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conscient podcasta calm presence - a sense of communionThis bonus episode is a narration of my a calm presence posting called 'a sense of communion'. See the 'Transcript' tab of this episode for the original text.
*END NOTES FOR ALL EPISODESHey conscient listeners, I’ve been producing the conscient podcast as a learning and unlearning journey since May 2020 on un-ceded Anishinaabe Algonquin territory (Ottawa). It’s my way to give back.In parallel with the production of the conscient podcast and its francophone counterpart, balado conscient, I I publish free ‘a calm presence' Substack see...
2025-06-2615 min
conscient podcasta calm presence - a painfully small windowHere is a narration of my latest ‘a calm presence’, inspired by this quote from Indy Johar’s May 12th, 2025 Substack posting, The Stickiness of Want - And the Systemic Amnesia Behind It :We—you, me, everyone in this room—are the last generation with viable agency before degenerative volatility locks us into conflict and collapse. The window is painfully small but gloriously open.’This posting was written while traveling in India and Japan in April and May of 2025.The narrated version was recorded in one take on May 21, 2025 on the streets of Hakone-Yumoto, Japan with the Haya...
2025-05-2216 min
conscient podcasta calm presence - climate amnesiaThis posting was written and recorded while on a trip to northern India. It explores the inter-relations of culture and climate. The audio version is fun because of the soundscapes of Delhi in the background (car horns, bird song, sweeping of leaves, music, etc)It features excerpts from my comments to the Create Canada project which is important given its potential to deepen conversations about the role of culture as Canada faces existential threats from the regime of our southern neighbour.I did not agree with all their postings but I saw merit in their...
2025-05-0819 min
conscient podcasta calm presence - this moment in canadian culturethis moment in canadian culturereflections on conscient e214 roundtable – this moment in canadian culture Note: you can read the original posting on my a calm presence Substack here.Also see the Transcript of this episode for the complete posting. Big thanks to all roundtable participants, Robin Sokoloski, Annette Hegel, Jai Djwa, Owais Lightwala, SGS, also known as Sarah Garton Stanley, Max Wyman and Chris Creighton-Kelly for taking the time to share their thoughts and to you for listening and considering what ‘this moment in canadian culture’ means to you.
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2025-04-2009 min
conscient podcasta calm presence - when spirit becomes oneA bonus episode in between seasons 5 and 6, featuring my new year’s 'a calm presence' reflection on hope with writings and stories by Peter Schneider, John Crier (as told to Vanessa Andreotti), Richard Heinberg, Zia Gallina, Naomi Klein, Azul Carolina Duque, Jem Bendell, Robert R. Janes and Hildegard Westerkamp. To read the original posting on Substack see https://acalmpresence.substack.com/p/when-spirit-becomes-one-5f5
*END NOTES FOR ALL EPISODESHey conscient listeners, I’ve been producing the conscient podcast as a learning and unlearning journey since May 202...
2025-01-0131 min
conscient podcasta calm presence - flowingflowing throughopening ever-new vistas through listening and conversation I received an email from composer Hildegard Westerkamp, about ego, and set Hildi’s words to sound. The time seems right for you to let everyone’s words flow through you - as if through a medium or force - back to all of us in ever new shapes. This creates shifts in everyone’s perception, ideas, attitudes, feelings and approaches towards the world the way it is now. I have always felt that this was precisely what I was doing with environmental sounds. I recorded them...
2024-11-0506 min
conscient podcaste208 clara schryer - science as storyMy interest in science is quite poetic. The things that I find the most interesting about science are when it can be woven into a story that makes sense and I think that's kind of artistic in a way: you take the scientific knowledge and make it into a more abstract kind of poetic thing.Note: I'll be back during the winter of 2025 with season 6 on the theme of 'art and culture in times of crisis and collapse'. Also, this episode was published on October 23, 2024 : our daughter Clara Schryer's 23rd birthday. Bonne fête chère Clara!*...
2024-10-2358 min
conscient podcaste197 zan chandler - other ways of responding to the worldThat's the thing about the future's work and foresight work is you need a very broad range of thinkers. You need people from different perspectives who speak different languages and who recognize different worldviews. I think that's always why artists will be important in that process, because they are not necessarily coming from sort of mainstream culture. They may be immersed, raised in mainstream culture, but they're often trying to say, hey, there are other ways of seeing the world, and there are other ways of responding to the world that we're in right now.I first met Zan...
2024-09-0751 min
conscient podcaste184 cpamo ai panel - from precarity to stabilityMy dream with AI started with curiosity about how technology can extend to the boundaries of artistic expression. I was fascinated by the possibility of emerging traditional art and forms of traditional artistry to create something entirely new and engage my passion for innovation and to explore AI as tools to enhance my creative visions and bring artistic ideas to life in ways I could only dream or imagine. (Sean Caesar)This is a special episode of the conscient podcast featuring a panel at The Gathering Divergence Multi-Arts Festival & Conference Spring 2024 presented by Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Movement o...
2024-07-191h 25
conscient podcastupdate on season 5This is an audio from a short video recorded on June 22, 2024 on an inflatable kayak outing where I thank conscient podcast listeners (and a calm presence readers) and let you know that there are many new conscient episodes coming in the next few days and to please take your time (in particular if you are a regular listener). Please don’t feel overwhelmed). This amount of volume and diversity of voices is part of my ongoing research. One trick is to listen to the opening seconds featuring a key quote from that episode and see if i...
2024-07-0301 min
conscient podcasta calm presence - accept | adapt | respondThis is a bonus episode featuring the audio version of my June 3, 2024 accept | adapt | respond posting on my 'a calm presence' Substack, whose purpose is to provide 'short, practical essays about collapse acceptance, adaptation, response and art'.You can subscribe to the newsletter (which is actually more of a learning journal) here.You can subscribe to the a calm presence podcast on any podcast player. Note: this reading of accept | adapt | respond includes excerpts from my 1998 soundscape composition Au dernier vivant les biens.
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2024-06-0937 min
conscient podcaste165 bill crandall - art can change usBeing an artist, or making art, in the context of climate is more about being a kind of light in the darkness, making us believe in ourselves and believe in the future so that we want to endeavor to save the thing that we have, our habitat. Some people like to say art can't change the world, but art can change us. Then we can change the world more effectively.I first heard about Bill Crandall from his Viaduct Arts project, a newsletter that brings together various ways artists can help carry us up and over the climate crisis...
2024-04-2950 min
conscient podcaste155 sanita fejzic - peasant futurismsI think artists can challenge us by showing our blind spots, in a way, educating us, but also inspiring us about what's possible, right? I think in SCALE we talk about re-authoring the world. That's what artists do. We re-author the world. We create alternative ways of even just thinking about what's desirable in the first place.I first met novelist, playwright, poet, and essayist Sanita Fejzić in 2021 while we were both on the Mission Circle of SCALE, the Sectoral Climate Arts Leadership for the Emergency, where we had great debates about climate justice and the role of art i...
