Passage of time, in shorthand

News | Published 12/03/2019 14:37


Super fast updates, to be expanded upon soon!

  1. The Messenger, a podcast series by the Wheeler Centre (including Jon) and Behind the Wire, continues to sporadically publish updates from Aziz, a refugee on Manus Island. The series has won a bunch of major audio awards in the past couple of years – and Aziz was recently awarded the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, which is huge! Listen to the series or find out more here.
  2. ‘Changes Again’ was included in the ‘cinema for listening’ and the Movement session at Nina Garthwaite’s and Eleanor McDowall’s Soundhouse: The Listening Body exhibition and event series at London’s Barbican Centre. Very exciting! Jon also wrote a short essay for their accompanying booklet, which you can read here.
  3. Last year, Manus Recording Project Collective contributed how are you today, a new commission, to Eavesdropping – a very in-depth and fascinating exhibition/listening/events/working group/touring programme by Liquid Architecture, Melbourne Law School and the Ian Potter Museum of Art. Each day during the exhibition, a ten-minute recording made by a current detainee on Manus Island was produced and played back in Melbourne. You can listen to the archive here. The exhibition will tour beyond Australia later this year.

    Meanwhile, there’s some interesting writing about it in The Wire, The Monthly, and Un Magazine. The Manus Recording Project Collective is comprised of Kazem Kazemi, Farhad Bandesh, Abdul Aziz Muhamat, Behrouz Boochani, Samad Abdul and Shamindan Kanapathi on Manus Island, and Michael Green, André Dao and Jon Tjhia in Melbourne.

  4. ‘Fine Tune’, a panel discussion at Audiocraft 2018 featuring Jaye Kranz, Jess O’Callaghan and also Jon, can be heard here.
  5. Starting a podcast? Here’s some advice you probably shouldn’t take. (Lemme guess – it’s paywalled?)
  6. I guess we never shared this mix, but it’s pretty good. Hm. Or this one!
  7. Constellations Audio Playground was fun.
  8. Finally, for this content dump – a new work! ‘As far as the I’ is a new story we’ve made for BBC Radio 4’s wonderful Short Cuts programme. It’s one of our favourite podcasts, so – what a trip! The story is inspired by the writing constraints of the French literary collective called the Oulipo – an abbreviation for what roughly translates to ‘workshop for potential literature’. Anyway, won’t spoil it any more, but suffice to say, very happy this is happening. Hope you’re in rude health!

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