In Conversation: Making the system work for you with Libby Harward

It's episode five and I'm talking to Libby Harward. In this conversation, I feel like we're coming full circle! Libby has an inspiring wholistic way of conducting herself in the world which integrates broad systems and politics with the body and its chemical reactions. We discuss how cultural practice can heal and also start brainstorming some ways that artists and institutions can keep context around an art object. She's a badass who, during this episode, reminds me that artists have both agency and responsibility.

You can look at her work, including a recent suite of online works, on her website here.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Some Thoughts about the Philosophical Underpinnings of Aboriginal Worldviews by Dr Mary Graham

http://australianhumanitiesreview.org/2008/11/01/some-thoughts-about-the-philosophical-underpinnings-of-aboriginal-worldviews/

Pleasure Activism by Adrienne Marie Brown

https://www.akpress.org/pleasure-activism.html

Generative Somatics

https://generativesomatics.org/

In Conversation: Dissolving boundaries & binaries with Mary McIntyre

It was my pleasure to catch up with Mary McIntyre this week, to help me take apart some of my black and white thinking around my arts practice in the wake of all the new concepts and ideas I've been trying to integrate during this residency. In this super therapeutic episode, we discuss how to navigate complexity and complicity and how to be in relationship with systems that may not serve you, all through a somatic lens.

This episode is a bit longer, however it includes two meditations! I encourage you to sit down and close your eyes whilst listening to them (if it's possible).

Here's a short video of the hand action for the second meditation for regulating your nervous system which Mary guided me through.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Pleasure Activism by Adrienne Marie Brown

https://www.akpress.org/pleasure-activism.html

Sally Molloy - Artist behind "Backyard Reckoning", a guided audio for decolonising your own backyard

https://sallymolloy.wordpress.com/

In Conversation: Prefigurative Politics with Natalie Osborne

I was lucky enough to recruit one of my dearest and most intelligent friends Natalie Osborne to talk Prefigurative Politics with me this week. In this episode, we discuss creating the post-capitalist world we would like to see in the present and all that it entails- the art of failure, radical care, an appreciation for smallness, cultivating our relationships to place and context, daily practices, and navigating complicity.

This episode is a wild ride full of big (and small) ideas, I felt like I was hanging on by my coat tails for much of it! But it's also full of warmth and a healthy dose of we're-doing-the-best-we-can.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Nat's article- For Still Possible Cities: A Politics of Failure for the Politically Depressed

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329190544_For_still_possible_cities_a_politics_of_failure_for_the_politically_depressed

How to do Nothing by Jenny Odell

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/600671/how-to-do-nothing-by-jenny-odell/9781612197494/

How to be an Anticapitalist in the 21st Century by Erik Olin Wright

https://www.versobooks.com/books/3065-how-to-be-an-anticapitalist-in-the-twenty-first-century

Sally Molloy - Artist behind "Backyard Reckoning", a guided audio for decolonising your own backyard

https://sallymolloy.wordpress.com/