Name: 4 Women Whispering To The Machines by Lindsey Colbourne
Duration: 40 s
Description: Experimental Merched Chwarel sounds with 16 women in Chwarel Dinorwig, led by Sam Frankie Fox

"The Beginnings of Outside" is the first episode in The Gardens of Others podcast, a three part series exploring the ways in which people’s relationships with plant life and the land, serve as a microcosm of not only the concerns of contemporary political life, but also of the ways in which we might learn to live together. 

For this episode the South African artist collaborative MADEYOULOOK invites you into deep listening to the recollections of various gardeners, activists, artists and writers of colour in Britain and South Africa as they share their personal experiences and memories of how they came into relationship with plant life and nature. They place these narratives within the wider historical contexts of migration and families of growers using gardening as a means of place-making, and maintaining connections to their ancestral homes.

Podcast producers: MADEYOULOOK 

Contributors: Josina Calliste, Sui Searle, Ama Josephine Budge, Zakiya McKenzie, Carole Wright, Juliet Sargeant, Charles Nembhard, Navi Kaur, Mphathi Motha, Simangele Siko. 

Editors: Daniel Basckin and Andrei van Wyk. 

Thanks to: St. Anne’s Allotment, Garden Museum UK, Janine Nelson, Mo Cooper, Pandeani Liphosa and Ngilima Photography Archives.

This research residency is part of Here, There & Everywhere, a collaborative programme led by New Art Exchange with Delfina Foundation, Eastside Projects, QUAD/FORMAT, Primary, MAC and The Tetley, and funded by Ambition for Excellence (Arts Council England).

Gardens of Others: The Beginnings of Outside - MADEYOULOOK

full album available to buy/stream here
http://scotchfuneral.bandcamp.com

Abysmal Nostalgia

In My Garden

On a residency in Cornwall, exploring (learning, confusing, failing at) the sounds of the cornish, welsh and english alphabets. Between the three languages, there are 37 letters.

Mangling A Brief History (According to Three Alphabets)

Martin Shaw is a mythologist and storyteller from the area of Devon, England. He and I share a deep appreciation for the way myth and story shape the world. Martin starts our conversation with a story about Fox Woman Dreaming that is still with me months later, working inside me. We go on to talk about exile, the nature of magic, stories and relationship, decolonizing the imagination, and lots more. It was a really heady and passionate conversation.

A Conversation with Martin Shaw (E19)

Experimental Merched Chwarel sounds with 16 women in Chwarel Dinorwig, led by Sam Frankie Fox

4 Women Whispering To The Machines

Rhys Trimble reading the names of all the slate quarries and mines in North Wales - more than 1000 of them. With additional sounds from the Merched Chwarel Canu Chwarel Singing Slate Workshops, and Sam Frankie Fox

Llechi Slate Mix

Yr Allor Goch

Y Glaw.

New release date - Saturday October 10th - Episode 1, Ed Straw on the Hidden Power.

We live in confusing times - and a lot of that confusion is about where power lies. With Ed Straw & Philip Tottenham

In 2017 the UN, the WHO and the OECD all called for the use of Systems Thinking to deal with highly complex problems. But what does that mean?

In Series 1 "Proof of Concept" we explore power - power in terms traditional ideas about it, and in terms of beneficial impact on the ground - and hear from people thinking and operating at the leading edge of where beneficial impact is taking place.

Series 1 Trailer

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This episode introduces the experience and current thinking of my co-presenter, Ed Straw.


We talk about his journey from being an engineering graduate to consulting at the heart of Westminster, how he encountered power and the confusion surrounding it. 


Then we get into his current thinking - he’s now a research fellow at the Open University’s Applied Systems Thinking in Practice Group, and has found in Systems Thinking many effective responses to issues that have plagued governments down the decades.


Ed Straw:

http://www.edstraw.com/about/


The (full podcast!) story of General Motors' collaboration with Toyota is a great rehearsal of how systemic change can work, and the relevant challenges:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/561/nummi-2015


W. Edwards Demming, genius behind Japanese revolution in manufacturing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming

and that revolution:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1993/12/23/japans-secret-w-edwards-deming/b69b8c00-4c5d-483a-b95e-4aeb1d94d2c6/


Relevance of Drawing the Boundary to Systems Thinking:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_critique


The Compassionate Frome Project:


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/21/town-cure-illness-community-frome-somerset-isolation


DAD and EDD:

http://www.edstraw.com/new-public-service-management-from-dad-to-edd/


Real world example in Australia:

https://johnmenadue.com/cock-ups-conspiracies-or-system-failures/

4 Women Whispering To The Machines

Lindsey Colbourne

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