Episode 4:

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Hello everyone, and welcome to the 12th episode. In this episode, Thali Lotus, from CAYA sounds system will be talking further about her passion for the sound system movement and her own spirituality. Along with this episode, there’s a sound system weekend at Goldsmiths University, from the 13th to the 14th, January. It’s called. You can find out about it from the Facebook Page, just search for the Sound System Outranational 4: Strictly Vinyl

It’s called, Her Story: From Ranking Miss P to the Present. It’s all about the sound system movement.

In the panel there is:

Sista Culcha

Nzinga Sounds

Legs Eleven Sound System

Thali Lotus herself

And DJ Lady Explosive

Outro

It never ceases to amaze me how all of these different art forms, and the spaces they inhabit become a safe haven for marginalised individuals, and also become a site for community love and compassion. The sound system movement, from it’s beginnings in Jamaica, to it’s adoption into the London culture is no exception, and long may it continue. Please don’t forget, the 13th and 14th of this month, this weekend Saturday and Sunday, there will be a series of events at goldsmiths university in London, Lewisham. Thali will be on a panel discussion at 16:15 to 17:30 all about women in the sound system movement.

The next episode will feature Richard Dedominici, performance artist and Mehrdad Seyf, an interdisciplinary artist and artistic director of www.30bird.org. they also have events coming up in the future. So please listen out for that, and have a fantastic week. See you next time

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Episode 4:

Intro

Hello everyone, and welcome to the 11th episode. In this episode I will be speaking to Thali Lotus, from CAYA sounds, Come As You Are. She’s a sound system operator or sound architect as you will  hear from the episode. Along with this episode, there’s a sound system weekend at Goldsmiths University, from the 13th to the 14th, January. It’s called the Sound System Outranational 4: Strictly Vinyl. You can find out about it from the Facebook Page.

I particularly want to tell you about a panel discussion that Thali is involved with. It’s called, Her Story: From Ranking Miss P to the Present. It’s all about the sound system movement.

In the panel there is:

Sista Culcha

Nzinga Sounds

Legs Eleven Sound System

Thali Lotus herself

And DJ Lady Explosive

But in the mean time please enjoy this interview

Outro

Thali has got such a passion for the sound system movement and the culture that surrounds it, particularly the West Indian culture. She’s got so much love, passion and compassion and creativity to put into it. So please don’t forget, January the 13th and 14th in the day time right until the evening. I think it starts about 11 each day and goes on into the night. Check it out on facebook and www.comeasuare.com

 The next episode I will be bringing out early on Thursday morning to coinside with the weekend. On the next episode you will hear Thali talking more about the history of the sound system movement, roots and culture from it’s origins in Jamaica, and it’s travel with the West Indian immigrants over to Britain, particularly London.

Episode 10

Intro:

Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Arts Performed Podcast.

This episode was recorded under the former tittle Student Expert Podcast

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Once again I’d like to thank Oli through a surprising journey through psychedelia, mystical experiences, religious concepts, and a critique of capitalism. In the new year, all of the new podcasts will be with people involved in art in some way. So I have many more performance artists coming up. I’ve also got a lawyer from Ghana whose also a TV star and a socialite extraordinaire. I have a British born, London Iranian, musician, jazz poet, and percussionist. And I have a sculptor coming up as well, and many more to come. So thank you very much for your time and see you in an exciting new year.

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Welcome to the Arts Performed Podcast. This Episode was recorded under the former title Student Expert Podcast. Please Enjoy.

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It continually surprises me that people like Oli can engage in the use of psychedelics an other aspects of life in such a deep and meaningful way, as opposed to my suspicion that people that engage in that just do it to get high. He’s defiantly proved me wrong on that. I loved the way he went deeper into mysticism, and especially breaking out of our conventions. I think, having our consciousness in flux; he’s on to something there.

In next weeks episode we’ll go further into it. I’ll leave you with some final thoughts from Oli, with one question I pose to him, that will be answered next week.

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Episode 8

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Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Arts Performed Podcast.

This episode was recorded under the former tittle Student Expert Podcast

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Before interviewing Oli I had not expected, what I kind of see in some ways as quite a circuitous root towards the idea of psychedelics and what they do for you. But once I arrived the interview and started getting his ideas of psychedelics, what I hope you realise by listening to it is, that it’s much more than that. It’s something much deeper.

We go into psychedelia and consumerism, we touch on mysticism, we talk a little bit about Terrence McKenna, but also his very deep influence from Bill Hicks so, please enjoy

Outro:

Once again, an unexpected journey through some ideas that I’d never considered before.

I certainly never expected someone with an interest in psychedelics to be talking so deeply and so spiritually about psychedelics, mysticism and resistance; and resistance in terms of stand up comedy, particularly Bill Hicks.

In the next episode Oli and myself will be continuing this very interesting journey so thank you very much.

