Responding Creatively [64]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we address the massive changes that so many of us are experiencing and discuss how they affect our lives and our creativity. Very few artists seem able to continue as normal. Instead we are dealing with new realities, creating new routines, managing anxieties, and finding new ways to express ourselves creatively (including Alice's ongoing experiment in using up out of date food, just to find out what happens!) This week, we share the very real changes in our own lives and discuss our different responses - how do we continue to express ourselves creatively when everything around us is so uncertain? We also debate the role of the artist in challenging times and share a new idea that we hope will inspire you.
#markthistime is our response to the current situation - it is early days and the idea is evolving. There is more to come. For now, we very much hope you will join us and make art to mark this time.
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Our manifesto reads:
We are experiencing an unprecedented situation. One that calls for artists to step up. We need positive messages. We need reportage. We need insights. We need community. We need to mark this time.
The media mark this time with dramatic exaggeration. The politicians mark this time with obfuscation — it falls on artists to mark this time by bearing witness, by being present, by documenting, by connecting, by offering perspective - most of all by sharing our experience and letting it shine a light on the experiences of others. It falls to us to truly mark this time.
So come join the movement. Make art to mark this time.
Make whatever you feel called to make and share your work on Instagram with the hashtag #markthistime. We will be curating and sharing images each day on IG , the Facebook Page and on the new website we will create at markthistime.com
Mark This Time on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markthistime2020/
Mark This Time Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/markthistime2020
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Credits"Monkeys Spinning Monkeys" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So I heard somebody saying I think it was Nicholas Wilton. What are you going to take from this time? |
| 0:05.9 | What are you going to make of the we've been given a strange situation and what are you going to take out of it? |
| 0:14.0 | Hi, welcome to episode 64 of Art Juice. |
| 0:17.0 | This is Honors General. Hi, welcome to episode 64 of Art Juice. |
| 0:24.0 | This is honest, generous and humorous conversations to feed your creative soul and get you thinking |
| 0:29.3 | with me, Louise Fletcher. |
| 0:31.2 | And me Alice Sheridan. So, it's been quite an uneventful week really. |
| 0:37.0 | Oh, mad, it's felt like at least a month, hasn't it? Yeah when we recorded last week we were still |
| 0:47.1 | not in lockdown and then we were expecting I think you were expecting when we were recording that London would go into lockdown. |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah. And I was expecting that old people would be told they had to stay home. |
| 1:01.0 | Yeah. All of a sudden on Tuesday or Wednesday we were all told we had to stay home. |
| 1:08.0 | And we couldn't go more than a kilometer from our house unless we were going for certain things and quite a |
| 1:15.6 | strange list of things that still open in some cases I think like hardware |
| 1:20.9 | stores are apparently considered an essential. |
| 1:24.4 | Yeah, but you see Robert Dias on our high street is closed which is a problem because our shower drain is blocked. |
| 1:30.8 | We need some un-drane unblocker. We've got five people in the house |
| 1:34.6 | all washing their hair. Oh no. Well they're allowed to be open but our |
| 1:38.8 | hardware store which we needed for some stuff for my studio is only allowing you to order stuff and then go and |
| 1:46.1 | pick it up outside and they'll bring it out to you. |
| 1:48.7 | Yeah, that's a good solution now. |
| 1:50.3 | It is a good solution, but the problem is when you have a builder who absolutely refuses to do anything if you can't use the piece of wood himself |
| 1:57.6 | Because there's all sorts of rubbish in there. It's all walked and I don't know I'm not taking any rubbish I want a proper |
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