Conversation #10: Lola Shoneyin (Lagos, Nigeria), Aké Arts and Book Festival (English)
Release Date: 11/30/2023
Sorgens øjeblikke #1: Tilskuer til sit eget liv (Dansk)
Foreignness and Friendship
Tilskuer til sit eget liv I denne serie undersøger jeg sorgen, smerten ved at miste. Med udgangspunkt i min fars død, men ikke kun. Også spirituelle øjeblikke med glæde, drømme og kærlighed. Hver gang små fragmenter fra hverdagen, pludselig opstået, uventet - et øjeblik. Her i den første om smerten ved langsom at miste sig selv og ikke længere være det menneske du ellers har været, en tilskuer. Udsendelsen er publiceret af tirsdag 1.juli 2025.
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Essay #6 - Henning 80 år - genudsendelse (Dansk)
Foreignness and Friendship
Season I, 3 - Episode 3 - uddrag I anledningen af at min far ville have fyldt 84 år på denne dag, den 13.juli, genudsendes min tale til ham fra 2021. Dengang introduceret på følgende måde: "Finally we will congratulate an 80 year’s old man on his birthday. This man is also my father. The private intertwine with the public in period of time where these categories have begun dissolve, but an 80 year’s birthday has always been a matter of public interest and the celebration took place this afternoon in an appropriate public place." More info: Talen blev oprindeligt sendt på Tremella...
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Essay #5: Alt om min far (Dansk)
Foreignness and Friendship
Alt om min far Min far er død. Jeg genopfører her min tale til min far og mindet om ham, hvordan han lever videre, holdt ved gravøllet på Restaurant Alfa i Vejen, og digte af Piet Hein fremført ved bisættelsesceremonien lørdag den 24.maj. Min far døde om morgenen torsdag den 15. maj 2025, to måneder før han ville have fyldt 84 år, den 13.juli. Udsendelsen er publiceret af tirsdag 1.juli 2025.
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Poetry #1: Hvidt lys (Dansk)
Foreignness and Friendship
Hvidt lys Et endnu ikke afsluttet langdigt inspireret af systemisk vold. Systemerne har mange navne, men de er alle sammen kun interesseret i deres egen overlevelse, og det enkelte menneske kun en brik i et større spil. Det gælder om ikke at forsvinde i systemets logik. Udsendelsen er publiceret af søndag 4.maj 2025.
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Essay #4: Kontinental fornuft?
Foreignness and Friendship
Kontinental fornuft? I mere end 10 år har jeg sat spørgsmålstegn ved det kontinentale, kontinentale begreber og forestillingen om Afrika og om Europa. Jeg opfatter det som koloniale fantasier. Hvis vi fortsætter med at bruge dem, gør vi os også skyldige i at fortsætte historisk produceret ondskab. Jeg forsøger at skrive et essay om kontinental fornuft - eller rettere, som stiller spørgsmål ved om kontinentale begreber og forestillinger giver mening, men dette essay er også forsøg på at begynde en anmeldelse af tre forskellige bøger udgivet på dansk: Jeppe Brixvold Jørn...
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Real Sound Recording #1: Stellenbosch Triennale 2025 (Dansk)
Foreignness and Friendship
Stellenbosch Triennale 2025 Vi præsenterer her en helt ny serie, der egentlig blot næsten uden filter tilbyder reallydsoptagelser "on the rocks". I denne første udgave befinder vi os på Stellenbosch Triennale i Sydafrika. Ind imellem krydret med nogle få betragtninger for at give kontekst, men det handler egentlig kun om lyden og dens rytme. frem til og med onsdag den 30.april 2025. Foto: Tuli Mekondjo præsenterer sit kunstværk. Udsendelsen er publiceret af mandag 10. marts 2025.
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Conversation #20: Khanyisile Mbongwa, Stellenbosch Triennale, South Africa (English)
Foreignness and Friendship
Conversation with Khanyisile Mbongwa is the chief curator of the in Oude Libertas, Rubert Museum and Stellenbosch University Museum in Stellenbosch, an hours drive from Cape Town. Here she is in a conversation with Morten Ranum telling about her background and discussing the role of the curator. The conversation took place Thursday 20th of February - the day after the opening of the Stellenbosch Triennale - in Oude Libertas. Photo: The opening of Stellenbosch Triennale in Oude Libertas, Wednesday 19th of February. Published by , Monday 3rd of March, 2025.
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Conversation #19: Kobus Moolman, Cape Town, South Africa (English)
Foreignness and Friendship
Conversation with Kobus Moolman In this conversation Morten Ranum meet Kobus Moolman. Three years ago Morten Ranum published . They meet in Cape Town for the first time, and Kobus Moolman had just the day before launched his new poetry collection “Fall Risk”. We enter into their conversation halfway because they were so eargerly engaged into conversation from the first mimute that Morten Ranum only half an hour later remember to switch on the recording device. The conversation took place Friday 21st of February 2025 in The Electric in Canterbury Street in District Six in Cape Town....
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December 2024: 15 dage i Dakar (Dansk)
Foreignness and Friendship
Sæson VII, 3 - Episode 35 Der er ridser i vinylen, når det kommer til vores betragtninger om moderne kunst.. Endnu engang oplever vi at tekstil og design står øverst på dagsordenen – en bekræftelse af at håndværket og det taktile manifesterer sin position i den moderne kunsts centrum, men spørgsmålet er, hvad det betyder. Verden lader til at befinde sig i et vakuum. Mennesket er forvirret. Vi er nået til en grænse, men der er ikke noget nyt land at betræde – intet nyt spørgsmål at stille. Tekstil synes at være fastholdt i sin sans for det funktionelle. Der er...
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November 2024: A Lost Recording (English)
Foreignness and Friendship
Season VII, 2 - Episode 34 Morten Ranum has submitted an essay with the title “The Lost Rrecording of Uhuru Phalafala” to in South Africa. In this podcast you can listen to him reading it. The title is somewhat a weird one. As the title reveals this was not the purpose. His intention was to have a recording of the and publish it as a conversation podcast, only very lightly edited to keep it as close as possible to the live situation maintaining the raw and fresh atmosphere of the unpolished. As usual very rarely things turn out to be as they have been planned. Nothing we do is smooth,...
info_outlineConversation between Lola Shoneyin and Morten Ranum
We are in Lagos, Nigeria to participate in Aké Arts and Book Festival. Prior to the festival we have a conversation with the festival director Lola Shoneyin, Nigerian poet and author.
The conversation begins with snaopshots from the press conference, thereafter we are having a one by one with Lola Shoneyin in her office in a more relaxed atmosphere and environment.
To the press meeting Lola Shoneyin introduces the festival, tells about the ten years of experience and presents the main sponsor of the festival sitting next to her from Sterling Bank.
During the press session she is asked by a Lagos based journalist how she is doing it without the government, and her answer is not very surprising, but also somewhat depressing.
We – for our own part – ask her, how it influences the festival that she actually is an active poet and writer herself. Before she gives an answer, she makes sure the room gives us a round of applause to welcome us and she explains that is actually very important that people from far away come and show interests in what they are doing here in Lagos.
Photo credit: Ouida Books.
Published by Foreignness and Friendship, Thursday 30th of November, 2023.