Tobi's Arts Performed Podcast

Podcast Show Notes: Episode 25: Intro: Hello everyone. I am your host Tobi and welcome to the 25th episode This week I talk to Anirrudha Das AKA Dr Das in the second part of his interview where we talk more about what is Asian dub Foundation, his solo projects, the importance of his collaborations and the political effect of dub noise and political frequencies. He also told me of a debut of his new album and his new electronic solo project in Poplar London on Friday the 31st of August, named “Dhangsha”, the Bengali word for destruction. Also his friend and collaborator Gary from Dub Morphology will be doing a debut gig for “Bantu” on Friday the 24th of August.   Outro: Listening back to this part of his interview I’m reminded of how engaged and passionate he is with politics, culture and racism. I went to se Asian Dub Foundation at the Garage in London and their live music set was every bit as visceral and hard hitting as Anirrudha’s interview.   You can find Anirrudha's work with ADF and his solo Projects and collaborations here: Anirrudha Das Music and Production Dr Das on Sound Cloud Asian Dub Foundation Gary Stewart. Dub Morphology Please like, comment, subscribe and share from my:iTunestwitter.com/artsperformedyoutubeinstagram.com/artsperformed/artsperformed.wordpress.comfacebook.com/artsperformed/  

Podcast Show Notes: Episode 24: Intro: Hello everyone. I am your host Tobi and welcome to the 24th episode This week I talk to Aniruddha Das AKA Dr Das about, his family education with the Indian Harmonium that has influenced his work in the Asian Dub Foundation and his solo projects, and the principle of dub in dub music and dub photography I will be going to a concert at the Garage in London to see the Asian dub Foundation so come along to see them. You can find Aniruddha and Asian dub Foundation on the website links listed below Now please enjoy Outro: As you can hear from my voice that I loved my interview with Aniruddha. In the next episode he will be talking about his other projects and the political features of his music and dub music in general. Ketch you next week  http://thegarage.london/listings/sherwood-at-the-controls-feat-asian-dub-foundation/ http://asiandubfoundation.com/site/ https://soundcloud.com/dr-das Please like, comment, subscribe and share from my:https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/arts-performed-podcast/id1312992320?mt=2https://twitter.com/artsperformedhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrzaX0VXlgfOPwj7T4z0EyQhttps://www.instagram.com/artsperformed/https://artsperformed.wordpress.comhttps://www.facebook.com/artsperformed/

Podcast Show Notes: Episode 23: Intro: Hello everyone and welcome to the 23rd episode I am your host Tobi. In this episode we return to Dave Pickering, the author of Mansplaining Masculinity, who also did a podcast and did a show before that. This week we return to the same issues, in dealing with how men are both perpetrators and victims of patriarchy. I’ll be putting up all the links to his shows Getting Better Acquainted and the Family Tree and Mansplaining Masculinity. So please enjoy Outro: Once again a fascinating guest with loads of interesting things to say. You can find his podcasts, Mansplaining Masculinity in the podcast show notes. You can also find Getting Better Acquainted, of which I’m one of his guests and The Family Tree which is an improvised drama. Next week I’ll be having Anidruddha Das (AKA Dr Das) of the Asian Dub Foundation, where he talks about racism, activism and the Asian Dub Foundation as well as his other solo projects, and his photography, so see you next week Please like, comment, subscribe and share from my:iTunestwitter.com/artsperformedyoutubeinstagram.com/artsperformed/artsperformed.wordpress.comfacebook.com/artsperformed/

