“I have been alone and very wretched, without friend or comrade, suffering a great deal.” Philoctetes Photo by Adrian Lach What do Juan Mann, who offered free hugs to passers-by in Sydney’s city centre in 2004[1], and American writer Laura Hillenbrand, who had stayed in bed for years due to chronic fatigue syndrome[2], have inContinueContinue reading “From Philoctetes to HAL 9000. Acting on the theatre stage against loneliness and exclusion”
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Performing Epidemics: Contagion Cabaret
“Our Mistress of Ceremonies, with her gas mask and red balloon, strode across empty land and streetscapes around Oxford, whilst speaking with great intimacy to us, her captured, quarantined audience, scattered as we were, across the world.” The post-COVID-19 iteration of the Contagion Cabaret When COVID 19 struck in 2020, I had the unworthy thoughtContinueContinue reading “Performing Epidemics: Contagion Cabaret”
Media Technology and Parasite Control: Japan-China Cooperation Under the Name of Family Planning in the 1980s
“…parasite control was less obviously connected to family planning yet it was integral to Japan’s international cooperation efforts in the field.” Topographical map of East Asia. Wikimedia Commons. In the early 1980s, China and Japan began cooperating in family planning through both governmental and nongovernmental channels. This was during China’s so-called ‘one-child policy’, so theContinueContinue reading “Media Technology and Parasite Control: Japan-China Cooperation Under the Name of Family Planning in the 1980s”
COVID-19 Experiences Alchemized Through Arts: A Case Study on Script Writing and Filmmaking with High School Students
“…the narratives evolved from personal anecdotes into complex stories enriched with interpersonal tension.” Making a timeline of the pandemic involved remembering the COVID-19 timeline and adding three personal events and two events that happened in the media. The main idea of this exercise was to remember personal events that can become a story but alsoContinueContinue reading “COVID-19 Experiences Alchemized Through Arts: A Case Study on Script Writing and Filmmaking with High School Students”
The Public Reception to TV Drama as a COVID-19 Information Source
“Film and TV can offer nuanced perspectives on complex issues and emotions that are often hard to grasp through traditional information channels”. Intensive care hospital fighting Covid-19 in Pesaro, Italy. Photo by Alberto Giuliani, Wikimedia Commons. March 19, 2020. As the most recent pandemic in history, COVID-19 had the unique position of being documented byContinueContinue reading “The Public Reception to TV Drama as a COVID-19 Information Source”
Media and Epidemics (MEDEP) 