What are you looking at?

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  Eat the art 28.05.2026 1h 9min

  Starting at the intersecting point of culinary and creative practice, Haneen Mahmood Martin and Caitlin Fargher discuss how an arts practice can be productive medium to unpack lineage and familial history, talk models of curatorial care and explore what it can look like to hold space for different experiences.This episode was hosted by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie and produced by Honor Marino. What are you looking at? Is presented by Contemporary Art Tasmania.Haneen Mahmood Martin is a Kuala Lumpur born, Malay-Saudi multi-arts manager and programmer, writer, and artist who has worked extensively nationally and internationally, especially between Garramilla/Darwin, Narrm/Melbourne, Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide, and Malaysia. She works with a focus on best-practice engagement and ethical governance as it pertains to underrepresented migrant and PoC communities and building sustained relationships. Haneen is currently the General Manager of Corrugated Iron Youth Arts and has worked across the country and across art forms as a producer for the likes of Performing Lines, RISING, Biennale of Sydney, MPavilion, Regional Arts Australia and Next Wave, as a programmer as the inaugural Artistic Associate at Brown’s Mart, Manager of the National Young Writers Festival, and General Manager for Skinnyfish Music. Keeping a close eye on cultural advocacy and change at a national and international level, Haneen co-wrote the Engage! Report and Toolkit published by Contemporary Asian Australian Performance and Arts on Tour and holds an MFA (Cultural Leadership) at NIDA. She also manages a directory for Malay and Malaysian creatives in Australia and hosts the Sayang-Sayang Supper Club from her home.https://haneenmartin.com/https://www.instagram.com/haneenmmartin/Caitlin Fargher is a multi-disciplinary artist and budding arts educator working in sculptural installation, arts production and curation. Caitlin lives near the bush and rivulet in Kingston. Her work is created through an embodied practice that explores histories, sites, ecologies, and memories.  She collects materials responsibly from the environments that her works are informed by, including clay, flora, recycled objects, and minerals. Her methods of making are informed by gardening and cooking techniques, environmental systems, and family traditions. When working with people, she enacts a practice of care, trust, and creativity, allowing the people she works alongside to guide the collaborative, imaginative art making process, learning to together to create experimental and expressive moments in time.  Caitlin’s current projects include a solo exhibition at Devonport Regional Gallery, being one of the lead artists for The Future of Toys: Youngies and Oldies (Hobart City Council x Good Grief Studios), and resident at Poatina Arts Centre in 2024. She undertook the Art Farm Birch’s Bay’s Perennial Residency program in 2023 culminating in the children’s workshop IMAGINATION IRRIGATION; Watch this Space ARI's Travelling Artist Program in mparntwe/Alice Springs in 2021; as well as being Artist in Residence at Hadley's Orient Hotel in 2020 which culminated in the installation Sweet Water. She was the Contemporary Art Tasmania Curatorial Mentorship recipient in 2020 with her exhibition re-member. She was a Board Member and producer at Constance ARI from 2018-2024, initating projects such as ngayapi niyakara (Born to Dream), and was the treasurer of Good Grief Studios from 2019-2025 working on programming, events and community engagement. Caitlin studied at UNSW Art & Design, finishing with First Class Honours in Visual Arts in 2017, and in 2022 she began her Masters of Teaching (Secondary, Arts) at UTAS to further her interest in Art Education. From 2025 she will work as an art teacher at Elizabeth College.https://www.caitlinfargher.com/https://www.instagram.com/caitfar/
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  Art that re-makes: the transformative potential of materials 06.03.2026 1h 27min

