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This episode is a conversation between Edgar Schmitz and Behzad Khosravi Noori. Edgar works on and through dispersed materialities of the choreographic, and distributed forms of (in-)animacy. He is the founder of the CHOREOGRAPHIC and ANIMATE ASSEMBLY research clusters and, director of the Art Research Programme at Goldsmiths, University of London. Behzad is an artist, writer, educator, playground builder, and necromancer. His research-based practice includes films and installations as well as archival studies. He is a professor in practice at Habib University in Karachi. 

This conversation was recorded in a studio in central London. Edgar and Behzad reflect on their joint interest in the art of necromancy as a metaphorical and methodological tool to reinterpret history. 

They discuss Behzad’s films on this topic and explore themes like the political distribution of the sensible, decolonisation, the incompleteness of history, and the labour involved in memorialising the past. 

This series is produced and edited by Hester Cant.

The series is co-curated by Emma McCormick-Goodhart and Martin Hargreaves, with concept and direction by Martin Hargreaves and Izzy Galbraith.

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This episode is a conversation between the three members of the curatorial and research initiative Counter Encounters; Laura Huertas Millán, Onyeka Igwe & Rachael Rakes. Together they engage forms of anti and alter ethnographies in cinema and contemporary art. Laura is a Colombian artist and filmmaker based in Brussels, Onyeka is a London born and based moving image artist and researcher, and Rachael is a curator and writer from the US.

You will hear the group reflect on their recent collaborative work called Ritual Unions, held at Netwerk Aalst in Belgium. The program was designed around filmmaker Maya Deren's work, titled 'Ritual and Transfigured Time'. In the conversation they also explore themes of ethnography, movement, history, and ritual. And they discuss where they would like to take their collective practice in the future.

This series is produced and edited by Hester Cant.

The series is co-curated by Emma McCormick-Goodhart and Martin Hargreaves, with concept and direction by Martin Hargreaves and Izzy Galbraith.

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This episode is a conversation between Leo Boix and Pablo Bronstein, recorded in their home in East London. Leo is a poet, translator and teacher, writing from multiple identities on the complexities of creative and cultural translations. Pablo is an artist whose work spans prints and drawings to choreography and performance. His focus is on style, spatial politics and queerness. In this episode, Leo and Pablo talk about their personal and professional relationship and how their practices influence each other.

This series is produced and edited by Hester Cant.

The series is co-curated by Emma McCormick-Goodhart and Martin Hargreaves, with concept and direction by Martin Hargreaves and Izzy Galbraith.

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Arjuna Neuman is an artist, filmmaker, and writer who works with the essay form in a multi-perspectival and mobile approach where the ‘essay’ is inherently future-oriented and experimental. Denise Ferreira da Silva is a philosopher, writer and filmmaker, whose practices reflect and speculate on questions crucial to contemporary philosophy, political theory, black thought, feminist thought, and historical materialism. In this episode, Arjuna and Denise plan the next film in their Elemental Cinema series, centred on fire as both combustion and a site for conspiratorial gathering. They discuss their ongoing collaboration, rebellion against the return of fascism, and the necessary optimism of the imagination that can ignite hope in darkened times.

This series is produced and edited by Hester Cant.

The series is co-curated by Emma McCormick-Goodhart and Martin Hargreaves, with concept and direction by Martin Hargreaves and Izzy Galbraith.

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In this episode, Mette and Chrysa talk about their identities as performers and choreographers. They also talk about translation in their practices, and the politics of authorship in choreography and dance. 

Mette is a choreographer and performer, and she co-founded the publishing house Varamo Press. Much of Mette's work focuses on choreography as writing. Chrysa Parkinson is a dancer and professor of dance at Stockholm University of the Arts, and her current research project is titled Authorship, Ownership and Control Dancer's Roles and Materials.

The transcript and bibliography for this episode can be found on the Rose Choreographic School Website 

This series is produced and edited by Hester Cant.

The series is co-curated by Emma McCormick-Goodhart and Martin Hargreaves, with concept and direction by Martin Hargreaves and Izzy Galbraith.

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This episode is a conversation between Andros Zins-Browne and Prem Krishnamurthy in a studio in New York City. Andros’s work consists of live and hybrid environments at the intersection between installation, performance and conceptual dance and Prem runs an artist-organised group called the Department of Transformation, which looks at art as an agent of transformation. The conversation explores important teachers in their lives, processes of collaboration and hosting as part of their practices in design and choreography.

This series is produced and edited by Hester Cant.

The series is co-curated by Emma McCormick-Goodhart and Martin Hargreaves, with concept and direction by Martin Hargreaves and Izzy Galbraith.

Rose Choreographic School Website 

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