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What a Body Can Do (remixed)

Season 3

Trans*cendental sonic meditations on hope and having a body at the end of the world as we know it.

A series of audio collaged love letters to the queers and all who live within the liminal spaces, on the margins, and in between worlds. May our imaginations bring us into a new beginning in the middle of all these difficult endings.

Listen while laying down, in a forest, submerged in water, or otherwise liminally positioned.

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Zoë April

What a Body Can Do (remixed)

Season 3

Trans*cendental sonic meditations on hope and having a body at the end of the world as we know it

This series is an audio-theoretical love letter to the queers and all who live within the liminal spaces, on the margins, and in between worlds. May our imaginations bring us into a new beginning in the middle of all these difficult endings.

Listen while laying down, in a forest, submerged in water, or otherwise liminally positioned.

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Zoë April

Our muscles and bones and tissues are shaped by our life experiences, and our life experiences are shaped by our muscles and bones and tissues. This second episode continues to explore the somatic concept of SHAPE, including the social conditions that impact our embodiment. 

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Things referenced: 

Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon

The Hakomi Method, Ron Kurtz

Wilhelm Reich was an anti-fascist psychoanalyst, philosopher, and diy scientist during the time of World War II. He was one of the first to insist that the field of psychology should include the body. This is the first episode in a series on the somatic concept of SHAPE. 

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A quick hello and update from Zoë about some exciting changes. New episodes coming next month! 

In this collaborative episode Zoë and Alana explore the concept of nostalgia. You know the feeling, but what is it? What does it do? How can it be useful? 

We spent several months trying to answer these questions though conversations, musings, poetry and embodiment practices.... and through being stuck at home during lockdown thinking about the past and wondering about the future.

This episode is about what bodies do with the past, where and how it lives in us. It's about nostalgia but it is also about loss and letting go, about grief and resilience. It's about using muscle memory on purpose to feel, process, and shape our experience of life. 

Thanks so much to Alana for this sweet collaboration! 

Alana (she/they) IG: @anbsuperstar & @softcorepoetics 

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Anyone who knows me knows that I love Miami and those bright 80's color schemes of pastels and neons. Think Miami Vice or Stranger Things. This episode is an audio story. It's about Miami, and about the kinds of impressions that art and architecture can make on our bodies and beliefs.

You can find me on Instagram @body.podcast, and you can support this project here on my Anchor page: https://anchor.fm/zo185

Credits and references: 

Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

A Pastel Paradise, Levien Productions 1989

Intro song: Beach View Apartment by CyberReality, 2018 CC

This first episode of What a Body Can Do is an audio essay about ideology and why it doesn't exist. 

Our ideas are not just in our heads, and our actions affect more than our own bodies. When the distinction between mind/body, individual/social, personal/political starts to blur, we need new language. This episode explores "ideology" in general-  and whiteness in particular-  as constructs that can be and need to be deconstructed.    

If you like what you hear please subscribe, rate, and share! You can financially support this project at https://anchor.fm/zo185 and follow it on IG @body.podcast 

Referenced in this episode: 

-The Physiology of Sexist and Racist Oppression by Shannon Sullivan 

-My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem

-Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault 

-The Ethics by Spinoza

-Christian Picciolini

-Strozzi Institute

-generative somatics

For more on "blending" check out The Anatomy of Change by Richard Strozzi-Heckler 

Coming very soon! An experimental podcast about the wild things that bodies are capable of.

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