Under My Skin

Viviana Laperchia
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Under My Skin

There are things we simply can’t shrug off. Provoking art, controversial books, compelling films or disarming news. In this weekly series, we scratch away at those things that get under our skin. About the producer: Viviana is an Italian-Canadian painter, illustrator and creative producer based in Berlin.

Episodes

  1. OCT 25

    No Logo No More: The Lost Generation of Anti-capitalists

    What happened to my generation? Where are the purpose-driven Millennials when we need them the most? As the BDS movement (boycott, divest, sanction) keeps expanding, I am left questioning if the no-logo movement captured by Naomi Klein in her homonymous book in1999 has completely lost its plot. In this episode, I revisit some iconic work by William Gibson, Douglas Coupland and Naomi Klein and reflect on our need to re-learn what we’ve forgotten.

    13 min

  2. SEP 15

    Toronto the good, the bad and the unjust

    Once upon a time, there was a city I used to love. ”Toronto the good,” as it was nicknamed during the Victorian era, now looks more to me like Toronto the bad. From the poetry and paintings of the Group of Seven’s catalyst, Lawren Harris, we revisit an urbanization process that has been slowly erasing a long history of diversity and equality.

    12 min

  3. MAY 31

    Novels, Empathy and Escapism: a Quiet Revolution

    Ditch your non-fiction books for a while and get lost in a made-up story. From the Theory of Mind to Feminism and hidden revolutions, in this episode we explore how novels hold the key to understanding reality--or escaping it.

    10 min

  4. MAY 17

    New York, a place in the mind

    "Robot Dreams" is a cinematic love letter to a glorious 1980s New York. In this episode, inspired by the film, I explore my nostalgia for a pre 9/11 world, the role of cities in Italo Calvino and the poetics of places of Gaston Bachelard.

    10 min

  5. MAY 6

    The sound of silence and other myths

    Does silence actually exist? Or is it filled with frequencies that are supposed to alert us to the reality around us? In this episode, we look at the role of sound in social contexts, from Nazism to John Kennedy assassination and mindful meditation. Original music by Viviana Laperchia.

    9 min

  6. APR 25

    Women, social justice and all that jazz

    Have you ever wondered if your higher sense of justice is a personality trait or a symptom? Are women more prone to be neurodivergent or just more sensitive? In this episode, we're looking at Emily Dickinson's poetry and Billie Holiday's singing* to find an answer. *For commentary purposes, this episode contains an audio sample of "Strange Fruit" performed by Billie Holiday in 1939, freely available under Wikipedia

    11 min

  7. APR 15

    Tell me where you’re from (and I’ll pretend I know what it’s like)

    Can we ever really experience migrants' struggle to be able to care for them? Or are we playing with cultural appropriation? A brief journey through migration and colonialism, arts and politics on both sides of the ocean.

    11 min

  8. APR 8

    The importance of (having a) voice.

    If we are what we say, then there's never been better time than now to have a voice. From Edgar Allan Poe's ventriloquism to Noam Chomsky's theory of language acquisition, I comb through my university memories to understand today's silence on Gaza.

    11 min

  9. FEB 27

    What’s this all about?

    Big breath, and... Let's get started! Here's a sneak peek of what you can expect from this podcast. A journey to uncover things that need to be talked about. News, films, books, art that get under our skin and keep us up at night.

    1 min

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There are things we simply can’t shrug off. Provoking art, controversial books, compelling films or disarming news. In this weekly series, we scratch away at those things that get under our skin. About the producer: Viviana is an Italian-Canadian painter, illustrator and creative producer based in Berlin.

Information

  • Creator
    Viviana Laperchia
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    9
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Viviana Laperchia
  • Show Website
    Under My Skin

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