Podcast Show Notes: All links below Episode Intro: Hello everyone and welcome to the 22nd episode. I am your host Tobi. In today’s episode there’s a slight change to the previously planned episode. That episode with Dave Pickering will be published next week. This week’s interview will be with June Reid. She is a fellow masters student who is also a sound system operator, with DJ Ade in Nzinga Sounds, where she plays dub reggae and other music around the Lewisham area. She talks about her studies in relation to African Caribbean female sound system operators, and also her struggles of being a female sound system operator in a very male dominated culture. She also talks about when she was a DJ at SLR pirate radio station, 99.5. Amongst the people she interviewed was Betty Wright and Ziggy Marley. This was really interesting for me as it reattached me to my roots, of listening to this music in East London and my own West Indian background. Also before I start the interview I’d like to introduce you to two poets I meet at that weekend. Dee Boo General AKA Donavan Christopher, who organised a toasting workshop for me and several other people. And also a poet I meet at the workshop called GNia, the Diction, Conviction, poet. They gave me poems for you to listen to so please enjoy. Poems: Dee Bo General: My name’s Donavan Christopher. I’m a Yorkshire lad, with a Jamaican mum and dad. We don’t have a Yorkshire accent, we have a Yardshire accent! Different! When did you really stop and think, sometimes you haven’t even got time to blink This one’s simply called, Different! And it goes like this! Who decides, what different is like, are we sure of wrong and right To be different, is a strange thing, if you really know what different is like But who decides, what different is like, what’s different, brown, black or white For you to know I’m different, you must be different too So whose different difficult, is it me or is it you Do I complain, now I refrain, from trying to be like you That makes me different difficult, for not agreeing with your view Well many are called, called are many, the chosen are only a few So let’s try to compromise, my wrong could be your right But I don’t care whose different, is it brown, black or white ­­­­­­­­­­­Greetings people, my name’s GNia: I’m a poet from Forest Hill and part of Torridan writers group. Shalom. Peace. This is about identity. So stop barking about the entity, the one called trump who a try to segregate all a we Stand up and fight for your identity, for your heritage and all that are for we From Africa in ships dem capture we, sail we to  Carib lands in slavery Some of us was indentured too, you no see?, my god dem try brock the spine a we A we identity But stand strong, look sharp. As Marcus said, we can astonish the world! Look for your roots indeed, and I’m not just talking about Kizzy and the one Kuntakinty For me, I went to Zimbabwe, I touched the ground in the 80s  Sang at the big Zim, Zimma stadium, ya see, to selbrate dem independence, scene Me even have a picture to show Tobi, and to salute dem, independence and identity Well, the struggle still a gwan, don’t you see? So me a ring de alarm for all a we We no longer affie say, “I am a man, value me!” Naaagh! Forget Trump, who a fart on the people ya see are just jealous, him jealous affie we identity He is de orange one, him jealous a we identity, scene! Dee Bo General: Asylum Seeker Asylum seeker, refugees. What kind of words are these? Refugee seeker, refugee asylum seeker, the voice I hear from every corner Corners filled with voices of anger, again no sleep tonight for the refugee seeker You might as well be a biblical leper, the would give you a place outside their border Still making sure the kept things in order At least they would keep their distance, a peaceful nights sleep without the violence Refugee asylum seeker, why do you come, for you there is no future It sounds like something I still remember, those ancient voices used to call us nigger My blood runs cold, my bones shudder, from the dark abusive days my parents still suffer I was also persistently, verbally, racially abused, we had to walk in crews, not ones and twos Refugee asylum seeker, no sleep tonight, watching winda Someone please tell me, what’s changed n the last fifty years? Racial abuse still brings violence and fears, with mother’s, children’s and father’s tears Please check your past and history, you might find a family of refugees, in the branches of your family tree On of those could well be me! GNia: The Stand, or Harambee! Hall and pull up, pull up, sickle and cease, hear the strain, hear the creak, after the maangmizi The black holocaust Do not release the gains that we hold Pull for freedom, pull for peace, pull, pull and don’t release Pull on your side, don’t release the gains and the strides Pull, through strains, sinews and back, through you thighs, squat down deep Take a hold, hold on to daily hope Come on! Cause help will surely give us a shove Pull selector, pull, stand firm, stand your ground, stand your ground Every time trouble comes around, take the stand, and don’t you allow it to bring you down Come, let we pull together Our noses are wide, wide, wide Our lips are thick, thick, thick Our hair is black, black, black I am beautiful, you are beautiful, we are all beautiful   Outro: This episode really was important to me. It has reconnected me to the music I heard around my childhood, but also in a strange way to my West Indian background, that for most of my life I’ve felt quite alienated from. So meeting June on the course and at the Outernational Sound System, Strictly Vinyl weekend, and also GNia and Donavan Christopher AKA Dee Boo General. So next week I’ll be resuming with the second part of Dave Pickering’s Masculinity Mansplained, so, see you next week.  Sound System Outernational, Strictly Vinyl facebook page Dee Boo General, AKA Donavan Christopher's Rappa Man web page Niehter June nor GNia yet have a website for their work Please like, comment, subscribe and share from my:iTuneshttps://twitter.com/artsperformedyoutubeinstagram.com/artsperformed/artsperformed.wordpress.comfacebook.com/artsperformed/