2024-03-0337 min
conscient podcaste154 riel schryer - the art of history and gamingThere's a sort of pulling back and forth between these two ideas. Out of the idea of fundamental inferiority comes slavery. And out of the idea of cultural inferiority come things like residential schools, right? The logics that fuel those two things are different, but they both obviously have negative results. And I think in the modern world sometimes we still fall into that trap of thinking that moving away from just beliefs of fundamental inferiority is enough. When, you know, beliefs of cultural inferiority can be similarly damaging.Riel Schryer is a student of history, a gamer and … my...
2024-02-2137 min
conscient podcasttrailer season 5Trailer for season 5 of the conscient podcast : conversations about the ecological crisis with brilliant, passionate, and visionary artists and cultural workers' on the theme of 'preparing for the end of the world as we know it and creating the conditions for other possible worlds to emerge'.
*END NOTES FOR ALL EPISODESI’ve been producing the conscient podcast as a learning and unlearning journey since May 2020 on un-ceded Anishinaabe Algonquin territory (Ottawa). It’s my way to give back and be present.In parallel with the production of the conscient podcast...
2024-02-1403 min
conscient podcaste153 full circle - how can we support those who are frightened by the ecological crisis and in need of a calm presence?The final episode of season 4 and my conclusion from my sounding modernity learning and unlearning journey featuring an exchange with Catherine Ingram about 'a calm presence'.See the web version of this site on a laptop or desktop computer for a complete transcription of this episode.*
*END NOTES FOR ALL EPISODESHey conscient listeners, I’ve been producing the conscient podcast as a learning and unlearning journey since May 2020 on un-ceded Anishinaabe Algonquin territory (Ottawa). It’s my way to give back.In pa...
2023-12-3110 min
conscient podcaste152 questions - what do you question?a selection of questions and observations from the end of episodes this seasonMy gesture of reciprocity for this episode is to the Resilience.
*END NOTES FOR ALL EPISODESHey conscient listeners, I’ve been producing the conscient podcast as a learning and unlearning journey since May 2020 on un-ceded Anishinaabe Algonquin territory (Ottawa). It’s my way to give back.In parallel with the production of the conscient podcast and its francophone counterpart, balado conscient, I I publish free ‘a calm presence...
2023-12-2408 min
conscient podcaste150 compactor - are there strange sounds on your street?i heard a strange tapping sound from my window one morning and had a chat when the workers repairing the street TRANSCRIPTION OF EPISODE (Bell and breath) (sound of me walking towards a machine on a city street) I heard a strange tapping sound from my window one morning and decided to walk towards the sound. Claude: It's okay. I was interested in that machine, but you're not using it right now. Oh… Worker : I actually t...
2023-12-1005 min
conscient podcaste149 spinning - let the sound take you wherever it might in your imaginationi came upon a 1980’s era ‘discman’ portable CD player that still work, sort of and listened to it trying to spin up TRANSCRIPTION OF EPISODE (bell and breath) (old cd player trying to spin up) While going through a box of old technologies to be recycled, I came upon a 1980s era discman portable CD player that still sort of worked. I listened to it, trying to spin up to speed to do its job, but it wasn't able to, it...
2023-12-0305 min
conscient podcast60 Minute Cities Ottawa (revisited)A special episode of The Place of Sound podcast featuring highlights from a project I did in 2017 for Bivouac Recordings, in Hong Kong, called 60 minutes Cities Ottawa, a series of winter time field recordings of Ottawa.Note: This episode is also available in French.This is a special episode of The Place of Sound podcast. You’ll hear highlights from a project I did in 2017 for Bivouac Recordings, a sound label based in Hong Kong, called 60 minutes Cities Ottawa - featuring winter sounds in Ottawa - curated by Terrence Lloren, which is a series of album...
2023-11-2828 min
conscient podcaste146 countdown - can you turn back time?I recorded myself counting down from 100 to 1 in the snow and played in backwards, hoping, against all odds, to turn back time TRANSCRIPTION OF EPISODE (bell and breath) (Ambiance and footsteps in the snow played backwards) On December 29, 2022, I recorded myself counting from 100 to 0 in crusty snow at our cottage. My goal was to explore what it felt like to cross over the tipping point into irreversible climate catastrophe. But, you know, to be fair, I like to just count...
2023-11-1205 min
conscient podcaste144 drifting - can you go with the flow?while drifting on a river in a kayak i listenedTRANSCRIPTION OF EPISODE(bell and breath) (kayak drifting on a river) * CREDITS One of my ‘happy places’ in life is drifting down a river on a kayak. It’s an opportunity to slow down and regenerate with earthly elements. To let go and be carried away. This recording was made on July 13, 2023 on the Preston River in Duhamel, Québec. This episode was created while I was in resid...
2023-10-2905 min
conscient podcastbonus episode - unlearning through soundThis episode is a recording of a presentation I gave on October 6, 2023 about my ‘Sounding Modernity’ project to the XI International Symposium on Soundscape, organized by the FKL-Forum Klanglandschaft in Lugano, Switzerland. See TRANSCRIPT (with a laptop or desktop only) to read what was said.
*END NOTES FOR ALL EPISODESHey conscient listeners, I’ve been producing the conscient podcast as a learning and unlearning journey since May 2020 on un-ceded Anishinaabe Algonquin territory (Ottawa). It’s my way to give back.In parallel with the production of the conscien...
2023-10-1330 min
conscient podcaste139 stream - this episode. Is about listening. to this stream. for 5 minutes. enjoy.while introducing a 5 minute recording of a bubbly stream I realized that the stream was flowing within meTRANSCRIPTION OF EPISODE(bell and breath)(In a hushed voice)This episode.. (silence)is about listening… (silence)to this stream… (silence)for 5 minutes…(silence)Enjoy*CREDITSThis episode was recorded by Lac St-Anne near Duhamel, Québec on August 18, 2023. I was on an e-bike ride in the backcountry when I heard this beauti...
2023-09-2405 min
conscient podcaste137 ritardando - do slowing down sounds slow you down?i’ve always been comforted and relaxed by sounds that gradually slow downTRANSCRIPTION OF EPISODE(bell and breath)Slowing down sounds slow me down(layering of slowing down soundscape compositions from my simplesoundscapes podcast (2016-2019: e06 cycles (from first generation, not published) e42 fidget - ah, let us pay attention for a minute or two to the spinninge42fidget - red, yellow and bluee109 lake - slow slower stope11 arrival - the modulation of propeller as metaphor)
2023-09-1005 min
conscient podcaste135 layers - how do you feel now?i played back four episodes from this season at the same time and listened to how they interactTRANSCRIPTION OF EPISODE(bell and breath) Episode 105 stretches time(e105 ropes)Episode 101 releases tension(e101 tension)Episode 118 follows your shit(e118 shit)e116 mourns loss(e116 loss)How do you feel now?*I love to listen to the interplay of layered soundscapes : how they come in and out of each other like cloud formations, so I...
