Clare Knox-Bentham is a Creative Arts Educator & Business Advisor + Coach; an artist, and a passionate advocate for engagement with creative practice.

Sofia investigates the structures affecting cultural workers and creative choices, with a focus on the interplay of austerity politics and professionalisation processes, purported by cultural neoliberal policies. She actively advocates for artists’ right to dignified pay, stable working conditions, and artistic freedom, sharing her research findings through articles, talks, and publications, to foster awareness and impact the narrative on these crucial issues.

This episode explores the long creative journey of Philip Glass through his memoir, ‘Words Without Music: A Memoir’, focussing specifically on what creators can learn to develop sustainable practices.

In this episode, Giulia meets with Merel Zwarts to discuss how creative practices can be applied to rethink our relationship with food, agriculture and history.

In this episode, Giulia invites Diego Best to discuss his love for acting, the importance of creative practices, and art as a concentrated expression of what life is. Together, they inhabit the ruin of ‘serendipity’ and leave us with many new insights on how to approach our creative practices daily. Diego is an actor from Curaçao based in Amsterdam. These days he mainly spends his time performing and thinking about theater. You can follow Diego on Instagram and feel free to reach out to him there, he would be happy to talk about anything, but especially the brilliance of Geena Rowlands, his current acting obsession.

This episode concludes the first season of the LateMode podcast. Marta and Giulia sit down together to ask themselves what has come out of the year of ruins left behind by each guest. They bring into question the very title of the podcast: what did the conversations highlight about the spirit of our time? With the topic of Love thrown in the mix, they re-enchant each concept to bring about new considerations and hopes for the year to come.

In this episode, Giulia sat down with Silvestro Morlando. Silvestro spreads his love for southern Italian culture by making one of the best pizzas in London. He opened Sud Italia, his first pizza truck in central London 10 years ago. He offers not only authentic food but also creates a space which reminds him of the times he spent in Naples, filled with a sense of community, family traditions and a colourful atmosphere. Guided by the topic of surrender, the conversation explores the challenges of running an independent business, how to stay true to your principles and how to keep doing what you love!

For this episode, Giulia recorded a conversation with Janeen Page, a potter based in Taranaki, New Zealand. Through the alchemy of her locally sourced ceramic glazes, Janeen has been getting closer and closer to the geology of her landscape, using pottery as a bridge between the creative and the functional world of crafts. Guided by the topic of slowness we explore Janeen’s latest project. Inspired by a book written in 1960, Janeen travelled around Aotearoa for three months documenting and collecting rocks to make glazes. Stay with us to see how we moved through deep and slow time, our connection to the earth and much more!

In this episode, Marta and Francisco Trento discuss neurodiversity, time, space, the anarchive and practices of kinship grounded in care. Together, they examine the notion of ‘anarchive’ proposed by Erin Manning and wonder: how can we live together? How do we account for the present unequal distribution of care and time? And how may we restructure the terms in which we understand our shared realities? In a world that has already encroached upon ancient kinship structures and enclosures, how can we continue to claim back time with each other, make space for one another and create the conditions needed to take action together?

In this episode, Giulia is joined by Alexander Köppel, an artist, spatial designer and musician, currently based in Amsterdam. Alex’s work fuses sound and space into sensorial experiences conveyed through installations, sound production, and narrative elements. Fascinated by his modes of investigation Giulia invited him into a discussion about failure and perception. How do we create intention while leaving space for the imagination?  Those topics brought upon a reflection on how paying attention can help us care for ourselves and others.

Marta has an online chat with Fazal Rizvi, an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Karachi. Fazal's inquiry rests somewhere between the personal, the social, and the political. Having spent a few years thinking about the materiality and immateriality of the sea and its borders, Rizvi also keeps returning to the personal and familial as a place of trigger, which has taken him to a sherbet recipe that his late aunt used to make. Flowing through the topic of integrity, the conversation returns to places of memory, tracing the steps of motherhood and the legacy of immaterial archives.

Join Giulia as she sits down with Jonatan Kilefors, a talented AI artist with a background in Virtual and Augmented Reality Content Production. Together, they delve into the exciting possibilities and challenges that lie ahead in the world of AI, art, digital technology, and blockchain. From the potential of digital communities to promote freedom of expression, to the ways in which technology is shaping our relationships with one another and our artistic practices, this thought-provoking conversation will leave you questioning the future of digital technologies and their role in society. Stay tuned for a fascinating exploration of hope, expectations, and the impact of technology on the world of art.

