Art, Industry and Climate Change: The 450 Tonne Art Project - Patrick O’Mahony - Part 2

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🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This episode is the second part of our conversation with Patrick O’Mahony, Creative Director of NEWSUBSTANCE. This episode is all about their ambitious project ‘See Monster’ in Weston-Super-Mare. Part of the Unboxed Festival, it’s an old gas platform (think ‘oil rig’) converted into a public space to inspire conversations around climate change and renewables. We went there to film these two episodes and the sheer scale of the project blew me away. It is one of the greatest pieces of industrial theatre that I have ever seen and a wonderful example of British creativity. Listen to our first episode with Patrick to get a wider backstory on him and his company NEWSUBSTANCE. In this episode we discuss: How See Monster came to be. Where the creative vision started. How do you transport a gas platform from the Netherlands to Weston-Super-Mare? Scoping a project on this scale. How will sustainability and creative design develop in the future? Where did the idea for the waterfall come from? The future of pop-up installations Subscribe so you don't miss any new episodes, releasing every Wednesday.You can sign up to Jimmy's Substack here for weekly content on the future of work, technology, and politicsFor more information on partnering with us please visit our partnerships page here.Also make sure you subscribe to The Shift, you can find it here on Spotify or on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is the second part of our conversation with Patrick O'Mahoney. This time, all about their
0:12.9	ambitious project C Monster in Western Superman, one of the great species of industrial
0:18.2	theatre that I have ever seen. It's a wonderful example of British creativity.
0:28.4	So Patrick, you're a founder of New Substance. We first came across each other when you did the
0:34.1	amazing Swarm Drone Jubilee celebrations above Buckingham Palace with the Corgis, which was
0:41.6	just incredible. And then more research I finally employed 50 people leads and I just thought this
0:46.5	really is the future of the future of jobs and the future of working. And then we spoke,
0:53.9	and you said you've got to come and see one of our latest installations, which is here behind us,
0:59.5	the C Monster. And I've been around it this morning and just completely bold away by how something
1:07.8	like this gets put together. I mean, as with all things, perhaps best to start at the beginning,
1:14.5	and you can explain in your words a bit about what the project is about in terms of C Monster.
1:20.5	And how it came to me? Yeah, it's quite an undertaking, at least. I think the toughest project
1:27.7	we've ever taken on. It was such a pure idea to start with, but then the delivery of it was
1:35.4	like nothing we could ever imagine. So in terms of how it came about, we were commissioned,
1:41.2	so the UK Government Commission unboxed creativity in the UK. We were one of 10 big commissions
1:46.2	across the UK in 2022. We assembled a team cross-setter from science, technology, engineering,
1:52.5	maths and art. So people we never worked with before. That was the whole premise to the commission
1:56.4	you had to work with cross-setter and people that you never worked with before, which was,
2:00.1	I suppose it's very different to terms of how arts and entertainment normally work. We worked
2:05.2	with in our circles and we used everyone we've always used before and he designed in a very
2:09.2	usual process, whereas this was much more about how do you start that conversation with a group
2:14.1	of individuals, not from those backgrounds, and then how do you create big and vicious
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