Witness Podcast: Does art matter?

by Ben Keene September 23, 2020 0 comments

Six months into the pandemic, Team Witness meets online to chew the fat on art, life and making meaning now

In an age of pandemic, social isolation and increasing crisis, what does it mean to make live performance? What does it mean to critique it? Could the connections offered by art be the technology we need to combat disinformation and conspiracy theories? Robert Reid, Carissa Lee and Alison Croggon ask these questions and more. Produced by Ben Keene.

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Further reading:

All the web’s a stage – Robert Reid
Next Wave: Rest – Carissa Lee
Absurd pleasures: Caca-capitalismo – Olivia Muscat
Art in a time of emergency – Alison Croggon

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.

Witness Podcast: Does art matter?

Six months into the pandemic, Team Witness meets online to chew the fat on art, life and making meaning now

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