DEAD AIR #115

‘Writing my will sent me into an existential spiral’ – The Guardian

Postal Service for the Dead

Madagascar's Unique Funeral Culture: From Taboo to Turning the Bones - Taboo Education, YouTube

ONLINE TALK: ‘The Bioscope as a cartographic tool to facilitate conversations about death’ with Chetan Shastri. Presented by AHFA, Wed 22 Jan, 7-8.30pm AEDT Book HERE 

CALL FOR PAPERS: Symbols of Mortality Exhibition (UK) and Conference (online), 22 Feb, 8pm - 23 Feb, 3:30am AEDT. Conference paper abstract due 10 Jan - email: symbolsofmortality@gmail.com

EOI Blog posts: The Collective for Radical Death Studies EOI (ongoing): Field Notes blog.

Festival of Death and Dying Berlin 31 Jan – 2 Feb 2025

TRACKS: Funkier Than A Mosquito’s Tweeter - Nina Simone (Jazzeem’s All Styles Remix) / Hot On The Heels Of Love - Throbbing Gristle

DEAD AIR #93

DEAD AIR is sponsored by Trash Cult; venue, bar, film, book & record store. Located at 15 High Street, in the Burra of Eaglehawk.

Sarira in the Quan Am Bodhisattva statue, Linh An Tu Pagoda, Dalat, Vietnam. More info about these cremation remnants HERE and HERE

Taboo Education YouTube - ‘Dating Disaster: 3 Common Major Mistakes Widow/Widowers Make When Dating After Loss’

Exhibition: Darren Sylvester ‘The Heads of Snowmen’ at Neon Park, Brunswick. 1-24 Feb 2024

Artist: Kat Rae, and her work in the 2023 CAM experimental print prize. Read more HERE

Free Palestine Rally every Sunday (not Saturday!) 12pm Jarra/Victory Park, Castlemaine. Insta: @freepalestinecentralvic

TRACKS: A Man from the Earth – Boris & Uniform / my hope renders me a fool – BIG|BRAVE / Want – Divide and Dissolve

DEAD AIR #65

‘Understanding Autism and the Hyperfixation on Death: Exploring the Link Between Autistic Traits and Mortality Obsessions’ by Sage Agee.

‘Death industry fatally flawed for LGBTQI people’ by Cassandra Morgan.

Motherless Daughters Awareness Week, 7-13 May 2023 - Channel 7 news story Perth

Exhibition: IN THE RUINS I SEE THE FUTURE . Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Valley, 12 May - 9 July 2023. Artists: Adina Kraus, Claire Bridge, Hugh Crowley, Joseph Häxan, Karina Utomo, Michael Jalaru Torres, Michael Needham, and Ryan Andrew Lee. Curator: Jake Treacy.

TRACKS: Weary – Cerce / High Risk High Rewards – High Tension / Stranger – Made Out Of Babies / Envy – Hanabie / Kiss – Mannequin Pussy / Collingwood – High Tension / I Experienced Ego Death on a Nde Thread – foxtails / How to be a Woman - Cerce