On Connection: 'Powerful' MATT HAIG (Faber Social)

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I have the impulse of doing the same with "On Connection". Carry it with me, correlate its values with my life, really work through it. I probably can't and won't carry it around with me everywhere (can I tho) but I for sure will read it again and again. It already had a very real impact on my life and I'm curious to see where it leads me. Het lijkt alsof Tempest verder bouwt op alles wat India voor mij betekende en waar DF Wallace vooral empathie en geesteskracht aan toevoegde. Er zijn zovele overlappingen. Ook bij haar spelen opmerkzaamheid, verbeelding, hoop en het gelaat van de ander (Levinas 2.0) een hoofdrol. Alleen smeert de Britse er een dikke laag mildheid op: graaf onder het oppervlak, bemerk pracht in lelijkheid, beschouw je medemens waarlijk als ‘mede mens’ en rem de verzwelgende golf koopwoede, afgunst, zelfhaat, hunkering af, maar… wees niet te streng voor jezelf. Geef jezelf geen stress omdat je persé moet ontstressen en dat niet lukt. Ontneem jezelf de adem niet omdat je vergeefs poogt te aarden. Wees mild als je valt. En probeer opnieuw. Er verschuilen zich mogelijk ook mirakels op een druilerige dag. At some point in the book Tempest recalls how they met a homeless person who carried a poetry book with him that connected him with his mother who gave the book to him. It brought him comfort. But Tempest isn’t talking about merely missing a good night out at a gig or show. On Connection looks at creativity as a means of counteracting the numbness of the modern world. We get so caught up in an ever-spinning consumerist hamster wheel that we neglect what is true within ourselves and one another. “In a disconnected state, self-awareness is one of the first frequencies to be scooped out and muted,” they write. “When this happens, I need creativity to reconnect me.” Anyone who has seen Tempest live has likely witnessed their talent for sparking connection Beaumont-Thomas, Ben (6 August 2020). "Kate Tempest announces they are non-binary, changes name to Kae". The Guardian.

Beaumont-Thomas, Ben (6 August 2020). "Kate Tempest announces they are non-binary, changes name to Kae". The Guardian . Retrieved 7 August 2020. Let Them Eat Chaos Kate Tempest06.10. Tempelhof Hangar 5". volksbuehne.berlin . Retrieved 19 June 2018. [ permanent dead link]In On Connection, Tempest reveals the “strange and passionate relationship” they have had with their own creativity since the age of 12, “suffering from mental health problems and using drugs and alcohol to cope with a difficult brain, troubles at home and gender dysphoria”. In dit essay - geschreven tijdens de eerste Covid-19 golf - gaat Tempest op zoek naar de essentie van creativiteit en de zin daarvan in hun en ons leven. Hoe gedetailleerder zij naar zichzelf kijken en hoe eerlijker ze dat beschrijven, hoe universeler hun boodschap; schrijven ze zelf en daar raken ze meteen nagels met koppen. Drawing on two decades of experience as a writer and performer, Kae Tempest champions the role of creativity - in whatever form we choose to practice it - as an act of love, helping us establish a deeper relationship to our true selves, and to others and the world we live in. The book draws on Tempest’s twenty years’ experience as a writer and performer, electrifying audiences and readers alike.

Naarmate mijn India-trips achter me lagen begon dit sleutelwoord te slijten. Met mijn voeten weer steeds dieper in Westerse grond kwam de mantra van loslaten, afleiding, verwondering en geduld verder en verder in het Verre Oosten te liggen. If we give as much as we expect to take from a novel, a poem, an image or an album (or a conversation, or a relationship), it has a greater chance of becoming profound. As readers, we feel this happen when something speaks directly to our experience and we feel the words burning themselves into us. We get some sense of the poet or the writer as someone we feel knows us. This is the circuit connecting. You may forget the exact words, but you carry a relationship with the text through your life. You may think this was entirely because of the quality of the text, but it was also about the quality of your reading. It is the connection between the author, the text and you as you read, at a particular point, with a particular set of circumstances informing a particular emotional response, that created that sense of deep meaning.

a b "Kate Tempest – 'Let Them Eat Chaos' ". mercuryprize.com. Mercury Prize. 2 August 2017 . Retrieved 6 February 2018. a b c Mahoney, Elisabeth (27 March 2012). "Wasted – review". The Guardian . Retrieved 6 February 2018. Since the release of Everybody Down, Tempest has increased touring as a musician, [22] playing at festivals and headlining shows with their live band which consists of Kwake Bass on drums, [23] Dan Carey on synths and Clare Uchima on keyboards. [24] Brennan, Clare (23 September 2013). "Hopelessly Devoted – review – Stage – The Guardian". The Guardian . Retrieved 6 February 2018.

Geraghty, Hollie (20 January 2023). "Fraser T Smith shares new single 'We Were We Still Are' with Kae Tempest". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 20 January 2023 . Retrieved 21 January 2023. Their mastery of music and language is due in no small part to years spent beat-making and rapping on the streets of South London as a teen – and it gives a particular charge to their style of performance. a b "William Shakespeare: A digital reinvention". The Economist. 28 August 2012 . Retrieved 15 September 2012.Tijdens de jaren in Antwerpen die volgden op mijn soloreizen naar India greep ik steeds terug naar dat ene woordje om mezelf bij de kraag te vatten als ik in een alledaagse valkuil trapte: opgenaaid in een ellenlange rij van de supermarkt, ongeduldig op het treinperron, struikelend over kleine tegenslagen. De krachtterm ‘India’ stond lange tijd voor (zelf)relativering, geduld en het besef dat je altijd (altíjd!) kunt kiezen om de dingen anders te zien; om van een verloren gewaand moment iets waardevol te maken. Het gif van gehaastheid trachtte ik te neutraliseren met de herinnering aan Indiërs die een halve dag rechtstonden in een gammele bus met de neuzen in elkaars okselvijvers. De saaiheid van een wachtkamer, de traagheid van een rij aan het loket, het groeiende besef van een baaldag, de sleur van werk, poogde ik te compenseren door datgene te gebruiken wat je te allen tijden bij je hebt: je hoofd. Herinneringen, dagdromen, de geuren en kleuren dankzij je zintuigen, het inzoomen op gezichten en het uitzoomen naar een ander sterrenstelsel van waaruit het waanzinnig is dat ik hier überhaupt (be)sta… Nietigheid vernietigt niemendalletjes. It's been the prime function of my life. It's how I solidify friendships, it's how I have fun, it's how I made my name in my neighbourhood, and then in the wider world," they explain. Coming out has been huge,” Tempest says, tentatively. “A beautiful but difficult thing to do publicly.” The process has been fraught with pain and uncertainty. “It’s hard enough to say: ‘Hey look, I’m trans or non-binary,’ to loved ones. And I have this twin life beyond my friends and family.” I don’t understand how our bodies became territory for war Their latest collection of poems, Running Upon the Wires, was published in September 2018 to critical acclaim (Picador). Their new play Paradise, a retelling of Sophocles’ Philoctetes, is due to be staged at the National Theatre in 2021, having been postponed due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Its play text will be published by Picador. I enjoyed the personal anecdotes and references to Kae’s career and personal life the most, but I found myself bored by the more self-indulgent ramblings.