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Left to be Desired

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by Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts

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A Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts Podcast. Tune in to hear Maja & Reuben Fowkes talk to artists and researchers about their practice and exchange ideas at the intersection of ecology, climate change, art and the Socialist Anthropocene.

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March 27, 2026

Left to be Desired Episode 13: Terike Haapoja

Episode 13 of the SAVA podcast Left to be Desired features a conversation with artist and researcher Terike Haapoja. Left to Be Desired is available to listen to on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music/Audible and Audacy. You can also access it via the podcast website:  https://lefttobedesired.libsyn.com/site  Left to Be Desired explores the distinctiveness of the socialist path through the Anthropocene by bringing together artistic and scholarly insights into the ecologies of global socialism. Maja & Reuben Fowkes invite artists and researchers to talk about their practice and exchange ideas at the intersection of ecology, climate change, art and the Socialist Anthropocene. Terike Haapoja This episode of Left to be Desired was recorded in the Sainsbury Centre University of East Anglia on the occasion of sixth SAVA Research Week on Eco-Socialist Alliances that stretch across global geographies but also traverse species boundaries. Focusing on Terike Haapoja's work in reimagining planetary histories from a more-than-human perspective, the podcast deals with the project History According to Cattle, shedding light on the forms of oppression and exploitation faced by animals in the intensive farming systems of the Anthropocene and raising the question of whether and how things were or could be different under socialism. At the core of Haapoja's art-activist project (Against) Animal Capitalism is not just the exploration of how nonhumans are relentlessly subjugated through mechanisms of value accumulation, but also the goal of rekindling of multispecies solidarities that recognize animals as part of the working class. Terike Haapoja is an interdisciplinary visual artist. Her large scale installations, writings, and collaborations explore the possibility of nonviolent coexistence across differences, with a specific focus on multispecies politics. While rooted in environmental thought and drawing from critical animal studies and posthumanism, Haapoja's work is in dialogue with intersectional feminist and post-colonial discourses, critically reflecting on structures of exclusion that emerge from Western traditions. Haapoja is currently working on a long term project '[Against] Animal Capitalism' that seeks to build a foundation for a multispecies left politics. She is the co-editor of seven publications on art and politics/environment, and her work has been exhibited widely in solo and group shows internationally. Haapoja represented Finland in the 55th Venice Biennale with a solo show in the Nordic Pavilion.

May 21, 2025

Left to Be Desired Episode 12: Ângela Ferreira

<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW223151375 BCX4"> Episode 12 of the SAVA podcast Left to Be Desired features a conversation with artist and researcher Ângela Ferreira. </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW223151375 BCX4"> Left to Be Desired is available to listen to on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music/Audible and Audacy. You can also access it via the podcast website:   <a class= "Hyperlink SCXW223151375 BCX4" href= "https://lefttobedesired.libsyn.com/site" target="_blank" rel= "noreferrer noopener">https://lefttobedesired.libsyn.com/site</a>   </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW223151375 BCX4"> Left to Be Desired explores the distinctiveness of the socialist path through the Anthropocene by bringing together artistic and scholarly insights into the ecologies of global socialism. Maja & Reuben Fowkes invite artists and researchers to talk about their practice and exchange ideas at the intersection of ecology, climate change, art and the Socialist Anthropocene. </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW223151375 BCX4"> Ângela Ferreira </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW223151375 BCX4"> Continuing our exploration of global perspectives on the Socialist Anthropocene, in this episode of Left to Be Desired, Maja and Reuben Fowkes talk to artist and researcher Ângela Ferreira about her work on revolutionary Mozambique. We learn that the artist’s main focus is on the first post-independence years, when the government opted for a tolerant form of socialism that was open to forms of creative experimentation, before the adoption of the Soviet model of social and political organization. The podcast includes discussion of Ferreira’s collaborative project Experimental Field (2024), which explores the material and archival residues, as well as the social and environmental dimensions, of the radical agrarian practices developed at a university agricultural laboratory in the 1970s. </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW223151375 BCX4"> About the Speaker </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW223151375 BCX4"> Ângela Ferreira  Ângela Ferreira  is an artist and researcher teaching Fine Art at the University of Lisbon (FBAUL) in Portugal and in Mozambique. Ferreira’s multi-disciplinary practice is concerned with the ongoing impact of colonialism and post-colonialism on contemporary society, an investigation that is conducted through in-depth research and distillation of ideas into concise and resonant forms. The contribution of this artistic practice lies in the construction of a solid and non-pamphleteering artistic decolonial discourse. The source of her archival reference materials often triangulates the three countries of her personal history: South Africa, Mozambique and Portugal, which she represented Portugal at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007. </div>

