Onions Talk: Change making through social engagement Fié Neo

5ever Books is an underground publishing house that publishes punchy, intense and interdisciplinary work, woven together by a shared transformational kaupapa. They recognise the collective necessity of actively infiltrating and affecting their playground and home. In this episode, we talk about activism, empowerment, community and publishing.
https://5everbooks.bigcartel.com/

This podcast season is supported by Singapore National Art Council.

Debbie Fish is a set designer, installation artist and performer, and co-director of GoldFish Creative. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from Victoria University and a Graduate Diploma in Economics from Massey University. Her theatre, performance, and set design background feeds into her practice as an installation artist, unfolding the enduring drama of social and biological life and the often-messy collisions between the two. Fish is an alumnus of the Keelung National Museum of Marine Science and Technology International Environmental Art Residency in Taiwan (2017), for which she made a site-specific artwork connecting marine science and contemporary art. Her work is also included in several public and private collections, including the Arts House Trust.

In this episode we talk about:


Ways of being creative with getting income for the arts and not being afraid to ask for money
Intention of the art and its relevance in time of crises
The intricacies of working cross sector as an artist
Bringing out quieter voices in economics
Being a translator in between spaces and introducing the artistic process of creative inquiry and interrogation

https://www.goldfishcreative.co.nz/

@debbiefish_art



References in episode:

13:22 - East Coast Exchange [https://eastcoastexchange.toha.nz/]

24:10 - Report: Arts Funding, Value & Tech [https://www.goldfishcreative.co.nz/resources]

Also referred to:Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast & Slow - [https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/11468377]

Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics - [https://www.kateraworth.com/]

Ecological Economics - [https://www.isecoeco.org/]

Christiana Figuerez & Krista Tippet, Ecological Hope & Spiritual Revolution - [https://onbeing.org/programs/christiana-figueres-ecological-hope-and-spiritual-evolution/]

Donella Meadows, Systems Thinking - [https://donellameadows.org/]

Deirdre Kent - Healthy Money, Healthy Planet - [https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/4505519]

B-Corps - [https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/]

ArtsPay - [https://artspay.com/]

Max Haiven - Art After Money, Money After Art - [https://maxhaiven.com/aammaa/#INTRO]

Everybody Cool Lives Here produces art that reflects and celebrates Aotearoa’s unique and diverse identity. They connect artists and groups and empower them to create dialogue within the wider community by bringing the marginalised to the middle and supporting those at the fringes to drive conversations. In this episode, Jacob, Nic and Rose talk about creating inclusive spaces and communities through aroha (love) and vibes. This episode dives deep into deprogramming intelligence and value, shifting preconceived conceptions, creating inclusivity and decolonisation work. 

https://everybodycoolliveshere.com

This podcast season is supported by Singapore National Art Council.

Jacqui Moyes is the creative director of Home Ground, a collaborative creativity and wellbeing initiative for women in the justice system. Home Ground creates space for women to pause, nurture hope, activate social change and create better lives for themselves and future generations. On a Home Ground project, artists (inside and outside of prison) make creative works using dance, performance, photography, writing, painting and music to address the issues women and whānau face in the justice system.

In this episode, we talk about:
- Making it work when traversing between the justice system, arts and community spaces
- Different financial models that could support art projects in the justice system like Homeground
- The impact of Home ground

Learn more: https://www.homegroundnz.com

This podcast season is supported by Singapore National Art Council.

Jo Randerson is the founder and artistic director of Barbarian Productions, a Wellington-based theatre production company. The Barbarians are driven by their belief in radical fun, courageous expression, fluidity, generosity and participation. They make works that are fun, interactive and often chaotic... but good, fun chaos. Jo also played an essential role in revitalising Vogelmorn Bowling Club into a community space with a bar, a café, a ginger beer brewery, and a toy library. In this episode, we deep dive into the state of the arts (literally) in Aotearoa and what we think the arts infrastructure needs to build up post covid. We also talk about the skills needed to make magic happen as socially engaged artists, often engaging different stakeholders in government, civil society, the arts, private sectors and more.

https://www.barbarian.co.nz

This podcast season is supported by Singapore National Art Council.

In this episode, Su-Lin Ngiam, Executive Director of ArtsWok Collaborative shares her journey of setting up a socially engaged art intermediary in Singapore. Some of the topics we covered include:

Starting a socially engaged art intermediary in Singapore

Crossing sectors, building projects: Working with the healthcare sector and the importance of supportive funding

Opening up taboo topics through the arts

Finding the right partners and convincing stakeholders

Building in research into your process and program proposal

What are some of the challenges and what kinds of structural changes could make it easier to do community-engaged work?

Changing social frameworks and making career opportunities in the social arts sector accessible for youths

Setting up funding that celebrates and honours collaboration

Cross sector collaboration creates innovation; how to go about it

Impact of cross sector projects


Website: https://artswok.org

Support ArtsWok: https://www.giving.sg/artswok_collaborative_limited

End-of-life in the Malay-Muslim Community Research Report: https://artswok.org/library/end-of-life-malay-muslim-community/