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Documenting Failure

Documenting Failure

著者： Selina Thompson Limited
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Documenting Failure: a podcast developed and produced by Selina Thompson Limited Documenting Failure’ takes its name from a quote from Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's book Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, that clearly outlines that a success rooted in Disability Justice often looks like mainstream failure. It invites artists from across the UK and beyond to reframe such failures on their own terms, and in so doing move towards new models of success, access and sustainability2026 Selina Thompson Limited アート 社会科学
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  • Documenting Failure and Navigating Burnout with Ray Young & Alexandrina Hemsley

    Documenting Failure and Navigating Burnout with Ray Young & Alexandrina Hemsley
    2026/06/03
    Welcome to Documenting Failure!A podcast from Selina Thompson Limited about exploring experiments in doing things differently, thinking about access, marginalisation and what we can learn through failure from disabled artists in the UK and beyond. Today's guest are Rae Young and Alexandrina Hemsley, in conversation with Toni-Dee. This is a beautifully contemplative chat about access to work, infantilisation, managing relationships, being a disabled artist, different ideas of failure and different ways of working. ‘God, it's the vulnerability. It's constantly having to make yourself vulnerable. And sometimes that vulnerability is received well, and when it is, that's really, really a beautiful thing’For our sixth episode we are talking with Ray Young and Alexandrina Hemsley. The guests explore the different experiences with being disabled artists, Access to Work, how this impacts venues, planning and creating work. Our guests share their experiences with failure and what failure looks like to them. ‘I personally think good artistic approach is to realise that each time you do it, you're going to do it differently. And being disabled teaches me that knowing that I show up every hour differently’. Our host is Toni-Dee Paul - @txnidee , https://www.instagram.com/txnidee/ and this week’s guests are: 1. Ray Young - @rachaelraymck , https://www.instagram.com/rachaelraymck/2. Alexandrina Hemsley - @alexandrinahemsley , https://www.instagram.com/alexandrinahemsley/ For full content warnings, a transcript of the episode, links to resources and things referenced please visit: https://selinathompsonltd.co.uk/work/documenting-failureDon’t forget to subscribe for more wonderful content talking to disabled artists in the UK about failure, documenting our failures and failing joyfully. Selina Thompson Ltd is a national portfolio organisation supported by Arts Council England, using public funding from National Lottery. Timestamps / chapter breakdown:00:00:32- Intro conversation begins00:01:42- Transition Sound Effect 00:01:44- Start of podcast- intros, descriptions of who they are and what they look like00:02:53- Transition Music00:02:58 - Guests begin talking about how the questions and topics being discussed are difficult, usually private and vulnerable. Fighting vulnerability in public, Access to Work, fears that come with funding cuts and the difficulty of reapplying for funds. 00:10:50- Guests talk about applying for other jobs, how people comprehend disability, hidden disabilities, access riders, access language and differences in disability. 00:15:03- Guests talk about labelling, infantilisation, trust in relationships with people you work with, trust with strangers, and collaborators. 00:20:39- Talk about care work, blurring lines between relationships, dynamic disability and vulnerability. 00:23:27- Transition Music00:23:56- Transition Sound Effect 00:24:00- Toni Dee begins talking about comparing freelancing to corporate workspace where systems are in place to support people. 00:25:41- Talk of Arts Council, grief, the struggle of not being paid enough and bereavement. 00:28:55- Ray continues with the struggles of lack of support in grief, pay worries of taking time off. 00:30:13- Alexandrina highlights how grief is not failure. Care and needing care is not failure. 00:31:29- Toni-Dee talks about the grief that came in COVID times. 00:34:18- Transition Music00:34:27- Toni-Dee asks about things in your practice that you have committees to doing differently. That you've decided that this is a way you're going to do something that, like, maybe doesn't lean into this idea of like capitalist success, but you're doing it anyway. Like, is there any part of your practice that you've, you've changed?00:34:48- Ray talks about aspiration, clear boundaries when working, email vs messages, accessibility to work life and saying yes to too much work. 00:40:32- Alexandrina talks about working with an associate artistic director, juggling boundaries between care and work relationships and acknowledging these blended relationships. 00:44:41- Transition Music 00:44:59- Alexandrina begins talking about fluctuating disabilities, having a support worker, hypervisibility by others who have funded access needs, expensiveness of disability and having to use production budgets to fund access also. 00:47:30- Ray talks about budgeting, having to do in-kind work and explaining your accommodations. 00:48:57- Guests recount their stories of crying at work and having to continue on. 00:49:49- Transition Music 00:49:53- Toni-Dee asks about an example of when Ray worked with a disabled team and asking them to talk about that experience. 00:50:23- Ray talks about their experience working with a disabled team which was wonderful helped by being well funded. 00:52:23- Toni-Dee asks Alexandrina ‘have there been any processes that have brought you joy? And I'm particularly curious about where things have not gone the ...
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  • Documenting Failure and Journeying with the Work with Bobby Baker and Selina Thompson

    Documenting Failure and Journeying with the Work with Bobby Baker and Selina Thompson
    2026/05/20

    Welcome to Documenting Failure!


    A podcast from Selina Thompson Limited about exploring experiments in doing things differently, thinking about access, marginalisation and what we can learn through failure from disabled artists in the UK and beyond.


    Today's guest is Bobby Baker, in conversation with Toni-Dee and Selina Thompson. This is a beautifully contemplative chat about the intergenerational scope of disabled making, the hurdles and achievements of the sector from 1995 to now, and the beauty of building the support you need.


