What a Body Can Do

Zoë

Audio explorations of the body in the social world. An experimental podcast series by Zoë April. Sonically rich audio essays, stories, and sound collages. What if we still don't know all of the wild things that a body can do?

8 Episodes

UNKNOWN
12/3/2024
8:29
What a Body Can Do (remixed) Season 3 Trans*cendental sonic meditations on hope and having a body at the end of the world as we know it. A series of audio collaged love letters to the queers and all who live within the liminal spaces, on the margins, and in between worlds. May our imaginations bring us into a new beginning in the middle of all these difficult endings. Listen while laying down, in a forest, submerged in water, or otherwise liminally positioned. <3 Zoë April
RELEASE
11/8/2024
3:32
What a Body Can Do (remixed) Season 3 Trans*cendental sonic meditations on hope and having a body at the end of the world as we know it This series is an audio-theoretical love letter to the queers and all who live within the liminal spaces, on the margins, and in between worlds. May our imaginations bring us into a new beginning in the middle of all these difficult endings. Listen while laying down, in a forest, submerged in water, or otherwise liminally positioned. <3 Zoë April
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SHAPE: Muscles, Bones, and Tissues
12/14/2021
10:58
Our muscles and bones and tissues are shaped by our life experiences, and our life experiences are shaped by our muscles and bones and tissues. This second episode continues to explore the somatic concept of SHAPE, including the social conditions that impact our embodiment. Donate to the podcast at anchor.fm/zo185 Follow me on IG: @body.podcast ThirdspaceSomatics.com Things referenced: Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon The Hakomi Method, Ron Kurtz
UPDATE
10/29/2021
4:52
A quick hello and update from Zoë about some exciting changes. New episodes coming next month!
Nostalgia
5/31/2021
33:08
In this collaborative episode Zoë and Alana explore the concept of nostalgia. You know the feeling, but what is it? What does it do? How can it be useful? We spent several months trying to answer these questions though conversations, musings, poetry and embodiment practices.... and through being stuck at home during lockdown thinking about the past and wondering about the future. This episode is about what bodies do with the past, where and how it lives in us. It's about nostalgia but it is also about loss and letting go, about grief and resilience. It's about using muscle memory on purpose to feel, process, and shape our experience of life. Thanks so much to Alana for this sweet collaboration! Alana (she/they) IG: @anbsuperstar & @softcorepoetics ---- Please follow, donate, and share this podcast! DONATE: anchor.fm/zo185 FOLLOW AND SHARE: IG @body.bodcast And you can follow Zoë on IG @Thirdspace.Somatics or at ThirdspaceSomatics.com
Pastel Paradise
4/12/2021
18:36
Anyone who knows me knows that I love Miami and those bright 80's color schemes of pastels and neons. Think Miami Vice or Stranger Things. This episode is an audio story. It's about Miami, and about the kinds of impressions that art and architecture can make on our bodies and beliefs. You can find me on Instagram @body.podcast, and you can support this project here on my Anchor page: https://anchor.fm/zo185 Credits and references: Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs A Pastel Paradise, Levien Productions 1989 Intro song: Beach View Apartment by CyberReality, 2018 CC
There is no such thing as ideology
3/23/2021
33:45
This first episode of What a Body Can Do is an audio essay about ideology and why it doesn't exist. Our ideas are not just in our heads, and our actions affect more than our own bodies. When the distinction between mind/body, individual/social, personal/political starts to blur, we need new language. This episode explores "ideology" in general- and whiteness in particular- as constructs that can be and need to be deconstructed. If you like what you hear please subscribe, rate, and share! You can financially support this project at https://anchor.fm/zo185 and follow it on IG @body.podcast Referenced in this episode: -The Physiology of Sexist and Racist Oppression by Shannon Sullivan -My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem -Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault -The Ethics by Spinoza -Christian Picciolini -Strozzi Institute -generative somatics For more on "blending" check out The Anatomy of Change by Richard Strozzi-Heckler
Trailer
3/5/2021
3:54
Coming very soon! An experimental podcast about the wild things that bodies are capable of. Please subscribe and follow me on IG @body.podcast

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What a Body Can Do

Zoë

8 Episodes

UNKNOWN

RELEASE

SHAPE: Muscles, Bones, and Tissues

UPDATE

Nostalgia

Pastel Paradise

There is no such thing as ideology

Trailer