  This episode of What Are You Looking At? is a series of conversations with artists Noah Johnson, Lila Meleisea and Justene Williams focussing on how the use of certain materials influence and inform their artistic practice.⁠ Produced and hosted by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie for Contemporary Art Tasmania.Noah Johnson⁠ is a black multidisciplinary artist, born in Lutruwita (Hobart). They first began painting as a way to visually represent their creative mind and their roots to their African American culture which paved the way for their love of fashion and consequently sewing & design. Noah runs a fashion label DERECYCLER, an upcycling slow fashion label which came to fruition when they were 16 years old. Their values lie in sustainability and story telling through their textile art while they use a mixture of simple to intricate design choices to convey that.⁠Lila Meleisea⁠ has an interdisciplinary and social practice that places equal importance on both process and outcome. She is a conscious collaborator with others (human, plants, animals, cosmos) holding an understanding of balance and the importance of reciprocity. Using cultural research, community engagement, music, art and curiosity, she is a nurturer, teacher and advocate for holistic relationships between humans and the earth and environmental awareness.⁠Justene Williams⁠ emerged in the 1990s as an exponent of Sydney’s grunge culture. Since 2016, she has led multidisciplinary teams to create spectacular, often large-scale, long-format live works. Now she returns to an earlier form of ‘poor art’, using a ‘make-do’ ethos and revisiting ideas of labour. Collapsing personal narratives, consumer culture and mythology whilst channelling the spirits of art history, she finds inspiration from figures such as her father and his auto recycling yard and Santa Claus, celebrating the avant-garde dream of the total artwork whilst deconstructing and communicating with a 21st century body. Justene attempts to transform the everyday via action, energy, and emotion.Field recordings and music used in this episode is provided courtesy of Lila Meleisea. In order of appearance: (1) FOREST: MANUMEA featuring Dr Ulf Beichle: Field recording of Manumea call and Lila Meleisea - Fagufagu (2) SIAPO MAKING SOUNDS: Scraping (3) Lota Nu’u (Music: Mata’utia Pene Solomona, Words: Rev. James E. Newell (LMS Missionary), Tune Name: Samoana (Initiated by Elder Dr. Elia Ta’ase @ Pouesi DMA Recital 1992). Performed by Suga
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  Art and money, money and art: from fundraising to funders 28.08.2025 55min

  This episode of What Are You Looking At? is a table conversation with Zara Sully, Pete Marseveen and Nour Abdullatif about the relationship between art and money, initially focussing on fundraising but then expanding to explore other facets.Zara Sully (they/them) is an artist, arts worker, curator, and researcher and director of Sawtooth ARI in Launceston, Lutruwita/Tasmania.Peter Marseveen (he/him) is a photographic artist, arts technician and activist based in Nipaluna/Hobart.Nour Abdullatif (she/they) is founder and director of Unassigned Gallery in Naarm/Melbourne. This episode is hosted and produced by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie. What Are You Looking At? is presented by Contemporary Art Tasmania
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  Community and creative practice: the mess and the thrill of collaboration 31.07.2025 44min

  This episode of What Are You Looking At? is a table conversation with Jade Lillie, Andy Hutson and Aunty Cheryl Mundy Trimanya, reflecting on collaboration and community engaged practice.Andy Hutson is a visual artist based in Nipaluna/Hobart and is the lead initiator and artist for the project Apologue Isle, which first exhibited at Contemporary Art Tasmania in 2024 and is, at the time of the episode release, showing at Burnie Regional Gallery.Aunty Cheryl Mundy Trimanya is a singer/songwriter, cultural educator, sculptor, and poet and is one of 34 collaborators on Apologue Isle as a set designer and maker and narrator for the piece The Sun, the Moon and the Caterpillar. Jade Lillie commissioned and curated ‘The Relationship is the Project’ — a resource book which has 40 different lived experience practitioners contributing insights about community engaged practice.This episode is hosted and produced by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie. What Are You Looking At? is presented by Contemporary Art TasmaniaLinks: https://www.apologueisle.com/cheryl-mundy http://apologueisle.com/https://www.burniearts.net/Exhibitions/2025-Exhibits/Apologue-Islehttps://andyhutson.com/https://www.jadelillie.com/https://unsw.press/books/the-relationship-is-the-project/
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  Zine season 27.03.2025 45min

