Alison takes a quick nap in the podcast studio while Carissa looks on in surprise. Photo: Ben Keene

Alison takes a quick nap in the podcast studio as Carissa waits for her to wake up. Photo: Ben Keene

The Witness Podcast: Questioning white spaces

by Ben Keene July 5, 2018 0 comments

On The Witness Podcast this month, Carissa Lee and Alison Croggon discuss the recent controversy around the VCA dance work Where We Stand, which caught the attention of right wing commentators and faced calls for it to be banned. What is the problem with questioning whiteness? What does it mean to be white? What does it mean to be black? How do we negotiate these constructions in our cultural spaces?

Further reading:

Safe White Spaces, by Andy Butler

Diversity is a white word: Tania Canas on ArtsHub

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Ben Keene

Ben Keene is the sound engineer, editor and composer on podcasts and videos for Witness. He graduated with distinction from the RMIT Digital Media Course in 2016 and was awarded the RMIT Higher Education Award. He is currently a casual academic and completing his Honours degree at RMIT. His sound design credits include the Melbourne Theatre Company, Expressions Dance Company, TheatreWorks, Hoy Polloy, Finucane Smith and Big West Festival. He works closely with Darrin Verhagen as part of the band Shinjuku Thief (with whom he completed additional composition for the AFI award nominated soundtrack The Boys in the Trees in 2016) and as a research assistant at AkE (Audiokinetic Experiments) Lab.

The Witness Podcast: Questioning white spaces

You can subscribe to Witness podcasts through iTunes or an RSS feed. Click here for instructions on how to subscribe.

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