Making performance in CV-19 time, disembodied voices and remote intimacies with Samara Hersch

Philip Brophy is a Melbourne writer, artist and film maker who talks on the screening and filtering of social media, how platform capitalism is used as 'soft therapy' to soothe the creative classes and the impossibility of not being captured online.

Melbourne painter Andie Tham talks about leaving her New York home base in a hurry at the outbreak of the 'Rona and how she navigated the mental and physical limitations of hotel quarantine in Brisbane en route to Melbourne.

Usually found underwater researching coral reefs, Cameron Allan McKean had to retreat to calmer waters during the outbreak of CV-19. We talk about digital ethnographic practices, the deep 'fight or cry' triggers of a nasal CV-19 test and the liberation through grinding that can be found in labor-si…

Nicolas Hausdorf discusses the early online traces of CV-19 and the subsequent waves of fear and uncertainty that rippled through society. We talk through some of the cultural, social and medical repercussions of this novel corona virus.