The Mindful Narcissist: Recent Episodes
Kaitlynn Webster
Last summer I got a Korean vagacial on accident, told the story on Instagram, asked if I should make it into a podcast episode, had Kayti volunteer to talk about nudity for said episode, and subsequently put off recording it for over a year and editing and posting it for even longer, BUT IT'S FINALLY HERE. We re-live the steamed vag experience, have an HPV PSA moment, compare the Korean spa experience in Korea with the experience in the states (King Spa and Sauna please sponsor us), discuss our experiences of different cultural attitudes towards communal nudity, how different attitudes around bodies are in western spas in our experience, and propose increased communal nudity as a solution for various societal ailments. For Katy's Amazon Wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/117QGYO87B556?ref_=wl_share and Goodreads : www.goodreads.com/kseveretteJoin the mindful narcissist zine club at patreon.com/themindfulnarcissistFollow me on Instagram at @kaitlynndoubleu for daily mindful narcissist content and podcast updates!
We recorded an episode, I had my brother make his final statement, intending that to be the end of it, and then we just kept talking. This is 50% me being roasted by my brother and 50% him suddenly remembering all the details about our trip he couldn’t remember in part one.
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Over the summer, my 18-year-old brother and I spent 3 weeks together in South Korea, and obviously we had to unpack that on the podcast. We go over childhood memories, why we chose to go to Korea, the experience of travelling together when we haven’t really spent much time together in nearly 8 years, the appeal of K-pop, Korean vs. American celebrities, renting friends in Korea, why I am a walking travel disaster, and loads more.
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This is part two chatting with one of my long-time best friends & amazing singer songwriter Ashley Rose. We talk about her experience seeing Björk live (aka meeting god), expanded definitions of church and worship, whether the power of seeing a work of art or performance in person comes from the presence of the work/artist or from the environment it’s in, collective energy and the dancing plague of 1518 (disclaimer around the time we were talking about that I really poorly tried to explain the “neurological phenomenon” of brain activity syncing up but really what I was trying to talk about was mirror neurons and that is not at all an accurate description of how mirror neurons function my bad), go back into our previous concept album chat, discuss singer songwriters and take a bit of a deep dive into the way Tori Amos writes, chat about how helping one connect with oneself is a sacred function of art, and more.
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This one's a chat with one of my long-time best friends & amazing singer songwriter Ashley Rose. We cover Ashley’s extensive CD collection, physical vs. digital media intake (in terms of music and books), the evolution of the concept album, Shakespeare, the Ford Thunderbird, our mutual love of antiquing and old postcards, and more - and have an ASMR-esque Christmas-present-opening interlude because we actually recorded this a million years ago when I was home for the holidays!
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Georgia’s back!!! We’re rehashing the ideas presented in one of my most played episodes, “Pretty Privilege”, this time asking - is “pretty privilege” actually a thing? What about it is a privilege anyway?
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Today we’re chatting with Bip Henderson, author of Norse to the Future! I came away from this one with an excellent list of book recommendations, so I’m quite pleased. We talk Flann O’Brien, the kind of absurdist humour that Ireland breeds, folk songs/ballads as a method of storytelling, quality vs. quantity and media consumption, renting movies in the olden days (RIP Blockbuster), why I should give Charles Bukowski and Confederacy of Dunces another chance, writing fiction and building characters, all the forms artistic research can take, and much more!
Norse to the Future is available for purchase at Moycullen Bookshop, Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Bell, Book, and Candle, Bookstop in Ennis, Man of Aran Cafe on Inis Mór, An Ceard Siopa on Inis Oírr, & on Amazon
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A meditation on re-introducing intentional creation and consumption
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I finally figured out why I’ve felt so creatively blocked the last few weeks. It always comes back to money - the construct you just can’t kick. This one’s a chat about the frustrations of the back and forth between a desire for fulfilling work and long-term financial security and how often these two things feel mutually exclusive - and an open invite to join me in leaving society behind to live in community and barter and trade and never worry about having to work for a living again.
