Intertonal

Intertonal is a podcast series that dialogues with the exhibition Whispers, Hubbub and Paradoxes (12.11.2025 – 01.02.2026).

From Santa Mònica we have invited Chenta Tsai, Diego Falconí, Hadi Moussally and Tania Adam to create an episode around some questions raised by the exhibition:

How can we explain the violence, inequality, oppression, discrimination, and racism to which we have been subjected without once again using images and narratives generated by white hegemony, which for so long have been the norm that has described us?

How can we make evident the antagonism present in colonialism and represent ourselves through our own narratives?

Are we creating — and how — new narratives that do not forget colonial violence and its after-effects without resorting once again to dehumanization or to the status of otherness?

What might be some of the representations that, linked to the previous questions, become activated and take shape through our bodies?

With the participation of Chenta Tsai, Diego Falconí, Hadi Moussally and Tania Adam

Coordinated by Matías Rossi

This episode begins from the acknowledgment that collectivizing and organizing as migrants of the Chinese diaspora involves confronting a heterogeneity shaped by diverse identities and oppressions. It is not the same to be born in Spain and migrate later, having Chinese as a first language, to be adopted, or to go through very different class experiences where migration is driven by survival versus studying. These are trajectories that often generate internal tensions, making collective organization more complex.

In dialogue with the questions posed by the exhibition, and together with sound archives and interventions by Berna Wang and Quan Zhou (Gazpacho Agridulce), the episode affirms the power of disagreement among racialized people. It explores complex alliances within the East Asian community and in relation to other racialized communities, demonstrating that the diaspora is far from homogeneous and that its fractures can become real possibilities for political articulation. It is in friction and fragmentation that opportunities arise to imagine collectivities that do not erase differences, but rather work from them to build a shared structure.

An episode by Chenta Tsai