The Dialogues Podcast Project

Catalina Gómez with Mick Wilson

Artist and educator Catalina Gómez explores the gap between the Colombian Andes and Nordic context, examining how student mobility transforms understandings of art, knowledge, and identity across cultures. This episode features a dialogue fragment with Professor Mick Wilson—Director of Doctoral Studies at HDK-Valand (University of Gothenburg) and co-chair of the Centre for Art and the Political Imaginary—reflecting on how an early encounter with art created a "space of exception" beyond known limits. This dialogue is a shared reflective practice that invites you to join, using Wilson’s story and Gomez’s own as departure points to consider your formative aesthetic experiences and how they shaped your relation to art, learning, and possibility. Background Brilliant Shining Blip Blops with Chords by bassimat -- https://freesound.org/s/831984/ [https://freesound.org/s/831984/] -- License: Creative Commons 0 The Dialogues Podcast Project is a podcast series produced by students from the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) programme at the HDK-Valand Academy – Art and Design, University of Gothenburg, and published by K103 Gothenburg Student Radio.

Silas Lilo Jensen with Erika Alm

This episode is as excerpt from a longer conversation between Silas Lilo Jensen and Erika Alm discussing body politics in relation to trans and gender-nonconforming bodies. Erika Alm is an associate professor in Gender Studies with a Ph.D. in History of Ideas. Their research explores historical and contemporary discourses on sex and gender. They have a strong commitment to interdisciplinary teaching and consider their scholarly work as part of an network of strategies for change. Silas Lilo Jensen is an artist and activist working with sonic composition and performance, using sounding as a method to disrupt biopolitical regulation of bodies within trans and psychiatric health care. The Dialogues Podcast Project is a podcast series produced by students from the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) programme at the HDK-Valand Academy – Art and Design, University of Gothenburg, and published by K103 Gothenburg Student Radio.

Maria del Mar D'Amato with Chat GPT

Beauty and self- care routines can offer comfort, intimacy and a sense of control, but they also carry silent pressures and expectations on how we should look, feel and improve. This episode reflects on stillness within these rituals and asks what happens when stillness does not aim for further productivity and what can occur in the quiet spaces of our every day routines. Maria del Mar is a visual artist currently a student at HDK Valand's master in Fine Arts, whose work researches rituals, stillness and the everyday objects that shape our daily lives. Chat GPT, Large Language Model and trained expert in delivery of unverified information, joins as a conversational partner and reflective voice. The Dialogues Podcast Project is a podcast series produced by students from the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) programme at the HDK-Valand Academy – Art and Design, University of Gothenburg, and published by K103 Gothenburg Student Radio.

Alexandra Bittarová and Alexandra Papademetriou

How can slowness, unpredictability, and material practice intersect with ideas of degrowth? Through conversation and reflection, we looked at how artistic processes can resist acceleration and open space for alternative ways of working, noticing, and making. Alexandra Bittarová is a student at HDK-Valand Master’s programme in Fine Arts. She is an artist working with process-based sculpture. Her practice explores duration and instability as a strategy. This episode’s guest is Alexandra Papademetriou, a Gothenburg-based artist, researcher, and designer whose work operates within the overlap of ecological inquiry and artistic practice. She investigates how creative processes can act as experimental sites for social and environmental shifts. The Dialogues Podcast Project is a podcast series produced by students from the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) programme at the HDK-Valand Academy – Art and Design, University of Gothenburg, and published by K103 Gothenburg Student Radio.

Shunda Wan with Nina Mangalanayagam

Drawn from a one-hour conversation with artist Nina Mangalanayagam, this podcast collects excerpts on narration, self-positioning, passing, the everyday performance of identity, and more. Nina Mangalanayagam is an artist, researcher, and teacher at HDK-Valand, who works with photography and film. To quote from her website, “[she] explores themes of belonging and hybridity, often using a semi-autobiographical approach. Her research analyses the shifting points of identification she experiences as a mixed heritage subject, to explore the dichotomy of black and white notions of identity.” I’m Shunda Wan. I moved from China to Sweden almost three years ago. I work as a line cook and study in the MFA program at HDK-Valand. My research looks at re-enactment—redoing fellow immigrants’ lived experiences together with them—as a way to explore immigrant life in Sweden and to situate myself through and within what anthropologist Biao Xiang calls the “nearby,” the spacial, social, and cultural sphere around us. ———— For Nina’s works, please visit her website https://www.ninamanga.com/ [https://www.ninamanga.com/] The Dialogues Podcast Project is a podcast series produced by students from the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) programme at the HDK-Valand Academy – Art and Design, University of Gothenburg, and published by K103 Gothenburg Student Radio.