Podcast Show Notes: Episode Intro: Hello everyone and welcome to the 21th episode. I am your host Tobi. This week is a special week, as I interview Dave. The interview took place on the same day as him interviewing me for his podcast, Getting Better Acquainted. He’s already publish his podcast and you’ll  find the link here. This week in the first part of his interview I’ll be speaking to him about everything he said in his introduction, including, his show, that’s also been turned into a podcast, and that’s now been turned into a book called, What about the Men: Mansplaining Masculinity. There will be a link to that podcast on the show notes here. There will also be a link to Unbound, the crowd funding publishing firm, through which Dave has brought out the book. We also talk about political oppression, in terms of gender, race and sexuality. We go on to talk about his new education through social media, where he follows people that are outside his cis, heterosexual, white middle class privilege that he confessed himself. Through following these people he was introduced to such writers as bell hooks, and Elizabeth Fiorenza. She came up with the term Kyriarchy, that’s a collective term for systems of oppression. So, please enjoy Outro: What a note to finish on. That all seems very current at the moment, particularly with films like Black Panther, and also Jordan Peele’s film, Get Out, and the Oscar Nominations that they’ve got. But also other issues about race and gender. It’s very prescient I think. So next week’s episode will be part two of Dave’s interview, where we talk further about systems of oppression, and we go on to talk about his father, and his other projects. So see you next week Please check out Dave's other projects on: twitter.com/GBApodcast thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk twitter.com/familytreepod twitter.com/sparkLDN stories.co.uk/ Please like, comment, subscribe and share from my:iTunestwitter.com/artsperformedyoutubeinstagram.com/artsperformed/https://artsperformed.wordpress.comfacebook.com/artsperformed/

Podcast Show Notes: Episode 20 Intro: Hello everyone, and welcome to the 20th episode of Tobi’s Arts Performed Podcast. I am your host Tobi. In this 2nd part of Seb’s interview we return to the ideas of live art verses performance art. Also we digress into the realm of social cleansing by what Seb calls the local government’s “art washing”, or co-opting grass roots art to justify gentrification. We also go back to his performance, La Santa Muerte, leading us back to issues of the place of capitalism in Mexico, and Mexican immigrants in America. As a brief reminder, Seb is performing at the Camden People’s Theatre on the 17th of March along with other artists & performers so please look up the facebook link here: Starting Bloks or The Camden People’s Theatre website for details.   Outro: Its always a pleasure talking with Seb about his work and his heritage. There’s so much I can learn about both and I will be returning at some point in the future to talk to him about his future projects, but please remember he is performing at the Camden people’s theatre in Starting Blocks, with other artists and performers. Next week’s episode is with fellow podcaster, story teller, and author of his new book Mansplaining Masculinity, Dave Pickering. This book is taken from a podcast he did, where; dressed in a purple dress, fedora hat, and holding his old dolphin toy, he tackles the subject of masculinity, directing his rhetoric toward men. His other podcasts include Getting Better Acquainted, a show he’s been doing for over 6 years. His next episode featuring a certain me, will be published this Wednesday, where is talks to me about my podcast. It’s not as meta as it sounds but we did interview each other on the same day. His other pod is The Family Tree, an improvised drama. Not much can be said about this other than its gripping Please like, comment, subscribe and share from my:iTunestwitter.com/artsperformedyoutubeinstagram.com/artsperformed/artsperformed.wordpress.comfacebook.com/artsperformed/

Podcast Show Notes: Episode Intro: Hello everyone and welcome to the 19th episode of Tobi’s Arts Performed Podcast My name is Tobi & I am your host. This week I speak to Sebastian H-W (Seb's FaceBook page link here), a half Mexican live artist who I first saw performing as la Santa Muerte or the Holiest Death in The Bethnal Green Working Man’s Club. I first spoke to him at Future Ritual performance night at the [SPACE] in Hackney where he did the filming & sound recording. He talks about the distinction between live art & performance art & the influence The Club Kids, New York scene had on his art and life. Sebastian is performing at the Camden People’s Theatre on the 17th of March along with other artists & performers so please look up the facebook link here: Starting Blocks; Facebook Events or at the Camden People's Theatre website But in the meantime, please enjoy Outro: Performances like, La Santa Muerte is the reason I like performance art so much. It was an immersive, visceral & a communal experience for all of us in the audience, & it was also interesting for me to find out more about the deity’s importance in Mexican life to the people who adopt her as their deity. In next week’s episode Seb will continue to talk about his art projects but don’t forget to look up his performance at the Camden People’s Theatre. So until then, see you next week Please like, comment, subscribe and share from my:iTunestwitter.com/artsperformedyoutubeinstagram.com/artsperformed/artsperformed.wordpress.comfacebook.com/artsperformed/

