Simian Podcasts
Simian Podcasts is the podcast of Simian, an independent art center in the Ørestad district of Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded and run by artists as a non-profit organization, Simian supports and presents experimental exhibition projects by national and international artists from emergent and established positions. Through its extensive programme, the art center engages in critical artistic and social discourses, aiming to generate discussion, reflection, and agency. The podcast likely features conversations and content related to these exhibitions and artistic practices.
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Iannis Xenakis, La Légende d’Eer by Chris Cutler
In this podcast, music theorist Chris Cutler charts the artist Iannis Xenakis’ path from architectural forms to stochastic music, tracing a life shaped by war, exile, and radical creativity. The episode accompanies an exhibition at Simian, presenting La Légende d’Eer, Xenakis’ seminal composition from 1977 as a spatial installation, restored and remastered from the original tapes. The transcript w
Mood Curriculum, Episode 5: Saskia Vogel on Peter Cornell's Ways of Paradise
In the fifth and final episode of Mood Curriculum, Kristian Vistrup Madsen meets Saskia Vogel to discuss her translation of Peter Cornell's Ways of Paradise (Fitzcarraldo, 2024). Cornell, who passed away earlier this year, first published the conceptual novel in Swedish in 1987. It presents as the footnotes to a lost manuscript, but what transpires from reading is that searching for ways to paradi
Mood Curriculum, Episode 4: Rosanna McLaughlin's Against Morality
In episode four of Mood Curriculum, Kristian Vistrup Madsen is in conversation with Rosanna McLaughlin about her essay Against Morality (Floating Opera Press, 2025). For McLaughlin, morality has become an unconstructive benchmark in art that strips it of its power along with its vitality.
Mood Curriculum, Episode 3: Simon Critchley
In the third episode of Mood Curriculum, Kristian Vistrup Madsen speaks with philosopher Simon Critchley about his book On Mysticism (NYRB, 2024). With On Mysticism Critchley offers a roadmap to mystical practice and thought within the Christian tradition. He understands mystical experience as experience in its most intense form – mysticism is mediated immediacy. It is an antidote to melancholy, a
Mood Curriculum, Episode 2: Ariana Reines
In the second episode of Mood Curriculum, I speak with poet Ariana Reines about her book Wave of Blood (Divided, 2024), in which the native properties of poetry are harnessed to reckon with an acute real life crisis during the first months of the war in Gaza. In Wave of Blood there is real grief and anger; it is a challenging and very personal work. It opens with a quote from the poet and painter
Mood Curriculum, Episode 1: JF Martel
Mood Curriculum is a series of podcasts and events curated by Kristian Vistrup Madsen that takes as its starting point his essay Mood Over Content, published by Kunstkritikk last year. Mood (Stemning) implies both attunement and resonance; the possible dissolution of the boundary between object and subject. Mood is not information, but inherent to art's own ontology. Here, artwork and practice
Local Legends: Susanne Ottesen, Jesper Elg, Michael Thouber and Jesper N. Jørgensen (In Danish)
The conversation gathers the founders of three legendary exhibition spaces in Copenhagen. Each in their own way, and in their own decade, they have pushed the boundaries of what can be considered art, how it can be presented, and not least, how the audience can interact with it.
The Future is Self-Organized: Jennifee-See Alternate, skēnē and f.eks.
Self-organisation carries a long and important tradition within contemporary art – one that resists assimilation into institutional logics and insists on other ways of working, showing, and being together. Self-organization, as invoked here, is not a fallback plan for those positioned ‘outside’ the art world’s revolving doors. It is a conscious, persistent, and often precarious methodology – a pla
Thinking Out Loud: T. J. Demos, Siri Paulsen, Ida Bencke and Pujita Guha
Taking Denmark as a starting point and examining its interconnected role within the global landscape, this talk seeks to politicize sustainable practices while underscoring the urgent need to confront colonial history. In this endeavor, it seeks to reimagine and conceptualize more equitable futures through chronopolitical methodologies, at a time when the pervasive visibility of enduring systems o
Thinking Out Loud: Rasha Salti, Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung, Samara Sallam and Fafaya Mogensen
Thinking Out Loud is a new series of talks, performances, and events that will delve into critical themes spanning arts, philosophy, and social sciences. It aims to showcase diverse perspectives, promoting a collective exchange of ideas and dialogue.
The first event: Solidarity in the Arts, focuses on the intricate challenges associated with the ways cultural institutions engage in conversations,
Freja Sofie Kirk and Anna Weile Kjær, In conversation (In Danish)
Simian is pleased to present Freja Sofie Kirk and Anna Weile Kjær in conversation about Kirk’s exhibition The End currently on view at Simian. The conversation will seek to unfold Kirk’s practice and revolve around the her methods and experiences in creating the work in the exhibition.
