Alex Lazaridis

The Refrain: Getting in Sync With the World. Episode 3: Cabin in the Woods.

Nov 21, 2024

Episode 3 of The Refrain is now available. For this episode, we leave the 'explicit' philosophizing aside to allow for an 'implicit' philosophy of immersion in sound and voice. The listener journeys through a number of sound spaces intended to soften the boundaries of self and allow for transformation. You can find it on the usual podcast platforms or on our website at: https://www.fightwithastick.ca/podcast . Enjoy!

Episode 2 of The Refrain: Getting in Sync with the World

Nov 10, 2023

Hi Performer-philosophers, the 2nd episode of The Refrain is now live. Here's the info and the link: Episode 2, Falling Apart, Falling Together, is about transformation. How do we become ourselves, what holds us together, and for how long? How are boundaries created, and how bounded are they? We take inspiration from Chapter 11 of the classic tome, A Thousand Plateaus, by French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Along the way we get some help from Kym Maclaren, Canadian phenomenologist and philosopher of intimacy. Link: https://www.fightwithastick.ca/podcast. Enjoy!

New performance and philosophy podcast: The Refrain – Getting in Sync With the World

Aug 24, 2022

Fight With a Stick Performance, a company that has been focused on live performance for years, and is concerned with our interconnectedness with the other-than-human, has ventured into the podcast creation. The main source material for the first episode is Eduardo Kohn's book, "How Forests Think: Towards an Anthropology Beyond the Human," and also features the thinking of Jane Bennett in her book, "Vibrant Matter," the work of forest ecologist Suzanne Simard, and others. The title of the podcast series is taken from Chapter 11 of Deleuze and Guattari's "A Thousand Plateaus." That chapter is the focus of the upcoming…