Episodes

  • Showtime for the Housing Crisis – Knowledge Exchange through Aerial Circus

    Showtime for the Housing Crisis – Knowledge Exchange through Aerial Circus
    Jun 9 2023
    How do you explain the inequalities of homes, housing, and debt through an aerial circus show? Brighton is about to find out. In this second episode, academic Mareike Beck talks about the key issues of inequality when it comes to homes and debt, from a feminist political economy perspective, and how her Brighton Fringe show conveyed all this from the stage. How did this creative way of knowledge exchange work? Listen to what the audience thought.
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    12 mins
  • Flying around the Housing Crisis – Turning Research into an Aerial Circus Show

    Flying around the Housing Crisis – Turning Research into an Aerial Circus Show
    May 22 2023
    Performing the housing crisis. We are at an aerial acrobatics rehearsal for the Brighton Fringe circus show called Home: The Intimacy of Debt and Inequality. In this first episode, academic researcher Mareike Beck and aerial performers Carolyn, Sita and Juice talk about the joys and perils of homes. We discuss how academic concepts about housing, debt and inequality encounter aerial acrobatics. Can this fusion be a creative way to translate academic research into performative arts to engage with different audiences?
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    11 mins