Spill: Radio is a weekly radio show and podcast that anticipates, extends and enriches the themes of the Spill exhibition. For each week of Spill, performances and field recordings will be broadcast on CiTR 101.9 FM that offer insight into artistic processes engaged with the environment, extraction and embodied performance.
This project engages radio as a site for the relational study of ecosystems and their processes that register the hyper-financialization of the biosphere’s resources. Destabilizing vision as the privileged mode of understanding, Spill: Radio seeks to practice ways of listening to the intangible, the submerged and the sensuous in order to imagine and think with our world more complexly. By attending to sites of extraction with artists, writers and community organizers, Spill: Radio considers ways that the transformation and contamination of the environment are connected to universalizing settler-colonial logics, and the emergent possibilities of collectively listening.
Spill: Radio is curated by Tatiana Mellema and is presented in collaboration with CiTR 101.9 FM, with sound production and editing by Joshua Stevenson. Episodes for each week of the Spill exhibition will be aired on Tuesdays at 10 am on CiTR 101.9 FM and made available for you to download on 
Apple Podcasts and 
Google Podcasts.
Episodes
Episode 1 (September 3): Susan Schuppli in conversation with Lorna Brown
Episode 2 (September 10): Genevieve Robertson in conversation with Lorna Brown
Episode 3 (September 17): Teresa Montoya at Symposium: Practices of Resistance
Episode 4 (September 24): Carolina Caycedo in conversation with Tatiana Mellema
Episode 5 (October 1): Zoe Todd and Heather Davis in conversation with Tatiana Mellema
Episode 6 (October 8): Recordings from the UBC Climate Strike
Episode 7 (October 15): Guadalupe Martinez in conversation with Denise Ryner and performances by CUERPO
Episode 8 (October 22): T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss and Anne Riley in conversation with Bopha Chhay on Artspeak Radio Digest
Episode 9 (October 29): Nelly César’s performative lecture Lxs artistas del fin del mundx presented on October 16, 2019 as part of Spill Response
Episode 10 (November 5): A visit to Kwekwecnewtxw, the Coast Salish Watch House and guided walk along the proposed Kinder Morgan Pipeline on October 18, 2019 with artist Jay White, poet Rita Wong, streamkeeper John Preissl, and Jim Leyden of Mountain Protectors as part of Spill: Response
Episode 11 (November 12): Artist talk by Maria Thereza Alves presented by the City of Vancouver Public Art Program and SFU Galleries on October 18, 2019 during Spill: Response
Episode 12 (November 19): Anne Riley and T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss in conversation with Guadalupe Martinez as part of Spill: Response with soundscapes by Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora recorded at the UBC Farm
Episode 13 (November 26): An Afterword by Tatiana Mellema
Image (above): Susan Schuppli, Nature Represents Itself (detail), 2018
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Presented in collaboration with CiTR 101.9 FM
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