Category: podcast

Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 13: Up Against the Real with Nadja Millner-Larsen For this episode we talk with Nadja Millner-Larsen about her book Up Against the Real: Black Mask from Art to Action.  “With Up Against the Real, Nadja Millner-Larsen offers the first comprehensive study of the group Black Mask and its acrimonious relationship to…

Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 12: The Subhumans & Punk Historiography with Ian Glasper For this episode we talk with Ian Glasper about his book Silence Is No Reaction: Forty Years of Subhumans. In the conversation we cover broader issues of ‘punk historiography’ and documenting more marginal musical, artistic, and political milieus that one is a…

Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 11: Italian Operaismo with Gigi Roggero This episode of the Minor Compositions podcast is recorded as part of the Ultradependent Public School exhibition at BAK. For this episode we are talking with Gigi Roggero about his book Italian Operaismo: Genealogy, History, Method. In this conversation we cover a range of topics…

Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 10: Autonomia and Art with Jacopo Galimberti This episode is a discussion with Jacopo Galimberi about this book Images of Class: Operaismo, Autonomia and the Visual Arts (1962–1988) “During the 1960s and 1970s, Workerism and Autonomia were prominent Marxist currents. However, it is rarely acknowledged that these movements inspired many visual…

Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 9: Compound Lyricism with Senyawa This episode intersperses a performance by experimental Indonesian doom folk metal band Senyawa (recorded in Folkestone in April 2022) with a discussion with their vocalist and lyricist Rully Shabara. The interview covers topics including his approach to writing lyrics, use of allegory and imagery, and how…

Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 8: After the Internet with Tiziana Terranova For this episode we have a discussion with Tiziana Terranova about her recently released book After the Internet: Digital Networks between Capital and the Common. We cover a range of topics including the shift from the internet as open network to the rise of…

Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 7: Feminism, Punk and the Avant-Garde with Becky Binns For this episode we have a discussion with Becky Binns about her recently released book Gee Vaucher: Beyond punk, feminism and the avant-garde. We cover a a range off topics including Gee’s work in relationship with punk and artistic countercultures, as well…

Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 5: Squatting, Art, and Gentrification with Clarrie Pope and Alan W. Moore For this episode we have a discussion with Clarrie Pope and Alan W Moore around squatting, art, and gentrification, as well as a range of related topics. The idea is to explore these topics, but coming from different angles,…

Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 4: The Weight of the Printed Word with Steve Wright In this episode we have a conversation with Steve Wright, about his book The Weight of the Printed Word: Text, Context and Militancy in Operaismo. In it we discuss the role of print production and document work in the history of…

Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 3: Surrealism and the War on Work with Abigail Susik In this episode we have a conversation with Abigail Susik, about her book Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work. We cover a range of topics including the centrality of work refusal to the history of Surrealism, automatist practices and aesthetic…