Today I am thrilled to have on the show Natalia Escobar. Natalia is a Colombian interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and DJ whose practice spans moving images, sound, performance, and installations. Her work explores Abya Yala phenomenology, Indigenous cosmovisions, identity, and memory, drawing from decolonial and intersectional feminist perspectives. Since 2021, she has been developing pedagogical projects and collaborations with different Indigenous communities in South America, notably with Las Traviesas, a community of trans-Indigenous women from the Embera people in Colombia. Together, they have developed initiatives that promote social and ecological transformation through artistic processes, emphasizing transdisciplinary collaboration as a strategy to challenge colonial norms and reimagine alternative realities and spaces for knowledge exchange. So you can imagine how excited I am to speak with Natalia today.

Bio

Natalia Escobar is a Colombian interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and DJ whose practice spans moving images, sound, performance, and installations. Her work explores Abya Yala phenomenology, Indigenous cosmovisions, identity, and memory, drawing from decolonial and intersectional feminist perspectives. Since 2021, Escobar has been developing pedagogical projects and collaborations with different Indigenous communities in South America, notably with Las Traviesas, a community of trans-Indigenous women from the Embera people in Colombia. Together, they have developed initiatives that promote social and ecological transformation through artistic processes, emphasizing transdisciplinary collaboration as a strategy to challenge colonial norms and reimagine alternative realities and spaces for knowledge exchange.

Links

https://www.instagram.com/discobar/

https://www.instagram.com/poison.arrow/

https://www.instagram.com/awera___/

https://www.instagram.com/pierce_with_arrow/

Artist Web site https://www.nataliaescobar.com/

Awera project https://www.nataliaescobar.com/awera

Today on the show I’m happy to have Robert Willim as a guest. Robert is an artist and a researcher working at the interplay between art, research and dialogue. His practice explores imaginaries, media-related practices and human experiences of technology. In our conversation we explore sound, technology, media, artistic research, industry and society, and questions around digital and material culture.

Links

More about Robert’s work: http://www.robertwillim.com/

https://www.instagram.com/willimworks/

About Mundania: https://mundania.se

The audio paper Mundania – Just Above The Noise Floor:

https://seismograf.org/fokus/sonic-argumentation-ii/willim

A video of the Fields of Unknowing performance in Malmö:

https://vimeo.com/950990832?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci

Info about the performance from the Intonal website:

https://www.intonalfestival.com/artists-2024/robert-willim

We have a special edition this month, a look – actually a listen – back to 2025. Thanks to all of you and my amazing guests, we have quite a collection of sounds to listen to. Enjoy listening to everything from Bristol beats to pond soundscapes to raw heartbeat driven noise. Today we have some sounds from a live broadcast of the show at RBL with me drusnoise, then sounds from Xayide, a livestream recording provided by Mort Drew and Grant Smith from the Soundtent collaborative, JacqNoise & Dan Graveyard live set, Zuzana Hamm / FridaY playing live, Andreas Kühne & Paulina Medvedeva, Hendrik Klatte, and closing with another live set by Jeannette Petrik / Chebedajha. Looking forward to another year of sound and conversation. Until next year, see you on the dance floor.

Track listing

drusnoise – There is no separation (live broadcast from RBL) @drusnoise

Xayide – Marginal Disc and ERß @ xayidexadiyei

Soundtent - Jasper Ridge Livestream

https://locus.creacast.com:9443/jasper_ridge_birdcast.mp3 @ mort_drew @sound_camp

JacqNoise & Dan Graveyard – Live performance @jacqnoise @dan.graveyard

Zuzana Hamm / FridaY – Soundtrack to Flora (Live at bitumen lichen) @friday_musik

Andreas Kuhne & Paulina- The Informals II 360 (2023) Live a/v performance with Bobbie Johnson, Phonetic, and Marshall Mandiangu @andreaskuhne_ @p.a.medvedeva

Gregor Dys – mumstakes @gregordys

Hendrik Klatte – Mucus

Jeannette Petrik / Chebedajha – live performance at Schwankhalle Bremen @jeannettepetrik