I first came across Marolyn Krasner’s work when I read her amazing novel The Radicals. Since then I’ve loved talking with Marolyn, and experiencing the many amazing projects she’s worked on.
Marolyn has been on the podcast once before in an episode we recorded about the show From the 4410 to the 4412 which Marolyn made with Helen Lehndorf and Charlie Pearson last year. In this episode we touch briefly on that show.
I loved recording this conversation because it made me think a lot about the joy of process.
I also loved the web-series Marolyn brought as a subject for our chat. Hudson Valley Ballers: Lovers is very funny and you can watch the rest of the series on YouTube as well.
Marolyn is currently making an incredible podcast called cyanutopia which is a podcast about cyanotype. I am so interested in cyanotype as an form and I think even if you weren’t, Marolyn’s podcast is such an amazing opportunity to listen to artists talk about their process and work.
Anyway, thanks so much Marolyn. I loved this conversation a lot.
I have a few things coming up in November at Verb in Pōneke | Wellington, here are some links:
Verb After-Hours: Beyond a Joke (Thursday 3 November, 8.30pm-10.00pm)
This is a live version of this podcast with the most amazing people: Eamonn Marra, James Nokise, Jo Randerson, Joanna Cho and Gabby Anderson.
The Possibilities of Return: Laurence Fearnley (Saturday, 5 November 2022, 10:00am-11:00am)
I get to talk to Laurence Fearnley about stories of return, the places we start from, and the pleasure and challenges of writing the familiar landscape Fearnley has returned to time and again in her books.
Losing the plot: with Pip Adam (Saturday, 5 November 2022, 1:00pm-5:00pm)
In this four-hour workshop we’ll identify then test our beliefs around the shape of telling.
From ‘Once upon a time’ to The Hero's Journey attempts are made to structure words so they can express experience - imagined and lived. These attempts can become dominant and sometimes we use them automatically without realising. In this way dominant ideas can bury other radical possibilities for structuring words.
This workshop seeks to uncover the beliefs of a particular group on a particular day around what makes a work of telling complete. We’ll work together and alone to produce a set of beliefs which we can play and test in exercises we’ll do on the day.
This workshop is open to anyone interested in telling stories, poems, songs, gossip, jokes, our lives, recipes, songs, histories, rules, procedures or anything else. Exercises can be completed in your preferred medium - be it writing, drawing, speaking, contemplating or any other.
Ep 119: Beyond a Joke 10 - Marolyn Krasner talks with Pip Adam about Hudson Valley Ballers: Lovers