Podcast
The Tender Transformation Pod invites activists, artists and researchers to reflect on the role of Tenderness in transformative processes.
Trauma and Tenderness
“The whole world is suffering from PTSD after slavery and capitalism. We need hundred years peace and reconciliation-process.” How can we arrive at a presence that opens gateways to all the possible futures? Why is the uncanny a possibility to find a place and an understanding inside the ecosystem? How do we recognize love as the driver for our inquiring minds?
Timothy Morton is the philosopher primarily known for inventing the idea of hyperobjects. Hyperobjects refers to that wish elude and transcend our immediate frameworks but touches us in our actual everyday life, like climate-change and the covid pandemic.
Timothy has collaborated with numerous artists like Björk and Laurie Anderson.
He is the Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University and the author of multiple books for example “Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People” and “Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence”.
Our poetic selves
How can we use the languages of art in societal transformation? What does it do to our thinking and being when we are invited into the extraordinary? And what is it that we bring forward when we show up with our poetic selves?
Gry Worre Hallberg is the artistic director of Sisters Hope, a performance group with a practice of numerous immersive interventions. Gry was the creator of Dome of visions, a dreamspace for a new city in Copenhagen. Her thesis revolves around how a sensous society can unfold in the hands of artistic and sustainable practices.
Transformative conversations
How is an activist heart born? How can we balance a sense of urgency and the need for patience and reflection? What is essential for a conversation and why should conversations be at the heart of transformation and justice? How can we work with hope as a strategy for social change?
Deepa Iyer is a South Asian American writer, strategist, lawyer, and racial justice advocate.
She has just published the book Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection based on her work with the Social Change Ecosystem Map.
Logic and love
How can we come together when we don´t understand the details of the challenge or how it should be addressed? What has love to do with logic and how can we navigate between urgency and long term investment? What is the power of making? And what is it like to form collective practices whit great diversity?
Pernilla Glaser talks with Mathilda Tham. Tham is a professor in design at Linnaeus University where she founded Design + Change, a program situated in the intersection between artistic practice and sustainability. Mathilda has long been a pioneer pushing and inspiring the fashion-industry to move towards more sustainable production.
Together with Kate Fletcher she founded https://earthlogic.info
Rage and recovery
What is the role of empathy and rest in systems innovation? How can the balance be met between activist rage and self-care and concern for others when you work with oppression and the shifting of broad societal structures? How can care work as an impact tool? And in what ways can art and democracy and rights work in alliance?
Pernilla Glaser talks with John-Paul Zaccarini, Professor of Performing Arts for Bodily and Vocal Practices at Uniarts and Ola Mattsson, head of Save the Children’s Growth Hub.
The recording took place at Gothenburg Bookfair in September 2021
Organized messiness
How can we create space for vulnerability and empathy in testing and complex processes? What role can vulnerability play as an opportunity and collaborative resource and in how we manage integrity in trust-based work? What do we know about how art helps us to develop holistic perspectives and experiences?
Rebecca Vinthagen talks with Pernilla Glaser, process facilitator at Boiler and initiator of Tender Transformation, and Eva Bojner Horwitz, Professor of Music and Health at the Royal College of Music.
The recording took place at Gothenburg Bookfair in September 2021