Documenting Failure - Series Show Notes
Episode 1
Welcome to Documenting Failure!
A podcast about exploring experiments in doing things differently, thinking about access, marginalisation and what we can learn through failure from disabled artists in the UK and beyond.
“Have you seen legs? Can’t relate!....Hurry up! You’re the one, non-disableds, slowing us down. I’m Usain Bolt in this chair.”
For our first episode we are talking with Matilda Feyisayo Ibini about disability, care packages, creating work in a disabled body that doesn’t serve capitalism and thinking creatively about disability and failure..
“If capitalism is the poison, then care is the antidote.”
The guests on this episode are:
- Matilda Feyisayo Ibini - @astrominx
- Selina Thompson - @selinatltd
- Toni- Dee Paul - @txnidee
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Episode 2
“Failing Brilliantly”
Episode 2’s guests in conversation are Jess Thom, James the Vacuum Cleaner, and Selina Thompson. This is a dialogue centred on three artists trying to navigate running artist-led, disabled-led organisations. It's balancing some really hard and honest and funny traits.
Our host is Toni- Dee Paul - @txnidee, and this week’s guests are:
1. Jess Thom- @touretteshero
2. James Leadbitter (The Vacuum Cleaner) - @vacuumcleanerart
3. Selina Thompson - @selinatltd
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Episode 3
“With all of my heart, believe that the changes that we're trying to cultivate together are possible, plausible, and damn near happen. I have that level of unwavering conviction.”
Episode 3’s guests in conversation are Amahra Spence and Christopher Samuel. This is a conversation beautifully holding heavy things with a lightness, and I hope you can feel the care between our guests extended to you too. In this podcast we touch on grief, personal identity, and working/starting careers as black, disabled-led organisations and artists.
Our host is Toni- Dee Paul - @txnidee, and this week’s guests are:
- Amarha Spence (HoodFutures Studio) @amahra_as
- Christopher Samuel - @christophersamuel_
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Episode 4
“So when we constantly remind each other, ‘hey, we deserve to be here’, that's power right there.”
Episode 4’s guests in conversation are Chiara Bersani and Maria Palacios. This episode is exploring experiments in doing things differently, thinking about access, marginalisation and what we can learn through failure from disabled artists internationally.
Our host is Toni- Dee Paul - @txnidee, and this week’s guests are:
1. Chiara Bersani - @chiara_bersani
2. Maria Palacios - @goddess_on_wheels_
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Episode 5
“I would just say I really love the fact that I'm older and I'm making work”
For our fifth episode we are talking with Bobby Baker and Selina Thompson about aging, being older, learning over the years, problems encountered over time and evolving with creating work in a disabled body.
Our host is Toni- Dee Paul - @txnidee, and this week’s guests are:
- Bobby Baker - @bobbyartistbaker
- Selina Thompson - @selinatltd
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Episode 6
“God, it's the vulnerability. It's constantly having to make yourself vulnerable. And sometimes that vulnerability is received well, and when it is, that's really, really a beautiful thing.”
For our sixth episode we are talking with Ray Young and Alexandrina Hemsley. The guests explore the different experiences with being disabled artists, Access to Work, how this impacts venues, planning and creating work. Our guests share their experiences with failure and what failure looks like to them.
Our host is Toni- Dee Paul - @txnidee, and this week’s guests are:
- Ray Young - @rachaelraymck
- Alexandrina Hemsley - @alexandrinahemsley
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