In the second episode of the European Pavilion Podcast we ask ourselves: in the light of a post-national and inclusive Europe, how should we address issues of representation? Together with our guests, activists and organizers Zamzam Ibrahim and Jóci Marton, as well as philosopher and novelist Tristan Garcia, we propose to open up the notion of representation and how it resonates politically, aesthetically but also intimately.

Following the first part of this episode, in which we discuss the relation between being present and being represented, our guests look here at strategies (including self-representation and the role of education) to address representation or the lack of it.

With:

• Tristan Garcia is a French philosopher and novelist, widely published in prose and non-fiction. In December 2020, his book ‘We Ourselves: The Politics of Us’ was published by the Edinburgh University Press.
  
• Zamzam Ibrahim is a climate activist and organizer. She is the president and a founding trustee of Students Organising for Sustainability. She was nominated for the Young European of the Year 2020 award.
  
• Jóci Marton is a Roma LGBTQI+ activist from Hungary. His work mainly focuses on intersectionality and identity politics. In 2019, he organized “Owning the Game”, a photo exhibition developed with the Roma LGBTQ+ community.