“We need to be shocked into beauty.”

Welcome to the Temporary Autonomous Zone.

In this episode, we discuss being “stuck” in the body, and Hakeem Bey’s concept of Temporary Autonomous Zones: an artistic means of transcending the rules of our current realities. We delve into our relationships with our bodies, their wisdom, and the dangers of overidentification with them. We discuss liberatory tactics such as Poetic Terrorism to disrupt the mundane and shock people into beauty – as well as the burdens that come with being the disruptor. We discuss when to stay and fight, the love and freedom in letting go, and the role forgiveness plays in it all.

Chapters

00:00 Feeling Stuck in the Body

03:01 Exploring Temporary Autonomous Zones

07:42 The Concept of Poetic Terrorism

12:44 Body and Identity: Personal Journeys

18:57 The Wisdom of the Body

27:15 The Role of the Disruptor

35:20 Navigating Family Dynamics, Ideological Differences, Erasure, and Harm

40:34 The Burden of Being a Change Maker

43:27 The Freedom in Letting Go

55:17 Creating Space for New Beginnings

"Sometimes we discover what something is by subtraction. So you're actually shaping a new reality by removing things that obscure that reality."

Pedro is newly employed, Mercedez is lost in the present, and Katerina is becoming famous... and the rapture still hasn't hit, yet. In this episode we explore:

• Navigating our professional coming out
• Finding out where all the "No's" go
• Growing like bamboo
• Staying your soul's course
• Social media's role in society and the artist's life
• Disappearing to be found and the art that emerges from that place
• Using obsession as a gift and precision in where we aim it

"I have this vision of myself for a reason." PERIOD. Namaste, friends.

Hey y’all. It’s been a minute, and we’re questioning reality and our place within it.

In this episode we talk about:

• Are we NPC’s?!

• The repetition of history

• Is the Universe constantly responding to our thoughts or are we making meaning out of random chaos?

• Non-linear time, predetermination, and multiple dimensions

• Heightened spiritual experiences + the dangers of belief

• What are we doing when we are not fighting?

• Emergences from non-doing and silence: the concept of Wu Wei

• Christianity vs Scredianity

• Butoh & The Art of the Grotesque

• Buck Minsterfuller, Dynamic Maximum Tension, & creating at the edge

• Knowing the truth of life and trusting

  
  

Buck the fuck up, everybody.