Under My Skin
There are things we simply can’t shrug off. Provoking art, controversial books, compelling films or disarming news. In this weekly series, we scratch away at those things that get under our skin. About the producer: Viviana is an Italian-Canadian painter, illustrator and creative producer based in Berlin.
Episodes
Friday May 31, 2024
Novels, Empathy and Escapism: a Quiet Revolution
Friday May 31, 2024
Friday May 31, 2024
Ditch your non-fiction books for a while and get lost in a made-up story. From the Theory of Mind to Feminism and hidden revolutions, in this episode we explore how novels hold the key to understanding reality--or escaping it.
Friday May 17, 2024
New York, a place in the mind
Friday May 17, 2024
Friday May 17, 2024
"Robot Dreams" is a cinematic love letter to a glorious 1980s New York. In this episode, inspired by the film, I explore my nostalgia for a pre 9/11 world, the role of cities in Italo Calvino and the poetics of places of Gaston Bachelard.
Monday May 06, 2024
The sound of silence and other myths
Monday May 06, 2024
Monday May 06, 2024
Does silence actually exist? Or is it filled with frequencies that are supposed to alert us to the reality around us? In this episode, we look at the role of sound in social contexts, from Nazism to John Kennedy assassination and mindful meditation. Original music by Viviana Laperchia.
Thursday Apr 25, 2024
Women, social justice and all that jazz
Thursday Apr 25, 2024
Thursday Apr 25, 2024
Have you ever wondered if your higher sense of justice is a personality trait or a symptom? Are women more prone to be neurodivergent or just more sensitive? In this episode, we're looking at Emily Dickinson's poetry and Billie Holiday's singing* to find an answer.
*For commentary purposes, this episode contains an audio sample of "Strange Fruit" performed by Billie Holiday in 1939, freely available under Wikipedia
Monday Apr 15, 2024
Tell me where you’re from (and I’ll pretend I know what it’s like)
Monday Apr 15, 2024
Monday Apr 15, 2024
Can we ever really experience migrants' struggle to be able to care for them? Or are we playing with cultural appropriation? A brief journey through migration and colonialism, arts and politics on both sides of the ocean.
Monday Apr 08, 2024
The importance of (having a) voice.
Monday Apr 08, 2024
Monday Apr 08, 2024
If we are what we say, then there's never been better time than now to have a voice. From Edgar Allan Poe's ventriloquism to Noam Chomsky's theory of language acquisition, I comb through my university memories to understand today's silence on Gaza.
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
What’s this all about?
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
Big breath, and... Let's get started! Here's a sneak peek of what you can expect from this podcast. A journey to uncover things that need to be talked about. News, films, books, art that get under our skin and keep us up at night.