Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami

Tomorrow is the Problem -
Sponsored by the Knight Foundation,
WEBBY AWARD Honoree

Creative, Concept, Content, Strategy, Archival Research, Podcast Production

Working with Jocelyn has been a true pleasure from start to finish. As a writer, she has a sensitivity to the material and voices of podcast guests, producing a beautiful episode in Season 2 on Jazz as a critical way of being in the world. In her role as Senior Producer, she is organized, collaborative, and very mindful of the needs of her team. I was always impressed with her ability to both connect with each of us and keep track of challenges, how things were moving forward, as well as brainstorming ideas, while at the same time, making sure we maintain everything we needed to to stay on a production timeline. Before the production process, Jocelyn was also very proactive in assembling a team that would offer varied and diverse strengths while also making sure we were bringing together the necessary perspectives to create episodes that were sharply and insightfully attuned to issues of race, gender, politics, and global cultural histories. As a leader, Jocelyn is very ethical, with a strong ability to listen to her team and stand up in moments of necessary leadership. Team members were endowed with a sense of autonomy and dedication to their work because of the work environment produced by Jocelyn. Creating this podcast series is a very involved, dedicated and time consuming experience, with challenges that sometimes cannot be anticipated, even with ample preparation, but working with Jocelyn in all aspects of the production process makes the work that much easier and seamless. I cannot recommend Jocelyn enough for future projects, and hope you will have the opportunity to work with her.
— Donna Honarpisheh, Curator, ICA-Miami

The Ask

Create a brand new podcast series for the Museum to explore familiar concepts from everyday life that we often take for granted, expanding these concepts to understand their critical histories and cultural underpinnings to forever change the way we view them.

Our Deliverables

In collaboration with Podfly Productions, ARBO RADIKO created the first ICA Podcast Series exploration across an 8-episode podcast series (Seasons 1 and 2) as a new marketing vertical for the museum, featuring guests from various academic and creative art practice backgrounds, highlighting exhibitions and artists on site at ICA. The series explores themes of diaspora, environmental activism, sound, spatial consciousness, community, and creative practice, prompted by our host’s academic inquiry and archival research.

Our Reimagining

In order to enhance the interview format for the most engaging listening experience, we partnered with DJs, libraries and archives on site in Miami to unearth audio assets for use in our Signal Award-winning sound design. By conducting pre-interviews and archival research before each recording session, our assemblies were crafted and informed by our guest’s media histories and connection to the contemporary art world today, inviting new engagement with the ICA Museum and its mission.