About

Radio Unheard is a podcast designed for cultural professionals exploring the ethical dilemmas and evolving cultural practices around the intersection of art and politics. Born out of confusion rather than clarity, it asks what happens when cultural work stops being neutral—if it ever was—and starts taking sides. We talk about solidarity, ethics, visibility, and all the beautiful contradictions that come with trying to “do good” in a world that demands fast answers and clean narratives.

And fortunately, here we don’t have clean narratives.

Instead, Radio Unheard offers a space for messy, honest conversations. Through one-on-one dialogues with artists, curators, researchers, and cultural workers from across Europe and beyond, the podcast reflects on what cultural responsibility might look like—not just in response to emergencies, but in the long run. It's a place for rethinking the frameworks we operate in, without pretending there’s a perfect one waiting around the corner. If easy answers are your thing, you might want to keep scrolling—but if you're here for contradictions, slow thinking, uncomfortable silences, and the occasional moment of shared clarity— this might be a right place.

HOST

Radio Unheard is powered by the curiosity (and occasional confusion) of Asia Tsisar, a Ukrainian curator, writer, and researcher who works across the intersections of art, memory, and politics in Central and Eastern Europe. She studied Cultural Studies in Kharkiv and pursued Eastern European Studies in Warsaw, focusing on the political histories of the region and parts of stories that don’t fit neatly into narratives.

From 2020 to 2022, she was chief curator of Secondary Archive, the largest digital archive dedicated to female artists from Central and Eastern Europe. Her curatorial work has appeared at Manifesta 14 (Kosovo), the Gwangju Biennale (Korea), EVA International (Ireland), Mystetskyi Arsenal (Ukraine), and CZKD (Serbia).

Currently based in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, she curates at Asortymentna Kimnata and is finishing a collection of essays titled Obcokrajowca, written across two nomadic years of artistic research on the edges of Eastern Europe.

TEAM

  • Curator and the chef editor: Asia Tsisar
  • Editorial and promo support: MOST Magazine
  • Sound design and editing: Cafe Ptakh
  • Promotion and communication: Viktoriia Vydyborets
  • Website: Andrii K.

Radio Unheard is supported by the European Union under the House of Europe programme.

The content is the sole responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.