Duende Discussions
A fun and invigorating artist interview podcast where I talk to my brilliant friends about their personal and creative relationship with duende - the visceral vibration of the soul making impact with its most authentic, ancient self - made famous by Spanish playwright and poet Federico Garcia Lorca. My guests and I will explore how to define what the mysterious duende actually is, how to access it, what to do with our art once we've confronted it, wrestle with it - possibly in real time! - as well as decipher who/what has it today, and what role it plays in today's ever evolving and challenging artistic landscapes and vocabularies. Why duende today? Because like Lorca says, “The true struggle is with the duende.”
Duende Discussions
3 - Alexis Roblan - "Annihilation", Anxiety, Apparitions and Art Anarchy on All Hallow's Eve
Hi Duende Duders! Hope your spooky season has been spooking along spectacularly! I'm absolutely thrilled to bring you Episode 3 - my duende-of-Halloween episode - a horrortastic convo with my favorite art anarchist - playwright, screenwriter and novelist Alexis Roblan! Ali is a masterful adventurer of the mystical and mind-bending, so it's no wonder our talk of duende is full of spiritual, psychological and emotional revelations. We discuss how confronting panic and one's personal duende head-on - through the writing and experiencing of theatre/horror art, as well as in real life - can be a vigorous catharsis and necessary shake-up for the mind and soul. She breaks down why posters of A24 horror movies decorate the walls of her apartment, and we connect over how being raised Catholic formed our present relationships to the paranormal. We overly thoroughly navigate an intensely complex taste test journey of the duende of candy corn, and a Halloween session of "Which Has More Duende?" brings up strong opinions on how to fully immerse oneself into the duende of Knott's Scary Farm. And omg towards the end of the interview we debate over whether or not literal duendes actually exist and it may have caused an energetic interruption!! Perhaps a duende infiltration??? So just be ready for that...visitation :) Happy Halloweeeeeeen!!
Have a great duend-ay! :)
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