For today’s episode, I actually got to travel to Stockholm for an in-person chat with Paula Urbano, an artist, scenographer, researcher, and producer! We talk about her work at the Multicultural Center in Botkyrka, before getting into a little bit of the history of migration in Sweden, and her (purposefully non-professional) love of music. Paula Urbano works mainly with video, installations and sculpture revolving around existential questions in relation to migration and location in her artistic practice. She currently works as a producer at the Multicultural center in Botkyrka. She is also an artistic researcher and has previously received the grant for Artistic Research and Development in 2015. She received her MFA from Konstfack (2008) and Post-graduate diploma in Architecture and City Planning from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (2015). Recently, she worked as a scenographer at Gottsunda Dans och Teater and has been working on a public art commision in Uppsala! Her solo show, Collect and (re)connect, at Sundsvall Museum runs September 9th through November 26th, 2023. If you want to find her on Instagram, she’s at @paulaurbano. You can see more of her work on her website, paulaurbano.com.