Postcards to the Future

Claire Doherty, David Micklem and guests

A podcast that listens in to the artists, directors, producers and publishers who are reshaping the future of arts and culture. Produced as part of Culture Reset, a project by people make it work. Editor: Marcin Pawlik. Produced by: Claire Doherty and David Micklem. www.culturereset.org.

Episodes

  1. 08/30/2020

    Seeking revenge from the heart of the apocalypse with Tania El Khoury

    In this episode writer and producer David Micklem talks to Tania El Khoury. Tania is a live artist based in London and Beirut. Over 15 years she has created a body of  interactive installations and performances in which the audience is an active collaborator. Her solo work has been translated into multiple languages and shown in 32 countries.  She is the recipient of the International Live Art Prize, the Total Theatre Innovation Award and the Arches Brick Award. She has recently been announced as Distinguished Artist in Residence of Theater and Performance at Bard College in upstate New York. In this episode Tania talks about how she seeks revenge through her art – for the corruption and crises in Lebanese politics, and for the huge blast on 4th August that destroyed much of the capital, Beirut. She describes her experience of this tragedy and how the trauma of being born and growing up in a civil war has made her who she is. She gives an outsider’s view of the landscape in the UK and reflects on the responsibilities she feels around representation – as a woman of colour, from Lebanon.    Recorded remotely during Covid lockdown in Summer 2020.   culturereset.org #culturereset To read more about Tania’s work visit https://taniaelkhoury.com/ and https://www.artsadmin.co.uk/profiles/tania-el-khoury/ Follow us on Twitter @davidmicklem @taniaelk  Edited by Marcin Pawlik with additional recording support from Mike Palmer  Produced by Claire Doherty and David Micklem   Postcards to the Future is a People Make It Work project for Culture Reset, funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation. To download a transcription of this podcast, go to culturereset.org.

    31 min
  2. 08/16/2020

    Beautiful things happen when different worlds meet with Farooq Chaudhry

    In this episode writer and producer David Micklem talks to Farooq Chaudhry – co-founder of the world-renowned Akram Khan dance company and one of the UK’s leading producers. Through a 20 year collaboration, Farooq has built a company that has provided the optimum conditions for Akram’s development as an artist. He’s built a complex web of relationships and partnerships right across the world, blurring boundaries between cultures, artforms and styles of presentation. He’s also the founder of Skye Blue Productions which nurtures younger artists of colour, and he’s the CEO and Creative Director for China House Arts in London. Last year he was awarded an OBE for his services to Dance and Dance Production and was appointed a Tate Artist Trustee. In his 60th year, we find him contemplating possible futures for arts and culture in the UK. In this podcast he talks about trusting your instincts, the need for radical change, and acknowledging and letting go of power. He talks passionately about equality, diversity and inclusion and says that beautiful things happen when different worlds meet. Recorded remotely during Covid lockdown in Summer 2020.   culturereset.org #culturereset To read more about Akram Khan visit https://www.akramkhancompany.net/ Follow us on Twitter @davidmicklem Edited by Marcin Pawlik with additional recording support from Mike Palmer Produced by Claire Doherty and David Micklem Postcards to the Future is a People Make It Work project for Culture Reset, funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation. To download a transcription of this podcast, go to culturereset.org.

    35 min

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A podcast that listens in to the artists, directors, producers and publishers who are reshaping the future of arts and culture. Produced as part of Culture Reset, a project by people make it work. Editor: Marcin Pawlik. Produced by: Claire Doherty and David Micklem. www.culturereset.org.