Soft Life: Time
Alannah Chance and Axel Kacoutié (UK 2023)
32 min 3 of 4
This four-part series takes the idea of ‘soft life’ as a launch off point to explore alternative ideas around work, time, the body and ecology emanating from Somerset House and beyond. They talk to radical thinkers, artists and writers, who are carving out these new ways of being in the body, centring the soft and the in-between, finding space for rest and looking at ways of expanding time beyond the clock.
How can we make time free?
This episode contemplates different ways of experiencing time beyond the linear, with Somerset House Studios artist Shenece Oretha on transforming time through the practice of listening, sociologist Judy Wajcman on unpicking progress from speed in the digital sphere and psychologist Dr Ruth Ogden on how our experience of time is relational and whether it’s possible to conceive of ‘free time’ in a modern world.
Produced by: Alannah Chance and Axel Kacoutié
Sound by: Axel Kacoutié and additional music by Ellen Zweig
Produced by Somerset Studios