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Foreignness and Friendship
by Morten Ranum
A radio podcast talk show experiment available on Libsyn, Spotify and YouTube with reportage, reviews, conversations with artists & activists and work-in-progress. New episode every first Tuesday of the month.
Episodes
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Sorgens øjeblikke #1: Tilskuer til sit eget liv (Dansk)
Tilskuer til sit eget liv I denne serie undersøger jeg sorgen, smerten ved at miste. Med udgangspunkt i min fars død, men ikke kun. Også spirituelle øjeblikke med glæde, drømme og kærlighed. Hver gang små fragmenter fra hverdagen, pludselig opstået, uventet - et øjeblik. Her i den første om…
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Essay #6 - Henning 80 år - genudsendelse (Dansk)
Season I, 3 - Episode 3 - uddrag I anledningen af at min far ville have fyldt 84 år på denne dag, den 13.juli, genudsendes min tale til ham fra 2021. Dengang introduceret på følgende måde: "Finally we will congratulate an 80 year's old man on his birthday. This man is also my father. The private...
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Essay #5: Alt om min far (Dansk)
Alt om min far Min far er død. Jeg genopfører her min tale til min far og mindet om ham, hvordan han lever videre, holdt ved gravøllet på Restaurant Alfa i Vejen, og digte af Piet Hein fremført ved bisættelsesceremonien lørdag den 24.maj. Min far døde om morgenen torsdag den 15. maj 2025, to...
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Poetry #1: Hvidt lys (Dansk)
Hvidt lys Et endnu ikke afsluttet langdigt inspireret af systemisk vold. Systemerne har mange navne, men de er alle sammen kun interesseret i deres egen overlevelse, og det enkelte menneske kun en brik i et større spil. Det gælder om ikke at forsvinde i systemets logik. Udsendelsen er publiceret…
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Essay #4: Kontinental fornuft?
Kontinental fornuft? I mere end 10 år har jeg sat spørgsmålstegn ved det kontinentale, kontinentale begreber og forestillingen om Afrika og om Europa. Jeg opfatter det som koloniale fantasier. Hvis vi fortsætter med at bruge dem, gør vi os også skyldige i at fortsætte historisk produceret…
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Real Sound Recording #1: Stellenbosch Triennale 2025 (Dansk)
Stellenbosch Triennale 2025 Vi præsenterer her en helt ny serie, der egentlig blot næsten uden filter tilbyder reallydsoptagelser "on the rocks". I denne første udgave befinder vi os på Stellenbosch Triennale i Sydafrika. Ind imellem krydret med nogle få betragtninger for at give kontekst, men…
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Conversation #20: Khanyisile Mbongwa, Stellenbosch Triennale, South Africa (English)
Conversation with Khanyisile Mbongwa Khanyisile Mbongwa is the chief curator of the Stellenbosch Triennale, who takes place for the second time this year. It runs until 30th of April 2025 in Oude Libertas, Rubert Museum and Stellenbosch University Museum in Stellenbosch, an hours drive from Cape...
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Conversation #19: Kobus Moolman, Cape Town, South Africa (English)
Conversation with Kobus Moolman In this conversation Morten Ranum meet Kobus Moolman. Three years ago Morten Ranum published a translation of Kobus Moolman's long-poem "All and Everything". They meet in Cape Town for the first time, and Kobus Moolman had just the day before launched his new…
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December 2024: 15 dage i Dakar (Dansk)
Sæson VII, 3 - Episode 35 Der er ridser i vinylen, når det kommer til vores betragtninger om moderne kunst.. Endnu engang oplever vi at tekstil og design står øverst på dagsordenen – en bekræftelse af at håndværket og det taktile manifesterer sin position i den moderne kunsts centrum, men...
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November 2024: A Lost Recording (English)
Season VII, 2 - Episode 34 Morten Ranum has submitted an essay with the title "The Lost Rrecording of Uhuru Phalafala" to New Contrast Literary Magazine in South Africa. In this podcast you can listen to him reading it. The title is somewhat a weird one. As the title reveals this was not the...