2023-08-2705 min
conscient podcaste134 drops - are you a drop of water?one morning I heard rhythmic water dripping from a gutter and improvised this poem(bell and breath)(Voice synchronized to sound of water drop)I am a drop of waterI am a drop of rainI am your bodyI am your pain (Repeated)Are you a drop of water?*CREDITSRecorded at the back deck of our home in Ottawa on August 13th, 2023. I am grateful and accountable to the earth and the hum...
2023-08-2005 min
conscient podcaste117 portrait of robin mathews (bonus episode)Here is another bonus episode, this one is called 'Portrait of Robin Mathews'. It is 3 part unpublished radio program I created in 2005 in collaboration with Robin based on an interview I recorded with him in 2004. The program is a layered discussion about the history of political poetry in Canada, the role of the artist in society and family matters, in particular his relationship with me as my father-in-law. This program also includes Robin reading excerpts of his poetry as well as some of my soundscape compositions.
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2023-07-191h 09
conscient podcaste126 sleepless - what keeps you up at night?(soundscapes of east vancouver at c. 5am)I can’t sleep tonight. What about you? I love nighttime soundscapes. They’re so bareboned, minimal, like the rumble that you hear now, mostly from Vancouver harbour, but also the industrial area here in east vancouver.So I'm up, recording, listening, figuring out what keeps me up at night, this night, other nights, when I listen and try to understand... Sometimes I feel like I can hear inaudible sounds, like the polar ice caps melting…(homeless person walking by...
2023-06-2505 min
conscient podcaste125 observer - how do you respond to climate news?(bell)I take stock of climate news by reading the headlines of the excellent daily newspaper, national observer, for example, on Tuesday April 25th, 2023 these were the headlines : ‘We might have a coverup problem’: MPs grill Alberta Energy Regulator CEO over oil sands tailings leaks(sound of dripping and filtering from simplesoundscapes e34 goutte)‘Meet the man turning mushrooms into meat’(quiet field with crickets)‘How the pandemic challenged libertarianism’(crowd at protest)‘Tide-powered clean energy could help West Coast communities ditch diesel’(beach in Cu...
2023-06-1805 min
conscient podcaste122 quiet - stop and listen(bell and breath)(Sounds of forest in winter with icicles)Sometimes we just have to stop and listen. Without passing judgement. Just listen….Sometimes we just have to stop and listen*Recorded at our cottage in Duhamel, Québec on December 30th, 2022.Thanks to the forest and the frozen rain for this wonderful soundscape.I am grateful and accountable to the earth and the human labour that provided me with the privilege of producing this episode. (including all the toxic materials and e...
2023-05-2805 min
conscient podcaste121 rumble - what killed dr decibel?(bell)(humming to urban drones) This is Dr. Decibel. Your sonic superhero on the unseated ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations otherwise known as… Well, I think you know where I am.(plane passing by)You have a problem here people. The low frequencies are excessive : traffic, industry, ventilation. Layers and layers of rumble and I hate rumble. Rumbleeeee is not something that I enjoy, so I’m going to use my superpowers today to reduce the amount of rumble in your city.Ruuuuumble… (imitation...
2023-05-2105 min
conscient podcaste120 metro - stop and listen(bell and breath)(sounds of a subway car throughout)Sometimes we just have to stop and listen. Without passing judgement. Just listen….Sometimes we just have to stop and listen.*Recorded on February 2, 2023 at 1.43pm between the Georges-Vanier, Lucien-L’Allier, Bonaventure and Square Victoria stops of the Montreal metro.I am grateful and accountable to the earth and the human labour that provided me with the privilege of producing this episode. (including all the toxic materials and extractive processes behind the computers, recorders, transp...
2023-05-1405 min
conscient podcaste119 construction - how does the sound of construction affect you?In this episode I invite you to listen to a construction site, unaltered and raw. How does the sound of construction affect you?*This episode was recorded at the corner of Frances St and Salsbury Drive, Vancouver on March 6, 2023 at 10.10am.Thanks to the construction workers for use of their sounds. I am grateful and accountable to the earth and the human labour that provided me with the privilege of producing this episode. (including all the toxic materials and extractive processes behind the computers, recorders, transportation and infrastructure that ma...
2023-05-0705 min
conscient podcaste118 toilet - where does your shit go?(bell and breath)where does your shit go?(toilet flush 1)where does your shit go?(toilet flush 2)where does your shit go?(toilet flush 3)where does your shit go?(toilet flush 4)where does your shit go?*These four toilet flushes were recorded in Peterborough, Toronto and Ottawa, Ontario Thanks to the sanitary workers around the world who literally clean up our shit. I am grateful and accountable to the earth and the human la...
2023-04-3005 min
conscient podcaste117 - deeper into the forest (bonus)a conversation between robin and myself about the origins of this poem (in memoriam Robin Mathews : November 1, 1931 - April 25, 2023)(in memoriam Robin Mathews : November 1, 1931 - April 25, 2023)Transcription of bonus episodeRobinThat's a funny poem. ClaudeWhat's it about, do you think? What do you remember it being about? Do you recognize it as your own? ? RobinI do recognize it, but I don't know where it came from. ClaudeWell, you wrote it just a few weeks ago on...
2023-04-2303 min
conscient podcaste116 loss - what does ecological loss sound like where you live?(bell and breath)(muffled sound of ocean waves)This recording filters out all high and mid-range frequencies that I captured of ocean waves at Canaveral National Seashore in Florida, on March 23, 2023 around midnight while doing an impromptu soundwalk with colleagues from the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology conference Listenng Pasts - Listening Futures.Why did I do this? I invite you to sit with the loss of these upper and mid frequencies as a metaphor for the loss of biodiversity on earth.I don’t mean to inflict undue pai...
2023-04-1605 min
conscient podcaste114 privilege - what are the privileges in your life?(Claude Schryer n 2023)It's March 6, 2023 and I’m at Trout Lake Park in Vancouver. About 2 years ago, I went for a long soundwalk with climate activist, and now politician, Anjali Appadurai, which became episode 23 of season 2 of this podcast. It was the first time that Anjali did a soundwalk and it was a very powerful moment for me because I've often thought back about what Anjali said that day. It has informed my work as a climate activist and on the role of art in the climate emergency. I encourage you to read, to listen to...
2023-04-0205 min
conscient podcaste113 soundwalk (part 2) - how can we deepen our listening?(Jacek Smolicki)The ultimate question I'm asking is how can we move away from soundwalk as a kind of framed aesthetic experience or artistic experience and turn it into an existential practice or basically something that is just ingrained in our everyday life and we don't have to frame it anymore. It's just basically part of our way of living. (Claude Schryer)Can you give an example of that? (Jacek Smolicki)An academic example would be the concepts developed by Steven Feld, acoustemology, where basically listening, a kind of so...
