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PODCASTS
In 2021, we launched the SBC Podcast. As with all of our public programs, we want to develop this medium as a way to expand the conversation around contemporary art and share it with the public. While the format of the episodes is fluid, their content relates to the exhibitions presented in our programming. You can learn more about the different episodes by consulting the links below.
00:00 / 1:02:14
26.08.2025
EP 5
In this new episode of SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art’s podcast series, Michèle Magema engages in conversation with Nicolas Premier and Cécilia Bracmort, the artist and curator, respectively, of the exhibition Africa is the Future: Echoes and Responses Together, they reflect on the exhibition, which took place at SBC from September 13 to November 9, 2024, and delve deeper into the themes central to the artist’s practice.
The music excerpts on this podcast are taken from Nicolas Premier's video work Africa is the Future (2020).
00:00 / 46:21
02.04.2022
EP 4
As part of the exhibition Chroniques: Résonances, curated by the Ex Teresa Arte Actual Museum team, students from the course Decoloniality as Artistic Practice (UQAM), led by Romeo Gongora, co-produced this episode. Momo Kiss, Rose Mila Chad, Chloé Lafrenière, and Noelia Pacheco-Bascopé offer a deconstructed podcast with interpretations and experiments around the theme of time, punctuated by collective breathing to mark transitions.
00:00 / 24:55
02.11.2021
EP 3 (Pt. 4)
José Merced Velazquez, or Tatá Meche, was born and lives in Cherán, Michoacan, Mexico. He is a longtime activist and cultural worker with a political career in the public sector. A member of the Carriers of the New Purhépecha Fire of Cherán, he advised the first Concejo Mayor de Gobierno Comunal in 2014. He formerly worked for the Secretaria de Los Pueblos Indígenas and now leads the Centro de Documentación y Estudios del Pueblo Purhépecha.
00:00 / 31:32
26.10.2021
EP 3 (Pt. 3)
This episode features a conversation between artist Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa and writer Wingston González, both based in Guatemala City. Ramírez-Figueroa’s interdisciplinary practice explores memory, loss, and cultural resistance. González is a celebrated poet whose work crosses into performance, music, and visual arts. Together, they reflect on history, language, and creative process.
00:00 / 12:06
19.10.2021
EP 3 (Pt. 2)
In this second episode, Michele Fiedler speaks with Francisca Duran, an experimental media artist whose work explores history, memory, and violence. Exiled from Chile after the 1973 military coup, her practice centres on absence and loss. Using film, photography, and digital media, she reassembles image and sound to expose the tactile nature of ephemeral materials. Her work has been shown internationally in festivals and exhibitions.
00:00 / 10:18
12.10.2021
EP 3 (Pt. 1) *Bonus*
Pour tes chaînes et ta gaine, pour ta poitrine en porcelaine (2021) is an audio work by Colombian-Canadian artist Helena Martin Franco. Subtitled A Jaculatory Prayer from Corazón Desfasado for Visual, Media, Multidisciplinary, and Interdisciplinary Artists and More, it blends autofiction, feminist reflection, and multilingual narration (by the artist and Google Translate), set to Agnus Vibrateur (2019) by Corazón Desfasado.
00:00 / 39:35
12.10.2021
EP 3 (Pt. 1)
This episode features curator Michele Fiedler Fuentes in conversation with artist Victor Arroyo, followed by a reading of his exchange with Purhépecha activist Tatá Meche. Arroyo’s research-driven video practice explores place, memory, and geopolitics through cinema and installation. Tatá Meche is a longtime cultural worker from Cherán, Mexico, dedicated to Indigenous governance and community documentation.
00:00 / 47:06
25.09.2021
EP 2
As part of SBC’s public programming for the exhibition Resistencia. Perú, 1970–1975 by Carlos Ferrand Zavala, curator Zoë Tousignant was invited to join the artist in conversation. The discussion was led by Nuria Carton de Grammont, Director of SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art.
00:00 / 15:07
21.08.2021
EP 1
As part of SBC’s public programming for Infra— by Malena Szlam, researcher Jessica Mulvogue reflects on the artist’s work. In this audio piece, she explores how Malena’s films and photomontages invite viewers to imagine alternate worlds, beyond human perception. Jessica recently completed postdoctoral research on leisure at the University of Freiburg and holds a PhD in Cinema and Media Studies from York University.
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