Tonal – Rivers Beyond Sewage
Tonal - Rivers Beyond Sewage
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TONAL - Rivers Beyond Sewage explores water issues nationally with a special focus on the River Tone in Somerset. Through riverside conversations with people who have different and profound relationships with water Feral Practice leads us on a deep dive into the politics, law, art and science of rivers with curiosity and humor. Moving beyond the adversarial tone that dominates news and social media, Tonal offers powerful and entertaining listening — professional, political, ecological and spiritual — while keeping a close ear on the river herself.Artist Feral Practice lives in Somerset, UK. They work to explore and expand our relationship to other species and the living earth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The podcast covers a range of themes including environmental advocacy, water quality, community initiatives, and artistic interpretations of water issues. Specific episodes feature topics such as the historical relationship of woolen cloth making with local waterways, the campaign for bathing water status in French Weir Park, the intersection of queerness and biodiversity in river ecosystems, and a deep dive into river pollution and its repercussions.
TONAL – Rivers Beyond Sewage reaches behind the headlines to explore water issues in the UK, with a special focus on the River Tone in Somerset. Through riverside conversations with people who have profound relationships with water Feral Practice leads us into the politics, law, art and science of rivers with curiosity and humor.
Moving beyond the adversarial tone that dominates news and social media, Tonal offers powerful and entertaining listening — professional, political, ecological and spiritual — while keeping a close ear on the river herself. The artist Feral Practice lives in Somerset, UK. Their work explores and expands our relationship to other species and the living earth.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
One for the poets, artists, dabblers and ponderers among you (all those watery allusions). We visited the Tone above Clatworthy Reservoir with Fire River Poet Graeme Ryan and we jumped straight in to comparing our artistic processes and philosophies. How do poets and artists reach out towards the living world or look to their inner living world, and how these connect. What and where is consciousness? How does interspecies communication take place? Do we believe in a creator? Coleridge’s concept of the divinely inspired imagination, which echoes the processes that formed the planet. Life at the quantum level. Poetry as healing, in the context of a damaged world.
What does this all have to do with rivers you may ask? Well, Graeme is expressive and eloquent (did we mention he was a poet) about rivers, and is also inspired by them. He suggests a river is an incredibly dynamic being that is going through metamorphosis all the time. “Where we are caught up in our in our own individual identities and bags of skin, a river is just profligate.” That idea has really stayed with us.
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