2023-03-2606 min
conscient podcaste113 soundwalk (part 1) - what is my position in listening ?(Claude Schryer)Jacek, what is soundwalking? (Jacek Smolicki)That's a very broad question, but I'll try to answer from two perspectives: my own and from what is kind of more generally considered soundwalking. So, to quote Hildegard Westerkamp, one of the pioneers of that practice, basically, a soundwalk is any kind of excursion into an environment which is motivated by us listening to it. Whether we do it with or without technologies or whether we do it on our own or in a group and the point of soundwalking is to connect or r...
2023-03-2605 min
conscient podcaste110 drain - where does your bathwater go?(sound of bath draining, at first with a strong oscillating rhythm followed by water flowing and silence)It goes down the drain (again) and into the sewer system to be processed and dumped into the Ottawa river, then it evaporates into the sky and it rains back into our lakes and rivers, bringing with it with many pollutants, and then is pumped into our homes, in our bodies and heated until… (repeated and improvised)Where does your bathwater go? *The rhythm comes from this sound of my bathtub draining, which occurs fro...
2023-03-0505 min
conscient podcaste109 being - how can we listen through art?(bell and breath)On December 19th, 2022 I read David Maggs’ Art and the Ouija Board? blog, as part of his Metcalf Foundation Fellow on Arts and Society.I was struck by this section in particular:Like a Ouija board or a dowsing wand, art is the capacity to pay attention to the world in unusual ways, a capacity to attend to the world in terms of the aesthetic. To make sense of life through lines, shapes, patterns, forms, colours, textures, rhythms, harmonies, imagery, and more. As Canadian poet Don McKay puts it, “Poetry returns from...
2023-02-2605 min
conscient podcaste105 rope - how did this episode make you feel?This recording is a rope holding a boat to the dock at Toronto Harbour on November 26th, 2022. Sketches by Sabrina Mathews.
*END NOTES FOR ALL EPISODESHey conscient listeners, I’ve been producing the conscient podcast as a learning and unlearning journey since May 2020 on un-ceded Anishinaabe Algonquin territory (Ottawa). It’s my way to give back.In parallel with the production of the conscient podcast and its francophone counterpart, balado conscient, I I publish free ‘a calm presence' Substack see https://acalmpresence.substack.com.Y...
2023-01-2905 min
conscient podcaste104 time - what does a very small moment in a much larger space sound like?(bell and breath)(loud sound of train passing at close distance)(once the train has passed, cross fade between quiet city and very quiet mountain forest)(indigenous artist and curator France Trepanier from conscient podcast é55 trépanier - a very small moment in a much larger space, in French):I think that with this cycle of colonialism, and what it has brought, that we are coming to the end of this cycleand with hindsight, we will realize that it was a very small moment in a much larger space, and that we ar...
2023-01-2205 min
conscient podcaste101 tension - how do you feel now?(Deep breath)TensionI was thinking about the tensions in our lives and the art of finding a balance point… So I went for a sound walk in Vancouver and came upon a piece of fishing line. I brought it home, strung it up and recorded myself plucking it (sound of fishing line being plucked by hand) I held the fishing line with my left hand while I gradually reduced the tension with my right hand. Later that day I went for another soundwalk and came upon a whit...
2023-01-0104 min
conscient podcaste00 what is sounding modernity?Welcome to episode 0 of season four of the conscient podcast, Sounding Modernity, five-minute sound meditations, published every Sunday from January 1 through December 31, 2023. My name is Claude Schryer and I'm happy to be back podcasting about art and the ecological crisis after a 10 month break.I'm talking to you today from the unceded traditional territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation, also known as Ottawa, where my family and I are grateful to live. Veuillez prendre note qu’une version en français de cet épisode et de toute la saison 4 est disponible sur le canal b...
2022-12-0609 min
conscient podcaste99 (b) winter soundscape revisited – homage to r. murray schafer (composition only)'What would the Prairies be without wind? It’s the keynote sound here, the one against which everything else is registered. But to record it? Impossible.'R. Murray Schafer, winter diary, 1997See episode 99 for details on winter diary revisited - homage to r. murray schafer and to listen to the version with a 25' introduction and 3' of credits.Note: an article for the Institute for Music in Canada about this composition is available here : Winter Diary Revisited
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2022-02-0839 min
conscient podcaste98 epilogue – perspectives on season 3'I came to realize that in season three that I continue to be very deeply moved by the layering of words and soundscapes. There's something about it, when new contexts for listening are created, that I find it very stimulating. It's like the spirits of the sounds are actually speaking directly to me and that I can hear and feel their presence. Now I've always felt this, but I rarely talk about it, because it sounds so, you know, strange or is hard to explain, but there it is. It's something that I just love doing and I'm interested to...
2022-01-1715 min
conscient podcaste98 epilogue – perspectives on season 3This episode is a reading of my January 2022 blog about some of the high and lows of season 3 of this podcast and my interest in layering words and soundscapes that create new contexts for listening, with excerpts from episodes 65, 69, 81, 86, 96 and a preview of e99 Winter Diary Revisited.
This episode is a reading of my conscient podcast blog for the month of January 2022.
Some might recall that I started the 3rd season of this podcast with a fictional case study:
(Teacher) Today, we’re going to do a case study today of the second season...
2022-01-1615 minconscient podcaste98 epilogue – perspectives on season 3This episode is a reading of my January 2022 blog about some of the high and lows of season 3 of this podcast and my interest in layering words and soundscapes that create new contexts for listening, with excerpts from episodes 65, 69, 81, 86, 96 and a preview of e99 Winter Diary Revisited.
This episode is a reading of my conscient podcast blog for the month of January 2022.
Some might recall that I started the 3rd season of this podcast with a fictional case study:
(Teacher) Today, we’re going to do a case study today of the second season...
2022-01-1615 min
conscient podcaste97 chantal chagnon, kevin jesuino, melanie kloetzel – climate art web'We are missing so many voices that could be the change. Art gives us that opportunity to amplify those voices and I think it's important that now, more than ever, that we amplify those marginalized voices, those racialized voices, those voices that are being directly affected with what's happening around mother earth (CHANTAL CHAGNON). An online map that showcases all the ideas, artists, institutions, projects and programs that are around this idea of climate and art intersecting with each other, and we would launch this resource at the online sharing that would happen in spring of 2022 (KEVIN JESUINO) I...
2022-01-1045 minconscient podcaste91 keith barker – telling a really good storyMy conversation with indigenous playwright, actor & director Keith Barker, artistic director of Native Earth Performing Arts on Dec 8, 2021 in Tkaronto about indigenous theatre & storytelling including a reading of his 'APOLOGY, MY' 5 minute play for the 2021 Climate Change Theatre Action with voice actors Riel Schryer and Sabrina Mathews. Also with excerpts from e92 santee smith and e44 bilodeau.
