The Absence & Presence of Elk Bell There are some artists who arrive with noise, momentum, and visibility and then there are artists who seem to sit just outside of all that, quietly building something enduring over time.

Elk Bell writes from feeling first.

A new Beyond Survival piece on instinct-led songwriting, presence, and the quiet shift from structure to lived creative practice.

#ElkBell #BeyondSurvival #StudioZer0 #CreativeProcess #ArtAsPractice #SlowCulture #AustralianArtists

substack.com/@artsmartstu...

The State of Resuscitation in 2026: A Conversation with Professor Jerry Nolan Explore the state of resuscitation in 2026 with insights from Professor Jerry Nolan on survival rates and evolving care practices.

🎙️ NEW: Prof Jerry Nolan on the state of resuscitation in 2026 — the new Chain of Survival, why cooling stopped, co-survivor recognition, AI in emergency medicine, and the rehab gap that still needs fixing. Listen now 👇
scauk.org/w186
#CardiacArrest #BeyondSurvival

StudioZer0 Art - Kelli Sharp (@artsmartstudiozer0) See more here 👇 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ1YDZSgzdonYRb5eun4FVjqIrW19u7iA&si=d8F-570UA4XHIXtZ

S2 Ep12 of Beyond Survival — with Perth singer-songwriter Elk Bell.

An album shaped by the years between releases.

Shared at a table of fruit, spice, and softness a vegan grazing board,

#BeyondSurvival #StudioZer0 #ElkBell #PerthMusic #IndependentArtists

substack.com/@artsmartstu...

StudioZer0 Art - Kelli Sharp (@artsmartstudiozer0)

S2 Ep11 | ARTICLE | Night & Day With Erika Batdorf

Erika Batdorf shares a life lived through performance where memory, identity, and healing meet.

Featuring her new work Banish.

#BeyondSurvival #NightAndDay
#PerformanceArt #Embodiment #Storytelling
#ArtPractice

substack.com/@artsmartstu...

What sustains community culture when funding disappears?

S2 Ep10 of Beyond Survival with Ken Allen (Junkadelic) explores the invisible economy of arts the people, labour, and creativity that hold it all together.

#BeyondSurvival #CommunityArts #ArtAndActivism

youtube.com/watch?v=hzvw...

Clip from Beyond Survival with Laura Jackson on March 31, 2026.
“Don’t waste your second chance. Don’t waste your first chance, actually!”

To watch 👇🏼
www.youtube.com/live/un1dXs2...

#BeyondSurvival #quadriplegic #wheelchairlife #messageofhope #secondchance

Clip from Beyond Survival with Laura Jackson on March 31, 2026.
“The Moment where IT Changes forever.”

To watch 👇🏼
www.youtube.com/live/un1dXs2...

#BeyondSurvival #interview #quadriplegic #quadriplegia #wheelchairlife #motivationalspeaker #disabilityadvocate #messageofhope #lifechanging

DIFFICULT? I AM

A word given.
A word resisted.
A word returned.

Who gets named “difficult” — and who benefits?

A conversation on voice, power, and survivorship.

🎥 youtu.be/eBbLA7lE3Po?...

#StudioZer0 #BeyondSurvival #SlowCulture #ArtAndActivism

🌿🥥 Welcome To Our Table S2 Ep10 | Ken Allen JACK OF ALL ARTS | RECIPES Welcome to our First Vegan Table

A shift at the StudioZer0 table

Episode 10 — Jack of ALL ARTS
Our first vegan offering

🌿 Macadamia cheese
🥥 Coconut cake

Not absence
but expansion

A small counter-rhythm
held in what we share

#StudioZer0 #BeyondSurvival #SlowCulture #VeganRecipes #ArtOfLiving

substack.com/@artsmartstu...

StudioZer0 Beyond Survival S2 Ep08 | Counter Rhythms With Essence of Being RECIPES 🍰 StudioZer0 High Tea ~ Air & Fire

A table built on contrast —

Pavlova (air, structure, collapse)Ricotta doughnuts (heat, transformation, memory)

For artists, thinkers, and slow culture souls.

#StudioZer0 #SlowCulture #FoodAsArt #HighTea #BeyondSurvival

substack.com/@artsmartstu...

StudioZer0 Beyond Survival S2 Ep07 | Fire & Sponge at the StudioZer0 Table | RECIPES Jalapeño Party Poppers Meet a Classic Victoria Sponge — an unlikely pairing that somehow worked

🌶️ Tex-Mex heat
🍓 Victorian tea sweetness

Chicken Jalapeño Party Poppers beside a classic Victoria Sponge.

Unexpected pairing.
Perfect table.

Recipes here:

#StudioZer0
#BeyondSurvival
#SlowCulture

substack.com/@artsmartstu...

One of those strange real-life stories. In this clip from Beyond Survival, Dr Ali Sumner recalls an unforgettable moment involving a coroner… and a very unexpected tattoo.

#BeyondSurvival #Podcast #ArtistsAndThinkers #SlowCulture

🎙️ Full episode available now. youtu.be/eBj9xexuK6Q?...

StudioZer0 Art - Kelli Sharp (@artsmartstudiozer0)

Today on the StudioZer0 table for Beyond Survival S2 Ep6:
A conversation with Dr Ali Sumna exploring complexity, systems and reality and simple ingredients reveal deeper connections.

#BeyondSurvival
#StudioZer0
#Complexity
#SystemsThinking
#SlowCulture
#FoodStories

substack.com/@artsmartstu...

To watch my second episode of,
BEYOND SURVIVAL: ART, ADVOCACY, AND LIVING WITH RARE DISEASE WITH GIUSIANA PROSSER 👇🏼
www.youtube.com/live/Wccfubg...

