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Episode #2 With whom do feminist artists think? How can artistic practices associate different voices and perspectives? In this episode of the Breaking the Spell podcast, we discuss feminist strategies of thinking-with in performing arts - practices of sharing knowledge, transcending the individualistic paradigm of creative work and relating to humans and more-than-humans in art projects. In conversation with Silvia Bottiroli, Charlotte Eifler, Caroline Kapp and Samara Hersch we share our practices thinking-with and explain how those practices are situated in time and space. In the end, we dwell on the notion of discomfort in a collective knowledge creation. Sound intervention for the episode was created by Agata Siniarska and rat milk band. The podcast was created as a harvesting of the Breaking the Spell project curator of the project: Marta Keil podcast hosts: Zuzanna Berendt, Anna Majewska concept of the podcast: Zuzanna Berendt, Marta Keil, Anna Majewska moderation of the conversation: Zuzanna Berendt, Anna Majewska conversers: Silvia Bottiroli, Charlotte Eifler, Caroline Kapp, Samara Hersch sound contributions: Agata Siniarska & rat milk editing: Ola Kuzemko music: Pavla Bastlová (Tokyo Drift)

Episode #4 What type of institutional alignments do artistic practices of thinking-with need? What traces do they leave in institutions when the project is over - if any? How to translate an exception into a condition? The conversation is joined by Marieke De Munck (Viernulvier in Ghent), Thomas Frank (Residenz Schauspiel Leipzig), Grzegorz Reske (InSzPer) - three representatives of performing arts institutions or organisations who hosted and co-produced Breaking the Spell. Additionally, two artists participating in Breaking the Spell proposed sound contributions as their responses to the conversation. The podcast was created as a harvesting of the Breaking the Spell project curator of the project: Marta Keil concept of the podcast: Zuzanna Berendt, Marta Keil, Anna Majewska podcast hosts: Zuzanna Berendt, Anna Majewska moderation of the conversation: Marta Keil conversers: Thomas Frank, Marieke De Munck, Grzegorz Reske sound contributions: Aleksandra Borys, Damla Ekin Tokel (Bodies of Knowledge) editing: Ola Kuzemko music: Pavla Bastlová (Tokyo Drift)

Episode #1 What spells do we need at times when the conditions we live in form a curse that often seems impossible to break? In a conversation featuring Alexandra Borys, Mike Dittrich Frydetzki and Stefanie Wenner we reflect relationship between artistic work and spellcasting, attempt to grasp the impact of more-than-human presences on our being in the world, and to see the language as potentially powerful performative tool. The meeting was recorded during the last gathering of Breaking the Spell, in Viernulvier in Ghent in March 2023. The podcast was created as a harvesting of the Breaking the Spell project curator of the project: Marta Keil concept of the podcast: Zuzanna Berendt, Marta Keil, Anna Majewska podcast hosts: Zuzanna Berendt, Anna Majewska moderation of the conversation: Zuzanna Berendt, Marta Keil conversers: Aleksandra Borys, Mike Dittrich Frydetzki, Stefanie Wenner sound contributionsMartina Hefter, Georgia Ohanesian Nardin, Ingrid Vranken editing: Ola Kuzemko music: Pavla Bastlová (Tokyo Drift)

Episode #3 What is the position of artists and curators from Ukraine and Poland in professional relations with Western partners? How can we build alliances and solidarity? How to break the spell of colonial and auto-colonial practices? What can the Western art world learn from Eastern European artists about decolonization? In this episode we continue the discussion that has started during Breaking the Spell gathering in Warsaw between the participants of the project and members of the “Sunflower” Solidary Community Center. Together with Maria Beburia, Marta Jalowska and Yulia Krivich, we share our experiences of working internationally in the art world and discuss the notion of Eastern European peripherality. In the end, we speculate about decolonial, international alignments that would enable us to solidarize and share resources. The conversation is accompanied by two sound commentaries created by Alicja Czyczel and Agata Maszkiewicz. The podcast was created as a harvesting of the Breaking the Spell project curator of the project: Marta Keil podcast hosts: Zuzanna Berendt, Anna Majewska concept of the podcast: Zuzanna Berendt, Marta Keil, Anna Majewska moderation of the conversation: Anna Majewska conversers: Maria Beburia, Marta Jalowska, Yulia Krivich sound contributions: Alicja Czyczel, Agata Maszkiewicz editing: Ola Kuzemko music: Pavla Bastlová (Tokyo Drift)

„F-E-M-I-N-O-E-N-A-L !“ AmA ohne Maske mit Maren Solty Das imaginierte Porträt einer Schauspieler*in von sich selbst: Mit welcher Szene könnte es beginnen? Was sind wegweisende biografische und berufliche Momente, und was sagen sie sie über die Träume und Ziele eines sich neu bildenden Ensembles? Konzept & Regie: Wiebke Puls Tontechnik & Schnitt: Johann Jürgen Koch, Martin Sraier