Keith Barker is from the Métis Nation of Ontario and is artistic director of Native Earth Performing Arts in Tkaronto. He is the winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award and the Playwrights Guild’s Carol Bolt Award for best ne...
2021-12-0835 minconscient podcaste91 keith barker – telling a really good storyMy conversation with indigenous playwright, actor & director Keith Barker, artistic director of Native Earth Performing Arts on Dec 8, 2021 in Tkaronto about indigenous theatre & storytelling including a reading of his 'APOLOGY, MY' 5 minute play for the 2021 Climate Change Theatre Action with voice actors Riel Schryer and Sabrina Mathews. Also with excerpts from e92 santee smith and e44 bilodeau.
Keith Barker is from the Métis Nation of Ontario and is artistic director of Native Earth Performing Arts in Tkaronto. He is the winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award and the Playwrights Guild’s Carol Bolt Award for best ne...
2021-12-0835 min
conscient podcaste86 arts policy, equity and activism class at centennial college'I'm interested in what we can do to both mitigate the climate emergency and adapt to it but there's another level which is revisioning the world and maybe that's the one that's most interesting, because unfortunately it's going to be rough for the foreseeable future on earth, but life will go on, with or without humans. I think humans have a place in it, but then we have to figure out how we're going to live with much, much less resources and all the damage that's been done and have a positive view of that. So rethinking and reauthoring the...
2021-11-2546 min
conscient podcaste83 the greatest mass movement in history‘This episode lasts 59 seconds. I want to share a November 13th, 2021, tweet by British writer and climate activist George Monbiot: 'Now we have no choice but to raise the scale of civil disobedience until we have built the greatest mass movement in history. We do not consent to the destruction of our life support systems’.’George Monbiot, November 13th, 2021, tweet This episode lasts 59 seconds. I want to share a November 13th, 2021, tweet by British writer and climate activist George Monbiot: ‘Now we have no choice but to raise the scale of civil disobedience until we h...
2021-11-1500 min
conscient podcaste75 radical listening as climate action'To me, radical listening is about stepping out of our comfort zone when we listen. Radical listening about thinking beyond what we think we know when we listen. Radical listening is about recognizing our biases, both conscious and unconscious. It’s about listening actively and sincerely. Ultimately, it’s about getting to the truth and facing reality.'Claude Schryer, FKL’s Unheard Landscapes Symposium, October 29, 2021 e75 radical listening as climate action is my presentation and Q&A period at the FKL’s Unheard Landscapes Symposiumon October 29, 2021 about ‘music as acoustic ecology’ and ‘radicality’ in the context of listening and the climate...
2021-10-3028 min
conscient podcaste74 letting go'I’ve come to realize that the main barrier to my re-education, and I might not be the only one in this situation, is… ‘me’. My personality, my baggage and that the solution, simply, is to let it go. To release it.'Claude Schryer, October 26, 2021, Vancouvere74 letting go – laisser aller was recorded on Tuesday, October 26, 2021, at 6.40am. It’s a bilingual monologue about how I’ve come to realize that the main barrier to my re-education is… ‘me’, and that the solution, simply, is to let it go. To release it. A soundwalk around the neighbourhood follows.
2021-10-2719 min
conscient podcaste73 judith marcuse – finding the energy to keep moving'I feel really at the base of myself that creating anything, art, sofas, whatever it is, allows us to give of ourselves to something that may not be lasting but in the moment, that act of creation can engender hope, can engender a sense of autonomy, a sense of possibility and we can't despair right now, we're at a tipping point, as everyone is saying and the question for me is how do we find the energy alone and collectively to keep moving in this urgency that we're all feeling without drowning in despair. I think art has an essential...
2021-10-2624 min
conscient podcaste72 richard wagamese’s what comes from spirit'It’s 2.29am on Sunday October 17th, 2021. I can hear the rumble of the city in the background, but the rain has stopped for a few minutes. Yesterday, I walked by the People’s Coop Bookstore on Commercial Avenue in Vancouver and thought I saw a new book by Richard Wagamese in the corner of my eye. How could this be? The title was What Comes From Spirit. My heart was pounding. Could this be a new book from my favorite author, who tragically passed away in 2017?'Claude Schryer, October 17th, 2021. VancouverIt’s 2.29am on Sunday...
2021-10-2207 min
conscient podcaste71 green sessions debrief'The Green Sessions was invented because this small group of people got together and decided we wanted to do something that created impact. I'm really interested in new and more opportunities for us to collaborate as a sector and putting people into focus and a place of knowledge on this agenda'Emma Stenning, former Executive Director, SoulPepper theatre companyComplete excerptThe Green Sessions was invented because this small group of people got together and decided we wanted to do something that created impact and we put really a fairly modest amount of money behind...
2021-10-2111 min
conscient podcaste70 one step at a time'We make choices by not making choices And we live with unbearable consequences We hear alarm bells, but do not respond We cling to uncertainty like a sad song We act as if unaware and innocent We are cognitively dissonant' Claude Schryer, September 28, 2021, Duhamel, QCone step at a time(September 28, 2021)We make choices by not making choices And we live with unbearable consequences We hear alarm bells, but do not respondWe cling to uncertainty like a sad song We act as if unaware and...
2021-10-2004 min
conscient podcaste69 soundwalk in the dark'It's 4 56 am on Tuesday, rather than Wednesday, September 29th. I'm about to do something I've never done before, a soundwalk in the dark. I wanted to share with you this experience of walking in the dark and see what happens.'Claude Schryer, September 29, 2021, Duhamel QCYou’ll hear two excerpts from season 2 of the conscient podcast in this episode:e22 westerkamp(Claude Schryer)I'm interested to know, for instance, around sound walking, you've recorded them, and you use them as stimulants or as proposals to people. What, what does that brin...
2021-10-1938 min
conscient podcaste68 andrew davies and no. 9 gardens'I think the transformation of knowledge is really important. What we can do from our generation to the next is try and help prepare them for the impacts of climate change, but it doesn't have to be all doom and gloom…'Andrew Davies, September 26, 2021e68 andrews davies and no. 9 gardens is a conversation that I recorded on September 26th 2021, in one take, while in a yurt with Andrew Davies, Director of No 9 Gardens, near Kingston, Ontario. We talked about the art and environment, reconciliation, yurts, education, passing on knowledge and the joys of farming and art makin...
2021-10-1810 min
conscient podcaste67 wanna be an ally'I've been thinking about decolonization and reconciliation and other issues in our relations with indigenous communities. I was reading the 'wanna be an ally' poem the other day that really affected me positively but also emotionally and I wanted to read it to you.'Claude Schryer, Duhamel QCTranscription of monologue conscient podcast, episode 67, ‘wanna be an ally’ I've been thinking about decolonization and reconciliation and other issues in our relations with indigenous communities. I was reading a text the other day that really affected me positively but also emotionally and I wanted to read...