May 14, 2025

Left to Be Desired Episode 11: Reinaldo Funes Monzote

<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW259186690 BCX4"> </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW259186690 BCX4"> Episode 11 of the SAVA podcast Left to Be Desired features a conversation with Reinaldo Funes Monzote conducted by Maja and Reuben Fowkes and Sorcha Thomson. </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW259186690 BCX4"> Left to Be Desired is available to listen to on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music/Audible and Audacy. You can also access it via the podcast website: </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW259186690 BCX4"> <a class= "Hyperlink SCXW259186690 BCX4" href= "https://lefttobedesired.libsyn.com/site" target="_blank" rel= "noreferrer noopener">https://lefttobedesired.libsyn.com/site</a> </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW259186690 BCX4"> Left to Be Desired podcast explores the distinctiveness of the socialist path through the Anthropocene by bringing together artistic and scholarly insights into the ecologies of global Socialism. Maja & Reuben Fowkes will invite artists and researchers to talk about their practice and exchange ideas at the intersection of ecology, climate change, art and the Socialist Anthropocene. </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW259186690 BCX4"> Reinaldo Funes Monzote </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW259186690 BCX4"> This episode of Left to be Desired engages Reinaldo Funes Monzote in conversation on the environmental history of Cuba and its place in the Socialist Anthropocene. Maja and Reuben Fowkes, joined by SAVA Research Fellow Sorcha Thomson, discuss with Reinaldo his work on the different eras of Cuban environmental transformation - from the entangled processes of deforestation and sugar cultivation since 1492 to the projects of geotransformación after the 1959 Revolution and what they tell us about attitudes to nature under Cuban socialism. </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW259186690 BCX4"> The conversation reflects on the impact of the end of the Soviet Union on Cuba in the 1990s and how the need to find new means of survival shaped eco-socialist and agroecological initiatives. In tracing these histories, Reinaldo complicates binary visions of the ecological imprint of socialist Cuba, instead highlighting an adaptability of Cuban approaches to the environment since the Revolution, with variable ecological impacts, in relation to the shifting conditions and legacies of colonial extraction, imperial exploitation, and global socialism that have shaped the Caribbean island. </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW259186690 BCX4"> About the Speaker </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW259186690 BCX4"> Reinaldo Funes Monzote </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW259186690 BCX4"> Reinaldo Funes Monzote is a Professor of History at the University of Havana and Coordinator of the Geo-Historical Research Program at the Antonio Núñez Jiménez Foundation in Cuba. He has held visiting professorships at universities in Spain, Brazil, Puerto Rico, and the US, and has been a Fellow at Princeton’s Davis Center for Historical Studies and the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Studies. Reinaldo is also a member of the Academy of History of Cuba and President of the Cuban Society for the History of Science and Technology. </div>

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What is Left to be Desired?: A Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts Podcast. Tune in to hear Maja & Reuben Fowkes talk to artists and researchers about their practice and exchange ideas at the intersection of ecology, climate change, art and the Socialist Anthropocene.
How often does this podcast release new episodes?: This podcast updates bi-weekly.
Where can I listen to this podcast?: This podcast is available on 6 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
Does this podcast accept guests?: No, this podcast does not typically feature guests.

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