Summary
Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures rediscovering the contexts that give cause to communities and their art.
An Image Interrupted Produced by Danny Greenwald Featuring the voice of Taha Heydari
àlá lo lá (You Dreamed a Dream) Produced by Tobi Adebajo Poems: In a Dream, Agbegbe T’ala, Safari Ya Siri Sound Design by Tobi Adebajo Music by Akin Euba, Nabalayo, petals and Tobi Adebajo
Banned in America Produced by Lucy Evans (they/them), also known as the drag king Sir Cum Sized (he/him). Featuring interviews with: Angelique Young-Cavalier (she/her), a Trans, Equal rights activist, Motivational Speaker and Drag Queen Entertainer Based in Tampa, Florida. Jackie Rosebutch (they/them), a non-binary drag Goddex and environmental science enthusiast based in Missoula, Montana. Maxi Glamour (they/them) @maxiglamour, a multidisciplinary artist at the intersection of high fantasy and social critique. Known as the Demon Queen of Polka and Baklava, Maxi Glamour uses demonological imagery as an allegory for how marginalised people are demonised by society, and wit and magic to examine the structural harm of oppression. Bella DuBalle (she/her), a Show Director and Host at Atomic Rose in Memphis Tennessee, and also a licensed minister who has performed many weddings. Bella created and hosts “the Mid-South’s local RuPauls’s Drag Race", a competition called War of the Roses. Bobby Pudrido (he/him), a Texas-based drag king and show producer who uses drag as a way to explore, blend, and showcase his queerness and Latine culture. In his drag show productions, Pudrido prioritises trans, gender diverse, black and brown drag kings and their accomplices as a way to push back against the erasure of these identities in mainstream culture. Special thanks to Samara Slaughter (she/her), JD Miller (they/them), Butch Mermaid (they/them), Sam Bam Thankyoumaam (they/he), Hugh Mann Race (he/they), Puppi Love (she/they), Dick TransDyke (they/he), Problem Child (she/they), Luxury Bones (he/they) and Andie Sleaze (they/he) from New York the chorus of resistance heard at the beginning.
Produced by Axel Kacoutié, Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, welcome to the podcast to Shortcuts. |
| 0:09.0 | Today's episode is set in an imaginary gallery, and it's my imaginary gallery, which means that it's several floors high. |
| 0:19.0 | There's all kinds of contradictory exhibitions due to my whimsical tastes. |
| 0:24.9 | And also, because I'm thinking about my daughter wanting to come, |
| 0:28.3 | there's probably a couple of stuffed woolly mammoths, |
| 0:30.8 | because that's what she's really into. |
| 0:32.5 | I really hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:34.2 | And I'm Josie Long, by the way. |
| 0:38.0 | This is Shortcuts, Brief Encounters, True Stories, Radio Adventures and Found Sound. |
| 0:48.1 | Today, art. But before we start, I have to take you to where this exhibition is. |
| 0:55.0 | We'll be broadcasting from my Mind's Gallery, a place that houses the three works we're going to hear today. |
| 1:04.0 | Through ethereal landscapes, we freely roam, unbound by gravity, towards the unknown. |
| 1:15.6 | It was silent, no chanting, no nothing, which was the most beautiful thing I've seen in my life. |
| 1:22.6 | And to see myself in that child, and to know where that kid was, I'm reminded of why we do this. |
| 1:29.1 | I'm reminded of why we fight. |
| 1:36.1 | I want you to imagine you're stepping with me into a grand building. |
| 1:40.1 | Maybe it's a repurposed old bus station or a repurposed old corn exchange. |
| 1:46.2 | And the entrance hall is massive, full of stained glass, a very exciting place. |
| 1:52.0 | Now, come with me, we're going to turn left, go down a little corridor, down a spiral staircase, into a tiny courtyard. |
| 2:00.6 | And here is where we're going to experience our first installation. |
| 2:05.5 | In front of you are giant canvases, full of vivid and arresting paintings. |
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