2021-10-1709 min
conscient podcaste66 stillness'I’m interested in doing episodes that are in the moment, unedited moments of thinking out loud and not thinking too much because the rest of my body is working at soaking in this space.'Claude Schryer, Duhamel QCe66 stillness is a monologue that I recorded on September 14th, 2021, in one take, while sitting still in a kayak in a shallow bay on the Preston River, in Duhamel Québec where I talk about stillness, not-thinking and what I am hearing and feeling at that moment. This recording includes quotes from an unpublished episode of simpl...
2021-10-1214 min
conscient podcaste65 drifting into season 3'What I'm looking for, ultimately, is an anchoring point: where are we at and what can we do to ensure the continuation of life?'Claude Schryer, Duhamel QC(transcript)This is Claude Schryer, conscient podcast, the first episode of season 3. I took me a while to figure out what I wanted to do in season 3, because there are so many things that podcasts can do : interviews, or you can do, monologues, but after season 2, which was pretty darn intense – BTW I'm on a kayak right now, so you can hear that - pretty darn inte...
2021-10-1116 min
conscient podcaste64 a case study (part 2)'Welcome back to the History of 2021 in Canada seminar. We’re going to conclude our case study today of the 2nd season of the conscient podcast.'Claude Schryerou can listen to part one here. This is the conclusion!The setting is an undergraduate university history seminar course called ‘History of 2021 in Canada’. I want to thank my son Riel for the idea. It is set in the distant future, where a professor is presenting a ‘case study’ based on the second season of the conscient podcast as part of a class on art in 2021. Th...
2021-10-0743 min
conscient podcaste63 a case study (part 1)'Welcome to the History of 2021 in Canada seminar. We’re going to do a case study today of the second season of the conscient podcast.'Claude SchryerThe setting is an undergraduate university history seminar course called ‘History of 2021 in Canada’. I want to thank my son Riel, student of history, for the idea. It is set in the distant future, where a professor is presenting a ‘case study’ based on the second season of the conscient podcast as part of a class on art in 2021. The episode is in two parts, episode 63 is part 1 and episode 64 is par...
2021-10-0430 minconscient podcaste69 soundwalk in the darke69 soundwalk in the dark is a monologue that I recorded on September 29th, 2021, from 4.56am to 5.25am, in one take, while walking around our cottage in Duhamel Québec in the dark. I talk about soundwalking, listening, reconciliation, John Cage, dancing, etc., including quotes from season 2: ‘do not listen to this episode’ and e22 westerkamp. Note: I miscalculated the time that the sun would rise and ended up walking in the dark for the entire time ! Erratum : at minute 22 I say that I almost met John Cage in the 'early 1980's' before he passed away but I meant the 'earl...
2021-09-2938 minconscient podcaste69 soundwalk in the darke69 soundwalk in the dark is a monologue that I recorded on September 29th, 2021, from 4.56am to 5.25am, in one take, while walking around our cottage in Duhamel Québec in the dark. I talk about soundwalking, listening, reconciliation, John Cage, dancing, etc., including quotes from season 2: ‘do not listen to this episode’ and e22 westerkamp. Note: I miscalculated the time that the sun would rise and ended up walking in the dark for the entire time ! Erratum : at minute 22 I say that I almost met John Cage in the 'early 1980's' before he passed away but I meant the 'earl...
2021-09-2938 minconscient podcaste63 a case study (part 1)episode 63 is part 1 of a bilingual speculative fiction radio play set in an undergraduate university history seminar course about the arts scene in 2021 in Canada that launches season 3.
The setting is an undergraduate university history seminar course called ‘History of 2021 in Canada’. I want to thank my son Riel, student of history, for the idea. It is set in the distant future, where a professor is presenting a ‘case study’ based on the second season of the conscient podcast as part of a class on art in 2021. The episode is in two parts, episode 63 is part 1 and episode 64...
2021-09-1930 minconscient podcaste64 a case study (part 2)episode 64 is part 2 of a bilingual speculative fiction radio play set in an undergraduate university history seminar course about the arts scene in 2021 in Canada that launches season 3.
You can listen to part one here. This is the conclusion!
The setting is an undergraduate university history seminar course called ‘History of 2021 in Canada’. I want to thank my son Riel for the idea. It is set in the distant future, where a professor is presenting a ‘case study’ based on the second season of the conscient podcast as part of a class on art in 2021.
There a...
2021-09-1943 minconscient podcaste63 a case study (part 1)episode 63 is part 1 of a bilingual speculative fiction radio play set in an undergraduate university history seminar course about the arts scene in 2021 in Canada that launches season 3.
The setting is an undergraduate university history seminar course called ‘History of 2021 in Canada’. I want to thank my son Riel, student of history, for the idea. It is set in the distant future, where a professor is presenting a ‘case study’ based on the second season of the conscient podcast as part of a class on art in 2021. The episode is in two parts, episode 63 is part 1 and episode 64...
2021-09-1930 minconscient podcaste64 a case study (part 2)episode 64 is part 2 of a bilingual speculative fiction radio play set in an undergraduate university history seminar course about the arts scene in 2021 in Canada that launches season 3.
You can listen to part one here. This is the conclusion!
The setting is an undergraduate university history seminar course called ‘History of 2021 in Canada’. I want to thank my son Riel for the idea. It is set in the distant future, where a professor is presenting a ‘case study’ based on the second season of the conscient podcast as part of a class on art in 2021.
There a...
2021-09-1943 minconscient podcaste65 drifting into season 3e65 drifting into season 3 is a monologue that I recorded on September 13th 2021, in one take, while drifting in a kayak on the Preston River, Duhamel Québec, that explains what season 3 (on the theme of ‘radical listening’) is about, including quotes from e21 (Dr Todd Dufresne), e23 (Anjali Appadurai) and a zen teaching.
(transcript)
This is Claude Schryer, conscient podcast, the first episode of season 3. I took me a while to figure out what I wanted to do in season 3, because there are so many things that podcasts can do : interviews, or you can do, monolog...
2021-09-1316 minconscient podcaste65 drifting into season 3e65 drifting into season 3 is a monologue that I recorded on September 13th 2021, in one take, while drifting in a kayak on the Preston River, Duhamel Québec, that explains what season 3 (on the theme of ‘radical listening’) is about, including quotes from e21 (Dr Todd Dufresne), e23 (Anjali Appadurai) and a zen teaching.
(transcript)
This is Claude Schryer, conscient podcast, the first episode of season 3. I took me a while to figure out what I wanted to do in season 3, because there are so many things that podcasts can do : interviews, or you can do, monolog...