  This episode of What Are You Looking At? explores zines and zine culture, reflecting on the Contemporary Art Tasmania 2024 end of year exhibition, Paper Trail. Lead artists, Miranda Rogers, Jess Bateman and Leigh Rigozzi speak about the community building nature of zine-making and how zine culture is often based in sharing ideas and creating connections.This episode contains readings and excerpts from zines exhibited in Paper Trail by Beatrix, Fran Reeve, Niamh Marriott, Niccola Mudge, Siobhan Marriott and Timothy Hodge, narrated by producer Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie.Also included are readings and reflections from Paper Trail exhibition contributors Jade Irvine, Luke Cruddas and Tim Butcher.This episode also contains an excerpt from the Edge Radio broadcast of Xpress Radio which used their collaborative zine, created under the guidance of lead Paper Trail artist, Julia Drouhin, as a script to design their broadcast. Soundscapes and music are also provided by Xpress Radio, borrowing from an earlier work, Aquanebula, exhibited at Moonah Arts Centre in 2024.This episode was produced by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie.Xpress Radio: ⁠https://www.edgeradio.org.au/shows/x-press-radio/⁠Small Press Zine Fair: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/smallpresszines/⁠Miranda Rogers: https://www.⁠instagram.com/miranda_h_rogers/⁠Leigh Rigozzi: https://www.instagram.com/leighrigozzi/Jess Bateman: https://www.instagram.com/jessbateman_/Julia Drouhin: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/julia_drouhin/⁠
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  Sophie Penkethman-Young and Jon Smeathers in Conversation 03.10.2024 47min

  Reflecting on Embraced in the Loving Arms of An Algorithm – v1.1 — curated by Jon Smeathers for Contemporary Art Tasmania in April 2024 — Sophie Penkethman-Young and Jon speak about intersections of their practices, algorithmic displacement and intervention and how care, cute and trust can be present in algorithm augmented curatorial models. This episode is hosted and edited by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie and produced by Lisa Campbell-Smith for Contemporary Art Tasmania. 
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  A conversation with Leyla Stevens and Melanie Lane 09.05.2024 37min

  A conversation with Leyla Stevens and Melanie Lane, reflecting on Balinese and Javanese dance, diasporic bodies working within and from traditional stories in contemporary practice, and the intersections of cultural knowledge and choreography. This episode was hosted by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie and produced and edited by Lisa Campbell-Smith for Contemporary Art Tasmania. Sound courtesy of the artist, Leyla Stevens from the artwork 'Patiwangi, death of fragrance', 2021Leyla Stevens: https://leylastevens.com/Melanie Lane: https://melanielane.info/
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  What can art do? 19.12.2023 52min

  For her final episode of What are you looking at? podcast Pip Stafford talks to Nadia Refaei, Alex Kelly, and Amy Spiers, asking them: What *can* art do?This episode explores how art can contribute to social change in the world. Nadia talks about the importance of exploring political identity through her work, Alex discusses how artists can collaborate with or contribute to social movements, while Amy shares how her work aims to highlight some of Australia's history of colonial violence. They emphasise that art can help unravel complex topics, tell stories, imagine futures, inspire conversations and act as a resistance tool, challenging ingrained structures and systems of thought. This episode was produced, edited and hosted by Pip Stafford for Contemporary Art Tasmania. Additional music from Blue Dot Sessions.Alex Kelly: https://echotango.org/ | https://unquiet.com.auNadia Refaei: https://www.nadiarefaei.com | https://www.instagram.com/tpanlutruwita/Amy Spiers: https://amyspiers.com.au/Zoe Samudzi: https://www.zoesamudzi.com/
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  Our Side of Things with Feras Shaheen and Jay Hennicke 06.12.2023 16min

  This episode discusses Feras Shaheen and Jay Hennicke's exhibition at Contemporary Art Tasmania, Our Side of Things. The installation and associated programs were a vivid representation of freestyle football battles, workshops, and a celebration of the culture, incorporating dance, design, and sports. In this interview Feras recounts his experience combining his interest in dance and football, while Jay talks about his journey as a freestyle footballer that started at 14. The episode records their insights into this unique culture and its representation within the gallery. They share the inspiration behind aesthetics of the installation, freestyle football competition experiences, and their influences from other cultures and communities.Episode produced by Pip Stafford for Contemporary Art TasmaniaAdditional live audio courtesy of Feras Shaheen and Jay Hennicke from Our Side of Things main event, 26 August 2023https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/programs/our-side-of-things/
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  The artist, the archivist, a manila folder, and a server farm 15.09.2023 37min

