Ep 1: Vessels & Voyages

Listeners Note: This podcast features some discussion of the Transatlantic slave trade and violence against women. Vessels & Voyages, from AGYU’s series Uncontainable Collections: Speculative Futures of Objects, is the first of three conversations exploring the prospective and yet-unknown condition of the might-be through the lens of collections and contemporary art. This episode features the perspective of three critical scholars and artists, including Yvonne Adhiambo-Owuor, Ayana V. Jackson, and Camille Turner. They explore the theme of moving objects and peoples across multiple futures: stories within stories; the sea; floating objects; and shipwrecks as containers of memory, history, and spirits. This podcast series is the third iteration in the Uncontainable Collections Research Project, and invites conversations with scholars, curators, and artists who engage with articulations, expressions, and representations of the (im)possible, the (extra)ordinary, and the (un)imaginable—or speculative—futures that diverse individuals, groups, communities, and societies are envisaging, dreaming of, composing, conjuring, striving for, imagining, and bringing into being. Audio Note: There is some audio distortion for one guest speaker. Links: https://www.si.edu/exhibitions/deep-wake-drexciya-ayana-v-jackson%3Aevent-exhib-6673 https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/159826/yvonne-adhiambo-owuor/ Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/hybridas/open-spaces License code: QBRQKFQBLH3YYZ4O