2021-09-1316 min
conscient podcastdon’t listen to this episode – something Cage saidThe idea came to me while biking. I thought... what if I stated, over and over, that people need to wake up to the reality of the climate emergency. you know, with my slow conscient podcast voice: ‘people. need. to wake up. to the reality. of the climate emergency.’ But it would be pointless because people already know that they need to wake up to the reality of the climate emergency. Repeating it, over and over, is actually counterproductive, and boring. People would probably tune out and all that would be left are these words that have no value whatever. But the...
2021-05-011h 04conscient podcastdon’t listen to this episode – something Cage saidNote: this special edition episode of the conscient podcast in intended to be found randomly (is not being promoted). Below is the text, repeated 32 times in the recording (as Cage suggests):
The idea came to me while biking. I thought... what if I stated, over and over, that people need to wake up to the reality of the climate emergency. you know, with my slow conscient podcast voice: ‘people. need. to wake up. to the reality. of the climate emergency.’ But it would be pointless because people already know that they need to wake up to the realit...
2021-04-301h 04conscient podcastdon’t listen to this episode – something Cage saidNote: this special edition episode of the conscient podcast in intended to be found randomly (is not being promoted). Below is the text, repeated 32 times in the recording (as Cage suggests):
The idea came to me while biking. I thought... what if I stated, over and over, that people need to wake up to the reality of the climate emergency. you know, with my slow conscient podcast voice: ‘people. need. to wake up. to the reality. of the climate emergency.’ But it would be pointless because people already know that they need to wake up to the realit...
2021-04-301h 04
conscient podcaste22 westerkamp – slowing down through listeningWe need toallow for time to pass without any action, without any solutions and to just experience it. I think that a slowdown is an absolute - if there is any chance to survive - that kind of slowing down through listening and meditation and through not doing so much. I think there's some hope in that.Hildegard Westerkamp, conscient podcast conversation with Claude Schryer, March 31, 2021, VancouverHildegard Westerkamp emigrated to Canada in 1968 from Germany and lives in Vancouver on the ancestral lands of the Coast Salish peoples - the Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh), Tsleil-Waututh (Stó:lō and...
2021-04-0835 minconscient podcaste22 westerkamp – slowing down through listeningWe need to allow for time to pass without any action, without any solutions and to just experience it. I think that a slowdown is an absolute - if there is any chance to survive - that kind of slowing down through listening and meditation and through not doing so much. I think there's some hope in that.
Hildegard Westerkamp, conscient podcast conversation with Claude Schryer, March 31, 2021, Vancouver
Hildegard Westerkamp emigrated to Canada in 1968 from Germany and lives in Vancouver on the ancestral lands of the Coast Salish peoples - the Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh), Tsleil-Waututh (Stó:lō...
2021-03-3135 minconscient podcaste22 westerkamp – slowing down through listeningWe need to allow for time to pass without any action, without any solutions and to just experience it. I think that a slowdown is an absolute - if there is any chance to survive - that kind of slowing down through listening and meditation and through not doing so much. I think there's some hope in that.
Hildegard Westerkamp, conscient podcast conversation with Claude Schryer, March 31, 2021, Vancouver
Hildegard Westerkamp emigrated to Canada in 1968 from Germany and lives in Vancouver on the ancestral lands of the Coast Salish peoples - the Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh), Tsleil-Waututh (Stó:lō...
2021-03-3135 min
conscient podcaste19 reality – quotes and composition(episode script)[frogs 2017 05 22, Preston River, QC]Welcome to the conscient podcast. My name is Claude Schryer. Season 1 was about exploring how the arts contribute to environmental awareness and action. I produced 3 episodes in French, 15 in English as well as a series of bilingual blogs and videos. You can see and hear them at https://www.conscient.ca/. Season 2 is about accepting reality, working through ecological grief and charting a path forward. Today you’ll hear episode 1, called reality. It touches upon our perception of reality, the possibility of human exti...
2021-03-1842 minconscient podcaste19 reality – quotes and compositionNote: e19 reality artwork by Karla Claudio-Betancourt
(episode script)
[frogs 2017 05 22, Preston River, QC]
Welcome to the conscient podcast. My name is Claude Schryer.
Season 1 was about exploring how the arts contribute to environmental awareness and action.
I produced 3 episodes in French, 15 in English as well as a series of bilingual blogs and videos. You can see and hear them at https://www.conscient.ca/.
Season 2 is about accepting reality, working through ecological grief and charting a path forward.
Today you’ll hear episode 1, called reality. It touches up...
2021-03-1830 minconscient podcaste19 reality – quotes and compositionNote: e19 reality artwork by Karla Claudio-Betancourt
(episode script)
[frogs 2017 05 22, Preston River, QC]
Welcome to the conscient podcast. My name is Claude Schryer.
Season 1 was about exploring how the arts contribute to environmental awareness and action.
I produced 3 episodes in French, 15 in English as well as a series of bilingual blogs and videos. You can see and hear them at https://www.conscient.ca/.
Season 2 is about accepting reality, working through ecological grief and charting a path forward.
Today you’ll hear episode 1, called reality. It touches up...
2021-03-1830 min
conscient podcaste17 piro – creative facilitators in the age of climate changeWhat does it mean to be creative facilitators in the age of climate change in the midst of a disaster? Some learnings: self-care is community care, good solutions scale up and the need to work with those who have been disproportionately targeted.Em Piro, Creative Climate Leadership USA, March, 2020(episode 10 of 10 in Creative Climate Leadership USA Series)Creative Climate Leadership USA was developed by Julie’s Bicycle, an international leader in arts, culture and climate change based in London (led by Alison Tickell) and brought together 25 arts and culture leaders from the US and Canada to Bios...
2020-10-0619 min
conscient podcaste16 delaparra – start somewhere and be curiousIt’s about asking where do I start? Maybe you don't know exactly where you want to end up yet, but if you start somewhere and are curious, try things and get feedback, and you keep iterating, ultimately, meaningful things will emerge.Lauren de la Parra, Creative Climate Leadership USA, March, 2020(episode 9 of 10 in Creative Climate Leadership USA Series)Creative Climate Leadership USA was developed by Julie’s Bicycle, an international leader in arts, culture and climate change based in London (led by Alison Tickell) and brought together 25 arts and culture leaders from the US and Canada...
2020-10-0619 min
conscient podcaste15 chasansky – make climate a part of strategic planningThe way to make artists and arts organizations thrive is to make sure that climate change is a part of their thoughts, business plans and strategic plans because the timeline is short and severe climate change effects are within a strategic planning time horizon. Matthew Chasansky, Creative Climate Leadership USA, March, 2020(episode 8 of 10 in Creative Climate Leadership USA Series)Creative Climate Leadership USA was developed by Julie’s Bicycle, an international leader in arts, culture and climate change based in London (led by Alison Tickell) and brought together 25 arts and culture leaders from the US and Cana...