And to end this episode once again here is Oli

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Episode 7

Intro:

Hello listeners. Welcome to the seventh episode of the Student Expert Podcast.

This part is the final part of Tommy Poppers interview. Tommy talks about art and power and the fact that art challenges the dominant discourse. He talks a bit about the book that he wrote in South East Asia and also the articles that he wrote, the album that he wrote, the play that he wrote and the forthcoming play he's working on.

So please enjoy

Outro:

What I'm loving about these interviews is I'm meeting people from all walks of life, from areas of the community that I would not normally engage with. That for several year, particularly from the LGBTQ communities, that I would never engage with because of my imposed upbringing with homophobic attitudes. So meeting with people, not just from the LGBTQ communities but people who I've not engaged with before.

Find the link to Tommy's Music, ad writing here

In next week’s episode I have the pleasure of engaging with Oli. Now Oli is quite a conventional man but he's very into psychedelics, however, although he's into psychedelics he's not just someone who gets high.

So please look out for his episode. His episodes are also in three parts, so see you next week ladies and gentlemen

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Episode 6

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Hello listeners and welcome to the 6th episode. Apologies for the late publication of this episode. Instead of a bimonthly podcast I will be publishing the following episodes every week. Today’s episode is the 2nd part of Tommy Poppers interview. This week we talk about the creativity of the LGBT community and stepping outside conventions. We also engage with the question, what is art? The issue of resistance is also explored here in terms of the challenge to norms and conventions. Please enjoy

Outro:

I so enjoyed editing & listening to this week’s episode as returning to it has given me an added appreciation of the work of LGBT performers but more than this how their expression of art & telling their stories can be so relevant to the rest of our lives, particularly for those of us who are marginalized in other ways such as, gender, race, culture or social class. The final episode next week will include information on Tommy’s forthcoming work & we even touch on the impermanence of technocracy & his experience of writing in South East Asia. See you next time listeners.

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Episode 5

Intro:

Hello listeners. I am your host Tobi and welcome to the 5th episode. I spoke to Tommy Poppers, a writer, musician, sometime drag artist and LGBT campaigner & his interview will be spilt into three parts, this being the first.

Our interview commenced with his love of the Gothic literature of the fin de siècle. We quickly moved on to art as a form of communication & his own writing and performances inspired by his recovery from abusive relationships, assault & trauma. Art is evident as a form of catharsis for Tommy & we discussed art as catharsis generally. We move onto art & it’s conflict with power & then onto Graham Harman’s metaphysical theory of Object Orientated Ontology.

Outro:

Thanks again to Tommy Poppers. As I’ve said before he is one of the many creative people I met in the Margate Arts Club in Kent. In the next episode Tommy moves on to speak further about art and it’s relation to power with a brief reference to Michel Foucault. He talks about the book he wrote while in Bangkok that was subsequently banned within the political conflict against the Thailand government which can now be accessed for free on his website. He also speaks about his forthcoming projects and much, much more. See you next time.

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Episode 4:

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Hello listeners. I am your host Tobi & welcome to the forth episode of the Student Expert Podcast. I went to a screening of 3 LGBT films at the Margate Arts Club. The films were the art film busy by Tomas Jefanovas, an artist and graphic designer who I’ll be interviewing in the future. Just May Does Geri featuring Pete May, a drag artist who has a passion for Geri Hallowell & whose also agreed to be my podcast. The third film is Lucy: My Transgendered Life. I hope to be interviewing Lucy & the film makers at some point in the future, however the film is very popular, so there’s not much chance in the near future of engaging with them. Hopefully in the future I will interview them. At the screening I engaged in conversation with Bernardo who at the time was writing notes in a small book in between films. He introduced himself in his native Portuguese as a student of the body & an expert of dancing & writing. The interesting thing is how he got to this stage. So please enjoy

Outro

It was Bernardo’s introduction as a writer that inspired me to ask him for an interview. His retelling of the effect that Maria Gabriella Llansol’s writing on him intrigued me & I loved his response to Roland Barthes, The Death of the Author. Whatever the truth of the relationship between the author and their readers, it’s clear Bernardo believes that Llansol has a direct relationship with her readers & had a profound effect on him.

At the screening I also meet sailor drag artist, writer, musician, LGBT campaigner & comparative literature expert, Tommy Poppers. In his episodes starting on the 15th of October, he speaks about the Gothic writing of the fin de siècle, engages with politics, international attitudes to gender & the creative artistry of the LGBT communities. Art is a form of communication for Tommy so please listen out for him.

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It just remains for me to say thank you to Bernardo & you the listeners & I’ll see you next time

He talks candidly about his alcoholism, being made homeless twice and his time in prison.

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Other topics that were covered were the idea of the non-dual experience in religious and spiritual matters which is particularly pertinent in today’s consumerist society with the individual being persuaded to go it alone.

About half way through the recording there was a perfect interruption from a performance group rehearsing for this year’s Canterbury Shakespeare Festival.

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