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Oktober 2024: Kunsten at have en samtale, Open Book Festival, Cape Town, South Africa (Dansk/English)
Sæson VII, 1 - Episode 33 Indhold: 00:00 Intro 02:38 Abstrakt 03:58 Kunsten at have en samtale 13:28 Dag I 14:53 Decolonising the Palestinian Mind 26:08 Dag II 30:00 Dag III 34:20 The Lost Recording of Uhuru Phalafala 38:52 Johannesburg 44:15 Søndag på Bagsværd Sø 47:45 Outro Det var meningen, at...
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Conversation #18: Karen Jennings (South Africa), Open Book 2024, Cape Town (English)
Conversation with Karen Jennings We present a conversation between Karen Jennings and Morten Ranum. Karen Jennings is based in Cape Town. She has published several novels. The most recent is Crooked Seeds. The conversation with Karen Jennings took place in Homecoming Centre in District Six in…
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Conversation #17: Shubnum Khan (South Africa), Open Book 2024, Cape Town (English)
Conversation with Shubnum Khan During Open Book Festival in Cape Town we meet the Durban based South African author Shubnum Khan for a conversation about writing, literature and her most recent novel "The Lost Love of Akbar Manzil". The conversation with Shubnum Khan took place in Homecoming…
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Conversation #16: Mazen Maarouf, Louisiana Literature 2019 (English)
Conversation with Mazen Maarouf In 2019 Morten Ranum participated in the festival Louisiana Literature in Louisiana Museum in Humlebæk north of Copenhagen and had a conversation with the Palestinian author Mazen Maaarouf. Maarouf lives in Reykjavik , Island. His collection of short stories...
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Conversation #15: Rodrigo Hasbún, LiteratureXchange 2018 (English/Dansk)
Conversation with Rodrigo Hasbún In 2018 Morten Ranum participated in the festival LitertureXchange in Aarhus and had a conversation with the Bolivian author Rodrigo Hasbún. His book "Affekter" (Los Afectos) had just been published in Danish translation by Jensen & Dalgaard. Morten Ranum wrote a...
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Conversation #14: José Eduardo Agualusa, LiteratureXchange 2018 (English/Dansk)
Conversation with José Eduardo Agualusa Our longtime and loyal member of staff Morten Ranum always participated in the festival LitertureXchange in Aarhus, but in the recent years he seems to have taken a break from the festival. Maybe it is time to go back to the middle Jutland provincial town,...
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Juni 2024: Lyd og litteratur (Dansk)
Sæson VI, 4 - Episode 32 Indhold: 00:00 Intro 02:38 Abstrakt 05:00 Lyd og litteratur 12:10 Afbrydelse I: Refugiets DNA 18:55 Fra tekst til lyd 22:23 Afbrydelse II: Valg i Sydafrika 28:20 Lyden, stemmen og sproget 35:48 Afbrydelse III: Sydafrikas politiske fremtid 38:10 Lyden som pause 40:30 Outro...
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Maj 2024: Biennale di Venezia, Venedig, Italien (Dansk)
Sæson VI, 3 - Episode 31 Indhold: 0:00:00 Intro 0:02:38 Venedig 0:11:26 Pressekonference 0:22:27 Tekstil og det taktile 0:37:50 Kunsten kan vente 0:41:44 South African Pavilion 1:03:03 Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot 1:06:48 Den kuraterede udstilling forfra og bagfra 1:56:26 Outro I denne maraton...
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Conversation #13: José Hendo, Ugandan Pavilion. Venice Biennale 2024 (English)
Conversation with José Hendo from Uganda In the Venice Biennale we found the Ugandan Pavilion and had a conversation with one of the artists. It is again centered around textile, but this time a different kind of textile. The conversation took place in Venice on Thursday 18th of April 2024 in the...
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April 2024: Oversættelser (Dansk)
Sæson VI, 2 - Episode 30 Indhold: 00:00 Intro 02:38 Resume 04:08 Oversættelser 33:35 Outro I denne måned reserverer vi pladsen til at tale om oversættelse af litteratur. Det vil dels dreje sig om langdigtet "Alt og Alting" oversat til dansk af Morten Ranum, skrevet af Kobus Moolman fra Sydafrika,...