  Artists are well-known pack rats. If you conjure up the stereotypical artist's studio in your mind, it might well be a sort of wunderkammer of materials of creation, inspiration and detritus. Artists also use collections, archives and the more orderly functions of taxonomy as material and conceptual underpinning. What do artists and archivists have in common? What are you looking at? host Pip Stafford explores the tensions between the past, the now, the subjective and the relational as it rubs up against the real, human lives and inspirations of artists. Featuring artist Ashe, artist and archivist Samara McIlroy and Gabbee Stolp talking about grief, online scams, the unruliness of digital memory, and the Sydney Olympics.**Editor's apology: this episode states that in Ashe's exhibition This Too Shall Pass, the performer was replaced with an image of the artist. This is incorrect - the photograph is not of the artist.**To read more about Ashe's Contemporary Art Tasmania exhibition, This Too Shall Pass and read Sebastian Henry-Jones' B-Theory: https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/programs/this-too-shall-pass/To read Gabbee Stolp's Inventory: https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/journal/The texts mentioned or quoted in this episode are (in alphabetical order of author name):Sara Ahmed, Happy Objects, The Affect Theory Reader (Melissa Gregg and Gregory J Seigworth, Duke University Press, 2010), p 29 - 51Kathy Carbone, Archival Art: Memory Practices, Interventions, and Productions, Curator The Museum Journal 53(2), 2020, p 257 - 263Elisabeth Kaplan, We Are What We Collect, We Collect What We Are: Archives and the Construction of Identity, The American Archivist 53(1), 2000, p 126 - 151Music for this episode is by Blue Dot SessionsWhat are you looking at? is produced for Contemporary Art Tasmania by Pip Stafford
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  Tisna Sanjaya talks to Lisa Campbell-Smith 12.07.2023 23min

  Greed/Rakus/Geirig curator Lisa Campbell-Smith talks to lead artist Tisna Sanjaya. Interview translation by Daffa Sanjaya.The Jeprut artist community was founded in the 1980s in Bandung, West Java. Indonesian artist, Tisna Sanjaya is a leading figure in this community movement, and has gone on to produce many collaborative performance based art actions within this unique movement. Jeprut is a Sundanese term for a regenerative force. The performances held as part of Dark Mofo in partnership with Contemporary Art Tasmania and Project Eleven were a rare blend of contemporary, ephemeral, immersive spaces for shared experience steeped in traditional Sundanese spiritual practice understood through the global scope of art as activism.This project was presented by Contemporary Art Tasmania and Project Eleven in partnership with Dark MofoThis episode features a track by Jeprut Artist Collective called SinyurArtists: Bi Raspi, Yoyon Darson, Ayi Ruhat, Yaya SuryadiThis recording was engineered by Chris Townend, recorded at Frying Pan Studios at MONA. It is the first ever professional recording made by the musicians collectively.For more information about Greed/Rakus/Geirig click here: https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/programs/greed-rakus-geirig/
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  The C Word 05.05.2023 47min

  The C word is “class”. In this episode Pip Stafford and guest host, Andrew Harper, talk about the friction between class and art, featuring interviews with Mish Grigor and Miriam McGarry.Miriam McGarry’s Hidden Cities podcast: https://hiddencitiespodcast.net/Mish Grigor’s Class Act: https://aphids.net/projects/class-act/Music by Blue Dot SessionsEpisode produced, edited and hosted by Pip Stafford
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  Grace Gamage: art, boxing and the history of spinach 09.11.2022 29min

  What are you looking at? producer Pip Stafford and CAT Communications Co-ordinator Nadia Refaei took a visit to Broom and Brine farm in winter 2022. This episode is an interview with Broom and Brine's co-founder, artist, boxer and gardener, Grace Gamage. Listen now to hear more about her practice, and the history of plants.Grace's work featured in BIOGYM at CAT earlier in 2022: https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/programs/biogym/To read more about Broom and Brine: https://www.broomandbrine.com/This episode was produced by Pip StaffordAdditional music by Blue Dot Sessions
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  Tomoko Momiyama and Joel Stern in Conversation 07.09.2022 45min

