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A curatorial program set in a home furnishings and clothing store in Viseu, Portugal: Bruno Zhu talks to us about A Maior.  Find the address and archive of A Maior here: https://amaiorviseu.tumblr.com This is the second of three STUDIO episodes in which we talk to artists that run curatorial platforms and artist initiatives about their projects, and the role they play in their own work. Bruno Zhu (b. 1991, Portugal) is an artist living and working between Amsterdam and Viseu. Ranging from fashion design, publishing and scenography Zhu’s practice is preoccupied with fiction and its manifestations. His work was recently shown at What Pipeline in Detroit (MI), Cordova in Barcelona and HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark in Graz. Zhu is a member of A Maior, a curatorial program set in a home furnishings and clothing store in Viseu, Portugal.http://www.brunozhu.com/home/   STUDIO is the Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee podcast, recorded at different art spaces and cultural institutions. This episode was recorded at fanfare in Amsterdam in 2022. Hosted by Arif Kornweitz and Andrea Gonzalez
Recording and Production: Monty Mouw
Post-production: Julius van IJperen
Video documentation: Kyulim Kim Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee is a radio space for curatorial and artistic practices.We commission sound and performance pieces, related to the research strands we set for our annual programme. We also host and produce radio shows and podcasts, by and with artists and designers. Our mobile studio has been at academies, biennials and museums. In 2022, we started an artist-in-residency programme. https://jajajaneeneenee.com

Andrea and Arif talk to Groaming, a roaming gallery in a backpack. This is the first of three STUDIO episodes in which we talk to artists that run curatorial platforms and artist initiatives about their projects, and the role they play in their own work. Groaming Gallery, a roaming gallery in a backpack. Anyone* can submit to showing their work in the gallery. It is carried around roughly between 75% to 90% of the time inside and outside the EU (if we’re lucky). Each resident has a month. With a couple of week showings throughout the year. PV locations are posted on the day and you can dm for location.Visit and submit to Groaming Gallery on Instagram:@groamingbaggallery STUDIO is the Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee podcast, recorded at different art spaces and cultural institutions. This episode was recorded at fanfare in Amsterdam in 2022. Hosted by Arif Kornweitz and Andrea GonzalezRecording and Production: Monty MouwPost-production: Julius van IJperenVideo documentation: Kyulim Kim   Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee is a radio space for curatorial and artistic practices. We commission sound and performance pieces, related to the research strands we set for our annual programme. We also host and produce radio shows and podcasts, by and with artists and designers. Our mobile studio has been at academies, biennials and museums. In 2022, we started an artist-in-residency programme.

We visit Milena Bonilla’s studio to hear about Rosa Luxemburg and granite wrapped in amaranth, the flower that resists. Milena’s research-based practice is currently invested in epistemological colonialism and the different ways it affects organisms, language and social structures. Her studio is in Amsterdam and her website is milenabonilla.info. “Why do we think that the past is dead? Because it’s very convenient to have it as a relic, to bring nostalgia, to bring ideological biases. It’s a sickness.” (Milena Bonilla) “One of the most mistreated words that i have seen lately in the world is solidarity. Solidarity comes from structures of understanding of how the world operates. It’s not charity - that is what I see spread all around here. And I talk about this with a lot of rage.” (Milena Bonilla) See an amaranth-wrapped stone on Milena’s website here. Photograpies of Milena's show at Galeria Municipal do Porto are available at here and at e-flux. - Hosted by Arif Kornweitz and Andrea González. Edit and post-production by Julius van Ijperen. Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee is an online radio platform for contemporary art. Our website is jajajaneeneeneee.com.

We visit Martín La Roche’s studio to hear about the Chilean protests and constrictions of the imagination. We also listen to a voice message by Fernanda Aránguiz M. about the real and the possible, titled ‘Qualia’. And Martín tells us how 'Muro Sur', once a space in Santiago in the 90s, lives on.Martín La Roche is an artist and director of the Musée Légitime, a museum inside a hat. Fernanda Aránguiz M. is an artist and publisher, investigating language inbetween the real and the possible. Martín was on Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee in 2017 for Native Foreigners, a show about Ulises Carrión recorded at De Appel/Documenta Athens/Jumex. Fernanda joined us for a radio show about Publishing as Critical Practice in 2019, recorded at Printing Plant Art Book Fair. Hosted by Arif Kornweitz and Radna Rumping. Edited by Arif with excerpts from El violador eras tú and El Baile de Los Que Sobran.

