Your Pleasure, Our Pain Podcasts
Ethics, Regulation and the Gemstone Trade — The Compliance Industrial Complex
This podcast features Rudolf and Bwalya Bwalya Kangwa, co-founders of Rudolf’s Gems, in conversation with Dr. Tereza Østbø Kuldova (OsloMet). The discussion explores how anti-corruption regulations, certification schemes, and compliance systems shape the gemstone trade. They examine the ways such frameworks often disadvantage local producers, benefit Western corporations, and reinforce surveillance capitalism, while highlighting the gap between formal procedures and meaningful change.
What is luxury to you? — Reflections from the end of Your Pleasure, Our Pain
Recorded at the close of Residency 28, Your Pleasure, Our Pain, participants Nanna Melland, Bwalya Bwalya Kangwa and Béatrice Sylvie engage in a thoughtful exchange on how their perspectives on luxury have shifted over the course of the residency—touching on luxury as time, intimacy, care, disorientation, and collective reflection.
