There, there is proposed to be featured on lumbung radio and is planned to be launched in the fall of 2023. The podcast is defined as a listening experience that explores cultural practices of radical inclusion and openness to various voices and perspectives driven by the notion of solidarity and care while addressing complex topics of migration, struggles under oppressive regimes (institutional, social, and political), and surviving under the conditions of climate change and late capitalism. Given that these downing paradigms overlap, the project finds its positionality on terrains of what could be referred to as “optimism in despair.” With the podcast, we hope to create a virtual space where productive discussions and artistic experiments could drive constructive forms of gaining agency and participation/ taking political action. With various interpretations at hand, the podcast of radical openness to diverse voices and stories engages with the following: 1) There, there – as a form of repetition and the power of sonic expression – is open to various contributions through sound pieces, sonic arts, field recordings, sonic explorations, and commentaries. 2) There, there – as a temporal aspect and projection of the future driven by “optimism in/over despair” – is open to conversations and reflections on forms of futurity. 3) There, there – as a reference to spatial, planetary, and geographic conditions – is open to stories and explorations about migration and transitioning. 4) There, there – as a form of relational work and practices of care – addresses participatory forms of engagement as a form of decolonial project, immanent critique, and decolonial thinking through art and practice. On a regular basis, There, there plans to release podcasts in contrasting formats (addressing specific interpretations of “There, there” mentioned above). This is aligned with the lumbung radio’s values by proposing the format of radical openness, with only one predicament of accentuating care and solidarity notions. By thinking and testing non-hierarchical formats of various formats for experience sharing and knowledge dissemination, we hope to learn through practice. This podcast attempts this project of commoning, sharing, and engaging with changes through action and agency. Driven by all the values mentioned above, the project also incorporates various local and trans-local sub-programs: collaborations, community workshops, shared listening sessions, educational projects, and more.

The release of There,there podcasts will be announced here and on the lumbung radio website. We are part of the lumbung inter-local online community, therefore a few words about them: lumbung Radio is an inter-local online community radio part of documenta fifteen. It’s an open online broadcast that comprises of an inter-local network of distinct radios and audio practices. It operates in no specific time zones, and streams multiple languages, music, and art. Each participating radio station depends on its own means of production, way of thinking, learning, and sharing. lumbung Radio operates as a decentralized network of nodes that uses internet without its hegemonic agency. The intention is producing an audiophonic common space built on the multiplication of the existing practices of its contributors.

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