Glasgow International 2024
In this programme, Sofia takes listeners through Glasgow’s car parks, orchards, exhibition spaces, and industrial estates with sounds, music and interviews from GI 2024.
She interviews artist and founder of Earshot – the world’s first not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the study of audio for human rights and environmental advocacy – Lawrence Abu Hamdan to discuss ‘Air Pressure’, Abu Hamdan’s live audio essay which examines the effects of Israeli airspace violations. Sofia also sits down with artist Alexis Kyle Mitchell, to discuss ‘The Treasury of Human Inheritance’, a personal film about her family's battle with myotonic dystrophy. Next, she speaks with Thomas Abercromby and The School of Mutants, Lisette May Monroe from Rosie’s Disobedient Press, Mina Heyday-Waite, Reiko Goto Collins, Bobbi Cameron & Owain Train McGilvary, Tako Taal, Susan Phillipz and students from Glasgow and Dresden Schools of Art, Joey Simons, Alexis Kyle Mitchell, Rabindranth X Bhose & Belladonna Paloma & Oren Shoesmith and performance group, STASIS.
Listen to the programme here: https://radio.montezpress.com/#/show/3508
In this programme, Sofia takes listeners through Glasgow’s car parks, orchards, exhibition spaces, and industrial estates with sounds, music and interviews from GI 2024.
She interviews artist and founder of Earshot – the world’s first not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the study of audio for human rights and environmental advocacy – Lawrence Abu Hamdan to discuss ‘Air Pressure’, Abu Hamdan’s live audio essay which examines the effects of Israeli airspace violations. Sofia also sits down with artist Alexis Kyle Mitchell, to discuss ‘The Treasury of Human Inheritance’, a personal film about her family's battle with myotonic dystrophy. Next, she speaks with Thomas Abercromby and The School of Mutants, Lisette May Monroe from Rosie’s Disobedient Press, Mina Heyday-Waite, Reiko Goto Collins, Bobbi Cameron & Owain Train McGilvary, Tako Taal, Susan Phillipz and students from Glasgow and Dresden Schools of Art, Joey Simons, Alexis Kyle Mitchell, Rabindranth X Bhose & Belladonna Paloma & Oren Shoesmith and performance group, STASIS.
Listen to the programme here: https://radio.montezpress.com/#/show/3508
Metroland Cultures, 2025
Metroland Cultures is an artist community housed in a former NHS health clinic and disused council building in Kilburn, providing free studio space and support enabling artists to sustain their creative practices despite the pressures of London’s increasing property prices, shrinking studio spaces, and funding cuts.
In the programme, Sofia speaks with Linett Kamala known as Notting Hill Carnival’s ‘Sound System Queen’; artist Francesca Telling ; the collective Other Cinemas led by Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah which supports Black and non-white filmmakers; and Tom James whose project Absolute Beginners teaches young people to create practical, sustainable products. Insights are also shared by Lizzie Graham, programme curator; Louise Shelley, deputy director; and Christy O'Beirne, assistant curator. Our conversations explore the significance of working in a space once dedicated to care, Brent’s history of community resistance such as the 1970s Grunwick strikes, and the cultural power of music.
Listen back on: https://radio.montezpress.com/#/show/3659
Metroland Cultures is an artist community housed in a former NHS health clinic and disused council building in Kilburn, providing free studio space and support enabling artists to sustain their creative practices despite the pressures of London’s increasing property prices, shrinking studio spaces, and funding cuts.
In the programme, Sofia speaks with Linett Kamala known as Notting Hill Carnival’s ‘Sound System Queen’; artist Francesca Telling ; the collective Other Cinemas led by Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah which supports Black and non-white filmmakers; and Tom James whose project Absolute Beginners teaches young people to create practical, sustainable products. Insights are also shared by Lizzie Graham, programme curator; Louise Shelley, deputy director; and Christy O'Beirne, assistant curator. Our conversations explore the significance of working in a space once dedicated to care, Brent’s history of community resistance such as the 1970s Grunwick strikes, and the cultural power of music.
Listen back on: https://radio.montezpress.com/#/show/3659
Linder Sterling at Hayward Gallery
An exhibition walk through with punk queen Linder inside her retrospective, ‘Linder: Danger Came Smiling’, at Hayward Gallery in London
Linder Sterling has spent decades challenging norms, disrupting societal expectations, and reshaping feminist discourse through her provocative and multifaceted artistic practice. From her roots in the 1970s Manchester punk scene to her photomontages, performance, music, and fashion, Linder’s work continues to provoke thought and critique societal constructs around gender, identity, and representation. In this programme, Linder will walk listeners through her largest retrospective to date at the Hayward Gallery in London, Danger Came Smiling. The exhibition spans 50 years of work, exploring the evolution of pornography, the interplay between feminism and glamour, the impact of AI on art, and her experiments with deep fakes, as well as her punk origins and The Hayward’s brutalist architecture as the ideal stage for her work. With anecdotes from her career and insights into her future work, this program is both a celebration and a critique of glamour, art, and the worlds they inhabit.
Listen online: https://radio.montezpress.com/#/show/3677
An exhibition walk through with punk queen Linder inside her retrospective, ‘Linder: Danger Came Smiling’, at Hayward Gallery in London
Linder Sterling has spent decades challenging norms, disrupting societal expectations, and reshaping feminist discourse through her provocative and multifaceted artistic practice. From her roots in the 1970s Manchester punk scene to her photomontages, performance, music, and fashion, Linder’s work continues to provoke thought and critique societal constructs around gender, identity, and representation. In this programme, Linder will walk listeners through her largest retrospective to date at the Hayward Gallery in London, Danger Came Smiling. The exhibition spans 50 years of work, exploring the evolution of pornography, the interplay between feminism and glamour, the impact of AI on art, and her experiments with deep fakes, as well as her punk origins and The Hayward’s brutalist architecture as the ideal stage for her work. With anecdotes from her career and insights into her future work, this program is both a celebration and a critique of glamour, art, and the worlds they inhabit.
Listen online: https://radio.montezpress.com/#/show/3677
