sulawesi

DEAD AIR #116 by Hayley West

“Farmer's buffalo skulls become musical instruments at Asia Pacific Triennial” - ABC News

Read a socials post from Dallas Black about the Passiliran (Baby Grave Trees) a sacred burial site in Kambira Village. Dallas is staying for a month in the “Land of the Dead”, in a small village with Torajan people in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. 

“Clear creative abuse: UK gravestone carvers condemn blatant reproduction of their designs” – The Guardian

“Reclaiming death back into our own hands and hearts with Deathwalker Zenith Virago” – Don’t be Caught Dead podcast with Catherine Ashton.

Zenith Virago’s website

ONLINE: “Writing the Necropastoral: Generative Experiments in Occult Ecopoetics with Gabriela Denise Frank” – Morbid Anatomy Museum. Fridays, 14 February to 21 March (11am-1pm AEDT)

TRACKS: Disco Dancer – Kiki Gyan / Cler Achel - Tinariwen

DEAD AIR #58 by Hayley West

‘Metamorphisis’ an excerpt from the book Sum, written by David Eagleman (neuroscientist)

Radio Lab Podcast episode ‘AfterLife

Netflix docuseries Surviving Death - 'Maybe death isn't the end': can a TV series prove the existence of an afterlife?’ by Radheyan Simonpillai, The Guardian

The people of Tana Toraja have a different but 'beautiful' understanding of death. It's made Nandira 'so proud' of her culture’ by Kate Ainsworth, ABC News

Postal Service for the Dead, Sleepy Sue

Dark Market - Goldfields Gothic Festival call out

TRACKS: Bad Girls – M.I.A / Neurotica – Redd Kross / Love – Mica Levi / Hot on Heels of Love – Throbbing Gristle