2 FEB 2023 · Ever wonder just what goes into making a delicious beer? Ayumi Matsuzaka, a Japanese artist based in Berlin, went beyond the usual home brew process in her 2015 work Future Beer, Berlin Cycle. Because it's not just about the ingredients you use, but what went into growing those ingredients. In this episode Summer chats with Ayumi about closing nutrient cycles, the power of disgust, and the difference between art and business. And Cory and Summer look at the work's playfullness, how it incorporates non-human participants, and the right time to drink beer in a closet. Also featuring Cristal Peck, a brewer and biologist, and Stefan Riekeles, curator of the Dortmund Cycle. https://www.ayumi-matsuzaka.com/future-beer-cycle-berliner-kreislauf - 2015 by https://www.ayumi-matsuzaka.com/ Barley grown at the https://terraboga.de/ Malting at the https://prinzessinnengarten.net/de/home/ Documentation: https://contact1523.wixsite.com/futurebeer-0506 https://vimeo.com/151476896 (Dortmund) Podcast hosted and produced by Summer Banks Co-host: Cory Tamler Music: Ben Southam Image Credit: Ayumi Matsuzaka, printed in the Dortmunder Neu Gold – Kunst, Bier & Alchemie catalogue - Curator and Publisher: Stefan Riekeles Sound Effects from FreeSound.org: beer: by https://freesound.org/people/HDM2013/sounds/179439/ flush: "Toilet Flush, European, Distant, Lid Up.wav" by InspectorJ (http://www.jshaw.co.uk/)

19 JAN 2023 · Slowly but surely the names of the victims are starting to become an integral part of protests against far-right extremism and police brutality. But what about the names of those who were murdered over two decades ago? And what if most people in the country they were killed in don't know how to pronounce them? Takdir. Die Anerkennung is one artist's response to this ongoing problem. A participatory performance that's part language lesson and part collective ritual, it's the subject of our conversation with Stuttgart-based artist Ülkü Süngün. Takdir. Die Anerkennung - Berlin 2021 by http://ulkusungun.info/ October 3rd performance hosted by the Maxim Gorki Theatre Video installation version on display as part of the https://offener-prozess.de/en/exhibition-offener-prozess/ exhibition. https://www.offener-prozess.net/en/takdir-die-anerkennung. NOTE: this is the 2021 version which does not have the updated pronounciation of Mehmet (Mɛmɛt) Kubaşık. Please go support the https://www.nsu-tribunal.de/en/ and https://www.nsu-watch.info/en/. Podcast hosted and produced by Summer Banks Co-host: Cory Tamler Music: Ben Southam Sound from: Maxim Gorki Theatre Berlin Photo Credit: Summer Banks Dedicated to the memory of Enver Şimşek Abdurrahim Özüdoğru Süleyman Taşköprü Habil Kılıç Mehmet Turgut İsmail Yaşar Theodoros Boulgarides Mehmet Kubaşık Halit Yozgat Michèle Kiesewetter

3 JUL 2022 · Dortmund, 2016. A neo-Nazi march is scheduled to take place in June, and a group of artists decide to take a different approach to participating in the counterprotests. And join up with the city theater and a variety of other organizations along the way. The Mirror Barricade is a work of social sculpture and the subject of the pilot episode of The Department of Useful Art. Mirror Barricade - Dortmund 2016 by TOOLS FOR ACTION in collaboration with Theater Dortmund Photo Credit: Regenfrei productions Podcast hosted and produced by Summer Banks Music: Ben Southam Voiceover: Shiri Lanton Sound from: TOOLS FOR ACTION original from 2021. remastered and rereleased in 2022.