Episode 29 - Dead Bees on Hot Cement

Locust Radio

In this episode of Locust Radio, Adam Turl interviews R. Faze, author of the My Body series published in Locust Review. This is part of an ongoing series of interviews with Locust members and collaborators on contemporary artistic strategies.

R. Faze’s My Body series in Locust Review:

• R. Faze, “I Live an Hour from My Body,” Locust Review 4 (2021)

• R. Faze, “My Body Got a New Job,” Locust Review 5 (2021)

• R. Faze, “My Body Planned Something,” Locust Review 6 (2021)

• R. Faze, “My Body, Interrogated,” Locust Review 7 (2022)

• R. Faze, “My Body’s Long Term Plan,” Locust Review 8 (2022)

• R. Faze, “My By Body’s Revenge Plan,” Locust Review 9 (2022)

• R. Faze, “My Body Found a Portal to Another Dimension,” Locust Review 10 (2023)

• R. Faze, “My Body’s Claims, Verified,” Locust Review 11 (2024)

Some other writers, artists, texts and artworks discussed: Mikhail Bahktin, Rabelais and His World (1984); Bertolt Brecht; Raymond Chandler; Jefferson Cowie, Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working-Class (2010); Rene Descartes; W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903); Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (2009); Karl Marx, The Philosophic and Economic Manuscripts (1844); Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics (1993); Pablo Picasso and Cubism; Edgar Allan Poe, “William Wilson” (1839); Francois Rabalais, Gargantua and Pantagruel (1564); Don Siegal, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956); Sister Wife Sex Strike, “From the River to the Sea (2024); Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)

Locust Radio hosts include Tish Turl, Laura Fair-Schulz, and Adam Turl. Locust Radio is produced by Alexander Billet, Adam Turl, and Omnia Sol. Opening music and sound elements by Omnia Sol and Adam Turl.