Thinking while walking my infant son, I enter the wide terrain of “Art and Trauma” headed toward the notion of “damage-centered research” articulated by Eve Tuck in her open letter of 2009. Why would we doubt that artists can express traumatic experiences without reifying the damage caused through such experiences? It turns out that this is the important question.
Christen Rinaldi of Insight-Owl Counseling and Wellness discusses the fusion of Reiki and clinical mental health practice.
Ash Canty of Sovereign Spirit Death Care talks with will about his/their calling as a Death Walker, the bigness of the One, and the beauty of all the things we can barely understand.
Kicking off Season 2, Will thinks with highly decorated poet, performer, and sound artist Dr. Jonah Mixon-Webster
A thinking sessions for all the scholars out there. Will talks with theatre historiographer Pannill Camp about the intellectual underpinnings of his current book project.A thinking sessions for all the scholars out there. Will talks with theatre historiographer Pannill Camp about the intellectual underpinnings of his current book project.
An amazing linking-together of scholarly texts, close-readings of The Sopranos, and visions of a Chicago-based work of street theatre that centers the day-to-day experience of Palestinian Americans.
How can we get to a place where we feel sadness each time another person is hurt (regardless of that person’s race, class, or cultural background)? Listen to Greg and Will think through this question together.
Aligned with the international organization Performance Philosophy, Will helps explain the upcoming conference’s key theme: Problems. A problem is not something to be solved. Rather, it is something like the generative matrix that continues to inform all scholarly thought and/or artistic expression.
It is getting harder and harder to have productive, critical conversations with people who occupy different ideological stances than our own. What are we going to do about this? How can we meaningful talk with others?
The title of this episode draws inspiration from Nina Simone’s song, “Mississippi, Goddamn!”, the fire of which fuels Priya and Will as they think about intersections of grief, race, gender, oppression, and joy.