OVER DEZE AFLEVERING
Welcome to Documenting Failure!
A podcast from Selina Thompson Limited about exploring experiments in doing things differently, thinking about access, marginalisation and what we can learn through failure from disabled artists in the UK and beyond.
“Have you seen legs? Can’t relate!....Hurry up! You’re the one, non-disableds, slowing us down. I’m Usain Bolt in this chair.”
For our first episode we are talking with Matilda Feyisayo Ibini about disability, care packages, creating work in a disabled body that doesn’t serve capitalism and thinking creatively about disability and failure..
“If capitalism is the poison, then care is the antidote.”
Our host is Toni- Dee Paul - @txnidee , https://www.instagram.com/txnidee/ and this week’s guests are:
1. Matilda Feyisayo Ibini - @astrominx , https://www.instagram.com/astrominx/
2. Selina Thompson - @selinatltd , https://www.instagram.com/selinatltd/
For full content warnings, a transcript of the episode, links to resources and things referenced please visit: https://selinathompsonltd.co.uk/work/documenting-failure
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Selina Thompson Ltd is a national portfolio organisation supported by Arts Council England, using public funding from National Lottery.
Timestamps / chapter breakdown:
00:00:00- 00:01:55 - Intro to this podcast, who are the guests and what it is about.
00:01:55- 00:04:03 - intros, descriptions of who they are and what they look like
00:04:03- 00:23:49 - About their jobs, what they do and the kind of art they make. What is a care package? How do you build an organisation with care? Access to Work, Support for Work, how much work goes into surviving, unpaid care work and lack of sustainable
systems. Who is valued enough to receive that care in a work context. What happens to freelancers? The concept of how unimaginative ‘Care’ is in the UK, Access Riders in theatre and disability at odds with productivity/capitalism.
00:23:49- 00:35:11 - Imagination that is needed as disabled people, ‘Disabled Oracles’, surviving under capitalism, the evolution of disability, it is always changing and how can we learn from each other?
00:35:11- 00:54:26 - Fear of failure, curious about failure and how guests came to their craft/job.
00:54:26- 00:58:44 - Imagination and fantasy as apart of practice, creativity in all aspects of life and inspiration from Afrofuturism.
00:58:44- 01:04:39 - Problem solving, being creative with failure, talking about rejection and learning from failure as a beginning not an end.
1:04:18 - Guest discussion end.
01:04:42 - Toni Dee thanks all participants and the team who helped make the podcast.