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Reportage #6: Alberto Giacometti, Statens Museum for Kunst (Dansk)
Reportage fra Statens Museum for Kunst om Alberto Giacometti Netop hjemkommet fra Cape Town, hvor vi endnu engang havde haft samtaler om, hvordan tekstil indtager en mere central plads i samtidskunsten, besøgte vi Statens Museum for Kunst i København, som lige nu viser den overbevisende…
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March 2024: Ghosts of Demolition and Contemporary Art (English)
Season VI, 1 - Episode 29 Content: 00:00 Intro 00:55 Abstract 03:55 Ghosts of Demolition and Contemporary Art 38:38 Outro We are in Cape Town to attend Cape Town Art Fair. It is the missing link in a longer chain of larger art exhibitions around the world – without Cape Town we cannot really...
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Conversation #12: On Textile and Clay, Cape Town Art Fair, South Africa (English)
Conversations with Art Formes (Cape Town) and No Man's Art Gallerry (Amsterdam) In Cape Town, South Africa we once again encountered textile - but also clay. In two separate conversaations with two very different galleries we exchange ideas about two materials and their specific tactility. The...
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Conversation #11: Laura Vincenti, Cape Town Art Fair, South Africa (English)
Conversation between Laura Vincenti and Morten Ranum We have been in Cape Twon, South Africa to participate in Cape Town Art Fair. The conversation took place a couple of days before the art fair on February 13th, 2024. We met her in Cape Town International Convention Center for a conversation...
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December 2023: Aké Arts and Book Festival i Lagos, Nigeria (Dansk)
Sæson V, 4 - Episode 28 Indhold: 00:00 Intro 02:36 Abstrakt 06:31 Lagos, uge 1 26:29 Aké Art and Book Festival 52:47 Outro Vi befinder os nu i midten af den kontinentale fornuft. Her i Lagos bliver vi mindet om Kampala in the old days, selvom vi bestræber os på ikke at sammenligne. Alligevel slår...
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Conversation #10: Lola Shoneyin (Lagos, Nigeria), Aké Arts and Book Festival (English)
Conversation between Lola Shoneyin and Morten Ranum We are in Lagos, Nigeria to participate in Aké Arts and Book Festival. Prior to the festival we have a conversation with the festival director Lola Shoneyin, Nigerian poet and author. The conversation begins with snaopshots from the press...
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November 2023: Hald Improvisationer (Dansk/English)
Sæson V, 3 - Episode 27 Indhold: 00:00 Intro 02:38 Abstrakt 05:40 Improvisationer over Hald Sø 40:30 Homeage to Palestine (English) 47:30 Improvisationer (fortsat) 87:25 Outro I denne meget lange podcast serverer vi en række improvisationer opstået under vandringer langs Hald Sø. Ind imellem...
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Conversation #9: Polo Moji & Laura Nkola-Wenz (Cape Town, South Africa), Open Book Festival 2023 (English)
Mapping Literary Cities - or the return of geography During Open Book Festival in September 2023 in Cape Town we had a conversation about the cross disciplinary "African Literary Cities Project" with Polo Moji and Laura Nkola-Wenz from African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town. For a...