Teresa Cos sent a voice message: The Monarch. Arif and Radna think about reflecting forward. Teresa has a plan b. The show "The power of doing nothing" is available on jajaaneeneenee.com. So is the report on care riders by Fabian Reichle and at7. Gloria E. Anzaldúa's book is titled 'Luz en lo Oscuro'. Teresa Cos is an artist exploring the processes of repetition underlying history, society and human psychology. Her work encompasses film, sound and video installation, visual scoring, experimental music composition and performance. Her website is at teresacos.com.

Steven Warwick sent a voice message. Sadaf spoke to Ivan Cheng. Arif and Radna reside under Silvia Federici’s arm in Kunsthal Gent, where Radna feels like Marvin Gaye. Steven Warwick is a British artist, musician and writer residing in Berlin. His latest album MOI was just released on PAN. Steven documents his artistic practice here, writes for artforum and maintains a successful instagram. The conversation of Sadaf and Ivan Cheng is part of our collaboration with Sonic Acts. Sadaf will perform at Sonic Acts Academy which takes place from 21-23 February in Amsterdam. Sadaf H Nava (Sadaf) is an Iranian-born, New York City-based composer and visual artist whose multidisciplinary interventions include sound, film, painting, performance and text. This is her website is and you can find her on instagram.  Ivan Cheng also edited his conversation with Sadaf. He is a performer, clarinettist, curator and writer who initiates project space bologna.cc in Amsterdam. Ivan’s work is documented on his website and he is on instagram. Read more about Sonic Acts, Sadaf and Ivan Cheng on our website.

Yoojin Lee & Mark von Schlegell. Sloths wear pyjamas in Yoojin Lee’s voice message. Critique warps into science fiction in Mark von Schlegell’s reading, recorded at The Well. Radna and Arif compliment each other on their Halloween outfits. Find Yoojin at nijooy.com and Mark at schlegell.com. Minne Kerstens and Leo Arnold presented this episode of The Well, a radio show at De Ateliers. Several episodes of The Well are available on our website.

Holly Childs sent a voice message. Ode de Kort's exhibition 'UU TWOO' at de Brakke Grond was curated by Sara Giannini. Watch a video by Holly Childs on her website or find her on instagram. Listen to the full recording of UU TWOO in our archive and read more abou the show over at de Brakke Grond. Our show about mother tongues at the Rijksakademie is available in our archive. Our podcast is hosted by Arif Kornweitz & Radna Rumping. Our jingle is by Josh da Costa.

Katherine MacBride about composer Pauline Oliveros. Richard John Jones about filmmaker Barbara Hammer and with a reading of John Giorno's "It Doesn't Get Better". References:Read about filmmaker Barbara Hammer, composer Pauline Oliveros and poet John Giorno Listen to our Minimal Music Festival shows Visit Auto Italia South East in London and Tender Center in Rotterdam Contributors: Katherine MacBride Richard John Jones

Ceel Mogami de Haas tells a tale. echo+seashell sent a voice message.  Arif & Radna watch the snow. Henna Hyvärinen and Susan Kooi are echo+seashell. K.i beyoncé are hard to find. Ceel Mogami de Haas recently completed a residency at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, where his contribution was recorded. More Rijksakademie radio shows are up on our website. Hosted by Arif Kornweitz & Radna Rumping. Our jingle is by Josh da Costa.  

Becket MWN sent a list of interchangeable M.A.s & Immy Mali read letters to her younger self at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. Find Becket MWN here and Immaculate Anderu Mali here. Six Rijksakademie radio shows full of readings, conversations and music are available on our website. This podcast is hosted by Arif Kornweitz & Radna Rumping. With a jingle by Josh da Costa.          

Voice Message from Jacob Dwyer & A contribution by Abraham Araujo titled "A Letter To God, Even If God Won't Read The Letter: Major Tectonic Shifts Going On" & Bonus material by Daan Gielis Jacob Dwyer's great video work Donovan Garcia is available here. Daan Gielis is online. Abraham Araujo's Mixcloud is over here.  

Voice message from Sara Giannini & Monira Al Qadiri reading at the Rijksakademie in 2016. Scrolling through life, hosted by Arif Kornweitz & Radna Rumping. Our jingle is by Josh da Costa. See a pearlescent oil drilling head on Monira Al Qadiri's website. Unfold and Heterotropics are projects by Sara Giannini. More about our Rijksakademie broadcasts on jajajaneeneenee.com

Love in the age of online dating with Tamar Shafrir & Füsun Türetken Voice Message from Mehraneh Atashi & Geo Wyeth Hosted by Arif Kornweitz & Radna Rumping. Our jingle is by Josh da Costa. Modern Love was recorded at Fiber Festival. Find Geo Wyeth here Find Mehraneh Atashi here Tamar Shafrir's website is here and Füsun Türetken's is here.

