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Art Breaker
by Mark Spencer
These are climactic times; the Climate Crisis, the Biodiversity Crisis, Sixth Mass Extinction... The Anthropocene. So how is this affecting the art we're making in our society, and how can that art be part of a response, or even a solution? Join us as we explore music, prose, poetry, visual art and more, and learn how the art we love is made, and why.
Episodes
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Is the top song of 2022... about climate change?
The top song about 2022 is called Heat Waves, by UK band Glass Animals. But, is the song about the record-breaking heatwaves that are becoming the new normal in our time of the Anthropocene? You'll find out, in this episode of Art Breaker - the podcast that covers the intersection of the arts and...
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Eav Brennan makes rubbish portraits
This episode is an interview from climactic member and artist Eav Brennan. Eav's spent the last year interviewing some climate leaders and making upcycled portraits of them. In this episode, Mark and Eav run through the portrait subjects and the stories that stuck with Eav, as well as touching on...
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"How the arts can connect and sustain us in the climate movement" | Talking In This Climate
Can music, film, literature and art inspire climate activism or change our perspectives on climate change? In this episode, we discuss non-academic examples of climate change communications. Arguably, pop culture can have as much, or perhaps even greater, impact than academic literature on…
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"Cape Grim with Jessie Boylan" | Saltgrass Podcast
This is an episode of Art Breaker, find the show and all episodes here. But this is also a guest episode, adapted from Saltgrass, a podcast and radio show on Main FM, and the work of Alison Hanley. Jessie Boylan is a PhD candidate at RMIT's School of Art. She has work in the upcoming Castlemaine...
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"Bird song and field recording" | Musician Tom Day
Lloyd Richards bring this interview and audio doco about artist Tom Day to Art Breaker. Tom Day is a solo artist residing in Main Ridge, Australia and has been creating ambient and electronic music since 2005. Characterised as “effortless and raw”, Tom's tracks couple elegant beats and piano...
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The beauty of "End Game" | Kyla Brettle and Rob Law
End Game, the hyperlocal audio project from the Mount Alexander Shire in central Victoria, centered on the town of Castlemaine, is impactful storytelling on people as they engage with the reality of climate change. Climate change is a communications problem, not a science problem - as David...
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Mark Conroy on "The Call"
How long until you answer the call? In this Art Breaker mini we discuss the newly released track "The Call" by Echo, multi-instrumentalist artist Mark Conroy. We explore his paired roots in music and activism, the inspiration for this track, and how joining a group of fellow artists who've...
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Wading into "The Grot" | Dr Pat Grant
What's the Grot? Or, what happens to form The Grot? A barely recognisable, muddy dystopia of a future? Or, a near at hand present with just a slap of mud and touch of humour? Eav Brennan explores graphic novel The Grot with author Pat Grant, and get into why he made it, what it reflects, and what...
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Retracted | On the 2014 Biennale Boycott with Gabrielle de Vietri
There are many members of our community who at the start of 2020 called themselves artists. Some were working artists, funded by their work, by grants, by exhibitions funded by companies - all imperfect in their own individual ways. Most of those artists will no longer be funded when you hear…
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Playback Theatre Melbourne | The Power for Change | Recorded at SFL2020
Climate Emergency. What can one do? Presented as part of the Sustainable Living Festival, Melbourne Playback Theatre Company in collaboration with Climate for Change are hosting an evening of conversation and performance - sharing stories, knowledge, and empowering action. Part workshop, part...
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🎨💔| Beth Spencer on ArtBreaker — Kit Kelen on creativity, habit, and disruption
Beth Spencer in conversation with Kit Kelen about his creative practice as poet, artist, publisher, collaborator, academic, mentor, musician and blogger. Kit reads selections from some of his many books intercut with original guitar tracks. They discuss Holden cars, bushfires, coal-addiction, and...
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Jacob Richards | Puscha - The Nature of Synth
Jacob Richards performs as Puscha, delivering durational music performances across festivals and venues in Victoria and as far afield as Mongolia. You'll learn Jacob's approach to modular synthesis, how to craft the perfect modular synth for live performance, the muse that is months at sea in the...
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Charlotte Watson | The Black Finch Project - the Bird of the Year, and the mega-coal mine.
The Black Finch Project, or #1000finches, swept through the Australian art and environmental world in mid 2019. People of all walks of life were creating art featuring this endangered finch, usually dead, and posting them to politicians and community figures across Australia. That same bird is…
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Jen Rae | Recipe for Disaster - On Food In/Security.
Dr Jen Rae is a provocateur and artist, who uses food as a way to talk about the nature of the climate crisis, and to start preparing for disasters to come. Her recent event, Recipe for Disaster, took it's participants into a bunkerlike space to talk about the food we eat, and what it tells us...
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James Bradley | Author of Clade - on climate fiction.
Award-winning author James Bradley joins us to dissect Clade, his climate fiction novel, share readings, and the power of fiction to convey the realities of the climate crisis. Support the show. Support the show: https://climactic.com.au/support/ See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
These are climactic times; the Climate Crisis, the Biodiversity Crisis, Sixth Mass Extinction... The Anthropocene. So how is this affecting the art we're making in our society, and how can that art be part of a response, or even a solution? Join us as we explore music, prose, poetry, visual art and more, and learn how the art we love is made, and why.
HOSTED BY
Mark Spencer
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These are climactic times; the Climate Crisis, the Biodiversity Crisis, Sixth Mass Extinction... The Anthropocene. So how is this affecting the art we're making in our society, and how can that art be part of a response, or even a solution? Join us as we explore music, prose, poetry, visual art and...
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