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Oktober 2023: Open Book Festival i Cape Town (Dansk/English)
Sæson V, 2 - Episode 26 Indhold: 00:00 Intro 02:41 Abstrakt 05:51 Open Book 23:17 Reading by Uhuru Phalafala from "Mine Mine Mine" in The Book Lounge (English) 26:17 Interview with Mervyn Sloman, founder of Open Book Festival (English) 43:24 Lyset i maleriet (Anna Ancher) 45:34 Outro Vi har været…
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September 2023: Billedkunst set i københavnsk perspektiv (Dansk)
Sæson V, 1 - Episode 25 Indhold: 00:00 Intro 02:46 Abstrakt 06:19 Litteratur på museet 23:59 Billedkunst set i københavnsk perspektiv 35:00 Outro Vi indleder en ny sæson. På overfladen fortsætter vi med at lave anmeldelser og reportage. I denne udsendelse forsøger vi at anskue billedkunsten fra…
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Conversation #8: Guadalupe Nettel (Mexico), Louisiana Literature 2018 (English)
Conversation between Guadalupe Nettel and Morten Ranum. Her novel "El cuerpo en que naci" had just been translated into Danish and published by Forlaget Grif with the title "Kroppen jeg blev født i". Guadalupe Nettel attended Louisiana Literature to present her book, where Morten Ranum met her in…
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Review #1: Louisiana Literature 2014-19 (Dansk)
Vi varmer op til årets udgave af Louisiana Literature ved at bringe en række anmeldelser og interviews fra tidligere års festivaler på museet. Alle artikler har tidligere været publiceret på Globalnyt - en enkelt på U-landsnyt (U-landsnyt ændrede i 2015 navn til Globalnyt). Foto: Ngugi wa…
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Reportage #5: Louisiana Literature 1-2, 2021 (Dansk)
Sæson I, 4 - Episode 4 & Sæson I, 5 - Episode 5 - uddrag Vi genudsender repprtage fra Louisiana Literature i 2021. I udsendelsens første del introducerer vi til festivalen, der pga. pandemien var udstrakt i hele august måned. I anden del anmelder vi bøger af Samanta Schweblin og Jamaica Kincaid....
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22.06.2021: LiteratureXchange 2021 (Dansk)
Season I, 2 - Episode 2 Content: 00:00 Intro 02:56 CPH Central Station 04:06 Arrival Aarhus 06:51 Abstract (English) 08:36 Walking to Dokk1 20:14: Om de gode intentioner (festivaler) 51:36 Leonora Carrington 58:46 Outro Welcome to our second episode. Last time we promised that on the fourth…
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Juni 2023: Poesi improvisationer over Gudhjem (Dansk)
Season IV, 3 - Episode 24 Content: 00:00 Intro 02:46 Abstract 05:42 Poesi improvisationer 24:59 Outro Vi præsenterer en ny person. Han kalder sig Morty Mort. Det var egentlig meningen af Morten Ranum skulle have været på et legatophold i Gudhjem for at skrive, men midt ude i Østersøen sank færgen...
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Conversation #7: Anna Stewart, GFI Art Gallery, Port Elizabeth / Gqeberha, South Africa (English)
The last of the three conversations held in January 2023 with art gallery managers and curators along the eastern coast in South Africa.. In this conversaton we are visiting GFI Art Gallery in Port Elizabeth, renamed Gqeberha. Rose, a woman also present in the gallery office interrupts now and…
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Conversation #6: Mduduzi Xakaza, Durban Art Gallery, eThekwini, South Africa (English)
The second of three conversations held in January 2023 with art gallery managers and curators along the eastern coast in South Africa.. In this conversation we meet Dr. Mduduzi Xakaza, Manager of Durban Art Gallery. A shorter version of the encounter with Dr. Mduduzi Xakaza has earlier been...
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Conversation #5: Reggie Letsatsi, Limani Gallery East London, South Africa (English)
In January 2023 we travelled along the East Coast in South Africa to visit art galleries in East London, Durban (Ethekwini) and Port Elizabeth (Gqeberha). Here is a conversation with Reggie Letsatsi, Art Curator from Limani Art Gallery in East London. A shorter version of the conversation has...
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Conversation #4: Iben Bach Elmstrøm, København, Danmark (Dansk)
Om kuratorens rolle Samtale med udstillingsinspektør Iben Bach Elmstrøm fra Den Frie Udstillingsbygning om kuratering og kuratorens rolle. Hun har en baggrund såvel som billedkunstner, men har også gennem en årrække arbejdet som kurator i meget forskellige sammenhænge. Hun er udover sin...