Voice message from Monica Tormell What I Wanted to Tell You by Radical Cut-Up The second episode in a series about contact.  Hosted by Arif Kornweitz & Radna Rumping. Our jingle is by Josh da Costa. Find Monica Tormell at  monicatormell.nlFind Radical Cut-Up at radicalcutup.com  

Voice message from Ivan Cheng Radio Software Piracy with Luis Rodil Fernández The first episode in a series about contact.  Hosted by Arif Kornweitz & Radna Rumping. Our jingle is by Josh da Costa. Find Ivan Cheng at www.bologna.cc Find  Luis Rodil Fernández at  www.derfunke.net Read more about the exhibition Gym of Obsolete Technology  over here at W139.  

The intro where Arif & Radna listen to Joseph Beuys singing a protest song. More episodes coming this week. Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee is hosted by Arif Kornweitz & Radna Rumping. Our jingle is by Josh da Costa.

With Edition IX Bodies and Technologies (2022-2023) If I Can’t Dance tackles the complex and plural entanglements between bodies and technologies. This Radio Emma show stages a conversation between the If I Can’t Dance artistic team – Frédérique Bergholtz, Anik Fournier, Sara Giannini and Megan Hoetger – and research fellow Devika Chotoe who talk about their own entry points into this edition’s field of inquiry.

Readings, Music and conversations about other languages. With Rijksakademie residents Salim Bayri, Lungiswa Gqunta, Özgür Atlagan, and Bert Scholten. Hosted by Arif Kornweitz and Radna Rumping. Recorded on 31st of October 2019 at the Reading Room of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam.

“The hell started at about half past one on the morning of... the fourteenth of June” - (Nyelele & Drake, 1985) A broadcast of the sound piece on Gaborone, 1985 (2021, 3:38 min) marks the start of the residency of artist Kim Karabo Makin, who lives in Botswana and is one of four artists selected for a Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee radio residency during 2022. "on Gaborone, 1985 considers the June 14 raid on Gaborone by the South African Defence Force (SADF) as a traumatic turning point for Botswana’s creative development – resulting in the demise of Medu Art Ensemble overnight. Positioned centrally to my Master of Fine Art body of work – the doors of culture shall be opened (2021), on Gaborone, 1985 notably includes a Radio Botswana jingle interspliced with segments from the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC) Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Special Report, as well as then-President of Botswana Masire’s reaction to the raid, and South African 80s group Future’s song, Party Weekend (1985). The featured mix unpacks an intertextual reimagining of Gaborone in 1985, where it is significantly described as the year that Botswana’s capital ‘lost its innocence’. This work importantly refocuses my initial disappointment in Botswana’s limited national archive of Medu into a generative starting point – considering the manner in which the archive lives on today. In addition, I consider how at the time, my grandmother’s radio cabinet may have brought news of the SADF raids on Botswana to my family, and the extent to which the story resounds unsuspectingly in contemporaneity, through the local lives that received this impact. on Gaborone, 1985 also introduces the cyclical nature that underscores the exhibition – by considering the extent to which the sound mix may constitute a socio-cultural symbol, and thus a tool in activating spaces as sites of memory. By looping on Gaborone, 1985 four times, I aim to recognise and commemorate June 14 as one of four raids by the SADF in Botswana in 1985. By broadcasting on Gaborone, 1985 via Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee’s platform, I aim to engage an international audience through aural storytelling, where I am particularly interested in reflecting on Medu’s suppressed narrative in Botswana as a contemporary Motswana artist myself. In addition, the hour-long broadcast (including moments of silence) is intended to provide a space to reflect on themes of transnationality, with respect to both Botswana and the Netherlands’ historical entanglements with South Africa. In this way, I hope to extend a conversation on Medu’s lasting memory across borders, and further delve into archival research on culture as a weapon or tool for change. Furthermore, with this broadcast I am interested in providing some analysis of the post-traumas of Botswana in the anti-Apartheid struggle, with respect to the Netherlands. In so doing, the broadcast of on Gaborone, 1985 via Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee will inaugurate the beginning of my residency. Going forward, I hope to reflect on the historic context of Botswana’s capital Gaborone – my hometown and the home of Medu, with a specific look at the ‘Culture and Resistance Conference’ that took place in 1982. By comparison, I will draw connections between Gaborone and Amsterdam, as the Dutch capital and self-declared anti-apartheid city, with respect to the ‘Culture in Another South Africa’ (CASA) conference that took place in Amsterdam, in 1987. In partnership with Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee, through this residency I aim to provide a space that reflects on themes of transnationality, with respect to both Botswana and the Netherlands’ respective positions in the Anti-Apartheid struggle." - Kim Karabo Makin