Podcast Show Notes: Episode 18 Intro: Hello and welcome to the 18th episode. I am your host Tobi. This episode features Pete May, whose drag persona, Just May I saw in his documentary film, Just May Does Geri where Pete attempts to meet Geri Halliwell for her 45th birthday. We engage with what this process meant to Pete and what Geri and the Spice Girls meant to him and much more. Pete is now a full time drag artist and you can find Just May on: https://www.facebook.com/justmaydoesgeri/ On March the 1st Just May will be performing at The Glory in East London (link here) Also coming up is a performance evening at Lime Wharf on the 14th of February called: Good Bye to London // This Dancefloor isn’t here anymore where friend, and queer live artist Sebastian Hau-Walker is doing a performance along with many other who I don’t yet know For now, please enjoy Outro: I think you’ll agree Pete has approached many subjects that are important, not just to the LGBT community but for all of us. No more is needed other that to remind you of the event at Lime Wharf on the 14th this month and Just May’s performance on the 1st of March at the Glory The next episode will be with Sebastian, where he makes the distinction between live art and performance art and much more. Until next time, take care Please like, comment, subscribe and share from my: https://twitter.com/artsperformed https://www.youtube.com https://www.instagram.com/artsperformed/ https://artsperformed.wordpress.com https://www.facebook.com/artsperformed/ http://artsperformedpodcast.podbean.com

Podcast Show Notes: Episode 17 Intro: Hello everyone and welcome to the 17th episode. I am your host Tobi. This week’s episode is a change to the previously planned episode where I was going to introduce the first part of Sebastian Hau-Walker’s interview who is a Queer live artist. That episode will be published later this month or next month to coincide with a couple of performances he is doing. The current episode is with Joseph Morgan Schofield, a queer performance artist and ritual practitioner. Next week on the 8th of February they are curating the second of their performance nights called Future Ritual, the details of which you can find on the podcast show notes below. This week more than any other so far, it would be an injustice to summarise what Joseph has to say on, ritual performance and resistance from normative attitudes. So without any further delay, here is Joseph. Outro: That was yet another interview that epitomizes what I envisage for this podcast, engaging with people that I wouldn’t normally engage with in my everyday life, but never the less, people that I find fascinating, engaging, and in very strange ways people that I identify with on a very human level. Particularly Joseph, their thought processes, their emotional defensiveness, but also paradoxically their very clear openness. And what they say about communication is a theme that comes up so many times, communication and community, so thank you once again Joseph. Please remember, look in the podcast show notes for the website and facebook page of Future Ritual ii, that’s happening on the 8th of February at VFD formally Vogue Fabrics Dalston at 66 Stoke Newington Road N167XB. There may still be tickets left at the door. Next week I will be publishing an interview with Pete May. Pete May is a Drag Artist, who goes by the stage persona, Just May. I first met Pete at a screening of his documentary film, Just May Does Geri, at the Margate Arts Club Kent. In the documentary he attempts to meet Geri Hallowell, his idol. In attempting to do so what is revealed to the audience is what Geri Hallowell meant to his, and means to him as a gay man. The interview follows on from that initial meeting and he discusses his ever growing performance as Just May, so until then, good bye Please check out Joseph's website for details for Future Ritual ii on the 98th of This Month VFD https://www.vfdalston.com Future Ritual FaceBook page Future Ritual website And check out Pete May's facebook page to discover who is my next week's guest Just May Does Geri facebook and please like, comment, subscribe and share from my:twitter.com/artsperformedyoutubeinstagram.com/artsperformedartsperformed.wordpress.comfacebook.com/artsperformedartsperformedpodcast.podbean.com

Podcast Show Notes: Episode 16 Intro: Welcome to the 16th episode of Arts Performed Podcast. I am your host Tobi. This week I am talking with Tuna and Seda of the Istanbul Queer Art Collective where they engage with the concept of success and failure and how Jack Halberstam inverts the normative concepts in his book The Queer Art of Failure. In the interview I mistakenly used Jack’s former name. Jack Halberstam is a transsexual man and academic and the edition I used to look up the theory was written in Jack’s former name. Also important to note about this episode is the bad audio. We recorded the episode in a noisy café and although I cut out the worst noise in the edit it is still very noisy. However if you are interested in performance art in Turkey and England and the fluxus movement and Jack Halberstam’s The Queer Art of Failure I urge you to persist and keep listening. Also please come along to their performance night Turkish Delight, at the Glory in Dalston on the 1st of February. It is a night of bilingual performances in English and Turkish and if their own performances are anything to go by it will be an amazing night. Outro: If you persisted to the end I think you will agree Tuna and Seda are engaging and have given me lots to think about, not only in terms of my podcast and interest in art but in my life too. The inversion of success and failure are certainly something that has had an impact on me. Please remember their performance night Turkish Delight, at the Glory where they have queer performances in Turkish and English. The next episode is with Sebastian Hua-Walker who talks about live art, the Mexican Goddess The Holiest Death, and much, much more. Sebastian is included in the review of Deep Trash at the Underworld as is The Queer Art Collective from my WordPress article Deep Trash at the Underworld blokartspace.com Istanbul Queer Art Collective Please like, comment, subscribe and share from my:twitter.com/artsperformedyoutube.cominstagram.com/artsperformedartsperformed.wordpress.comfacebook.com/artsperformedartsperformedpodcast.podbean.com