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This episode contains a small fan club meeting for Emma’s mom, and we discuss how Emma ended up in divinity school at a Presbyterian seminary (a thing that usually does not happen to people who identify as Mormon), the way that Mormonism, like any religion, doesn’t have to be all-or-nothing, what the “cafeteria approach” to the church can look like, the sacredness of bringing together seemingly disparate ways of making meaning, what it means to be queer and to queer religion/spirituality/Mormonism specifically, the need to take spiritual needs as seriously as physical or emotional needs, and more.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US! The Mindful Narcissist is one year old!!! In this episode I get about as mushy as I’ll ever get on here reminiscing about the last year of the podcast, and look at the ways I’ve grown and refined my messages here, and I look back on the social media coaching I finished a year ago next week, how it was one of the best investments I’ve ever made in myself and the ways my relationship with social media and my boundaries there have evolved over the past year. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE I LOVE YOU! Join the mindful narcissist zine club or become a patron of the podcast at patreon.com/themindfulnarcissist Follow me on Instagram at @kaitlynndoubleu for daily mindful narcissist content and podcast updates!
This is part two of the soulmate chat on embracing how much our beliefs and the way we tell the story around them can change over time. We go over the arc of my soulmate’s religious/spiritual narrative, the pressure in religious spaces to reconcile with family regardless of toxicity and abuse, the way that organised religion tends to struggle with consent across the board, trusting your gut over religious counsel, faith in individuals over systems, questioning at what point a system has caused too much damage to fix it rather than tear it down and start fresh, the importance of maintaining spirituality even outside of religion, the effects of really trusting yourself as the narrator of your story, the spiritual practice of consistent and gentle reflection, the way religious spaces often give us an extremely limited range of ways to emote in and engage with our relationship to the divine, the creation of our own canons as we navigate our relationship to spirituality, and more.
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We’re back with another soulmate chat, this time about embracing how much our beliefs and the way we tell the story around them can change over time. This is part one - we go over the arc of my religious/spiritual narrative, being comfortable with detachment in spirituality, internal vs. external detachment, the ways in which I still perform aspects of my Mormon past years after having left that behind, the way that personal breakthroughs can seem to contradict previous breakthroughs but that doesn’t invalidate them, the Christian hyper-fixation on the future and the ways that can stop us from enjoying or even really experiencing the present, my refusal to plan too deeply for the future coming from a relentless optimism and the way that actually kind of echoes the faith I was taught to have in God’s plan for me, the ways I’m actually a better Christian post-Christianity than I ever was in it, developing one’s character through nurturing rather than forced efforts towards “personal growth”, the ways we’re all actually so similar in our thinking and just have different language to articulate it, issues of Christian exceptionalism, and more.
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This one’s a chat with my favourite Mormon Prom date - in which we talk about several high school memories that I’d completely forgotten, incriminating teenage YouTube channels and Tumblr pages, the tea on Utah Mormons, the scandal of writing a paper on the need for more comprehensive sex education while at a Mormon-heavy Utah college (no not THAT one, the other one), why people are so scared of sex, some good ol’ Mormon sexual slang (NCMOs, durfing, and soaking….cover your kids’ ears, folks), what our sex education was like, a future beyond binaries, embracing individual identities leading to radical collective compassion, our experience at EFY (a Mormon youth summer camp-esque thing), and much more.
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It's application season (bc it's literally always application season), and this episode is a bit of musing/an existential crisis about how weird it is to be constantly applying for things as an artist. Join the mindful narcissist zine club or become a patron of the podcast at patreon.com/themindfulnarcissist Follow me on Instagram at @kaitlynndoubleu for daily mindful narcissist content and podcast updates!
In which I answer all your questions about being a full-time nanny for my best friend’s babies.
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It's a heavy episode, but also maybe a light one? Recording it was kind of exhausting, but editing it put a huge smile on my face the whole way through. Grief is a funny thing. This is me chatting about some of the things I've learned about my own grief through 21 years of the grieving process.
