Velvet Theory

Ian Douglass
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Host and artist Ian Douglass takes you and guests towards a velvet theory: the space where theory and dream collide.

  1. 01/26/2025

    Episode 15 • The Dream

    January 17, 2025 • 11:39 PM - January 19, 2025 • 3:23 AM The Dream

  2. 05/30/2024

    Episode 14 • Inner Fingers w/ Simmy

    Velvet Theory

  3. 03/26/2024

    Episode 13 • Havana Syndrome / Cowllerina Suite (Performed Live at Ugly Duck)

    In this episode, Ian Douglass gives an artist talk about his Havana Syndrome Theorem painting and Cowllerina series while experiencing emergent symptoms. Later, a pointed toe is dipped, unwelcome guests enter the saloon, a box emits a strange sound and a sermon is delivered for purification (in blood and milk). {Performed live at Ugly Duck, London for 'Violent Bodies' show w/ Femanifesto, February 24, 2024.}

  4. 03/07/2024

    Episode 12 • Primordial Scenery w/ Sophia Loeb

    I speak with artist Sophia Loeb about her relationship to nature, painting, meditation, and how they all coalesce in her art practice. Later, she takes us on a guided meditation through the landscape of dream, as it unfolds and ripples.

  5. 01/25/2024

    Episode 11 • Towards a Radical Feminism w/ Salomé Jacques

    Salomé Jacques is a writer and curator based in London. We speak about radical feminism, female rage, Charlotte Corday, violence, gender binaries, politeness, artistic agency and curating as a political and poetic practice.

  6. 12/21/2023

    Episode 10 • Models of Abstraction w/ Asher Arataki

    In this episode, I talk to philosopher Asher Arataki about effective altruism, animal ethics, speciesism, pain, evolutionary optimization, empathy, sensory perception, qualia, theories and boundaries of consciousness, and whether or not we are, in fact, dead.

  7. 10/12/2023

    Episode 9 • Untitled (Other Doors)

    Nondescript sonic entity (explicit)

  8. 09/28/2023

    Episode 8 • Solemn Splendour w/ Kimberley Burrows

    Welcome back to Velvet Theory. What follows is a conversation and sounds w/ Kimberley Burrows. Here is an excerpt from her Royal College of Art graduation page: 'Kimberley Burrows is a blind, abstract expressionist artist from Salford, Greater Manchester whose artistic voice has evolved with her sight loss. Her practice marries painting, printmaking and poetry, utilised as a therapy tool to process and explore themes of complex trauma, mental health, disabled identity and grief. Burrows paints sensitively, intuitively and from a position of vulnerability through a blind lens. The creative process is a method of direct communication between her fractured heart and mind. Painting is a powerful cognitive experience capitalising on all of her other senses beyond sight. Burrows uses all parts of her body as a vessel in an immersive and visceral performance, to create evocative visual language and to interrogate muscle memory, spatial awareness and surface quality.' I sat down with Kim towards the end of last year - after many delays and technical issues, please enjoy our conversation and the sounds it summoned. Headphones highly recommended. Instagram: @velvettheory Kimberley Burrows: @kimberleyburrowsart Host: @studiodouglass Sound Mixer: Isabel Derr

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Host and artist Ian Douglass takes you and guests towards a velvet theory: the space where theory and dream collide.

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  • Creator
    Ian Douglass
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2025
  • Episodes
    14
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Ian Douglass
  • Show Website
    Velvet Theory