Podcast Show Notes: Episode 15 Intro: Hello and welcome to the 15th episode. I am your host Tobi. This is the second part of performance artist Richard Dedomenici dedomenici.com and artistic director of 30bird.org, Mehrdad Seyf’s interview. They continue to talk about their collaboration to get Chris de Burgh on tour in Iran, and their interdisciplinary ethic. Particularly interesting is their very different art forms that complement, as they both engage in humour and the visual but in different ways. Outro: What more can I say about their work that they haven’t said already other than to remind you of their up and coming shows. Richard will be in Lancaster with his piece, An Architecture, that continues the theme of a previous work shown in a youtube video which will be on the podcast show notes here youtube.com They will both be returning with their performance/ presentation in March at the Junction, in Cambridge, along with other artists and interdisciplinary performances. Details can be found on their websites: dedomenici.com 30bird.org next weeks episode will be with Tuna and Seda from the Istanbul Queer Art Collective where they talk about the fluxus movement of the 1960s and Jack Halberstam’s the Queer Art of Failure. We also talk about their own performances in Turkey and their performance at Deep Trash at the Underworld at the Bethnal Green Working Man’s Club. They also have a performance evening coming up at the Glory in Dalston, East London on the 1st of February called Turkish Delight, which will be an evening of Turkish and English performances facebook.com/istanbulqueerartcollective/ facebook Turkish Delight event page Please like, comment, subscribe and share from my:twitter.com/artsperformedyoutubeinstagram.com/artsperformedartsperformed.wordpress.comfacebook.com/artsperformedartsperformedpodcast.podbean.com

Podcast Show Notes: Episode 14 Intro: Hello everyone and welcome to the 14th episode. In this episode Richard and Mehrdad talk about their collaboration “Once I Ran to You” where they perform/ present their attempts to bring Chris de Burgh to Iran on a tour. Richard talks about provoking uncertainty with his work, and Mehrdad engages with his interdisciplinary work with architects, scientists and professionals from other fields. Also Richard has an event at the end of January called An Architecture in Lancaster which is a continuation of his earlier work and Mehrdad will be doing another interdisciplinary collaboration in March at the Cambridge Junction. Both Richard and Mehrdad will also be performing Once Iran to You again at this event. You can find the details for all of their future performances at their websites: dedomenici.com 30bird.org please enjoy Outro: I was so much fun listening to Richard and Mehrdad talking about their respective art and what inspires them and their next episode will delve further into Mehrdad’s cultural and educational back ground and how it has influenced his interdisciplinary work and I will be talking more with Richard about provoking uncertainty with his work. See you next time. twitter.com/artsperformedyoutubeinstagram.com/artsperformedartsperformed.wordpress.comfacebook.com/artsperformedartsperformedpodcast.podbean.com

Podcast Show Notes: Episode 13 Intro Hello everyone and welcome to the 13th episode. This episode is an interview with Nadine from Muxima Sound System from Italy. I wasn’t expecting to do this interview and it’s a privilege to be able to catch hold of her. She was speaking in one of the panel discussions of the Sound System Outernational: Stricly Vinyl 4, called Outernationalism, with a group of European female sound system operators. It was pleasure to do this interview and I hope you enjoy it. Outro That interview with Nadine, brief though it was, just emphasises to me that regardless of a persons social situation, their racial heritage, reggae and the sound system culture can mean so much to people; in terms of it’s vibration, it’s lyrical content, it’s political implications, and it’s community aspect. It complements so well, what I’m finding out about art in general, and the art that I’m interested in. so thank you Nadine from Muxima Sound System Back to the schedule, on Frinday I will be publishing the next episode with Richard Dedominici; performance artist http://dedomenici.com, and Mehrded Seyf also an artist and artistic director of www.30bird.com See you on Friday Please like, comment, subscribe and share from my:twitter.com/artsperformedyoutubeinstagram.com/artsperformed/artsperformed.wordpress.comfacebook.com/artsperformedartsperformedpodcast.podbean.com

