Documenting Failure - Episode 1 - Detailed Timestamps
Detailed timestamps:
00:00:52 - Intro begins
00:01:55 - Start of podcast- intros, descriptions of who they are and what they look like
00:04:03 - Guests talk about their jobs, what they do and kind of art they make.
00:05:30 - Matilda talks about what a care package is and how you can access it
00:07:20 - Toni Dee asks Selina about how Selina Thompson Ltd has built its’ practice and the care with which they are trying to build a structure for Selina.
00:09:05 - Matilda talks about getting support for work, around work but not outside of work. And how the government tries to separate the two.
00:10:49 - Toni Dee talks about how much work goes into surviving as a disabled person.
00:12:10 - Matilda talks about unpaid care workers eg family, friends, neighbours and the government systems that let them down.
00:13:46 - Selina talks about lack of sustainability of these systems and how this is where abuse can happen.
00:14:42 – Toni Dee brings up the subject of who is valued enough to receive that care in a work context. What happens to freelancers?
00:16:58 - Matilda talks about how we are all falling into the cavern of working with less support. The concept of how unimaginative ‘Care’ in the UK is. Matilda outlines all the ways and levels that ‘Care’ happens, it is enacted and are overlooked day to day.
00:20:32 - Toni Dee talks about Access Riders in theatre.
00:21:37 - Selina talks of disability at odds with productivity/capitalism.
00:23:28 - ‘If capitalism is the poison, then care is the antidote’
00:24:05 - Toni Dee asks about the imagination that is needed to tackle some of the bigger issues that surround our lives.
00:24:26 - Miranda answers talking about Alice Wong coining the phrase ‘disabled Oracles’. The guests discuss thinking ahead, surviving under capitalism and how the disabled imagination is constantly dreaming.
00:28:14 - The guests discuss people sticking to what they know and ask how do we get people to seeing past the obvious.
00:29:58 - Selina talks about working on Twine and the creative solution to being a disabled performer.
00:31:30 - Knowledge is with disabled folk about how best to work.
00:31:59 - Selina adds how we bring audiences on this journey with us also as we evolve.
00:33:10 - Matilda discusses the evolution of disability, it is always changing and so needs are also changing. How can we learn from each other?
00:35:34 - The guests discuss fear of failure, being curious about failure and how this changes with age.
00:37:52 - Why are disabled people paying to participate? The guests discuss how they have evolved and learnt what they want, what projects to say no to and what access needs should be asked for.
00:41:11 - Toni Dee asks how Miranda came to writing as a craft/job
00:43:34 - Miranda discusses her diagnosis and how writing was her passion and she was able to do this with her disability. Miranda talks about her progression through university towards her career now.
00:50:32- Selina discusses how her career path happened from university and finding herself in theatre and live art.
00:53:53 - Toni Dee asks Selina if she was always going to perform.
00:54:44 - Toni Dee asks the guests how imagination and fantasy are part of your practice and the worlds that they create. Matilda talks about how creativity is in all aspects of her life as a disabled person and collaboration with others. Matilda talks of her inspiration and Afrofuturism.
00:58:49 - Discussion of the problem solving that is required of disabled folk and intrinsic creativity required for living.
01:00:07 - The final question Toni Dee asks is about the ways in which you have been creative with failure and to reframe success.
01:00:28 - Miranda answers this question with coping with rejection, moving on from rejection, not taking rejection personally, timing and the confidence that comes with age. Miranda finalises with an empowering view of failure as something she does on her own terms and that failure is not an ending but a beginning.
1:04:18 - Guest discussion end.
01:04:42 - Toni Dee thanks all participants and the team who helped make the podcast.