    “I would just say I really love the fact that I'm older and I'm making work”


    For our fifth episode we are talking with Bobby Baker and Selina Thompson about aging, being older, learning over the years, problems encountered over time and evolving with creating work in a disabled body.

    Our host is Toni-Dee Paul - @txnidee , https://www.instagram.com/txnidee/ and this week’s guests are:

    1. Bobby Baker - @bobbyartistbaker, https://www.instagram.com/bobbyartistbaker/
    2. Selina Thompson - @selinatltd , https://www.instagram.com/selinatltd/

    Content warnings for this episode include some references to grief, psychiatric interventions, and fragile mental health.

    For full content warnings, a transcript of the episode, links to resources and things referenced please visit: https://selinathompsonltd.co.uk/work/documenting-failure


    Don’t forget to subscribe for more wonderful content talking to disabled artists in the UK about failure, documenting our failures and failing joyfully.


    Selina Thompson Ltd is a national portfolio organisation supported by Arts Council England, using public funding from National Lottery.


    Timestamps / chapter breakdown:

    00:00:02- Intro begins.
    00:00:31- Start of podcast- Toni Dee asks for intros, descriptions of who they are and what they look like.
    00:01:58- 00:05:24- Guests introduce themselves.
    00:06:06 - Transition Music
    00:06:14- 00:13:54- Guests discuss Selina and Bobby Baker’s relationship through their art, work and mentorship.
    00:13:54- 00:33:55- Toni Dee asks Bobby to talk about starting her own company. Bobby and Selina talk about the starting of their companies, the importance of having Bobby’s company to look up to and their inspirations for themselves.
    00:33:55- Transition Music
    00:34:01- Toni Dee asks if there was ever a bit of insight or a moment in any of those processes between starting your company, and now where you've been able to go, ‘ah, we did, we've done that once already, that is a failing that I've done already, we're going to do it differently this time’. The guests discuss their learnings from failures, what happens if they don’t learn from these things, the toll this takes on physical health and ways to communicate in teams to assess and evaluate what we are capable of committing to.
    00:47:29- Transition Restaurant Chatter
    00:48:06-[Transition music]
    00:48:08- 00:55:17- Toni- Dee asks about pacing and as someone who has started a company a long time ago, like, how long you felt it, it took for you to feel like the company was operating in the way that you needed it to. Bobby talks about the risk that comes with work and pacing. Selina talks about best pacing for STLtd. Bobby and Selina discuss parts of organisation planning they enjoy.
    00:55:17- [Transition Restaurant Chatter]
    00:55:40- Toni-Dee asks the guests about the future. Is there anything in the future that you can think of, or something that you're excited by that your learnings around failure and success are making you feel differently about what's to come. Selina and Bobby answer with what they are excited about for their work, personally and for their organisations.
    00:59:40- 00:59:54- Guest discussion end. Toni-Dee closes off by thanking the guests for their time. Toni-Dee thanks all participants and the team who helped make the podcast.

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  • Documenting Failure and Leading in Community with Amahra Spence and Christopher Samuel

    Documenting Failure and Leading in Community with Amahra Spence and Christopher Samuel
    2026/05/06

    A podcast from Selina Thompson Limited about exploring experiments in doing things differently, thinking about access, marginalisation and what we can learn through failure from disabled artists in the UK and beyond.


    “With all of my heart, believe that the changes that we're trying to cultivate together are possible, plausible, and damn near happen. I have that level of unwavering conviction.”


    Episode 3’s guests in conversation are Amahra Spence and Christopher Samuel. This is a conversation beautifully holding heavy things with a lightness, and we hope you can feel the care between our guests extended to you too. In this podcast we touch on grief, personal identity, and working / starting careers as black, disabled-led organisations and artists.


    Our host is Toni- Dee Paul - @txnidee , https://www.instagram.com/txnidee/ and this week’s guests are:

    1.Amarha Spence- https://www.instagram.com/amahra_as- HoodFutures Studio

    2.Christopher Samuel -https://www.instagram.com/christophersamuel_/ - @christophersamuel_

    For full content warnings, a transcript of the episode, links to resources and things referenced please visit: https://selinathompsonltd.co.uk/work/documenting-failure


    Don’t forget to subscribe for more wonderful content talking to disabled artists about failure, documenting our failures and failing joyfully.


    Selina Thompson Ltd is a national portfolio organisation supported by Arts Council England, using public funding from National Lottery.


    Timestamps / chapter breakdown:

    Short breakdown of chapters / areas of discussion

    00:03- Opening dialogue from Amahra to set the tone of the podcast
    00:41- Toni Dee welcomes everyone to the podcast and introduces guests.

    01:48-17:51- Toni Dee asks first question about each guests practice, where it stems from and what they are doing now. The guests each answer with their story.

    18:25- 26:05- Toni Dee asks Amahra about her relationship to failure and reframing failure while thinking about endings and closing. Amahra answers with the things she has had to create over the years, how they ended naturally and this is not necessarily failure.

    26:11-30:03- Toni Dee asks Christopher about how artistry, leadership and failure are working in his current work. Christopher talks about what failure means to him.

    30:22-35:17- Talk about how disabled people are often left out of society and so have had to build their own paths.

    35:33- 41:16- Toni Dee asks what has surprised the guest, what has been joyful pivots for them. The guests talk about realising themselves, looking internally, not running away from themselves and showing up as your whole self.
    41:22-43.09    - Toni Dee asks what are you looking forward to? The guests talk about each guests talk about each others work and being able to be in the moment with each other.

    43.09- Toni Dee closes off the conversation and thanks the guests for joining the podcast.
    43:30- Outro thanks to the team.


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