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Sunday 12 October 2008

Borders and Crossroads

Arriving at a point of departure and having to turn left or right or north, south, east or west ... certain metaphysical and geographical guidelines dictate the parameters for the best direction. We spend time around a crossroads in Bali—where the underlying principle is one of cyclic change—and then take off for Australia, where the landscape itself nudges us towards a historical undercurrent.
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Sunday 05 October 2008

Target Practice

Dodging the fusillades of gunshot big and small, including that of the world's most-used weapon of mass destruction—the Russian-made AK47—the Kalashnikov, the weapon of choice for armies, guerrillas, criminals and international arms dealers. After that, join the escapades of a bunch of folkloric merry men fighting against injustice and tyranny with bows and arrows—the medieval and Hollywood-ised Robin Hood.
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Sunday 28 September 2008

Reverb

Sounds that linger longer open up spaces for reflection, remembering and rhythm. From a whisper to a scream, the echoes of eternity reverberate in The Night Air—at least for a while.  Read Transcript

Sunday 21 September 2008

Visual

Open your eyes and it feels as if our experience of vision and consciousness are continuous, complex, rich and colourful—thanks to some hard work put in by the brain. However, some researchers believe that we don't actually see the world as it really is and that it could be a grand illusion. In a world of the ocular and photopic, we go eye-spying on visual perception in art and arcana: realms of the unseen, the partly-perceived and the imagined.
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