Issue 18 | March 2024
ISSUE 18 | MARCH 2024
Welcome to the new year, and the March 2024 edition of The Miaaw Monthly which provides a few pointers to things you might like to explore, including (but not limited to) our podcasts.
These represent one way to have (hopefully) interesting conversations about some of the things we care about. Please spread the word as widely as you can, and encourage people to subscribe to The Miaaw Monthly.
If you have anything that you want to include in The Miaaw Monthly, or discuss in the podcasts, then please email us at monthly@miaaw.net and we will be happy to collaborate.
TODAY'S PODCAST
Right now you can hear Episode 32 of the Common Practice series. Sophie reports back from a workshop about rest, care and the ‘politics of exhaustion’ at the MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Italy where she talks with Fabiola Fiocco who organised the workshop in collaboration with the Arts Module of the Master in Gender Studies (Roma Tre University).
THE MARCH PODCASTS
Every Friday a podcast appears at approximately 12:12 Helsinki time (or 10:12 UTC, fact fans). Sometimes we get so eager that they appear an hour or two early to allow for any lag across the internet. Mostly they arrive on time. With that in mind, here are the podcasts that will drop in February.
Friday March 1: Meanwhile in an Abandoned Warehouse | Episode 71
Following up the information we gleaned from the replies you sent to last month’s quick quiz, Owen Kelly continues his exploration of tools we can trust, asking whether or not we should make the effort to learn tools to replace those we have already grown familiar with. Do we actually gain anything from switching from Microsoft Office or Google Docs to LibreOffice, except a kind of hip smugness?
Friday March 8: Ways of Listening | Episode 5
In the fifth episode of Ways of Listening, artist Jody Wood talks to Hannah Kemp-Welch about listening as a practice of care - where to care is not to cure.
Jody advocates for participatory ‘opt in’ structures for social practice art rather than co-creation, noting the complexity of human desires and potential for conflicting agendas.
During the conversation she goes on to question the expectations placed on artists to solve social issues.
Friday March 15: A Culture of Possibility | Episode 38
Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso talk with Sebastian Ruth, Founder & Artistic Director and Resident Musician at CommunityMusicworks in Providence, Rhode Island.
CMW is a “community-based organization that uses music education and performance as a vehicle to build lasting and meaningful relationships between children, families, and professional musicians.”
Friday March 22: Common Practice | Episode 32
Sophie Hope brings together a group of people connected to the MA Art and Social Practice, run by the University of Highlands and Islands in Scotland.
Founder Roxane Permar, two teachers, Siún Carden and Nicole Naismith and a former student, Mara Marxt Lewis discuss this unique postgraduate programme, its history, approach and what it’s like to teach and study on the course.
Friday March 29: Friday Number 5 | Episode 12
Oh no! We have five Fridays in March and so we begin this year’s collection of Friday Number 5.
Each year we have a theme and this year we will look at the world of podcasting. What else could you be listening to, once you have finished your weekly dose of Miaaw? We look at some podcasts with which we feel an affinity, and provide complete episodes or chunky excerpts for your listening pleasure.
LISTENING
All our podcasts are available from Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, Overcast, RadioPublic, Soundcloud, Spotify, and Stitcher.
You can also listen to them at the miaaw.net website where you will find additional links, notes, and references accompanying each episode. You will also find a full archive of all the previous podcasts there.
OFF SITE
Being in Rotterdam and on the web
Amy, Anamaria and Jasmina, the team at ICAF have now released the full programme and (free) ticket release announcement for MINI ICAF, the smaller-scale, one-day event that will be taking place on the afternoon and evening of Wednesday 20 March 2024.
Alongside this they have shared two updates regarding ICAF resources. These are the launch of our ICAF Publication The Sound of Change, and digital release of Dr. Theron Schmidt’s lecture The Art of Community, as part of ICAF NWE MKRS 2023.
Creative Bureaucracy
You may well be asking yourself: when will the Digital Kick-Off Day for the annual Creative Bureaucracy Festival in Berlin take place?
The answer, you will be pleased to learn: 21 March 2024.
You can register for free to >watch the livestream</a from a sitting room near you!
Helsinki Design Week
“Design is still sadly often seen as a surface layer, a visual addition at the end of projects. Although beauty and harmony are necessities, there is a huge untapped, structural power of change in the design industry”, says Helsinki Design Week’s Programme Director Anni Korkman.
She writes that “The world needs a radical redesign and reconstruction. In September, Helsinki Design Week invites not only the entire design community, but also creators from other fields to participate in the discussion. In addition to designers and architects, we need engineers, researchers, entrepreneurs, economists and artists. Helsinki Design Week’s goal is to make the relationship of all these fields to design visible – and then to strengthen this relationship. Talking about the transformative forces of design among ourselves goes nowhere. Helsinki Design Week believes in cooperation.”
Fartographics
Thanks to a hint we found in a newsletter by Warren Ellis, we can confidently tell you that you can now download a copy of the debut issue of the best Croatian comics anothology, Farto, for a price of your own choosing (which includes the possibility of not paying anything at all).
The comic contains all new stories by Matej Stić, Goran Sudžuka, Valentina Briški, Fran Strukan, Robert Solanović and Ive Svorcina - all waiting for an unsuspecting reader!
Currently two English issues are available at a pay-your-own-price while 4 are available in Croatian.
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