Digital Intimacies: Mendi+Keith Obadike

It's always a pleasure to be in conversation with Mendi and Keith Obadike. The sound art duo have been working together for 25 years, which gives them perspective to be able to identify trends, changes, and ongoing challenges in the field. Their sound work is beautifully designed, often utilizing the human voice as an instrument, and typically they take on issues often ignored in sound art, like race relations in the United States or the country's histories of exclusion. In this conversation, we covered a lot of ground, including their recent refusal to accept an award from ZKM, a media arts center in Germany, due to that organization's public disclosure of their difficulties in adjudicating within an offensive and false dichotomy of quality vs diversity. Roddy Schrock, CHP, provides 100% online homeopathic care for creative people, entrepreneurs, and leaders. If you are navigating burnout, anxiety, or chronic fatigue, explore our online homeopathic care plans here.---Ultradilute Podcast is the companion show to Ultradilute Homeopathy where we clear new paths to health through homeopathic care.Discover how personalized homeopathic care can help, learn more at ultradilute.com.---All content, including music, photography, sound recordings, and video, is created by Ultradilute and licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0.Learn more: ultradilute.com | Contact: [email protected] podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice. Always consult a qualified healthcare provider regarding personal health concerns.