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All you really need to know about this episode is that around the 37 minute mark, Georgia plays the jaw harp, but in case that doesn’t sell it enough - first of all, what’s wrong with you? - we also chat about fame and fortune, vulnerability/the performance thereof on social media, change and liminality, Georgia’s really truly great monthly newsletter, research as a way of loving, forming relationships with traditions that are not ours, our disconnect from our own heritage, the way traditions can be a comforting and guiding force, thoughts on running away and joining the circus, our very different histories and relationships with music, a bit more insight to my obsession with drawing tiny circles, leaving love as a legacy, manifestation, the music-writing process, and balancing discipline and enjoyment in practising.
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This one's a chat about looking back to childhood for guidance in "finding yourself", but more importantly, this is the episode in which I finally dig into the fashion/lifestyle blog I had as a 15-year-old, and I treat you all to a few posts I wrote about the very serious boy problems I had as a teenager.
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After going over my personal journey with leaving the church I was raised in last week, this week I’ve brought my soulmate back on to give her own version of a similar journey that has yielded a very different outcome. We talk about what it means to deconstruct and then reconstruct one’s faith, the way that can become a spiritual practice in itself, utilising faith in the quest to humanize those around us, the way calls for unity are often mobilised in religious spaces to maintain the status quo, the American Christian martyr complex, the prevalence of traffic stories to illustrate the spiritual practice of patience (is this just a California thing?), the abstraction of faith, the way Evangelical/religious spaces tend to create open/shut issues, the way church settings can create isolation and keep you in a carefully curated bubble, the potentially problematic idea of preaching the gospel with the way you live your life (every member a missionary, amirite?), intent vs. impact, and loads of other lovely insightful bits. Join the mindful narcissist zine club or become a patron of the podcast at patreon.com/themindfulnarcissist Follow me on Instagram at @kaitlynndoubleu for daily mindful narcissist content and podcast updates!
This is it - we’re kicking off the year with the long awaited “Why I Left the Mormon Church” episode. It is, spoiler alert, not a hard-hitting-hot-take-spill-the-tea-on-Mormonism type of deal (soz if that’s what you were hoping for), but rather a spiritual autobiography of sorts (to use the words of my new favourite atheist chaplain, Vanessa Zoltan). In addition to getting up close and personal about my spiritual journey and how ultimately everything came down to specific details of the Mormon conception of the afterlife, I answer questions about how purity culture has affected my understanding of my own sexuality and why I was in a wedding dress at 14.
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I’ve completely changed my stance on hierarchies (maybe kinda sorta not really idk it’s all an ongoing existential crisis). In this episode I go over a bit of my thinking behind my curation of the members show at Artlink in Donegal (which really kinda started this all), the research on archives and documentation that I did while on residency at Greywood Arts in Killeagh, Cork before I left Ireland, and the work I did with Austin Ivers on his show “The Earth Dies Screaming” at 126 Artist-Run Gallery in Galway and the collaborative publication that went along with it. Join the mindful narcissist zine club or become a patron of the podcast at patreon.com/themindfulnarcissist Follow me on Instagram at @kaitlynndoubleu for daily mindful narcissist updates, or @themindfulnarcissist for increasingly less regular (oops) podcast-specific reminders
It’s another chat with my lovely perfect angel soulmate of a friend - this time, we’re analysing our own largely inexplicable connection and touching on themes of identity, home, and relationships as we dive into the age-old question: What is love? Join the mindful narcissist zine club or become a patron of the podcast at patreon.com/themindfulnarcissist Follow me on Instagram at @kaitlynndoubleu for daily mindful narcissist updates, or @themindfulnarcissist for increasingly less regular (oops) podcast-specific reminders
To celebrate 1000 plays on the podcast, I sat down with my best friend (who, I discovered, is much better at the whole formal-interview-guest-episode-type-thing than I am) and became the guest for an episode. We cover the key truths I’ve learned about myself, the hardest and most rewarding decisions I’ve made in life thus far, the most valuable thing my therapist has taught me, my most instagrammable moment, my current elusive thrift store treasure hunt item, how the new rituals I am now establishing in my life will affect my arts practice, whether I think there’s anything in my life that doesn’t somehow make its way into my art, my favourite lists in the notes app on my phone right now, and a few other bits and bobs. Join the mindful narcissist zine club or become a patron of the podcast at patreon.com/themindfulnarcissist Follow me on Instagram at @kaitlynndoubleu for daily mindful narcissist updates, or @themindfulnarcissist for increasingly less regular (oops) podcast-specific reminders
Once upon a time, I was a shop girl for the shoe shop from hell.
