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Entries from July 2006

representing madness

July 26th, 2006 · No Comments

I’ve been reading a book called “reading psychosis” by Keitel which analyses different literary representations of psychosis. It mentions that it is almost impossible to render the experience of psychosis into a literary form and language since the experience is beyond language itself. I’ve also read 4.48 psychosis a play by Sarah Kane- which I [...]

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Vietnamese politics

July 23rd, 2006 · No Comments

This morning I did a recording with the girls from the Voicebox- an all girl Vietnamese radio program broadcast in English on 3CR on Tuesdays from 6:30-7pm. Our guests were from the Vietnamese Student Association and they talked about the fall of Saigon April 30 anniversary and how they went up to Canberra for a [...]

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Haunting

July 14th, 2006 · No Comments

I went to the ASAL conference in Perth a couple of weeks ago- and it was really inspiring. The theme was Ghosts, Shadows, Screens and Sceptres- which all comes up in my own work. The talk that has stuck with me was one by Gail Jones who talked about haunting and how in relation to [...]

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