The Wire with Caeden

Neutral Corner returns to compare the coverage of recent US sanctions on Venezuelan oil imports by TeleSUR English and Fox News.

Shakaiah Perez, also known as Travelling Feather, is of Afro-Polynesian descent and is a multi dimensional artist, blogger and dj, working on visual performance and activism art. Shakaiah has been overseas, and recently returned home to Aotearoa. While she was in London late last year, during the anniversary celebrations of Captain Cook, she was commissioned by the Royal Academy of Arts for an exhibition called Cosmic Ocean along with other pasifika artists that 'celebrated contemporary Oceanic culture and the unique natural landscape of the pacific islands, from seas to skies' says the website. Shakaiah chose to make a film which was called: Exotic Savage: The Decolonisation, and the blurb read as follows: This new multi-sensory artwork incorporates poetry, dance, film, installation and participatory performance art to weave together narratives of (de)colonialism while celebrating Perez’s layered heritage and the stories of those in her communities. Lillian Hanly spoke with Shakaiah about the exhibition but first started by getting her to tell us more about her background and upbringing given this is the very experience which informs her work.

Shakaiah is looking to host an exhibition here in Aotearoa with the film before returning to London and is looking to hear how the NZ Pacific community responds to the film.

On Dear Science today we talk about ancient earth rocks found on the moon, the rise in foetal genetic testing and the (probable) end of the Opportunity Rover on Mars.

Marama Davidson talks to Hamish Webber about international spying.

And we hear a long form piece on a film made by artist Shakaiah Perez for a Royal Academy of Arts exhibition, and this discussion goes into issues of representation, activism art and decolonisation.

Former Tuesday Wire host Mary-Margaret Slack joins us again from London today. With the increasing risk of a no-deal Brexit becoming more and more likely, we spoke with her to find out what that actually looks like and why the risk is becoming more likely. First though, Lillian asked what people are feeling about the whole situation at the moment.