Maja Smrekar is the guest of the 10th episode (and last, alas!) of the podcast series I made with artists who 1. are among my absolute cultural heroes and 2. have exhibited at Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art in Ljubljana.

Maja Smrekar is an artist, a researcher and a professor at the Fine Art and Design Academy in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Over the years, Maja has been addressing critical bioethical complexities, in particular inter-species relationships, the ambiguities of technological materials and practices as well as the concept of the post-human world and she has been looking at all those issues LONG before it became fashionable to do so.

In this episode, we are talking about her research into human/dog/wolf co-evolution; the possibility to create a hybrid of the human and the dog species; her experiments with biologically manipulating her own body so that she could breast feed an Icelandic Spitz puppy; transpecies motherhood; taboos around the female body and more.

Maja Smrekar, Hybrid Family, 2016

Maja Smrekar, Opus et Domus, 2018

I hope you enjoy the episode!

Previous podcast episodes: Tactics&Practice [podcast]: The Future Behind Us. Episode 1, Trevor Paglen, Episode 2, Nora Al-Badri, Episode 3, UBERMORGEN, Episode 4, Jill Magid, Episode 5, Paolo Pedercini, Episode 6: Evan Roth, Episode 7: !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Episode 8: Sanela Jahić, Episode 9: Pinar Yoldas.