Revolutionary Roads. Destination: Comradeship, with Ahmet Öğüt (2025) (EMPIRE LINES x Moderna galerija, Art on the Underground)

In this episode, conceptual artist Ahmet Öğüt travels by train through Ottoman Turkey, the former Yugoslavia and Western Balkans, to the London Underground, navigating histories and contemporary expressions of solidarity via the 2025 programme, Revolutionary Roads. Destination: Comradeship.

Revolutionary Roads. Destination: Comradeship was organised by the Moderna galerija in Ljubljana, the Museum of African Art in Belgrade, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro in Podgorica in August 2025.

Ahmet Öğüt: Saved by the Whale's Tail, Saved by Art is at Stratford Station in London until December 2026, commissioned by Art on the Underground and New Contemporaries.

Museum Yet to Be is at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro in Pogdorica until 15 March 2026.

Translated into Socialism was at the Moderna galerija in Ljubljana until 8 February 2026.

The East Remains Possible is at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje (MoCA – Skopje) until March 29, 2026.

For more from Art on the Underground, listen to contemporary artist Barby Asante on her collective choral performance, Declaration of Independence (2023), at Stratford Station in London: pod.link/1533637675/episode/aa2803b68933ab974ca584cf6a18479c

And on migrations between Turkey and France, hear Nil Yalter, awardee of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale in 2024, at Ab-Anbar Galleryduring London Gallery Weekend 2023, with Exile is a Hard Job (1974-Now): pod.link/1533637675/episode/36b8c7d8d613b78262e54e38ac62e70f

PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic.

Follow EMPIRE LINES on Twitter: twitter.com/jelsofron/status/1306563558063271936

And Instagram: instagram.com/empirelinespodcast

Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: patreon.com/empirelines

Tämä jakso on lisätty Podme-palveluun avoimen RSS-syötteen kautta eikä se ole Podmen omaa tuotantoa. Siksi jakso saattaa sisältää mainontaa.

Jaksot(167)

The Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba (8th Century)

Dr. Michele Lamprakos reconstructs the imperial flows of Islamic and Byzantine architecture from 8th century Spain, through the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba, or the Mezquita. A strange, hybrid building...

13 Loka 202212min

Queen Anne Wine Bottle, Shiraz (1708)

Dr. Peter Good traces the flows of Persian wine culture through precolonial India into Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, via the Queen Anne Wine Bottle from Shiraz. No other alcoholic drink has i...

29 Syys 202213min

Self Evident, Ingrid Pollard (1992) (EMPIRE LINES x Turner Contemporary Interview)

We're celebrating fifty episodes of EMPIRE LINES, with three specials recorded offline and in the museum space – this time in the Turner Contemporary in Margate, for their latest exhibition Ingrid Pol...

15 Syys 202212min

Batchelor Girl's Room, Althea McNish/Studio Nyali (1966/2022) (EMPIRE LINES x William Morris Gallery Interview)

We're celebrating fifty episodes of EMPIRE LINES, with three specials recorded offline and in the museum space – this time in the William Morris Gallery, in London, for their latest exhibition Althea ...

1 Syys 202218min

Murals, Malangatana Ngwenya (1967, 1987) (EMPIRE LINES x Tate Modern and The Africa Centre Interview)

We're celebrating fifty episodes of EMPIRE LINES, with three specials recorded offline and in the museum space – this time in the Tate Modern, in London, for their latest exhibition Surrealism Beyond ...

19 Elo 202242min

Memorial to Lost Words at the Lahore Museum, Bani Abidi (2016/2018)

Dr. Sonal Khullar sounds out how the Long Partition shapes Indian and Pakistani identities, through Bani Abidi's 2016 audio installation, Memorial to Lost Words. Memorial to Lost Words has been seen a...

11 Elo 202216min

The Dark Dancer, Balachandra Rajan (1958)

Dr. Nalini Iyer rereads South Indian and diasporic experiences of Partition, through Balachandra Rajan's 1958 novel, The Dark Dancer. Born in British India but educated at Cambridge University, V. S. ...

4 Elo 202217min

Colonial Days: We Demand Colonies For Poland Poster, Maritime and Colonial League (1938)

Dr. Piotr Puchalski depicts interwar Poland's imperial aspirations, through the Maritime and Colonial League's 1938 poster, Colonial Days: We Demand Colonies For Poland. Facing economic crises and the...

21 Heinä 202216min