The Funambulist Podcast

The Funambulist
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The Funambulist Podcast operates in parallel of The Funambulist, a magazine that engages with the politics of space and bodies.

  1. Zara Julius & Zoé Samudzi /// A Funeral For...

    12/11/2025

    Zara Julius & Zoé Samudzi /// A Funeral For...

    For this new episode of our podcast, our two guests are Johannesburg-based artist Zara Julius and regular contributor to The Funambulist Zoé Samudzi. We discuss the contents and forms of A Funeral For..., a book by Zara in collaboration with Zoé about land, indigeneity, death, and sound in southern Africa (in particular South Africa and Namibia) and, beyond, in the spaces of global Blackness.

    53 min
  2. Em Inam /// S'organiser en diaspora pour la lutte eela tamoule

    07/24/2025

    Em Inam /// S'organiser en diaspora pour la lutte eela tamoule

    La diaspora tamoule de l'Îlam en France a été centrale dans l'élaboration de ce podcast et il n'est pas un hasard qu'il s'agisse du troisième épisode sur cet imaginaire des luttes (cf. l'épisode avec Apinaya K sur l'histoire de l'Îlam et celui avec Vishni Francis Jeyaratnam à propos du projet National Museum of Eelam). Cette centralité est un double mouvement: celui d'enrichir l'imaginaire politique antiraciste/anticolonial en France a travers l'exemple de la resistance eela tamoule (en particulier a travers l'organisation des Tigres de Libération de l'Îlam Tamoul) et imaginer la possibilité de solidarités envers une lutte toujours en cours. Ce troisième épisode est réalisé avec Vimirsan Vimalanathan et Suvetha Suthan, tou·tes deux membres de l'association eela tamoule en France, Em Inam, qui multiplie les formats de formation et d'action au service de la diaspora et de sa lutte contre les politiques génocidaire de l'état sri lankais.

    1h 6m
  3. Guest Podcast: Architecture of Repair in Palestine 3/3

    04/25/2025

    Guest Podcast: Architecture of Repair in Palestine 3/3

    The Funambulist's 59th issue (March-April 2025) is dedicated to Palestinian Return, which led to two collaborations with friends: the exhibition d'abord les fraises, ensuite les fleurs at FORDE in Geneva, and the hosting of this podcast, Architecture of Repair on our plateform. This podcast deliberately makes bridges with our issue, inviting some its contributors Dima Srouji, Areej Ashhab, Mahar Musleh, and Lobna Sana, as well as Mohammed Al Hawajri, Mona AlMsaddar, and Khalid Dader to provide their perspective on the question of Repair, in a similar way we asked our contributors about Return. Presentation of the podcast by the producers/hosts /// Architecture of Repair in Palestine is a nomadic forum that brings together architects, conservators, artists, community members, activists and academics to discuss, imagine and elaborate visions of repair for the liberation of Palestine. To help us attune to a language, we have asked a number of Palestinians to share with us their reflections in the form of a monologue that anchors and captures the stream of consciousness of this present moment as they attend to the question: What does repair mean amid genocide and mass destruction? And, is it even still a possibility?

    58 min
  4. Guest Podcast: Architecture of Repair in Palestine 2/3

    04/25/2025

    Guest Podcast: Architecture of Repair in Palestine 2/3

    The Funambulist's 59th issue (March-April 2025) is dedicated to Palestinian Return, which led to two collaborations with friends: the exhibition d'abord les fraises, ensuite les fleurs at FORDE in Geneva, and the hosting of this podcast, Architecture of Repair on our plateform. This podcast deliberately makes bridges with our issue, inviting some its contributors Dima Srouji, Areej Ashhab, Mahar Musleh, and Lobna Sana, as well as Mohammed Al Hawajri, Mona AlMsaddar, and Khalid Dader to provide their perspective on the question of Repair, in a similar way we asked our contributors about Return. Presentation of the podcast by the producers/hosts /// Architecture of Repair in Palestine is a nomadic forum that brings together architects, conservators, artists, community members, activists and academics to discuss, imagine and elaborate visions of repair for the liberation of Palestine. To help us attune to a language, we have asked a number of Palestinians to share with us their reflections in the form of a monologue that anchors and captures the stream of consciousness of this present moment as they attend to the question: What does repair mean amid genocide and mass destruction? And, is it even still a possibility?

