polite podcast no.1

Hello, so this is the first polite podcast. It contains songs by different people, oral histories and field recordings. I will be releasing an episode in the last hour of every month until the end of this year. So that's four episodes in total, okay? Okay!

coffee machines: palomica
the whole town watching: here is the river (liz melia; blake gifford; ben meschko)
the river: two white cranes
glimmer: we wanted to be lions

interviews: marion ireland; maggie willans
field recordings: henry ireland; nicol parkinson
edited: henry ireland 

kino residency: encyclopedia photos

Between Monday the 13th and Friday the 17th of February, I sat in the basement of Cafe Kino and attempted to write down 'everything I know' from memory between the hours of 9am and 5pm, taking half an hour lunch break. I have posted the press release for this previously. People were able to come and watch and to contribute to the process by adding illustrations. I was extremely happy with how the performance went and will be writing more about it soon, as it grew into something more interesting than the original press release suggests with the practicality of organising this impossible task. Thanks again to all at Kino and everyone who came to visit, put me up, or made an illustration.

'performance area'

illustrator (left) performer (right)

the finished article (120 pages)

(ei'la:n) n a combination of style and vigour

"let youth cease to serve as a commodity merely to become a consumer of its own élan" Isadore Isou

élan is hopefully going to be a zine some time soon. For now, I've made a blog to post examples of work that I like the look of. I hope it's not too much of a waste of time, but we'll have to see...