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Un/knowing Podcast Episode 2: Soul technologies and prophetic dreams with Akeelah Bertram

Akeelah Bertram: soul technologies and prophetic dreams The second episode of LEAP Lab’s 'Un/knowing' podcast was recorded last October at the end of guest Akeelah Bertram’s tenure as the Cavendish Art Science Fellow 2024-25. We had a meandering conversation walking around Girton College, touching on consciousness, water, dreams, and visions… continuing our earlier discussions on the Cambridge Physics department podcast (Ep 38 — link below) into the realm of the unknown and unexplained. Akeelah is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice sits at the intersection of immersive installation, sound, technology, and spiritual inquiry. Through works like the forthcoming 1000 MOONS, she creates experiences that investigate what she terms as ‘Sacred Architecture’—spaces shaped by emotional and spiritual resonance rather than physical structure alone. Central to her practice is Sonic Ceremony, a methodology drawing from congregational vocal traditions that explores how collective sound-making creates containers for witness, transformation, and communal knowing. During her time as the Cavendish Art Science Fellow, Akeelah’s research examined the relationship between digital technologies and ancestral practices of gathering, resonance, and the technologies of the soul—inquiries that continue to inform her writing and installations. Her reflections on these themes can be found at Just a Feeling on Substack, where she explores Sacred Architecture and ways of knowing that resist easy categorisation. Akeelah's links: • Substack: Just a Feeling - https://open.substack.com/pub/akeelahbertram • YouTube: https://youtube.com/@studioakeelahbertram • Website: www.akeelahbertram.com People Doing Physics podcast, Ep 38 “Creativity in science: a conversation with Akeelah Bertram and Kevin Lim”: https://people-doing-physics.captivate.fm/episode/creativity-in-science-a-conversation-with-akeelah-bertram-and-kevin-lim Cavendish Arts Science Fellowship: https://www.cavendish-artscience.org.uk/ CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities): https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/about/ LEAP (Living Experiments in Arts-Science Practice to Re-imagine Sustainability) Lab: https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/research-labs/leap-lab/ Podcast produced, hosted, recorded, and edited by Kevin Lim (@KevinTPLim): https://kevintplim.com

About Thoughtlines

Thoughtlines brings you the best academic thinking outside the box from CRASSH at the University of Cambridge. The podcast is presented by Catherine Galloway and produced by Carl Homer at Cambridge TV. A well as Thoughtlines episodes you can enjoy podcast episodes produced by some or our Research Networks and Research Labs. The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) is an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Cambridge. Founded in 2001, CRASSH came into being as a way to create interdisciplinary dialogue across the University’s many faculties and departments in the arts, social sciences and humanities, as well as to build bridges with scientific subjects. It has now grown into one of the largest humanities institutes in the world and is a major presence in academic life in the UK. It serves at once to draw together disciplinary perspectives in Cambridge and to disseminate new ideas to audiences across Europe and beyond. Access more episodes, subscribe, and learn more.