Podcast Show Notes: Episode 4: Intro Hello everyone, and welcome to the 12th episode. In this episode, Thali Lotus, from CAYA sounds system will be talking further about her passion for the sound system movement and her own spirituality. Along with this episode, there’s a sound system weekend at Goldsmiths University, from the 13th to the 14th, January. It’s called. You can find out about it from the Facebook Page, just search for the Sound System Outranational 4: Strictly Vinyl It’s called, Her Story: From Ranking Miss P to the Present. It’s all about the sound system movement. In the panel there is: Sista Culcha Nzinga Sounds Legs Eleven Sound System Thali Lotus herself And DJ Lady Explosive Outro It never ceases to amaze me how all of these different art forms, and the spaces they inhabit become a safe haven for marginalised individuals, and also become a site for community love and compassion. The sound system movement, from it’s beginnings in Jamaica, to it’s adoption into the London culture is no exception, and long may it continue. Please don’t forget, the 13th and 14th of this month, this weekend Saturday and Sunday, there will be a series of events at goldsmiths university in London, Lewisham. Thali will be on a panel discussion at 16:15 to 17:30 all about women in the sound system movement. The next episode will feature Richard Dedominici, performance artist and Mehrdad Seyf, an interdisciplinary artist and artistic director of www.30bird.org. they also have events coming up in the future. So please listen out for that, and have a fantastic week. See you next time Visit Thali's Sound System website: http://comeasuare.com And please like, comment, subscribe and share from my:https://twitter.com/artsperformedyoutubeinstagram.com/artsperformed/ https://artsperformed.wordpress.comhttps://www.facebook.com/artsperformed/http://artsperformedpodcast.podbean.com

Podcast Show Notes: Episode 11: Intro Hello everyone, and welcome to the 11th episode. In this episode I will be speaking to Thali Lotus, from CAYA sounds, Come As You Are. She’s a sound system operator or sound architect as you will  hear from the episode. Along with this episode, there’s a sound system weekend at Goldsmiths University, from the 13th to the 14th, January. It’s called the Sound System Outranational 4: Strictly Vinyl. You can find out about it from the Facebook Page. I particularly want to tell you about a panel discussion that Thali is involved with. It’s called, Her Story: From Ranking Miss P to the Present. It’s all about the sound system movement. In the panel there is: Sista Culcha Nzinga Sounds Legs Eleven Sound System Thali Lotus herself And DJ Lady Explosive But in the mean time please enjoy this interview Outro Thali has got such a passion for the sound system movement and the culture that surrounds it, particularly the West Indian culture. She’s got so much love, passion and compassion and creativity to put into it. So please don’t forget, January the 13th and 14th in the day time right until the evening. I think it starts about 11 each day and goes on into the night. Check it out on facebook and www.comeasuare.com  The next episode I will be bringing out early on Thursday morning to coinside with the weekend. On the next episode you will hear Thali talking more about the history of the sound system movement, roots and culture from it’s origins in Jamaica, and it’s travel with the West Indian immigrants over to Britain, particularly London.

Podcast show notes Episode 10 Intro: Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Arts Performed Podcast. This episode was recorded under the former tittle Student Expert Podcast Please enjoy Outro: Once again I’d like to thank Oli through a surprising journey through psychedelia, mystical experiences, religious concepts, and a critique of capitalism. In the new year, all of the new podcasts will be with people involved in art in some way. So I have many more performance artists coming up. I’ve also got a lawyer from Ghana whose also a TV star and a socialite extraordinaire. I have a British born, London Iranian, musician, jazz poet, and percussionist. And I have a sculptor coming up as well, and many more to come. So thank you very much for your time and see you in an exciting new year. Please like, comment, subscribe and share from my:twitteryoutubeinstagramWordPressFaceBookOr email me at artsperformedpodcast@gmail.com  

Podcast Show Notes Intro: Welcome to the Arts Performed Podcast. This Episode was recorded under the former title Student Expert Podcast. Please Enjoy. Outro: It continually surprises me that people like Oli can engage in the use of psychedelics an other aspects of life in such a deep and meaningful way, as opposed to my suspicion that people that engage in that just do it to get high. He’s defiantly proved me wrong on that. I loved the way he went deeper into mysticism, and especially breaking out of our conventions. I think, having our consciousness in flux; he’s on to something there. In next weeks episode we’ll go further into it. I’ll leave you with some final thoughts from Oli, with one question I pose to him, that will be answered next week. Please like, comment, subscribe and share from my:twitteryoutube instagramWordPressfacebookpodbean