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This one is a meditation on my love for old photos, heavily referencing the essay “Light Speaking: Notes on Poetry and Photography” by V. Penelope Pelizzon from the May 2013 edition of Poetry magazine (you can read it HERE), and connecting it a bit to the curatorial research on the archive/documentation that I was doing on residency at Greenwood Arts in Killeagh, Cork in Ireland last month.
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This one’s coming to you live from Texas (fun drinking game, take a shot every time I accidentally say “here” as if I’m still in Ireland when I am in fact...not) (also please ignore the train in the background for a decent portion of this podcast, I now live right near train tracks and did not realise it would come through so clearly lolz). This episode is a chat about leaving Ireland, I answer your questions about what it was like being in Ireland as an American living abroad -including questions about whether Americans or Irish people are friendlier, whether I wish I’d moved somewhere other than Galway after graduating, and whether you should move to Ireland - and it’s finally time for the big reveal: what exactly am I doing in Texas?
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I was in Stockholm for the Supermarket Art Fair last week, and this one's a recap of my favourite performances from the fair - Philosophical Karaoke, Bird Disco, CONNECT, and Free Personal Attention. Join the mindful narcissist zine club or become a patron of the podcast at patreon.com/themindfulnarcissist Follow me at @kaitlynndoubleu for daily mindful narcissist updates, or @themindfulnarcissist for increasingly less regular (lol) podcast-specific reminders
This one’s a v fun co-host situation with Kayti Everette - we discuss our Christian upbringings, church choirs and youth musicals, Jesus camp (a real highlight of this episode is Kayti singing one of the cheesiest Jesus camp song I’ve ever heard), misidentifying panic attacks as spiritual experiences, how damaging purity & modesty culture can be, the way growing up like that still shapes our internal narratives, developing a more expansive idea of gender than what we were raised with, views on marriage and non-traditional relationships, embracing loneliness as a sacred practice, and much much mooooore. Stick around to the end for not just one but several easter eggs that were also a surprise to me. Join the mindful narcissist zine club or become a patron of the podcast at patreon.com/themindfulnarcissist Follow me at @kaitlynndoubleu for daily mindful narcissist updates, or @themindfulnarcissist for increasingly regular podcast-specific reminders - and you can follow Kayti at @k.s.ev
My sister came to Ireland to visit, so naturally we recorded another podcast episode. We chat about what Ashley thought of Ireland and our adventures, how “obstreperous” might be the word that best describes us, especially when we’re together, issues with authority and control and being told what to do, psychoanalysing our sister trio, and why I’d be a nightmare to date. Join the mindful narcissist zine club or become a patron of the podcast at patreon.com/themindfulnarcissist Follow me at @kaitlynndoubleu for daily mindful narcissist updates, or @themindfulnarcissist for increasingly regular podcast-specific reminders.
This one’s a chat about how I’ve learned to navigate a very complicated relationship with goals and expectations (tldr, screw new year’s resolutions) and how Libra season F#%KS ME UP every year.
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This week we’ve got Harrison Schmitt on the podcast talking about the reification and capitalist/colonialist production of space and time, Time-Space Distanciation, and suggested ways for decolonising space and time - through denaturalisation, indigenisation, and accompaniment. THIS IS A GOOD ONE FOLKS I’M OBSESSED.
