Alpine wellness, fresh talent and attempts at Utopia

高山健康、新鲜人才和乌托邦尝试

Konfekt Korner

艺术

2023-04-28

56 分钟
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As the months grow steadily warmer and brighter, ‘Konfekt’ is exploring the bounty of nature, artistic homes and fresh talent in the UK, as well as musing on alternative lifestyles. We head to the Alpine region of Bregenzerwald in Austria to meet skincare entrepreneur Susanne Kaufmann, visit Charleston, a modernist residence in Sussex associated with the Bloomsbury group, and speak to debut novelist Liv Little and musician Tyson McVey. Plus: historian Anna Neima discusses attempts at creating Utopias and why they matter. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  • Rolling meadows dotted with clover and columbine, or a vibrant, pulsing metropolis full of creative exchange.

  • I'm not sure what utopia looks like for me.

  • To some extent, we are all in pursuit of our own ideal environments.

  • But often, if you're anything like me, you'll struggle to define what your own Shangri La might look like.

  • Is beauty or just serenity important?

  • Or will collective purpose make for the kind of cooperative harmony of social support and artistic cross fertilization that makes us truly fulfilled?

  • These are some of the themes we're mulling over on this episode of Confect Corner.

  • We'll visit Charleston in Sussex, the dreamy bohemian home of painter Vanessa Bell, and explore how the house is continuing her legacy and acting as an incubator for artistic expression.

  • We'll speak to Austrian entrepreneur and skincare pioneer Susanne Kaufmann about the raw beauty of the valley around her village of Betsau, where she has turned her family hotel into a wellness destination using the flora of the landscape.

  • We'll speak to musician Tyson on the launch of her new album Pisces Problems, and about the power of the women's collective Ladies Music Pub that has inspired and supported her ambitions to make it in the music industry.

  • And finally, our essay takes a deep dive into the history of communities that have set out to build utopias when they've thrived and when they failed.

  • This is Confect Corner and I'm your host, Sophie Grove.

  • Growing up with the knowledge of what plants can do.

  • Chamomile is calming.

  • Arnica is anti inflammatory.

  • Here we are talking about really the traditional European medicine, which is there for a very, very long time.

  • Life is hard and it's complicated and it's messy and like, we all go through loss in many different forms, whether that's physically losing people, whether that's physically mourning, like place or relationships that come to an end.

  • I feel like with musicians, we're quite obsessed with youth and we're quite used to people being really big when they're quite young.

  • And I sometimes look at the pressure that people are under and they're like 22.

  • And maybe if I'd carried on with music when I was 24, I would have done a lot more, so to speak, by now, but I couldn't handle it.