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March 2023: Conversation about Contemporary Art (English)
Season IV, 2 - Episode 23 Content: 00:00 Intro 02:45 Abstract 04:35 Art Talk, interviews and conversations about contemporary art 07:08 Conversation with Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova 35:15 Conversation with Edison Peñafíel 52:00 Art conversations in Denmark 58:48 Outro We are returning to Miami.…
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Tvangstekster #3: eksplosion (Dansk)
Tredje og sidste del af trilogi af tvangstekster, hvor kunstprojektet pulveriserer og flyver i alle retninger. Vi oplever tre stemmer der gensidigt afbryder og supplerer hinanden. Digtsamlingen "eksplosion" er udgivet af Det Poetiske Bureaus Forlag i 2012. Omslaget er endnu engang lavet af TAT...
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Tvangstekster #2: fortsættelse (Dansk)
Anden del af tvangstekster som foregår under ækvators stærke sol. I podcasten indgår anmeldelse af Thurston Magnus og lektørudtalelse. Digtsamlingen "fortsættelse" er udgivet af Det Poetiske Bureaus Forlag i 2011. Omslagsdesignet er igen lavet af TAT alias Monica Hee Eun som en grafisk…
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Tvangstekster #1: begyndelser (Dansk)
Første del af trilogi med tvangstekster. Inkluderer anmeldelse af Thurston Magnus for MetrOrd og lektør udtalelse. Undervejs bliver der reflekteret over tvang og tvangsmekanismer. Debut digtsamlingen "begyndelser" er udgivet af Det Poetiske Bureaus Forlag i 2010. Omslagsdesign er lavet af TAT.…
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February 2023: East Coast Art Scene, South Africa (English)
Season IV, 1 - Episode 22 Content: 00:00 Intro 00:55 Abstract 03:44 Where are we? 10:45 East Coast Art Scene 17:53 East Londan and Limani Gallery 42:40 eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality and Durban Art Gallery 53:23 Gqeberha and GFI Art Gallery in Port Elizabeth 58:48 Outro bonus tracks…
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Conversation #3: Ilya Bernstein, New York City, USA (English)
Season I, 9 - Episode 9 - extract Conversation between Ilya Bernstein (Russian-American poet based in New York City), Mie Mortensen (Danish PhD-student at Columbia University in New York City) and Morten Ranum (Danish poet) about poetry and translation. Ilya Bernstein was in Copenhagen to present...
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Conversation #2: Libhongo "Tally" Mbiko, East London, South Africa (English)
Season I, 8 - Episode 8 - extract A conversation with Libhongo Mbiko (South African artist) about his work as an artist and training of school children in art practices. The conversation took place at Beachfront Lounge, Quigney Beach, East London in South Africa on September 15, 2021. and was...
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Essay #3: Erotik, litteratur, performance (Dansk)
Essay om erotik, erotisk litteratur og iscenesættelse - inklusiv anmeldelse af teaterdokumentar om O's historie af kunstner duoen Astrup & Bordorff opført på Husets Teater i København 30.april - 28 maj 2022. I essayet omtales Marquis de Sade (120 dage), George Bataille (Historien om øjet og…
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Essay #2: Magisk realisme (Dansk)
Essay om "magisk realisme" af Morten Ranum med inddragelsen af argentinske, mexicanske og danske forfattere. Essayet efterfølges af forkærlighed for lyden af bestemte spanske ord, kærlighedsdigte på engelsk skrevet til een bestemt kvinde (2017-20) og digte på dansk fra samlingen "Saftig lørdag"...
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06.12.2022: Miami Beach (Dansk)
Season III, 4 - Episode 21 Content: 00:00 Intro 02:44 Abstract (English) 06:33 Where are WE? 11:03 Miami Beach 28:43 Art Basel 33:15 Pinta Art 40:55 Dimension Variable 48:45 Outro bonus tracks - program info The Grand Finale of the year in Miami. Miami of all places host a number of art...
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01.11.2022: Farverne (Dansk)
Season III, 3 - Episode 20 Content: 00:00 Intro 02:43 Abstract (English) 05:17 Who are WE? 08:25 Blue, yellow and red 58:38 Outro WE have met the primary colors during the last six month – the color blue, the color yellow and the color red. In this episode WE will continue OUR investigation of...
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A radio podcast talk show experiment available on Libsyn, Spotify and YouTube with reportage, reviews, conversations with artists & activists and work-in-progress. New episode every first Tuesday of the month.
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