Sam, Prairie, and Heidi chat with Owen Connors, artist and curator of the current show at Neo Gracie, Petit a Petit. We discuss building new worlds, queer joy, and how to be an artist in the coming months of virus-related hardship. We are then joined by Tash Keddy, whose show Grind House, closing today, was the debut show at new Auckland gallery, Parasite. We talk about his practice in relation to television, both on and off scree
Ophelia King joins Heidi in the studio, discussing art-life flow and how that has fed into her recent exhibitions including the current 'Teething' at Weasel Gallery, Hamilton. Tom talks to Christoph Dahlhausen, about Westfarbe: Paint vs Colour at Two Rooms Gallery. And then Alana, Virginia and Marika from Mega Pash Action chat about presence and relationality with regards to their activations going on all week at Artspace's Queer Pavillon, taking place this week in Albert Park.
Jess plays new music from Shygirl, Sudan Archives, 79rs Gang, and many more. Throughout the show she highlights new music from Black creatives and Bandcamp artists/labels who are donating to bail funds and organisations. If you want to support, you can find a list of Bandcamp pages here.
Christchurch producer, Keanu Raves, talks about tracks from his EP, 'Club Foundation', for Long Player.
It's Kirk and Jubt at the controls this week, with a couple of tunes run for Smokey Robinson, who celebrates a birthday today, as well as brand spanking new (and very good for you) tunes courtesy of Leonard Charles and The Lahaar (@juliendyne @MaraTKnz @lachlan_stuckey (Surprise Chef), Toby Laing. Get familiar!
On the show we have new music from Roidz, Cosi Fanni Tutti, Whyfisucks, The Coathangers, Panda Bear, Fountaines D.C. plus some awesome reworkings of old tunes by LCD Soundsystem, Sharon Van Etten and Haruomi Hosono. This week's Long Player is the incredible Francisa Griffin speaking about her record 'The Spaces Between'.
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