How to Play in Slow Time

About How to Play in Slow Time

How to Play in Slow Time is a podcast where artists pull back the curtain on their creative practices and share how they listen, play, embody, imagine, model, and collaborate towards discovering something new. Each episode interviews an Australian-based artist and unpacks their process of making—from the first seed of an idea, to its final form and audience reception. Featuring interviews with Victoria Hunt, Kirthana Selvaraj, Nathan Harrison, Charemaine Seet, Karlie Noon, Alice Osborne, Pablo Latona, Riana Head-Toussaint, Rachel Roberts, Nitin Vengurlekar and Emma Maye Gibson. Created by Alexandra Tálamo, Bryoni Trezise, Charlotte Farrell and Maria White. Produced by Alexandra Tálamo, with original score by Tom Hogan. Recorded on lands and waters that have been cared for since time immemorial by the Bidjigal people, whose sovereignty has never ceded. This podcast was supported by the School of Arts and Media, UNSW. For expanded discussions of the topics covered here, check out our book: How to Play in Slow Time: Creativity, Pedagogy, Process (https://brill.com/display/title/71908?srsltid=AfmBOooAwxlTayQzTDMRGZk9ShnfyEoNQ546YVJRMZuaFH67Me0fgfiY).

Publisher

Charlotte Farrell, Alexandra Tálamo, Bryoni Trezise, and Maria White

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

28 Sept 2025

Latest episode

2 Dec 2025

Latest episodes

13 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   2 Dec 2025

   Bonus episode — with the authors of How to Play in Slow Time

   In this special bonus episode the authors of How to Play in Slow Time offer insight into their own creative practices and how these approaches have evolved in the wake of researching their book. They also reflect on the interviews in this podcast series, pointing to some of the unexpected convergences and resonances that have further opened out their understanding of creativity as a practice.

2. 

   2 Dec 2025

   Emma Maye Gibson

   In this episode performance artist Emma Maye Gibson also known as Betty Grumble speaks about the centrality of movement to her creative practice. She shows how communing with the natural world is at the heart of her artistic processes, inseparable from her life.

3. 

   25 Nov 2025

   Rachel Roberts

   In this episode performer, game designer and counsellor, Rachel Roberts, shares the importance of play to her theatre-making practice. She also explains how her counselling training helps her to create the critical distance audiences need to play joyfully, unrestrained, but also critically, in her games and performances.

4. 

   25 Nov 2025

   Nitin Vengurlekar

   In this episode we speak to performance maker, writer and teacher, Nitin Vengurlekar. Nitin recounts how the comedic forms and gestures he first discovered in his childhood are now expressed in his film and stage personas, which embody a sense of the terror and beauty of creative not knowing—the sense that you are always on the edge of discovering something new.

5. 

   18 Nov 2025

   Riana Head-Toussaint

   In this episode interdisciplinary artist Riana Head-Toussaint discusses her choreographic practice. Riana explains how her lived experiences of using a wheelchair for mobility has informed her approach to movement and collaboration. She also talks about paying attention to her surroundings and ‘making with’ her environment.

6. 

   18 Nov 2025

   Pablo Latona

   In this episode performer and musician Pablo Latona tells us about growing up in a household that encouraged free imaginative play, and how this allowed them to connect with others as a shy child. They explain that this accidental training in play informs their work today as a designer of participatory installations and as a Clown Doctor in hospitals.

7. 

   11 Nov 2025

   Alice Osborne

   In this episode we hear from theatre maker, performer, puppeteer and occupational therapist Alice Osborne. Alice shares how a mesmerising shadow puppetry display early in her training led her on a career path to explore the relationship between different expressive forms: visual art, dance and puppetry—and ultimately, to use those creative practices to support people in mental health distress.

8. 

   11 Nov 2025

   Karlie Noon

   In this episode astronomer, astrophysicist and Traditional Knowledge holder, Karlie Noon takes us on a journey to the stars. She tells us about the creativity that emerges when trying to draw and describe the movements of the sky. She also speaks about the surprising connections that she has found between Indigenous Sky Knowledge from the first astronomers and Western approaches to reading the night sky.

9. 

   4 Nov 2025

   Charemaine Seet

   In this episode we hear from dancer and choreographer Charmaine Seet. Charmaine speaks about her journey from Malaysian cultural dance as a child, into the postmodern dance tradition. This has led her to develop improvisational dance lessons for children and young people that allow them to discover body languages that can be right—no matter what the shape.

10. 

    4 Nov 2025

    Nathan Harrison

    In this episode theatre maker and game developer Nathan Harrison tells us about making performances and interactive games from scratch. Nathan speaks about the modelling processes in his collaborative collectives Applespiel and Boho Interactive. These groups both use audience participation to mobilise new ideas.

11. 

    29 Oct 2025

    Kirthana Selvaraj

    In this episode visual artist Kirthana Selvaraj provides insight into her painting practice. She reflects on the unique ways in which she experiences colour and how that informs her approach to portrait painting.

12. 

    29 Oct 2025

    Victoria Hunt

    In this episode dancer, choreographer, and director Victoria Hunt delves into the creativity of movement and mental imaging. They tell us about connecting to spiritual beings through their work, which emerges in a codependent and intertwined way with the body’s movements, and which are tied to Māori energies of mauri (life force) and whakapapa (genealogy).

13. 

    28 Sept 2025

    Trailer — How To Play In Slow Time

    Welcome to How to Play in Slow Time: Interviews on Creativity. Each episode interviews an Australian-based artist and unpacks their process of making—from the first seed of an idea, to its final form and audience reception. We showcase how these makers not only approach creative problem solving differently, but think differently, across their creative fields. You might imagine this podcast is a toolkit of different ways to make space for creative possibility. We hope that the ideas from these interviews spark new approaches and practices within your own fields and set you up for creative flourishing. In this trailer you’ll hear a snapshot of each of the interviewees featured in season one—a taster of episodes to come. We hope you’ll join us in the coming weeks for this exploration of How to Play in Slow Time.

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