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  • e87 kendra fanconi – on the artist brigade, ben okri, eco-restoration, eco-grief & reauthoring the world

    ‘We are all artists of the Anthropocene. We inherently are because this is the world that we’re living in right now. There’s no other world. We were down earlier at Robert’s Creek (BC) and it’s a salmon bearing stream. I think of it like we’re artists in the Anthropocene, like fish would be in the…

  • e81 – inspiration

    ‘Art is a practice of expanding consciousness, which gives us a tremendous opportunity to explore and to embody possibility and to engage with the earth as it continues to change and with each other.’ – Rebecca Mwase, excerpt from e10 mwase – expanding consciousness (from an interview at Creative Climate Leadership USA, March, 2020) *…

  • e64 a case study (part 2)

    ‘Welcome back to the History of 2021 in Canada seminar. We’re going to conclude our case study today of the 2nd season of the conscient podcast.’ * episode 64 is part 2 of a bilingual speculative fiction radio play set in an undergraduate university history seminar course about the arts scene in 2021 in Canada that launches season 3…

  • e63 a case study (part 1)

    ‘Welcome to the History of 2021 in Canada seminar. We’re going to do a case study today of the second season of the conscient podcast.’ * episode 63 is part 1 of a bilingual speculative fiction radio play set in an undergraduate university history seminar course about the arts scene in 2021 in Canada that launches season 3 of the…

  • e62 compilation – season / saison 2

    ‘I think capitalism is over, but the problem is we have nothing to replace it with. Here’s when we need artists, and others, to tell us what kind of vision they have for a future that is different than that: a future of play and meaningful work would be one future that I think is…

  • e54 garrett – empowering artists

    We do have a future. It may look very different and sometimes our inability to see that future is confused for there not being one.

  • e53 kalmanovitch – nurturing imagination

    We are facing a crisis of failure of imagination and one of the things that artistic practice does is to nurture imagination. It’s our job.

  • e51 hiser – the emotional wheel of climate

    The arts are maybe the last open space where boxiness and rigidity aren’t present.

  • e45 abbott – a compassionate, just and sustainable world

    Reality is deeply subjective but also socially constructed : as a filmmaker I try to explore reality to untangle and figure out in what ways are we being deluded.

  • e38 zenith – art as medicine to metabolize charge

    Art is a tributary coming off from ritual that is still consensually allowed in this reality when the direct communication with nature was silenced.