The final episode of Season 1 of The Giant Pause Podcast. I talk with Isolate Create Collaborate founders Hannah Eggleston (Artist) and Karthik Poduval (Musician - Flaming Gods) alongside Chris Menist (Musician - Awkward Corners). Isolate Create Collaborate: An experiment in collaboration to create some magic during lockdown. It’s a group to create stuff together outside the constraints of capitalism/consumerism. An online community of around 100 members who, each week, have the opportunity to be paired with someone they would never usually work with, in a different discipline to their own. Each collaboration is a one week project. I talk to Hannah and Karthik about what inspired them to set up Isolate, Create, Collaborate, managing an online community space, and some of the collaborations that have most inspired them. Chris shares his experiences as a group member and the liberating nature of creating outside your comfort zone. A creative, collaborative project that would likely never have come into form but for lockdown. In such a raw and emotional landscape in which find ourselves, it's a beautiful picture of the power and importance of creative expression. The collaborations that make it so much more than working solo. And how getting to know someone for their creative expression rather than through pictures of what they ate for dinner is infinitely more nourishing and connecting.
You can find all the collaborations from the last 8 weeks at:
https://www.isolatecreatecollaborate.org/
Free to join. Join here
Hannah – Trainee Art Psychotherapist working in Childcare
Karthik – Musician (Flaming Gods) and Chef working at an addiction recovery centre
Chris – Musician (Awkward Corners) and Counsellor.
BUY
Karthnik’s new album Levitation is out now.
“A slice of international psychedelia and positivity in these turbulent times.”
The vinyl has just been repressed and you can find it along with all the streaming links here
Chris’s Awkward Corners new LP/Digital album Dislocation Songs is also recently out.
“Ever the trailblazer, Dislocation Songs traverses an entirely new map altogether.” Andy Votel, Finders Keepers.
Find it here
As Hannah writes in the Facebook group:
When we created this online community, we thought it would be a place purely for creative expression and connection during lockdown. However, the Black Lives Matter Movement is too important to not acknowledge during this time. Here are some links on where you can sign petitions or donate to causes to support from your home.
https://www.naacpldf.org/
https://eji.org/
https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd
https://bailproject.org/
https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/
https://blacklivesmatter.com/
https://colorofchange.org/
https://www.change.org/p/mayor-jacob-frey-justice-for-georg…