The podcast captures the essence of a conversation that we had with Polish-born artist Marysia Lewandowska in November 2023, at her home in suburban London. This conversation is the starting point and matrix of the research project In Their Own Words. While tracing her trajectory as an artist from the Eastern Bloc to capitalist England, Marysia Lewandowska discusses how her use of the audio recorder allowed her to connect with the Western art world. From this experience was born her “self-instituted” project, the Women’s Audio Archive, an archive of over 120 hours of recordings that has now been digitized. What is the role of an artist’s conversation and what status does art history give it? How should it be disseminated? Should it be archived? Should it be edited and, if so, to what extent? This podcast brings together the essential methodological questions raised by this discussion conducted from a feminist perspective.

Concept, editing and production by Julie Enckell et Federica Martini
Sound by Stéphane Vecchione
Thanks to Clara Alloing, Delphine Jeanneret, Vuk Vukmanovic