In this episode, Giulia sits down with filmmaker Django Schrevens Da Silva to explore how empathy can bring us to reflect on our spiritual journeys. With a background in acting, Django has worked on a variety of film projects including "The Fifth Season" and "The Fortress". In this chat Django shared his ideas on screenwriting, directing, and the medium of film which he describes as a connection and bridge to the spiritual world. The exploration bounced between reality, the dream of fiction as well as the afterlife to attempt to find out how it all relates to empathy. 

Giulia sits down with Constança Saraiva to explore the topic of remembering. Constança is a Portuguese visual artist, designer, researcher, and mother based in Rotterdam. She is also one of the founders of Conversas a self-organized series of informal meetings aimed at inspiring conversations. The chat traverses the medium of the conversation as well as the printed form. Constança shared her thoughts on the role of socially engaged art in collecting and archiving stories, her notion of a poetic archive, and her experience of motherhood outside her home country.

Chatting with Renata Mirón Granados over coffee, Marta asks her about her position as a Mexican artist, her work around the figure of the ‘mestiza’ and the Andean cosmologies that have for millennia been upholding alternative understandings of balance. Trading myths, books and storytelling stories Renata and Marta honour the wisdom of common friends and wonder about the stakes of the collective in our ideas of balance. Follow LateModeSign up for our Newsletter!Our Website: latemode.netInstagram: @latemode This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit latemode.substack.com

In this episode, Giulia meets up with Marius Houschyar Friedrich to discuss the many dimensions of humility. Marius is an artist, producer, filmmaker and graphic designer who explores the role of identity and truth through his various mediums. In their chat, Giulia and Marius discuss the relationship between necessary yet contradictory states: how do we reconcile our personal urge to create with the need for public recognition? How do we talk of noise and silence? Can we stay humble while we take pride in our work?  In this conversation, you will not find an exact answer to those questions but you will flow between the duality of those topics. We hope you enjoy it! Follow Marius InstagramSoundcloud Follow LateModeSign up for our Newsletter!Our Website: latemode.netInstagram: @latemode This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit latemode.substack.com

In this episode, Giulia sits down with Tobias Winkels to chat about all things trees. Grown in Germany and currently based in Prague, Tobi is fond of trees and other refuges of wilderness. As an arborist and tree-climber, he is currently focused on fostering habitat structures serving biodiversity in both natural and man-made landscapes. In their conversation, Tobi and Giulia explore different definitions of ‘economy’ whilst applying this broader concept to the moral implications of using nature as a role model.Contact Tobi: tobias.winkels@gmail.com FURTHER RESOURCESVideoFor comedic inspiration on what kind of things you can do, check out the YouTube channel: ‘Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't’. Here are two recommendations:Tony Santoro's Guide to Illegal Tree-PlantingSomewhat Verbally Abusive "Kill Your Lawn"  Instructional VideoTrailer to ‘The Forest Maker’ a documentary by Volker Schlöndorff that portrays the Australian agronomist Tony Rinaudo and the local farmers who are revolutionising our idea of agriculture and forestry in Africa. Books‘Modern Arboriculture: A Systems Approach to the Care of Trees and Their Associates’By Alex L. Shigo‘Trees – a Lifespan Approach: Contributions to arboriculture from European practitioners’ By Dirk Dujesiefken, Neville Fay Jan-Willem de Groot, Nigel de Berker‘Conservation Arboriculture: Learning from old trees, artists and dead poets’ By Neville Fay  Follow LateModeSign up for our Newsletter!Our Website: latemode.netInstagram: @latemode This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit latemode.substack.com

In this episode, Giulia sits down with Rosie Strickland to unravel the topic of dissociation. Rosie lives in London, where she is involved in various creative projects from Art Direction to Set Design. In their chat, Rosie reflects upon her resignation from GreenPeaceUK, while discussing the current state of environmental institutions and activism today. Through the conversation, Rosie and Giulia explore the different ways of becoming more sustainable as artists and creators, in a material, economic, and societal sense. Rosie's WebsiteRosie's InstagramFollow LateModeSign up for our Newsletter!Our Website: latemode.netInstagram: @latemode This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit latemode.substack.com

In this episode about archives, curatorship and care, Marta and Richard Weaver have a chat about Richard’s experience as a digital curator and archivist at the Black Archives Amsterdam. How to build digital archives that reflect the ethos of one’s institution? And what do we even mean, when we speak of building archives? A discussion on the being and making of archives, this episode dwells on relevant topics for contemporary curatorship such as digital ontologies and the age-old questions of selectivity and transparency.

In this episode, Giulia visited ‘Vlaardingen Commons’, two streets which are the backdrop of a neighbourhood renovation project, realised by a self-organised community of people who work together with residents to revive the area. Giulia walked with Noemi Bardas, a facilitator in the community, to explain what is a self-organised community, how it relates to empowerment and how movement and dance can foster trust in ourselves and one another.