You can check out more of Harrison’s work on his website https://www.harrisonjschmitt.com. The specific article we talk about in this episode is here.
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This week we talk about that time a guest lecturer in grad school ended up hating me (oops), my experience with Dance Limerick’s 2021 Step Up Dance performance, my relationship with the big magic box (John Gerrard’s “Mirror Pavilion”), and Susan Sontag’s essay, “Against Interpretation” - ultimately, are we ruining art by insisting on interpretation?
Details about the pieces at the Step Up Dance performance https://www.stepupdanceproject.ie/copy-of-2020-film
John Gerrard’s Mirror Pavilion: https://www.giaf.ie/tours/mirror-pavilion
Read Susan Sontag’s “Against Interpretation” here: https://shifter-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Sontag-Against-Interpretation.pdf
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This one's a chat about why I'm at a point in my life where I try to avoid labelling people/situations as "toxic", and how I've overused that label in the past.
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This week we’ve got Emily Lohan on the podcast discussing art, nature and spirituality. We talk about the durational performance she did for her degree show and the way the audience contributes to a performance piece, the way we generally separate art and spirituality, the aesthetics of performance, the ideas of truth and universality in art, what “Irish” art really is/really would be, making art as a spiritual practice, and muchhhh much more.
You can follow Emily on Instagram @emilylohanartist to stay connected with her and her work.
Listen to the Blindboy episode that Emily mentioned here: https://play.acast.com/s/blindboy/chickenfilletrolls
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This one’s about the things I learned from drawing snails - articulating an important shift in my priorities in my arts practice and embracing play.
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CW: discussion of sexual assault/harassment, rape Today we’ve got Pericles Spanos on, discussing his final paper for his Master’s degree, on the under-reporting of sexual assault on university campuses. We get into the statistics and causes, and ways that universities can change the climate to enable them to get a more realistic idea of the problem at hand - which ultimately looks like a holistic shift to a more compassionate, student-centred environment for everyone. If you have any questions for the man himself, slide into his DMs on Twitter @Avgolemeno_Stan or shoot him an email at periclesspanos@gmail.com. Follow me at @kaitlynndoubleu for daily mindful narcissist updates, or @themindfulnarcissist for somewhat regular (I’m getting better!) podcast-specific reminders.
It’s finally here - The One with the Twins! I bring on my younger sisters, Ashley and Alyssa, for a fun episode covering all sorts of questions from you, the audience - the good vs. the evil twin, various twin experiences, our different perspectives of growing up together and our relationship now, and loads more - including some insight into a weird twin condition where they don’t know whose memories are whose?? Enjoy!
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We talk The Bachelor/Bachelorette, Too Hot to Handle, and Love Island, and Alex’s own Reality TV experience/aspirations - and you get a pretty exclusive insight into some exciting projects Alex has coming up! After which, I wax poetic on my love of reality TV and the performative nature thereof.
You can follow Alex on Instagram @jackpoticorn to stay connected with him and keep updated on what he’s got coming out.
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So excited to have Samir Rana on the podcast today! We cover the struggle of defining an artistic practice, the problems associated with validating one’s art practice through the exhibition of work, our strange and unnecessary obsession with competition and rankings, when ritual moves beyond physicality to the true core of it, the value of the aesthetic experience, the greediness of our need to explain everything, the terrifying idea of deliberately creating meaningless things, and we get real existential with the question of whether you’d like to be yourself, or just BE (and WHAT THAT EVEN MEANS). And like...that’s not even all. This is a real meaty one, guys. Buckle up.
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We're back with an excellent guest episode with Alex Goode - we touch on influencer culture, the strange ownership we feel over internet personalities, authenticity and transparency, the push and pull between broadcasting your life but not always being plugged in, and you all get a bit of a crash course version of what Alex offers in his social media coaching - and then we swiftly pivot into talking about the recently released UFO reports and various alien theories.