Podcast show notes Episode 8 Intro: Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Arts Performed Podcast. This episode was recorded under the former tittle Student Expert Podcast Please enjoy Before interviewing Oli I had not expected, what I kind of see in some ways as quite a circuitous root towards the idea of psychedelics and what they do for you. But once I arrived the interview and started getting his ideas of psychedelics, what I hope you realise by listening to it is, that it’s much more than that. It’s something much deeper. We go into psychedelia and consumerism, we touch on mysticism, we talk a little bit about Terrence McKenna, but also his very deep influence from Bill Hicks so, please enjoy Outro: Once again, an unexpected journey through some ideas that I’d never considered before. I certainly never expected someone with an interest in psychedelics to be talking so deeply and so spiritually about psychedelics, mysticism and resistance; and resistance in terms of stand up comedy, particularly Bill Hicks. In the next episode Oli and myself will be continuing this very interesting journey so thank you very much. And to end this episode once again here is Oli Please like, comment, subscribe and share from my:twitteryoutubeinstagramWordPressFaceBookand here on Podbean

Podcast Show Notes Episode 7 Intro: Hello listeners. Welcome to the seventh episode of the Student Expert Podcast. This part is the final part of Tommy Poppers interview. Tommy talks about art and power and the fact that art challenges the dominant discourse. He talks a bit about the book that he wrote in South East Asia and also the articles that he wrote, the album that he wrote, the play that he wrote and the forthcoming play he's working on. So please enjoy   Outro: What I'm loving about these interviews is I'm meeting people from all walks of life, from areas of the community that I would not normally engage with. That for several year, particularly from the LGBTQ communities, that I would never engage with because of my imposed upbringing with homophobic attitudes. So meeting with people, not just from the LGBTQ communities but people who I've not engaged with before. Find the link to Tommy's Music, ad writing here In next week’s episode I have the pleasure of engaging with Oli. Now Oli is quite a conventional man but he's very into psychedelics, however, although he's into psychedelics he's not just someone who gets high. So please look out for his episode. His episodes are also in three parts, so see you next week ladies and gentlemen Please like, comment, subscribe and share from my: twitteryoutubeinstagramWordPressFaceBookPodbean

Podcast Show Notes Episode 6 Intro: Hello listeners and welcome to the 6th episode. Apologies for the late publication of this episode. Instead of a bimonthly podcast I will be publishing the following episodes every week. Today’s episode is the 2nd part of Tommy Poppers interview. This week we talk about the creativity of the LGBT community and stepping outside conventions. We also engage with the question, what is art? The issue of resistance is also explored here in terms of the challenge to norms and conventions. Please enjoy Outro: I so enjoyed editing & listening to this week’s episode as returning to it has given me an added appreciation of the work of LGBT performers but more than this how their expression of art & telling their stories can be so relevant to the rest of our lives, particularly for those of us who are marginalized in other ways such as, gender, race, culture or social class. The final episode next week will include information on Tommy’s forthcoming work & we even touch on the impermanence of technocracy & his experience of writing in South East Asia. See you next time listeners. Find the link to Tommy's music, and writing here Please like, comment, subscribe and share from my:twitteryoutubeinstagramWordPressFaceBookPodbean

Podcast Show Notes: Episode 5 Intro: Hello listeners. I am your host Tobi and welcome to the 5th episode. I spoke to Tommy Poppers, a writer, musician, sometime drag artist and LGBT campaigner & his interview will be spilt into three parts, this being the first. Our interview commenced with his love of the Gothic literature of the fin de siècle. We quickly moved on to art as a form of communication & his own writing and performances inspired by his recovery from abusive relationships, assault & trauma. Art is evident as a form of catharsis for Tommy & we discussed art as catharsis generally. We move onto art & it’s conflict with power & then onto Graham Harman’s metaphysical theory of Object Orientated Ontology. Outro: Thanks again to Tommy Poppers. As I’ve said before he is one of the many creative people I met in the Margate Arts Club in Kent. In the next episode Tommy moves on to speak further about art and it’s relation to power with a brief reference to Michel Foucault. He talks about the book he wrote while in Bangkok that was subsequently banned within the political conflict against the Thailand government which can now be accessed for free on his website. He also speaks about his forthcoming projects and much, much more. See you next time. Find Tommy's music, and writing from this link here Please like, comment, subscribe and share from my:twitteryoutubeinstagramWordPressFaceBookpodbean

