOS DE CET ÉPISODE
This episode traces the swamp as a site where something can both belong and not belong, as a space of possibility and impossibility, where multiple ideas, forms, and ways of life can exist in harmony and disharmony all at once.
Participants in this episode include: Natasha Ginwala and Vivian Ziherl reading passages of their essay that will thread together the other segments throughout the episode. Environmental scientist Gonzalo Carrasco and architect Feifei Zhou discuss their project “Before There Was Land, There Were Mangroves”, commissioned for the 2024 Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale. The project involves a series of mapping analyses examining Singapore’s history of land reclamation and the chemical impacts of recent industrial and urban transformations along the Southern coastline. Anthropologist Marcus Barber talks to Waka Mununggurr, the chairperson of the Djalkiripuyngu Aboriginal Corporation, about Indigenous relationships to land and sea. Tejah Shah reads five poems that were written by Minal Hajratwala, commissioned for Shah’s project Between the Waves. Chris Cyrille-Isaac tells a story he wrote called The Crab and the Aparahiwa in French for his exhibition “But the world is a mangrovity.” An English translation of The Crab and the Aparahiwa can be read here. Collaged in between are audio clips from soundscapes, interviews and films by Nicole L’Huillier, Thao Nguyen Phan and Barbara London, Sónia Vaz Borges and Filipa César, and Magnetic Ideals.
SOUND AND VIDEO CREDITS
Mary Sabbatino and Gallerie Lelong, “Ana Mendieta at Gallerie Lelong,” Video, 2013.
Jota Mombaça in collaboration with Anti Ribeiro, Darwin Marinho, and Luana Peixe, “until the last morning,” Video, 2023.
Fred Moten and Boston Ujima Project, “Poetic Narratives of Black Fugitivity,” Video, 2024.
Dala Nasser and Mhamad Safa, Red in Tooth, 2021. Video, 19 min.
Seba Calfuqueo, “Ko ta mapungey ka (Agua también es territorio),” Video, 2020.
Seba Calfuqueo, Stephanie Comilang, Dr. Senam Okudzeto, and Art Basel, “Conversations | Activating environments: New ways of thinking of land, sea, and life,” Video, 2024.
abdo Fg. “جزء من خطاب الزعيم الليبي معمر القذافي في افتتاح النهر الصناعي العظيم.” Video, 2021.
abdo Fg. “زوري النهر اوصل يامروة – حفلة افتتاح النهر الصناعي العظيم.” Video, 2019.
abdo Fg. “زوري النهر اوصل يامروة.” Video, 2019.
abdo Fg. “سلم علي من يسلم علينا – اوبريت النهر الصناعي العظيم.” Video, 2021.
Nathaniel Mackey and The Creaking Breeze Ensemble, Fugitive Equation, Fonograph, “Skeletal Water, X-Ray Water (Part 1).” Audio, 2021.
