DEAD AIR #116

“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 #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 #114

Archaeologists complete largest mass exhumation in Australian history from old cemetery under The Hutchins School - ABC News

Private cemeteries and burials, Victoria - Department of Health website

Walawaani Way - the first 100% natural conservation burial site in Australia.

When A Narcissist Dies: The Disturbing Reality of Dying Narcissists – Taboo Education, YouTube

Flowers - Cultural Significance and Evolving Sustainability in Funeral Practices

TRACKS: Lay Down and Die & Way Too Happy – Redd Kross