#newshow #BeyondSurvival #TuneIn #PleaseWatch #raredisease #rarediseaseawareness #advocacy #artist #interview

Please join me TOMORROW Tuesday, Feb 10, 2026 at 11am EST for the second episode of my NEW SHOW:

#BEYONDSURVIVAL: ART, ADVOCACY, AND LIVING WITH #RareDisease DISEASE WITH GIUSIANA PROSSER

To watch:
www.youtube.com/live/Wccfubg...

#rarediseaseawareness #advocacy #artist #interview

Collective Vision!
Survival is never the end goal.
👀Vision, growth, and thriving together is.
#WomenRising
#CollectiveVision
#BeyondSurvival

Thank you Michelle & TC for being my first guests today on my #NEWSHOW
called #BeyondSurvival. Titled: A FAMILY’S JOURNEY THROUGH #ADDICTION, LOSS, AND UNBREAKABLE LOVE

To watch👇🏼
www.youtube.com/live/55GmuaK...

#interview #messageofhope
#survivaltips #addictionawareness
#family

Please join me THIS FRIDAY, January 30, 2026 at 11am EST: BEYOND SURVIVAL: A FAMILY’S JOURNEY THROUGH ADDICTION, LOSS, AND UNBREAKABLE LOVE

To Watch 👇🏼
www.youtube.com/live/55GmuaK...

#newshow #BeyondSurvival #TuneIn #PleaseWatch #messageofhope
#survivaltips #addictionawareness

StudioZer0 Art - Kelli Sharp (@artsmartstudiozer0)

Season One ends with laughter, chaos, snacks… and a real conversation about what WA stands to lose as arts support keeps shrinking.
Ep17 is a love letter + a warning.

Substack Article

#art #WAarts #PerthCreatives #BeyondSurvival

substack.com/@artsmartstu...

🔥 New Episode: The Wall of Fire | An Offering From The Ashes

Choose love over fear, resilience, community care, and the renewal that comes after walking through the fire.

Watch Ep14:
👉 youtu.be/_5_1oFn-GTg

#BeyondSurvival #StudioZer0 #HealingJourney #TraumaRecovery #PersonalGrowth #WallOfFire

StudioZer0 Artist Review |No Way Forward – No Way Back (2016): Josephine Turalba and the Politics of Displacement This Weeks Featured Artist Beyond Survival Ep12

“What happens when home becomes an idea, not a place?”
New StudioZer0 review explores Josephine Turalba’s film No Way Forward – No Way Back (2016) — a poetic study of migration, displacement & belonging.

🔗 open.substack.com/pub/artsmart...

#BeyondSurvival #ArtAndPolitics #JosephineTuralba

👻 Ep12 — PIVOT + Meet Ghost Sam
AI meets Art meets transformation.
Kelli, Geraldine, Producer Stephanie Davis & Super Host Gizmo 🐾 meet Ghost Sam.
A soulful pivot for the digital age.
#BeyondSurvival #StudioZer0 #AIandCreativity #Pivot #GhostSam #GizmoTheSuperHost

youtube.com/watch?v=we9J...

🎙️ A Road Less Travelled — Ep11 Part B
Not all heroes follow the highway, take the winding path where art, spirit & a hint of rebellion collide.

• Community as lifeline
• Hope that refuses to quit

#BeyondSurvival #StudioZer0 #ArtSpiritCultureActivism #RoadLessTravelled
youtube.com/watch?v=dFuY...

Ep11 Part A just dropped. A conversation about art as worship. Creativity as survival. Friendship as transformation. Featuring artist Lois Schenk.
Part B follows.
#BeyondSurvival #StudioZer0 #AustralianPodcast #ArtistInterview

youtube.com/watch?v=aLR0...

🎧 Beyond Survival Ep 11 (Part B): A Road Less Travelled — a highlight reel of courage, creativity & conversation.
Sometimes the most meaningful paths aren’t marked. 🌿
#art#kangaroo#outback
#StudioZer0 #BeyondSurvival #ARoadLessTravelled #ArtSpiritCultureActivism

Because a life without joy isn’t meaningful…it’s just survival dressed up as power.

#MeaningAndHappiness #RejectFalseBinaries #ToxicMasculinity #TheMythOfWhiteMaleSupremacy #LiberationWork #BeyondSurvival #RethinkSuccess #CollectiveJoy #FutureIsFree #ProfitWithoutOppression #KimCrayton

Semmelweis wasn’t only the ‘savior of mothers.’ By conceiving of disease as having a unitary cause that could be prevented, he altered our evolutionary path. His overlooked insight is the root of modern medicine—and of our longer, freer lives. #HistoryMatters #BeyondSurvival

👻 Haunted… or just faulty wiring?
We caught the “ghost” in our kitchen lights—and the truth is hilarious!

📺 Full Ep7 👉 youtu.be/Ck5pok1Oxbg?...

#GhostStory #Comedy #KitchenMystery #BeyondSurvival

New episode out:
Beyond Survival Ep7 – It’s NOT the Hardware, It’s the Software | What’s My Purpose

We explore:
– Purpose & spirit
– Trump/Putin global politics
– Family, synchronicity & growth

🎧 Watch/Listen: youtu.be/Ck5pok1Oxbg?...

#BeyondSurvival #Spirituality #PersonalGrowth #Politics

In 1847, Ignaz Semmelweis realized that disinfectant handwashing could save lives.

His excitement from the art of Venice prepared him for the tragic loss of colleague Prof. Kolletschka — whose death provided answers.

Beauty gave him strength for truth.

#BrightSpots #History #BeyondSurvival