transience

Radio show on Cashmere Radio
It is undeniable that we are living in uncertain times. For those of us failing to fit the patriarchal neoliberal mould we have lost hope in the future. We can see capitalism is not working but we cannot yet envisage an alternative. We discover that the stability we were instructed to obtain whether it be financial, political or ecological, is fleeting, if at all. The resulting anxiety is an instrument of neoliberalism that prevents many of us from being able to raise consciousness of the structural injustices that alienate us.

In a world where security is no longer feasible, the only constant we can rely on is change. Barad teaches us that the world is a dynamic process of intra-activity and materialisation, an ongoing ebb and flow of agency. The Buddhist Law of Impermanence maintains that nothing in this world is eternal.

Regardless of one's point of reference we can understand that every aspect of life, physical and mental is in flux and perhaps this transience is the only thing we can depend on.

Each month we invite an artist to ruminate on these ideas and create an hour of relief from these anxieties. A temporary suspension of reality, where the listener can speculate on alternate modes of existence that reject hetero- patriarchal systems of oppression.

Transience on Cashmere Radio began in 2017 and is ongoing.

Covers 1 - 30 are from Angela de la Serna, except for 25 which is from Sybil.
Photographs 31 - 41 are from Janusz Lorent, except from 37 with is a digital colourfield work by Ligovskoï.
Photographs 42 - current are from Micki Rosi Richter, with the exception of 43 which is another digital colourfield work by Ligovskoï.