In this podcast graduate students from the MFA program in Fine Arts at HDK-Valand University of Gothenburg speak with artist, writer, and researcher Anna Nygren. The discussion delves into a range of exciting and current topics, including neuroqueerness, the materiality of language, and Nygren's creative practice, encompassing her project "I Hope You Become a Fish." Nygren talks openly about Zlatan, their cat with artistic interests, the literary significance of whales, and examines the potentialities and ethical dilemmas in human-nonhuman relationships providing a thought-provoking exploration of these interconnected themes.

Short bios:
Anna Nygren (researcher)
Anna Nygren (Sweden, 1990) works with language-based art as a writer, poet, playwright and textile artist. They are teaching literary composition at Gothenburg University and are doing their PhD in literature at Åbo Akademi. Nygren is part of the research project "Autistic Writing. A Mother Tongue", financed by Vetenskapsrådet. Their interests lie in the materiality of language, animals in literature and language-based art for children.

Bubbles Taboo
Bubbles Taboo coexists with plants, animals, red wine and white wine.

Sebastian Lavin
Sebastian Lavin is working with dissemination of care and practical work, ceramic relay work, weaving and questions of disguised work and value.

Kent Grundberg
Kent Grundberg is interested in mycelia, mutual aid, collectivity and queer euphoria.

Rikke Bogetoft
Rikke Bogetoft (1995) explores queer and non-human death, mapping the performance of necropolitical strategies in western hegemonies and developing queerfeminist counter tactics of resistance

The Dialogues Podcast Project is a podcast series produced by students from the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) programme at the HDK-Valand Academy – Art and Design, University of Gothenburg, and published by K103 Gothenburg Student Radio.