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Tune into the thrum of subconscious and cling tenaciously to our culturally constructed beliefs. An audio mash-up experiment challenging the hero narrative and the myth of separation.

Kyla’s notes:

As the impacts of climate change intensify it’s pretty clear that our largely ineffective response to climate change isn’t due to any kind of ambiguity in the science - or the irrefutable fact that climate change is happening now and is just going to get worse.

So what is stopping this slow boiling toad from jumping out of the water and saving it’s own skin - along with everything else on this planet we hold dear?

This is the question Rob and I are currently exploring through Endgame. We want to peal back the layers of what is going on in our hearts and minds, culture and systems - and listen deeply to what is going on with us and climate change

It’s as much about what turns us on to climate change as it is about what makes us to shut our eyes and face the other away - and how we manage our own feelings of loss and grief as we try to avoid ’collapsing now, before the rush’.

To get a feel for the series I reached into the internet early one morning from my studio and pulled out this mash-up - it’s not a plum - but we tweaked it a little more and thought we’d share it.  

In it you hear the voice of Daniel Siegel - one of my favourite thinkers on the proclivities of the human brain. Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine - he’s written a string of books, won copious awards and accolades and has co-founded a learning institute called the Mindful Awareness Research Centre.

I really like Siegel’s theory of mind - which he sees as a complex system that develops through interactions - that is both embodied and exists, or rather emerges -  in relation to other people and world. The mind as process rather than object. It’s conceptually tricky stuff - and the science goes back into the working of mirror neurons in the brain that are expressed in our earliest relationships with caregivers.