MUMA Podcast

A short series of conversations with artists and contributors developed as part of exhibitions at MUMA.

Season 1: Tree Telling

Tree Telling is a podcast in four episodes that has been developed as part of the MUMA exhibition Tree Story. Tree Telling features the voices of artists, authors and academics, who—through conversations, readings and sound—share the ways in which their work and research is deeply intertwined with trees. Tree Telling traverses Indigenous ecological knowledge and connection with Country and how we might learn from this; climate change and climate fiction; the concept of plant blindness; and the deeply personal connections that individuals can forge with trees.

Our thanks to Eucalypt Australia for partnering with us on Tree telling.

Season 2: Language Is a River

This two-part podcast has been produced to accompany the exhibition Language Is a River, curated by Hannah Mathews and Melissa Ratliff and presented at the MUMA from 27 November 2021 to 15 January 2022. The podcast features guests Akil Ahamat, Archie Barrie, Pip Wallis, Sarah Rodigari and Ellen van Neerven, artists, curators and writers who contributed works and writing to the recent exhibition and catalogue.

Season 3: VERS: On Pleasures, Embodiment, Kinships, Fugitivity and Re/Organising

This is a three-part audio series documenting the event VERS: On Pleasures, Embodiment, Kinships, Fugitivity and Re/Organising. Initiated by Monash University Museum of Art in Naarm/Melbourne, VERS took place over two days on Kaurna Country in Tarntanya/Adelaide at Samstag Museum of Art and ACE in June 2022. VERS was developed by a curatorial panel consisting of Arlie Alizzi, Frances Barrett, Archie Barry, Léuli Eshrāghi, Jeff Khan and Melissa Ratliff, and emerges as a response to their collective discussions and deliberation on queer artistic and curatorial practices. A group of attendants including arts workers, artists and curators from across Australia were invited to come together to reflect on these questions and the title themes of pleasures, embodiment, kinships, fugitivity and re/organising. Seated in a circle, the event was structured around a rolling conversation and a series of performances. For full details on each attendant and theme, please download the VERS program.