2020-10-0623 min
conscient podcaste14 kirn – scientists, artists and sustainablistsScientists tell us the what (observable evidence of what's happening or what's coming). Artists can provide the so what (why is it important? what does it mean? why should we care?). Sustainablists provide the now what (what do we do and how do we move forward?)Marda Kirn, Creative Climate Leadership USA, March, 2020(episode 7 of 10 in Creative Climate Leadership USA Series)Creative Climate Leadership USA was developed by Julie’s Bicycle, an international leader in arts, culture and climate change based in London (led by Alison Tickell) and brought together 25 arts and culture leaders from the US and C...
2020-10-0630 min
conscient podcaste13 freiband – weaving art into actionThere's a textile metaphor of culture where our actions just weave into the weft that's already there and change the pattern and shift and alter things… Andrew Freiband, Creative Climate Leadership USA, March, 2020(episode 6 of 10 in CCL USA Series)Creative Climate Leadership USA was developed by Julie’s Bicycle, an international leader in arts, culture and climate change based in London (led by Alison Tickell) and brought together 25 arts and culture leaders from the US and Canada to Biosphere 2 in Oracle, Arizona from March 8-14, 2020 thanks to a collaboration of EcoArts Connections, the University of Arizona and...
2020-10-0623 min
conscient podcaste12 liverman – looking for some hopeI look for artists and the cultural sector to help us envisage a future that's positive. We've tended to spend our whole time talking to each other about how bad it is and I'm looking for some hope.Diana Liverman, Creative Climate Leadership USA, March, 2020(episode 5 of 10 in CCL USA Series)Creative Climate Leadership USA was developed by Julie’s Bicycle, an international leader in arts, culture and climate change based in London (led by Alison Tickell) and brought together 25 arts and culture leaders from the US and Canada to Biosphere 2 in Oracle, Arizona from March 8...
2020-10-0614 min
conscient podcaste11 dunlap – perpetuating the values that you want to seeAsk yourself: what are you? What do you, as an artist, want to perpetuate in the world? Is what you're doing perpetuating the values and the culture that you want to see? Eliana Dunlap, Creative Climate Leadership USA, March, 2020(episode 4 of 10 in Creative Climate Leadership USA Series)Creative Climate Leadership USA was developed by Julie’s Bicycle, an international leader in arts, culture and climate change based in London (led by Alison Tickell) and brought together 25 arts and culture leaders from the US and Canada to Biosphere 2 in Oracle, Arizona from March 8-14, 2020 thanks to a collab...
2020-10-0616 min
conscient podcaste10 mwase – expanding consciousnessArt is a practice of expanding consciousness, which gives us a tremendous opportunity to explore and to embody possibility and to engage with the earth as it continues to change and with each other.Rebecca Mwase, excerpt from an interview at Creative Climate Leadership USA, March, 2020(episode 3 of 10 in Creative Climate Leadership USA Series)Creative Climate Leadership USA was developed by Julie’s Bicycle, an international leader in arts, culture and climate change based in London (led by Alison Tickell) and brought together 25 arts and culture leaders from the US and Canada to Biosphere 2 in Oracle...
2020-10-0515 min
conscient podcaste09 mcmahon – watching things drop awayIt’s like this critter, this virus, this nature, has moved in to this realm of culture and we're watching things drop away that we created and use to define ourselves as human, versus animal: this little virus is just going Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing these aren't real.Ellen McMahon, CCL USA, March, 2020(episode 2 of 10 in Creative Climate Leadership USA Series)Creative Climate Leadership USA was developed by Julie’s Bicycle, an international leader in arts, culture and climate change based in London (led by Alison Tickell) and brought together 25 arts and culture leaders from the US an...
2020-10-0515 min
conscient podcaste06 lim – making necessary concessionsAre we willing to divest from our arts practices, or to change radically our performance practices, in order to make necessary changes and concessions?milton lim, conscient podcast, january 2020, ottawaMilton Lim is a media artist and performance creator based in Vancouver.Lim holds a BFA (Hons.) in theatre performance and psychology from Simon Fraser University.His current work utilizes publicly available data and game structures to articulate new expressions of value and labour within our systems of power and politics.He is a Co-Artistic Director of Hong Kong Exile, an...
2020-09-2420 min
conscient podcaste05 carruthers – art that informs, forms and transformsI really believe that what we call arts in this culture now, its role is to inform, form and transform the nature of cultures in relation with the world. I think that's what we're talking about when we're talking about work that addresses the climate crisis.beth carruthers, conscient podcast, October 2019, ottawaBeth Carruthers is an artist and researcher whose work focuses on studying the impact of the arts across sectors to see how they can become more engaged with sustainable futures. Beth Carruthers’ work is immersed in questions of how cultural practices and sensuous, embodi...
2020-07-0119 min
conscient podcaste03 tickell – creative cultural allegiancesArt can speak to people in meaningful ways that really does call on us to respond to this differently. So wherever you are, anywhere in the world, you will almost certainly have some kind of creative cultural allegiance and how do we use that in a purposeful way is a critical question for us all…alison tickell, conscient podcast, october 2019, ottawaMeet UK musician and climate change activist and CEO of Julie’s Bicycle Alison Tickell.Alison is a colleague and friend who I first met at the National Arts Centre’s Summit on Theatre and Cli...
2020-06-2419 min
conscient podcaste01 terrified – triggering my climate denial bubble to burstWhat triggered my climate denial bubble to burst? I feel compelled to share this personal experience, in the hope that it might help others who are also struggling with the current sustainability crisis and searching for a path forward…In this first episode of the conscient podcast I narrate my 'terrified' essay, about his climate change anxiety and the role of arts and culture in raising environmental awareness.This episode is an audio version of my May 2019 blog, terrified (see original blog in the transcript of this episode).terrified is the touchstone of conscient, where I shar...
2020-05-0115 minconscient podcaste01 terrified – triggering my climate denial bubble to burstWhat triggered my climate denial bubble to burst? I feel compelled to share this personal experience, in the hope that it might help others who are also struggling with the current sustainability crisis and searching for a path forward…
Claude Schryer
This episode is an audio version of my May 2019 blog, terrified (see original blog below).
terrified is the touchstone of conscient, where I share my anxiety about the climate crisis and my belief that arts and culture can play a critical role in raising public awareness about environmental issues and to move from awareness to actio...
2020-05-0118 minconscient podcaste01 terrified – triggering my climate denial bubble to burstWhat triggered my climate denial bubble to burst? I feel compelled to share this personal experience, in the hope that it might help others who are also struggling with the current sustainability crisis and searching for a path forward…
Claude Schryer
This episode is an audio version of my May 2019 blog, terrified (see original blog below).
terrified is the touchstone of conscient, where I share my anxiety about the climate crisis and my belief that arts and culture can play a critical role in raising public awareness about environmental issues and to move from awareness to actio...
2020-05-0118 min