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Tomorrow is the Problem: A Podcast by Knight Foundation Art + Research Center at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami

Tomorrow is the Problem: A Podcast by Knight Foundation Art + Research Center at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami

By ICA Miami

Welcome to “Tomorrow is the Problem,” a new podcast from the Knight Foundation Art + Research Center at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Each season, join Dr. Donna Honarpisheh as she explores the hidden meanings behind everyday phenomena in an effort to better understand the most urgent cultural issues of our time.
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16: Hervé Télémaque: Rituals of the Artist

Tomorrow is the Problem: A Podcast by Knight Foundation Art + Research Center at the Institute of Contemporary Art, MiamiOct 03, 2023

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16: Hervé Télémaque: Rituals of the Artist

16: Hervé Télémaque: Rituals of the Artist

This last episode of the season is dedicated to a singular artist whose layered portrayal and use of humor to relate to issues of belonging, home, racism, and brutality are part of a lifelong dedication to telling stories.
Oct 03, 202327:34
15: Haiti in the Contemporary Imagination

15: Haiti in the Contemporary Imagination

Haiti’s relationship to time goes back and forth along a spiraling line that repeated patterns while identifying them. Artists have long played a role in calling out failings and offering paths to rectifying trajectories.

In the face of mounting crises, who will listen to the voices of the past and the call for home-grown resilience?
Sep 26, 202334:00
14: Symbols of the Rebellion: The Black Jacobins and the Haitian Revolution

14: Symbols of the Rebellion: The Black Jacobins and the Haitian Revolution

The fractures left by inside and outside forces following Haiti’s double revolution against racial slavery and colonialism are still felt today. Analyzing history through a contemporary interpretive lens empowers a nuanced narrative that informs the present moment.

It also reminds the present of the potential of revolution.
Sep 19, 202329:56
13: Little Haiti: Art Narrates the Change

13: Little Haiti: Art Narrates the Change

Haiti has had a definite role in shaping the Miami cultural and physical landscape. As we explore the growing root system that gives rise to the singular cultural hub that is Miami, we dive into both its diasporic past and the climate changes its future is signaling.
Sep 12, 202334:29
12: Art as Trance: Lucy Bull and Psychedelic Countercultures

12: Art as Trance: Lucy Bull and Psychedelic Countercultures

Art functions as a perception prism, aiming to divert and change how we experience our world. As psychedelics take root in white America, an appropriation shift occurs.

From meditating with paintings, to representations of altered states, we probe the nature of the relationship of the artist with themselves and with the viewer and finally between art and our senses.
May 15, 202328:27
10: Rituals of Transformation: Betye Saar and Black Feminist Art

10: Rituals of Transformation: Betye Saar and Black Feminist Art

From a young age, Betye Saar collected objects as a form of ritual, to hone their energy and activate their spirit. To protect and potentialize them.

Today’s episode explores ritual as a methodology for healing and power. From the ritualization of Betye Saar’s installation sites to the reclamation of the black body by Krista Franklin we follow, and deconstruct the Brookes Ship.
May 15, 202333:35
11: A Lightning Stroke: The Poetic Vision of Etel Adnan

11: A Lightning Stroke: The Poetic Vision of Etel Adnan

Etel Adnan’s art practice exists outside of traditional notions of time and spaces. She paints and writes a broader objective view of the cosmos all while wrestling with the everyday.

Today’s episode explodes out of time and follows repetition and meditation rituals as anchors for the therapeutic process. From letting go of the written word, to painting, to reclaiming a voice amid the chaos of war, we look at Etel Adnan.
May 15, 202332:40
09: The Border Between Art and Ritual

09: The Border Between Art and Ritual

With the African Diaspora came Yoruba, Kongo, the Orishas in their richly pluralistic forms as well as a great many other cultural and spiritual influences.
From ancestral means of worship to the blurry lines between art and ritual, two cuban artists share their experience of Santeria and ritualistic practices in their art, community, legacies and timelines.
May 15, 202327:06
05: Deep Sounds

05: Deep Sounds

The somatic experience of sound is inspected from its potential for violence and torture to the transcendence of healing, by way of its actual physical form.

A discussion on the ambiguity of the human relationship with sound through science, technology, and spirituality.
Sep 13, 202231:49
07: Jazz as a Critical Way of Life

07: Jazz as a Critical Way of Life

Improvisation is the shaping force of jazz, but as it shapes jazz it also structures community, and enables resistance.
Today’s episode explores where jazz finds its roots and how far it sends its shoots.
Sep 13, 202235:48
08: On Listening as an Ethical Practice

08: On Listening as an Ethical Practice

For our season finale we offer hot, crunchy, gooey sounds!

We discuss the ethics of sound and how the old lexicons of sound have trained our cognitive biases to hear in racialized, gendered, and classist terms.
Sep 13, 202236:29
06: Sounds of Miami

06: Sounds of Miami

A mixtape of Miami unicity, History, future, culture, losses, and rebuildings.
Sep 13, 202230:26
04: Rising Tides

04: Rising Tides

With thousands of years of experience in land stewardship, indigenous communities—more specifically, their everyday relationship with the ocean as a site of knowing—provide a radical alternative to the dominant cultural response to the ongoing climate crisis. For the final episode of our first season, University of Hawai'i professor Candace Fujikane and Native American scholar Dina Gilio-Whitaker explore how some groups are turning to indigenous traditions bound to the sea to help overcome cultural anxieties about sea-level rise and climate change.
Jul 18, 202233:31
03: Transoceanic Relations

03: Transoceanic Relations

Using examples of racial displacement and violence in both the Mediterranean Sea and Florida Straits as points of departure, scholars SA Smythe and Edwige Danticat reveal the ways in which states construct the rhetorical “crisis” of mass migration, a practice rooted in white supremacy and colonial ideologies.
Jul 18, 202227:56
02: The Sea Is Future

02: The Sea Is Future

Since the sea isn't bound to land-based ideas of space and time, it can hold vital counternarratives, as evidenced by Drexciya’s nautical Afrofuturism and their enduring appeal. Today we explore the inspired work of Detroit-based techno group Drexciya, whose innovative electronic sounds are matched only by their imaginative underwater world-building. Special guests include visual artist Abdul Qaddim Haqq, arts activist DeForrest Brown Jr, and scholar Katherine McKittrick.
Jul 18, 202234:15
01: The Sea is History

01: The Sea is History

For our very first episode of “Tomorrow is the Problem,” we explore the sea as a site that carries a collective memory of violence, an underwater collector of identities and meanings obscured by time and cultural erasure. Together with archaeologists Ayana Flewellen and Justin Dunnavant alongside Master Diver and Marine Biology Ph.D. student Kelsey Sapp, we probe the relationship between the sea, its history, and the ongoing ecological impact of contemporary culture.
Jul 18, 202230:21