Follow Alex on Instagram @jackpoticorn and his wife @officiallyquigley
Soulcial Media coaching: https://www.officiallyquigley.com/soulcial-coaching
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It's another real quick episode this week, chatting about the way we tend to glorify not only busy-ness but suffering and discomfort.
I reference this article from The Nap Ministry: https://thenapministry.wordpress.com/2021/01/11/our-work-is-has-a-framework/
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This one's a real quick episode, because I'm visiting home! But being in my childhood home has got me thinking about childhood things, so we're chatting about various origins of childhood fears.
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This week we've got an absolutely delightful chat with poet, educator, and spoken word artist Beau Williams - covering a bit of our shared fever dream experience of the Burren, how artists can create a home within their work, various elements of artistic process, honing your practice through listening to your intuition and saying YES more often...and so so much more - AND I have him read my favourite of all his poems and it's really just all pure podcast gold today.
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Website: beauwilliamspoet.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Beauwilliamspoet
"Things I Blindly Took as Gospel": https://www.amazon.com/dp/195180564X
It's an episode abouttttt my master's dissertation! We talk about how my dissertation helped shape my practice, the way trauma is stored in the body, Cartesian dualism as a detriment to understanding trauma, the work of Louise Bourgeoise, Yayoi Kusama, Doris Salcedo, and, of course, me, and the final "conclusion" I reached as to whether the use of childhood trauma in one's artistic practice serves as a cathartic method of processing said events, or if it merely renders the artist's past inescapable.
Today we welcome Katie Burns of @thejoyfulecologist! We cover pollinators (more than just the bees!), the impact of individual actions, hot takes on motivations for studying science and stuffy academic language, creating a culture of care over a culture of guilt and shame, and much more.
Follow Katie on Instagram @thejoyfulecologist, and check out her website thejoyfulecologist.com
Katie's recommended resources:
Ireland - The All-Ireland Pollinator Plan, https://pollinators.ie
U.S. - The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, http://www.xerces.org
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A wee rant about academia and elitism in the arts across multiple fields, as well as a brief re-articulation of what mindful narcissism means to me.
Down with toxic heteronormative monogamy. Dismantle relationship hierarchies. Go on dates with everyone.
It's our first guest episode!!! Today we're chatting with Bianca Paige Smith about Two Can Do, the idea of support, and a holistic creative practice (among other things), and getting to hear about an exciting opportunity she's got coming up this summer with "I Am Here Now", a Two Can Do virtual Summer Immersive.
Follow Bianca: @biancapaigesmith, https://biancapaigesmith.com/
Two Can Do: @_twocando_, https://biancapaigesmith.com/home-page/two-can-do/
"I Am Here Now": http://biancapaigesmith.com/summer-immersive/
The long awaited rant about The Social Dilemma, a recommendation for The Disconnect by Roisin Kiberd instead, and a chat about the issues of externalised self worth and identity, the algorithm, and data collection (spoiler alert, the problem is probably actually capitalism??)
Prefacing a future chat about the role of social media by getting into performance/experiential/guided art and the ways in which we are able to expand our understanding, definition, and experience of reality.
Artists mentioned:
The Dollhouse Space/The Indoor Tree: @thedollhousespace, https://www.thedollhouse.space/about
Inland Radius -
Cuirt International Festival of Literature: @cuirtfestival, https://www.cuirt.ie
Sarah Maria Griffin: @sarahgriffski , http://www.sarahmariagriff.com
Máiréad Ní Chróinín: https://www.maireadnichroinin.com
Shane O'Malley: @shaneomalleyart, https://shaneomalleyart.com
This episode we start off with the back story to the infamous hi vis shoots before we get into beauty standards, where beauty narratives come from, and how effed up it all is
Chatting about all the masks we wear and performances we give in our day-to-day lives and why "being yourself" is overrated
In which we discuss how, from childhood, the universe has conspired to bring me to Ireland...through a whole lot of dumb luck.