Podcast Episodes

a calm presence - gliding towards a crash

Season 5

gliding towards a crash

reflections on this moment 

Note: This bonus episode is from my ‘a calm presence’ substack about ‘short, practical essays about collapse acceptance, adaptation, response and art…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

e204 sophie weider - hearing young voices through art

Season 5 Episode 204

I'd like to use art more as a tool to get people thinking, get people involved, especially young people, and hopefully, help them process the emotions of climate change and move towards a space of ac…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

e203 leslie reid - climate as art

Season 5 Episode 203

All artists have to be aware of climate because otherwise it's not art (and that's going to piss some people off - Claude Schryer). I think it will. Climate infuses all our responses to everything, t…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

e202 coman poon - what are you doing with your life ?

Season 5 Episode 202

We're going through a crash, the sixth extinction, climate collapse, geopolitical collapse, economic collapse, all types of overlapping, interlaced cycles of destruction. And like on planes, what you…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

e201 robin sokoloski - why arts matter

Season 5 Episode 201

I believe that we are all connected by these invisible threads, the shared sinew amongst all living things, that includes humans, plants, animals, what have you, and that what art is, is the lighting…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

e200 maggie chang - the power of art

Season 5 Episode 200

I really think art is one of the most important things to help tackle issues and create social change. There's that quote from Maya Angelou that goes something like ‘people will forget what you say o…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

a calm presence - lens shift

Season 5

This is a bonus episode from my 'a calm presence' substack: lens shift featuring an excerpt from e164 jimmy ung - proximity proportionate responsibility.

The original text is below. The audio version …

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

e199 judi pearl - an ineffable shift

Season 5 Episode 199

The role of the artist in the climate crisis is not simply to communicate scientific information in a sort of dressed up kind of way, but really to engage the imagination to do that thing that only a…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

e198 tim brodhead - later is too late

Season 5 Episode 198

If we're going to see change happen, it's going to be because people change and that doesn't occur when you preach to them or you evangelize or anything else. It comes because people, in whatever way…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

e197 zan chandler - other ways of responding to the world

Season 5 Episode 197

That's the thing about the future's work and foresight work is you need a very broad range of thinkers. You need people from different perspectives who speak different languages and who recognize dif…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago