Future Artefacts

Future Artefacts - Episode 12 15.05.26

Fri, 15 May 2026 16:20:36 +0000

Emily Roderick is the fourth and final guest of our ‘as a chorus’ mini series, sharing recordings, interviews with family members, and field research inside bell towers from her ongoing project Can You Call A Touch. In this episode, we focus on her research around bell ringing, a deeply social, intergenerational practice that sits somewhere between music, ritual and public communication.

Future Artefacts - Episode 11 08.02.26

Fri, 15 May 2026 16:17:27 +0000

Future Artefacts - Episode 10 14.12.25

Fri, 15 May 2026 16:14:11 +0000

What conditions do we gather in, can this exist without hierarchy, or even a physical space? Most Dismal Swamp joins our mini series ‘as a chorus’ sharing audio extracts from The Bastard Fields. A mixtape of 3 sketches that builds on the language of historical preachers, reddit forums and social media commentary, weaving a world which asks about the nightmares that instil our need to come together

Future Artefacts - Episode 9 19.10.25

Fri, 15 May 2026 16:12:05 +0000

Can choirs be a form of protest and what kinds of resistance could they provide in the midst of climate crises?

Our mini-series ‘as a chorus’ begins with Niamh Schmidtke’s work, CHANTER (Aughinish). Their 15 minute audio introduces us to an aluminium refinery and it’s impact on the local population. Together we discuss how the work incites forms of direct action, and the need for collective making

Future Artefacts - Episode 8 24.08.25

Fri, 15 May 2026 16:09:15 +0000

Black Holes Act 1 is a 40-minute radio play by Suley, which examines the UK after last year’s race riots. A re-imagining of Derrick Bell’s 1992 ‘Space Traders’, this is a work of speculative fiction where aliens offer the UK vast riches in exchange for its Black citizens. This two-part episode asks if progress for racial justice happens only when it aligns with the interests of a White majority.

Future Artefacts - Episode 7 29.06.25

Fri, 15 May 2026 16:06:55 +0000

Future Artefacts - Episode 6 04.05.25

Fri, 15 May 2026 16:05:17 +0000

What is the next New Weird? How might ‘weirding’ help generate spaces which resist cultural binaries? For this episode, we recap the 4 artist works featured on our New Weird mini-series, revisiting questions of how the tools of this literary genre might provide emancipatory places to build new worlds from.

Future Artefacts - Episode 5 09.03.25

Fri, 15 May 2026 16:03:08 +0000

Future Artefacts FM host artist Monya Riachi, as part of their New Weird Mini-series. Her work, Concerning Geographies: Entangled Histories, a speculative letter, addresses cartography across the Levante and the UK. Heard here as part of a live performance debuted alongside research unfolding the processes of map making, and their relationships to borders and power as imperial constructions.

Future Artefacts - Episode 4 12.01.25

Fri, 15 May 2026 16:01:29 +0000

Part three of our New Weird mini series features Jelena Viskovic’s Motonation. This 9 minute extract shows us two societies, Happy Nation & The Grid, where we follow Čedo as he decides which group to join. This surrealist sci-fi examines the consequences of individual vs collective desires, referencing Yugoslav performance art from the 1980s, and tools of humour and weirding during Čedo’s journey.

Future Artefacts - Episode 3 17.11.24

Fri, 15 May 2026 15:59:26 +0000

For the second part of our New Weird mini series Chris MacInnes shares Impotent Island, an installation that’s been adapted for audio broadcast. In the 11 minute audio we listen to MacInnes’ narration collapse time, connecting cosmology at a planetary scale to Sheffield’s historical industrialisation through the extraction of coal, the heat of steam and their impact within the anthropocene.

Future Artefacts - Episode 2 22.09.24

Fri, 15 May 2026 15:57:49 +0000

Our latest mini-series on the New Weird begins with the premier of Philip Speakman’s, Reality Break, a 15-minute audio work, which follows the recollections of 4 facebook employee’s DnD game in the summer of 2020. Together we ask if weirding is an accessible tool to reimagine our present, and how the uncanny draws attention to norms enforced by late stage capitalism.

Future Artefacts - Episode 1 28.07.24

Fri, 15 May 2026 15:55:39 +0000

For the second part of our double bill with co-founder Niamh Schmidtke, we are listening to the final half of Pulling Blood from a Stone, a 35 minute radio play. Alberto Duman joins us as co-presenter, addressing key questions in act 3 and 4 about how minerals might hold kinship with specific places or peoples affected colonisation.