Parallel Recording Twelve Bickel & Fisher 2019 by Radical Trust

Dialogue of two artists (Bickel and Fisher) reflecting on the last few months of their life with arts, learning, healing at its core, including an artist residency and art exhibitions Studio M* hosted at McHugh House Community and Arts Hub, and a visit with Dick Averns, Calgary's CARFAC rep. A significant portion of the dialogue focuses on the foundational practice underpinning their lives as artists-- their experimental project of thinking and living in, with and through what a "gift economy" is and what that is coming to mean to them and what it could mean to a society in general. Their study of the work of gift economy theorist Genevieve Vaughn is drawn from in this discussion.
Thank you to Wendalyn Bartley for the sound clips from her MA Pose Grieving piece that book-end our dialogue and to Medwyn McConachy for the thumbnail photo of Michael and Barbara at Blackfoot Crossing in Alberta, Canada.