Ian Rickson, a theatre director, also hosts a podcast called “What I love”. The idea is to invite an artist and ask them about three things they love: a song, a film, and a piece of writing. His idea is to: “discover why we especially cherish certain things and how we reveal ourselves through the things we love”. He talks here with Kae Tempest that he describes as belonging to another century because she does so polyvalent, poetry, novels, songs, playwriter, “unbound by the limits of any one artistic practice”. Kae Tempest chose here to talk about “The Last Dance”, a sports documentary series on Michael Jordan and his last season with the Chicago Bulls, “Four Ethers” from serpentwithfeet, a song that Kae says describing intimacy as no one does, and “The Marriage of heaven and Hell” by William Blake, an author that she has had close to her heart (but not always it seems) for decades. The conversation flows around these three subjects and also develops on meditation, sentiment, death, poetry. Very inspiring.
“Language is a gate, it’s not the destination, it’s the thing you pass through to get to sentiment”