The Radical Design Podcast

Jane Naylor and Oliver Vodeb: How to Go on an Artstrike?!

The amazing Jane Naylor speaks with Oliver Vodeb about how to go on an Artstrike. Jane reassessed her art practice, went on an Artstrike and developed the concept of *Rt. Find out what this means, and how could you do it yourself. Besides this, we talk about deeper and more nuanced ways on how to distinguish Art from Art in ways that help us see through the BullS*** Art World and what it calls Art. Oh, and one thing we really LOVE: Jane speaks about her work in relation to solidarity and the ephemeral! Enjoy! Visit our website: https://memefest.org/knowledge/memefest-radical-design/ ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

George Petelin and Oliver Vodeb: Dialogue and its Potentials in a Pseudo-Intimate World

Oliver Vodeb talks to George Petelin, author of the chapter on Dialogue in Memfest’s book on Radical Intimacy. They discuss the importance of intimacy for true dialogue to take place and how conditions in contemporary society erode that intimacy or substitute it with forms of pseudo-intimacy. Radical Art and Design face the difficult task of restoring intimate dialogue mediated through technology on a mass scale. Visit our website: https://memefest.org/knowledge/memefest-radical-design/ ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Rachel Bordeleau, Jeanette Hart-Mann, Chrissie Orr and Oliver Vodeb: SeedBroadcast and the Wisdom of the Seeds

What carries more wisdom than the seed? Rachel Bordeleau, Jeanette Hart-Mann and Chrissie Orr collaborate on SeedBroadcast, a transdisciplinary art project, raising the culture of agri-culture and putting the seed in the centre of our relations with the world. In this podcast episode they speak with Oliver Vodeb about the different and intimate dimensions of their work learning from the seed and using the knowledge to empower our understanding and our relations. PODCAST CREDITS: Hosted by: Oliver Vodeb/ Memefest . The podcast is a collaboration between Memefest and Intellect [https://www.intellectbooks.com/]publishers. Music: Thanks to Bait [https://bait2.bandcamp.com/]for their song Property Law. Two best friends meeting seasonally in bucolic surrounds to generate improvised music. Property Law recognises the Indigenous peoples of the world's relationship to land. As in, "we don't own the land. The land owns us." Each of us is only passing through. Empires, Epochs come & go, but the spirit of the land persists. Visit our website: https://memefest.org/knowledge/memefest-radical-design/ ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Kyle Magee and Oliver Vodeb: How to Participate in the Public Sphere

In this conversation, artist and activist Kyle Magee joins Oliver Vodeb to explore what it means to act publicly—through subvertising, image intervention, and sustained political engagement within a media landscape dominated by corporate power. Together, they ask: what does genuine participation in the public sphere look like today? Noone does anti- advertising activism like Kyle Magee. And we at Memefest should know. Visit our website: https://memefest.org/knowledge/memefest-radical-design/ ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Daniel Marcus and Oliver Vodeb: Capitalism's Addictions

American scholar Daniel Marcus and Memefest curator Oliver Vodeb explore the deep ties between capitalism and addiction from the early 20th century to today. They show how capitalism has not only shaped addiction but has actively relied on it as a strategy for growth. Drawing on their chapter “Capitalism’s Addictions” in the book Radical Intimacies, they explain how addiction became capitalism’s answer to a fundamental contradiction: how to keep selling when people don’t need more stuff. From planned obsolescence during the Great Depression to today’s endless cycle of food, technology, and drugs designed to hook us, they trace how pleasure and dependency became central to capitalist expansion. Design plays a crucial role in this story: born within capitalism, it has often been deployed to exploit our vulnerabilities and create new forms of craving. This conversation unpacks how addiction has been used to colonise intimacy itself — and why the rise of AI might push these logics into even more intimate parts of our lives. The episode closes by asking: can Radical Intimacies offer a way out? There is much more in the original written chapter, and If you want to read the whole chapter in Radical Intimacies, Designing Non-Extractive Relationalities, find more about the book: here [https://memefest.org/publishing/radical-Intimacies/].   PODCAST CREDITS: Hosted by: Oliver Vodeb/ Memefest . The podcast is a collaboration between Memefest and Intellect [https://www.intellectbooks.com/]publishers. Music: Thanks to Bait [https://bait2.bandcamp.com/]for their song Property Law. Two best friends meeting seasonally in bucolic surrounds to generate improvised music. Property Law recognises the Indigenous peoples of the world's relationship to land. As in, "we don't own the land. The land owns us." Each of us is only passing through. Empires, Epochs come & go, but the spirit of the land persists. Visit our website: https://memefest.org/knowledge/memefest-radical-design/ ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.