    35 min
  5. Guest Podcast: Architecture of Repair in Palestine 1/3

    04/25/2025

    Guest Podcast: Architecture of Repair in Palestine 1/3

    The Funambulist's 59th issue (March-April 2025) is dedicated to Palestinian Return, which led to two collaborations with friends: the exhibition d'abord les fraises, ensuite les fleurs at FORDE in Geneva, and the hosting of this podcast, Architecture of Repair on our plateform. This podcast deliberately makes bridges with our issue, inviting some its contributors Dima Srouji, Areej Ashhab, Mahar Musleh, and Lobna Sana, as well as Mohammed Al Hawajri, Mona AlMsaddar, and Khalid Dader to provide their perspective on the question of Repair, in a similar way we asked our contributors about Return. Presentation of the podcast by the producers/hosts /// Architecture of Repair in Palestine is a nomadic forum that brings together architects, conservators, artists, community members, activists and academics to discuss, imagine and elaborate visions of repair for the liberation of Palestine. To help us attune to a language, we have asked a number of Palestinians to share with us their reflections in the form of a monologue that anchors and captures the stream of consciousness of this present moment as they attend to the question: What does repair mean amid genocide and mass destruction? And, is it even still a possibility?

    1h 11m
  6. Dawn Marie Paley /// Editing Ojalá.mx an introspective look at the Latin American Left and Feminisms

    03/25/2025

    Dawn Marie Paley /// Editing Ojalá.mx an introspective look at the Latin American Left and Feminisms

    In this conversation, recorded on March 20th 2025, we speak with Dawn Marie Paley. With Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar, she is the co-founder of Ojalá, a digital weekly dedicated to journalism and analysis that aims to foster a common sense of dissidence. Dawn speaks about her motives for launching Ojalá, born from a broader lack of critical leftist reportage on leftist regimes in Latin America, specifically in the English-speaking world. She discusses the role of feminism and autonomous indigenous organizing to these struggles, to the work of Ojalá, and to the recent marches across Mexico for March 8th, the first International Women’s Day under president Claudia Sheinbaum.

    53 min
  7. Florian Vertriest /// Alma Gare, Roubaix

    01/14/2025

    Florian Vertriest /// Alma Gare, Roubaix

    Cette conversation, enregistrée le 14 décembre 2024, présente les différentes facons dont les habitant*es du quartier Alma Gare à Roubaix s'organisent contre la destruction de leur lieu de vie. Véritable exemple de quartier auto-conçu à la fin des années 70, Alma Gare est aujourd'hui la cible de la spéculation gentrificatrice de la mairie. Florian Vertriest, l'une des figures du combat, nous parle de l'histoire du quartier, de ses habitant*es, et de la manière dont celleux-ci pensent et pratiquent des stratégies pour contrer ce projet et ses démolitions.

    34 min
  8. Charza Shahabuddin /// Guerre de Libération et Révolution Bangladeshies

    11/20/2024

    Charza Shahabuddin /// Guerre de Libération et Révolution Bangladeshies

    Quelques mois après que la Révolution bangladeshie ait poussé le gouvernement à la fuite, nous parlons avec Charza Shahabuddin de l'imaginaire des luttes de chaque membre de la diaspora bangladeshie en France, en particulier la guerre de libération de 1971 pour se séparer du Pakistan. A ces deux grands pans de cet imaginaire, nous n'oublions pas les luttes des peuples Avidashis (autochtones) dans le Sud-Est du Bangladesh. Charza Shahabuddin est doctorante associée au Centre d'Etudes Sud-Asiatiques et Himalayennes de l'EHESS. Elle est également enseignante à Sciences Po et l'INALCO. Son sujet de recherche porte sur la production de normes islamiques au Bangladesh.

    1 hr
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The Funambulist Podcast operates in parallel of The Funambulist, a magazine that engages with the politics of space and bodies.

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  • Creator
    The Funambulist
  • Years Active
    2014 - 2025
  • Episodes
    249
  • Rating
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