  Tomoko Momiyama and Joel Stern in conversation at Contemporary Art Tasmania, speaking about the concepts and experience of creating 'Listening Within the Opacities of our Times and Places' at Contemporary Art Tasmania.Following a month-long residency in Lutruwita with Contemporary Art Tasmania, Japanese artist-composer Tomoko Momiyama presented a new collaborative work with Tasmanian artists, musicians and practitioners expanding upon her long-term research into the ethics and aesthetics of listening.Curators: Lisa Campbell-Smith and Joel SternCollaborators:Maggie Abraham (percussionist), Finn Clarke (sound recordist), Rosie Hastie (lighting assistant), Georgia Shine (cellist), Jon Smeathers (AV gallery technician), Joe Weller (trombonist), Ursula Woods (filmmaker)The exhibition and residency was funded by the Australia Japan Foundation and supported by Asialink Arts.For more information head to www.contemporaryarttasmania.org
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  Tomoko Momiyama: Towards a collective composition 18.08.2022 28min

  Japanese composer and artist Tomoko Momiyama speaks to Pip Stafford about her collective sound practice.Tomoko Momiyama works internationally as a music composer, artist, dramaturg, and producer of multi-disciplinary art events, installations, and performances. Tomoko’s works, many of which are community-based and site-specific, have been performed throughout Japan, as well as in different parts of Asia, Europe, North and Central Americas, and Africa.www.tomokomomiyama.comSounds featured on this episode:'A Cave Dream' for Soprano, Period Clarinet, Period Violoncello, and FortepianoComposed by Tomoko Momiyama in 2010.Commissioned and performed by niwebyrth ensemble:Lilith Verhelst (soprano), Soren Green (period clarinet), Anton Baba (period cello), Tullia Melandri (period fortepiano)Performed at Korzo Theater in Den Haag, the Netherlands on Feb 12, 2010. 'Subli ng Karagatan : a Chant for the Sea Forest'Commissioned by the “33rd Asian Composers League Conference and Festival: Likha-Likas: Reconfiguring Music, Nature, and Myth” and composed during a month long residency in Batangas, Philippines.Performed by:Sinala Subli Dancers (Luisita M. Abante, Severino D. Cruzat, Beda M. Dimayuga, and Neri G. Manalo), SBC-PAO Repertory Brigid (Jan Jilliene M. Alday, Rhainne Cshyra M. Dimatatac, Veronica Mae E. Lalusin, Drecz Alecz A. Maderazo, Wendhyl M. Manalo, Michelle C. Marqueses, Ma. Zshalia Eleni M. Muñoz, Ma. Gloria Isabelle N. Pechay, Carl Joshua B. Seno, and Angela Denise S. Viceral), and the audience of the 33rd Asian Composers League Conference and Festival.Performed at Laiya beach in San Juan, Batangas, the Philippines on Nov 11, 2015. 'Code Purnama Hatiku'Commissioned by API Regional Project and Pemerti Kali CodePerformed by:Agus Supriyanto, Dani Koco, Dian Novita Sari, Gardika Gigih Pradipta, Ibnu Sutapa, Risma Kurniawan Riski, and Soyono.Performed at Jogoyudan village, Yogyakarta, Indonesia on Feb 2011.For more information about Tomoko Momiyama's project at Contemporary Art Tasmania: https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/programs/listening-within-the-opacities/
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  Bonus: Lost and Found with Gay Hawkes 29.07.2022 13min

  In this bonus, short episode of What are you looking at? Pip Stafford talks to Gay Hawkes about the experience of losing her home and studio during the 2013 Dunalley bushfires. Gay’s exhibition, featuring works made before and after the fires, continues at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery until August 2022: https://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/whats_on/exhibitions/current_upcoming/info/gay_hawkes_the_house_of_longingThis episode was produced and hosted by Pip Stafford.Music from Blue Dot Sessions.Additional audio from ABC News Australia.With many thanks to Gay Hawkes.
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  Lost and Found 17.06.2022 42min

