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Episode Synopsis "Cauliflower Love Bike: PLAY"
A three-part audio venture into possibilities of ecological thought beyond the ‘pleasure machine’ of petroculture. Structured around the core themes of FOOD, REST and PLAY, Cauliflower Love Bike explores how low carbon imaginaries manifest in the energies of everyday life, speculative thought, social activity and artistic practice. Spotlighting the work of filmmakers, chefs, community organisers, artists, writers, childcare workers and children, each episode follows the threads of postcapitalist desire, alternative food cultures, rechilding, pandemic reflections and radical dreaming, to ask: what existing and future practices might offer energised and communal challenges to climate crisis? SHOWNOTES PLAY: While play might be co-opted for capitalism, true play is that which exceeds instrumentalism and commodification. This episode reclaims play from its dialectical relation with work, exploring play as a practice and thought-mode that is capable of radical sensing, temporal sabotage, tenderness, sociality and a joyous excess that is also low-carbon. Featured in this episode is: Isabel and Rebecca Arnold Dr Dominic Boyer and Dr Cymene Howe Jack O’Flynn Kate Paul Dr Lila Matsumoto Credits - ‘A toppled valise emanated waves’ and ‘Trombone’, from Lila Matsumoto’s Two Twin Pipes Sprout Water (Prototype, 2021). Soundscape by Matthew Hamblin. - ‘Lichwake Familiars’ by Food People, from Mirrors & Vegetables (Sound Holes) - ‘Wick’, by Cloth, from Present Cracks (Chocolate Monk). - Jingle and weaving sounds by Marc Johansen This episode was introduced and curated by Maria Sledmere; editing and production is by Finn Arschavir. The series was developed by A+E Collective.
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