Livable Futures

Norah Zuniga Shaw•livablefutures.substack.com

Interviews, artist talks, audio walks, workshops, and sonic artworks turning toward planetary conditions of crisis and uncertainty with all of our creative capacities.

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08 Black on Earth

We're environmentalists, you know, and it's not that we're like, okay, we have to save the, get the plastic, like, yes, do the plastic thing, you know, all of the recycling, all of that, but like, what is the duty to our space around us, our human to human engagement, our human to trees, to water, to bird, you know, like, that's, environmentalism for us. - Orlando Show Notes Episode 08: Black on Earth In this special episode to kick off 2024 and the second season of the podcast, Norah Zuniga Sha...

Feb 15, 2024•53 min

Foraging Futures with Candace Thompson/The Curb and Amy Youngs

Visual artists Amy Youngs and Candace Thompson work closely with ecology and technology to create communal, joyful, and loved filled connections to each other and the more-than-human world with whom we share the planet. Respond to the uncertainty we are experiencing on a planetary scale by becoming deeply embedded in your local community and aware of the plant life around you as you forage for food in your neighborhoods throughout the changing seasons of the year. This is a public episode. If yo...

Sep 01, 2021•49 min

More and more and more human with Faustin Linyekula

Faustin Linyekula is as an important international artist, he's also the founder of Studio Kabakao, a space for young artists in Kisangani and from the African continent to work in collaboration with communities on issues of sustainability and environment. Learn more: My Body My Archive, watch Faustin Linyekula live at the Tate Modern https://vimeo.com/399196063 NZ Festival of the Arts: Talanoa Mao conference https://www.festival.nz/events/talanoa-mau/ In Search of Dinozord performance by Fausti...

Aug 01, 2021•26 min

05 - Andre Zachery & Crystal Perkins

Andre M. Zachery is the Artistic Director of Renegade Performance Group https://www.renegadepg.com/ and can be found on Instagram @amzrpg Crystal Perkins can be found @cmichelledance and has a beautiful TEDx talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q572zp9EWs Andre mentions the choreographer Bebe Miller. You can learn more about her here: https://bebemillercompany.org/ He also talks about Kodwo Eshun, Reggie Wilson, and his work in Afrofuturism, and I mention a couple of favorite feminist Afr...

Jun 26, 2021•35 min

04 - Livable Futures - Interview w/ Michael J. Morris

Conversation Date and Location August 30, 2019 at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Social Media www.instagram.com/cowitchcraftofferings/ www.michaeljmorris.co/ Show Notes Michael uses they/them pronouns and references several beautiful resources that have come in the podcast many times and others that may be new for listeners. Here are a few links to get you started reading and viewing: From Duke University Press a discussion of: Anthropocene, Capitaloscene, and Chthulucene Read and liste...

Jun 23, 2021•48 min

03 - Livable Futures - Small Acts of Care w/ Alys Longley

Conversation Date and Location February 2020. Tāmakimakaurau/Auckland, Aoteoroa/New Zealand. Show Notes Alys refers to her longtime collaborator Val Smith frequently and they have some amazing projects that are worth checking out: news.aut.ac.nz/news/val-smith-na…undation-laureate @ valvalvalsmithsmithsmith Alys also talks about her project El Otro País Que Eres created in collaboration with artists Macarena Campbell, Máximo Corvalán-Pincheira and Eduardo Cerón Tillería. She refers to “new mater...

Jun 23, 2021•41 min

02 - Livable Futures - Building Community Power w/ Complex Movements

Conversation Date and Location October 31, 2019. Columbus, Ohio on the campus of The Ohio State University Social Media: (Instagram handles) Complex Movements @ cmplxmvmnts is a Detroit-based artist collective composed of @ westiv , @ jeedo47 , @ invincibleDET , @ sagesense , @ L05_ and @_fakejones SHOW NOTES Works referenced often in the show include: Beware of the Dandelions an existing piece and Tower and Dungeon, a new piece by Complex Movements based on the book Tower and Dungeon: A Study o...

Jun 22, 2021•55 min

01 - Livable Futures - Indigenous Futures w/ Emalani Case

An activist, writer and dancer from Waimea, Hawaiʻi, Emalani Case is deeply engaged in issues of indigenous rights and representation, dietary colonialism, and environmental and social justice. Her current research focuses on Hawaiian articulations of identity and nationalism, sovereignty, and decolonising indigenous minds and bodies. She is a lecturer in Pacific Studies at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand/Aoteoroa. Read more about her here: people.wgtn.ac.nz/emalani.case Read ab...

Jun 22, 2021•46 min

00 - Livable Futures - Centering Livability w/ Norah ZShaw

Host Norah Zuniga Shaw discusses some of the ideas and lineages for the Livable Futures projects, introduces the Arrivals tactic for living and connecting to where and when we are, and offers a posthuman thought exercise. Short introductory episode to kick-off the first season. Queer and Black feminist and postman theory and practice are important influences in the Livable Futures project and referenced in this episode, follow the links below to learn more and get inspired: adrienne maree brown:...

Jun 13, 2021•9 min

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