[Minorcompositions] Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 26: We Don’t Need More Heroes with Scorpio

[Minor Compositions]

*Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 26: We Don’t Need More Heroes with 
Scorpio*
https://youtu.be/d1cxTL3-qv8

For this episode we talk with Brixton-based textile artist Scorpio about 
his life and work. Last summer a quest to learn more about the 1990s 
militant queer art collective Homocult led us to visiting “Iconic 
Queer,” an exhibition of Scorpio’s work at the Lambeth Archives. Moved 
by the power of the work, and sensing there would be interesting stories 
behind these pieces, which focussed on cycles of torment, development, 
and personal renewal, we decided to track down Scorpio. The resulting 
conversation is about Scorpio’s life along with queer politics, 
counterculture, and art of the 1990s, and making space for the misfits 
who find sometimes they don’t even feel like they fit within the rules 
of alternative milieus. Scorpio is a delightful conversationalist, 
whatever words are written here will inevitably fail to adequately 
convey the joy and intensity brought to the conversation.

For this episode we are joined by Olimpia Burchiellaro, who is the 
author of The Gentrification of Queer Activism, and a part of the 
management committee of the Friends of the Joiners Arms, a Community 
Benefit Society that aims to open London’s first community-run, 
community-owned, queer pub. This episode was recorded at the MayDay 
Rooms podcasting studio,

Minor Compositions is a publisher of books and media drawing from 
autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of 
everyday life: https://www.minorcompositions.info

The Minor Compositions podcast is in made in collaboration with Firefly 
Frequencies: https://fireflyfrequencies.org

Also available at all the usual podcast type locations.
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