Podcast Show Notes: Episode 4: Intro Hello listeners. I am your host Tobi & welcome to the forth episode of the Student Expert Podcast. I went to a screening of 3 LGBT films at the Margate Arts Club. The films were the art film busy by Tomas Jefanovas, an artist and graphic designer who I’ll be interviewing in the future. Just May Does Geri featuring Pete May, a drag artist who has a passion for Geri Hallowell & whose also agreed to be my podcast. The third film is Lucy: My Transgendered Life. I hope to be interviewing Lucy & the film makers at some point in the future, however the film is very popular, so there’s not much chance in the near future of engaging with them. Hopefully in the future I will interview them. At the screening I engaged in conversation with Bernardo who at the time was writing notes in a small book in between films. He introduced himself in his native Portuguese as a student of the body & an expert of dancing & writing. The interesting thing is how he got to this stage. So please enjoy Outro It was Bernardo’s introduction as a writer that inspired me to ask him for an interview. His retelling of the effect that Maria Gabriella Llansol’s writing on him intrigued me & I loved his response to Roland Barthes, The Death of the Author. Whatever the truth of the relationship between the author and their readers, it’s clear Bernardo believes that Llansol has a direct relationship with her readers & had a profound effect on him. At the screening I also meet sailor drag artist, writer, musician, LGBT campaigner & comparative literature expert, Tommy Poppers. In his episodes starting on the 15th of October, he speaks about the Gothic writing of the fin de siècle, engages with politics, international attitudes to gender & the creative artistry of the LGBT communities. Art is a form of communication for Tommy so please listen out for him. Reviews all of these artists work appear on my WordPress that accompanies this podcast. Please like, comment, subscribe and share from all my social media sites, especially iTunes, podbean & youtube. You’ll find the links to them on the show notes accompanying this podcast. twitteryoutubeinstagramWordPressFaceBookpodbean   It just remains for me to say thank you to Bernardo & you the listeners & I’ll see you next time

Episode 3. The interviewee for this episode is homeless artist called James Sneddon whose field of study is art and expertise is survival. I had bumped into James and chatted with him about his art, where I decided to buy a print of his. The content of the recording was quite unexpected. James spoke about his passion for art coming from his childhood but it quickly became apparent that his art was not only his safe haven but also his means of survival. His main source of income is the odd jobs and his painting. Due to the distressing and unhelpful process of making a claim this is his only means of survival. He talks candidly about his alcoholism, being made homeless twice and his time in prison. The blog Painted by a Pisshead accompanies this podcast and is related to my other blog I'm Homeless not a Drug Dealer Thank you for listening in. Please like, comment, subscribe, and share this podcast and visit my twitteryoutube instagram WordPress FaceBook podbean

Episode 2.This episode follows on from the first as that recording was interrupted by the rehearsal of the rehearsal of the Canterbury Shakespeare Festival production of Othello. At the time the actors were chanting the lord’s prayer which inspired me to ask their director for an interview.Tom Houlton agreed to the interview and went on to speak about his beginning’s as a young actor and then his new found passion as a director at Kent University. He spoke of being inspired by Thomas Ostermeier and Mike Alfreds with the later having particular influence with his philosophy on the importance of the actor. Tom believes that each actor must bring his own character to the performance and employees different techniques to make each performance a performance in its own right.I really enjoyed this interview, because other than being an audience member of a few theatre performances I had no previous knowledge of acting or directing. It gave me a chance to explore something that would not normally be a point of interest for me.I hope it does for you too.This podcast is accompanied by my blog Canterbury Shakespeare FestivalPlease like, comment, subscribe and share on: twitteryoutube instagram WordPress Facebook Podbean

Episode 1. In this first episode Barney shares his expertise of, depth psychology, mysticism, cosmology, culture and mental health. In particular we discussed the connection between the science of psychology and spirituality, although he uses the idea of the mystical experience instead of spirituality. Other topics that were covered were the idea of the non-dual experience in religious and spiritual matters which is particularly pertinent in today’s consumerist society with the individual being persuaded to go it alone. About half way through the recording there was a perfect interruption from a performance group rehearsing for this year’s Canterbury Shakespeare Festival. Please like, comment, subscribe, and share this podcast and visit my twitteryoutube instagram WordPress FaceBook Podbean