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In this episode of Obsessions, we look at a character we’re supposed to forget. Marie Cardona — the girlfriend, the body, the symbol — in Albert Camus’s The Stranger.

Joëlle Antonia Santiago, a choreographer, performer, and writer based between New York and Paris, refuses to let Marie fade into the background. A Fulbright fellow in residence at the Fondation des États-Unis in Paris, Joëlle creates immersive, site-specific work that examines how our bodies carry — and resist — stories, ideologies, and symbols. Her choreography has been presented across major institutions in the U.S. and France. She teaches at NYU Tisch and will continue her studies at the Sorbonne.

In this episode, Joëlle reflects on a year spent dancing with older, ill, or disabled bodies — bodies no longer trying to "preserve youth" but instead embodying time, change, and vulnerability.

She then turns her lens on Marie — a woman who loves a man condemned to die, and yet walks away untouched. What does that say about how we, too, detach from grief, from mortality, from the absurd?

✨ Un podcast créé et animé par Macha Matalaev
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In this episode, artist Joe Ramirez takes us inside Hieronymus Bosch's legendary Garden of Earthly Delights and talks about how this work influenced his own vision - The Gold Projections, a unique fusion of painting, cinema, and immersive installation. Trained in Chicago and London, he has spent over a decade (and even more) exploring matter, light, and time. This episode, where ancient art meets contemporary vision, through obsession and slowness, is a special one. Enjoy !

✨ Un podcast créé et animé par Macha Matalaev
📲 Suivez-nous sur Instagram : @Obsessions_Podcast
📩 Contact : mmeditions.com

Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

🎙️ Obsessions #06 – Ruth Thrush on Oscar Wilde

🇬🇧 In this episode of Obsessions, Ruth Thrush dives into Oscar Wilde’s dazzling and dangerous essay The Soul of Man Under Socialism.

Written in 1891, Wilde’s vision isn’t about moral duty or economic reform — it’s about liberating the individual, giving art and beauty the space to flourish outside the iron cage of capitalism.

Ruth unpacks Wilde’s aesthetic rebellion, his biting irony, and his radical belief that true individualism can only exist in a world where no one is oppressed by poverty or conformity.

✨ Can socialism set the artist free?
🎭 Is beauty political?
📚 And how does Wilde’s glittering style serve his subversive ideas?

A passionate, joyful, and utterly unorthodox journey into literature and politics.

🇫🇷 Dans cet épisode d’Obsessions, Ruth Thrush explore un essai aussi flamboyant que subversif : The Soul of Man Under Socialism, d’Oscar Wilde.

Écrit en 1891, ce texte n’est pas un manifeste classique — c’est une déclaration d’amour à la liberté individuelle, à l’art, à l’imagination.

Ruth décrypte la vision d’un Wilde esthète et radical, joueur et profond, qui rêve d’un monde où la beauté serait un droit et l’individualité, un acte politique.

✨ Le socialisme peut-il libérer l’artiste ?
🎨 L’esthétisme est-il une arme ?
📖 Et que nous dit le style étincelant de Wilde sur sa pensée révolutionnaire ?

✨ Un podcast créé et animé par Macha Matalaev
📲 Suivez-nous sur Instagram : @Obsessions_Podcast
📩 Contact : mmeditions.com

Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.