Episode Synopsis "Cauliflower Love Bike: REST trailer"
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 REST: Why do we find it so difficult to fully embrace rest? This episode reclaims our right to a radical limitless pleasurable pause, rediscovering the act of resting as a tool for resisting the frenetic rhythms imposed by capitalism and exploring rest as a different way of listening for signs of individual and collective rupture. Featured in this episode is: Audrey Newton and Fiona Davies Maddi Barber Mina Heydari-Waite Rhian Willliams Credits: - Sound extracts from Maddi Barber’s film ‘Urpean Lurra’ - Sound extracts from Mina Heydari-Waite’s ‘In sleep it made itself present to them’ exhibition’s soundscape in collaboration with sound artist Claude Nouk - References to Audrey Newton and Fiona Davies reading group ‘Before Bed’ - Jingle and weaving sounds by Marc Johansen This episode is introduced and curated by Ane Lopez; editing and production is by Finn Arschavir. The series was developed by A+E Collective.