Cosmic

It might be a good time to open a chapter on humour, the most powerful tool of them all… I like to think :)

It’s fair to say that it plays a central role in the media environment, it shapes how we understand ideas, social boundaries and even logic.

Tomorrow for our weekly live mix I will be revisiting an interview I produced last year with Pieter de Poortere, the creator of the hilarious comics character Dickie

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Camille


“Things have never been so good for humanity” “There’s never been a better time to be alive” “We’ve never had it so good than right now”. These couple of lines are very meaningful because when we accept this narrative as a truth, we open the door to a legion of story monsters that invade culture and society’s common sense.

In connection to this episode I am featuring the work of Scott Listfield, who’s known for his paintings featuring a lone exploratory astronaut lost in a landscape cluttered with pop culture icons, corporate logos, and tongue-in-cheek science fiction references.

It’s a great way to reflect on the present, the past and the future maybe? Remember it starts with the words we pick, and the stories we chose to tell.

Scott Listfield website

Scott Listfield instagram

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Camille

A new chapter of our investigation is unfolding. Thank you El Seed for your participation and valuable insights. We talked about democratizing access to art, the artist image, responsibility and how to best approach a community for collaboration, among other fascinating topics.

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Camille

Identity. Identity seems intrinsically connected to how we, humans, experience change.

And one story we tell about identity is structurally blocking the way…

This is one of the chapters I had the privilege to touch on with El Seed, who truly incarnates this multi-layer approach to human experience.

He will be on Cosmic Live tomorrow at 7pm CEST on www.cosmic.show. We’ll travel, we’ll go deep . As usual, you may want to bring some good headphones.

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Camille

It’s quite interesting to note how the idea of fragility has taken so much protagonism in just a few weeks. A nation like the United States, incarnating power, robust economy, and opportunity is now counting 33million people unemployed, when the employment rate was the highest in decades just a couple of months ago. Still, fragile is not a word we like to pronounce as humans…

Today I am featuring the beautiful - and fragile - work of Courtney Mattison, an artist based in LA who has been raising awareness about the fragility of coral reefs via her large-scale ceramic sculptural works.

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Camille

There is a very toxic narrative out there, a viral one to be exact. Words that turned into day-to-day language on the news, in all conversations, in our homes even.

We might want to be aware of the monster we are actually creating by pronouncing those words.

Let’s hear them, one last time...

This episode features a piece from Artist  @1010zzz (https://instagram.com/1010zzz?igshid=10sns00dj0y17)

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Camille

Many of us are experiencing some form of generational trauma. Psychic legacies are often passed on through unconscious cues or affective messages that flow between adult and child. Sometimes anxiety falls from one generation to the next through the stories that are told.

Here again, the artistic practice can help. This week we dive into the work of Enam Gbewonyo, a cosmic British Ghanaian Artist and Curator who clearly figured out how to deal with this! The insights from this episode also support and clarify a wider collection of narratives about the work we (very probably) need to do within vs. what we expect from “the outside”.

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Camille

If change involves the mind - and it does :) - we have to consider the labyrinth. This episode features the work of artist Soukaina Aziz El Idrissi: Al Mataha / Labyrinth

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Camille

In this episode, I explore with Photographer & Film Producer Chris Jordan what we are obviously doing wrong with change communications, and what art & beauty bring to the table everyday around us. A real cultural shift seems inevitable...

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Camille