Podcast Series: Speculative Futures of Objects

Uncontainable Collections: Speculative Futures of Objects is a limited-series podcast produced by the Goldfarb Art Gallery at York University featuring three extended conversations exploring the prospective and yet-unknown condition of the might-be through the lens of museum collections and contemporary art.

In this series, scholars, curators, and artists engage with articulations, expressions, and representations of the (im)possible, (extra)ordinary, and (un)imaginable—i.e., speculative—futures that diverse individuals, groups, communities, and societies are envisaging, dreaming, composing, conjuring, imagining, and bringing into being. Please stay tuned for episodes with Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Ayana V. Jackson, Camille Turner, Megan Tamati-Quennell, Subash Thebe Limbu, and Crystal Mowry.

This series developed from conversations between AGYU curators Lillian O’Brien Davis and Clara Halpern and Zulfikar Hirji related to the University’s art collection and a course at York University that considers various perspectives: Indigenous Futurisms, African Futurisms, Afro-American Futurisms, Arab/Gulf/Muslim Futurisms, Asian/Sino/Indo/South-Asian/Adivasi Futurisms, MesoAmerican/LatinX Futurisms.