UNBOUND Podcast

The Julia Stoschek Foundation proudly presents UNBOUND, a compelling new podcast hosted by Line Ajan and Lisa Long, with editorial direction by Luise Pilz, that critically examines the evolution of performance art and its intersections with video across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Through in-depth conversations with artists, scholars, and writers, UNBOUND takes into consideration a nuanced understanding of how gender, race, and class have affected these histories up until the present.

Across six episodes, the podcast brings together a distinguished line up of guests, including renowned scholars Greg de Cuir Jr., Amelia Jones, Uri McMillan, and Peggy Phelan; artists Salim Bayri, Nao Bustamante, peter campus, Ulysses Jenkins, Stanya Kahn, Tarek Lakhrissi, Fritjof Mangerich, mandla, Howardena Pindell, and Mona Varichon; and writer Marilena Borriello. These contributors broaden the traditional definition of performance by exploring lesser-known histories and challenging conventional art historical narratives. Their transdisciplinary and situated approaches highlight the radical potential of performance as an embodied form of artistic and political expression.

Each episode of UNBOUND is driven by a set of questions such as: How have artists and scholars expanded the canonical definitions of performance and video, by looking at under-recognized practices and histories? How have different generations of artists called upon the body in relation to the camera to unsettle fixed concepts of identity? And how does performance function in an era of digital hyper-visibility?

UNBOUND expands on questions initially examined in the exhibition “Unbound: Performance as Rupture,” which took place at the Julia Stoschek Foundation in Berlin between September 2023 and July 2024. The exhibition was co-curated by Lisa Long with Line Ajan.

The first episode of the podcast is now available on major podcast platforms with new episodes being released weekly. UNBOUND is a Julia Stoschek Foundation production.

Hosts and Editors: Line Ajan, Assistant Curator, and Lisa Long, Artistic Director, Julia Stoschek Foundation. Direction and Editorial: Luise Pilz. Producer: Sören Hochberg, Parasomnia Podcast Production. Jingle Theme: Audio excerpt from Stanya Kahn’s work “Stand in the Stream,” which was part of the exhibition “Unbound: Performance as Rupture”. Language: English. Speakers: Salim Bayri, Marilena Borriello, Nao Bustamante, peter campus, Greg de Cuir Jr., Ulysses Jenkins, Amelia Jones, Stanya Kahn, Tarek Lakhrissi, Fritjof Mangerich, mandla, Uri McMillan, Peggy Phelan, Howardena Pindell, and Mona Varichon. 

About the Julia Stoschek Foundation
The Julia Stoschek Foundation is a nonprofit arts and culture organization dedicated to the public presentation, advancement, conservation, and scholarship of time-based art. Across two publicly accessible exhibition spaces in Berlin and Düsseldorf, the Julia Stoschek Foundation presents pioneering media and performance art in large-scale exhibitions and discursive events. The foundation also manages the Julia Stoschek Collection, one of the world’s most comprehensive private collections of time-based art.

With over 900 artworks by 300 artists from the 1960s to today, the collection spans video, film, single- and multichannel moving-image installation, multimedia environments, performance, sound, and virtual reality. Photography, sculpture, and painting supplement its time-based emphasis.