  This episode uses Diana Baker Smith’s the Lost Hour as a starting point to explore three very different stories, of art, of culture and of loss.Pip Stafford talks to Fiona Fraser, Julie Gough and Diana Baker Smith about their work, and how loss and rediscovery has featured in their recent work and lives.What are you looking at? podcast is produced by Pip Stafford for Contemporary Art Tasmania.Music for this episode comes from Blue Dot Sessions.The Lost Hour was an exhibition at Contemporary Art Tasmania in 2022. For more information about this podcast and Contemporary Art Tasmania’s programs head to: contemporaryarttasmania.org
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  RURU Radio - ruangrupa documenta fifteen (Indonesian Language) 18.03.2022 38min

  Dalam episode ini Christina Schott, jurnalis dan manajer proyek budaya, berbicara dengan empat anggota kolektif ruangrupa. Didirikan di Indonesia pada tahun 2000, ruangrupa adalah organisasi seni nirlaba yang berbasis di Jakarta. Pada tahun 2019 diumumkan bahwa mereka, secara kolektif, akan menjadi Artistic Director untuk dokumenter bergengsi lima belas di Kassel, Jerman.Podcast ini awalnya ditugaskan dan direkam pada tahun 2021 oleh organisasi seni yang berbasis di Melbourne The Substation for 'Platform: Indonesia' yang diprogram dan dikuratori oleh Kristi Monfries untuk Volcanic Winds.Contemporary Art Tasmania telah menerjemahkan wawancara ini untuk audiens berbahasa Inggris dan juga tersedia, versi bahasa Indonesia.Terjemahan sulih suara oleh: Kristi Monfries, Taufiq Tanasaldy, Adi Tahak, Stefanus Mario Henky Ang dan Mely Riyana.Lagu pertamaBand: KudaJudul: Lurus Ke depanLagu keduaBand: Orkes Keroncong Cafrinho TuguJudul: Oud BataviaPengeditan dan pencampuran audio oleh Brendan Walls.Tuan rumah: Lisa Campbell SmithInformasi lebih lanjut tentang ruangrupa dapat dilihat di sini: ruangrupa.id/en/Informasi lebih lanjut tentang documenta lima belas di sini: documenta-fifteen.de/en/
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  RURU Radio - Ruangrupa Documenta 15 (English Language) 18.03.2022 33min

  In this episode Christina Schott, journalist and culture project manager, speaks with four members of the ruangrupa collective. Founded in Indonesia in 2000, ruangrupa are a not-for-profit arts organisation based in Jakarta. In 2019 it was announced that they, as a collective, would be the Artistic Director for the prestigious documenta fifteen in Kassel, Germany.This podcast was originally commissioned and recorded in 2021 by Melbourne-based arts organisation The Substation for ‘Platform: Indonesia’ programmed and curated by Kristi Monfries for Volcanic Winds.Contemporary Art Tasmania has translated this interview for English speaking audiences and there is also available, an Indonesian language version.Voice-over translation by: Kristi Monfries, Taufiq Tanasaldy, Adi Tahak, Stefanus Mario Henky Ang and Mely Riyana.First songBand: The KudaTitle: Lihatlah Lurus Ke depanSecond songBand: Orkes Keroncong Cafrinho TuguTitle: Oud BataviaAudio edit and mix by Brendan Walls.Host: Lisa Campbell SmithMore information about ruangrupa can be found here: ruangrupa.id/en/More information about documenta fifteen here: documenta-fifteen.de/en/
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  Conchcast by Lucreccia Quintanilla 28.10.2021 19min

  This episode of What are you looking at? is a commission produced by Dr Lucreccia Quintanilla. Conchcast invites the listener on a journey into the smooth interior of the conch shell, to consider its history and its physical qualities.Conchcast features the following music:Conch Shell by Skinny Fabulous, Machel Montano & Iwer George Whāia Te Māramatanga by Rob Thorne [Short] Conch Shell Trumpets (Q'eros Authorities) Various Artists.Dr. Lucreccia Quintanilla is an artist, DJ, sound system operator and writer. She has recently completed her doctoral research at Monash University. Recent sound and written works include: On the volatility of noise, residual bass with AM Kanngieser for Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Austria, Brian Fuata; A Generous Opacity, for the Anti LIVE Art International Award publication, Finland. Records of Displacement for Disclaimer online Journal.