Music vibrates through your body. Your heart beats faster, and slower, and in rhythm with the performer.
We’re blurring the divides between art and living, between notions and notations, between perception and mirage. What is truth? A breath is just a breath. Or is it? Our rituals and mantras unfold as identities disolve and are reconstructed. Life is noisy and we’re making sense of it, distilling it, and leaving musical traces for the future to know us by.
Take your ears, put them in a scuba suit, and throw them in the deep end. Beneath the waves there’s a whole world waiting for you. Immerse yourself in New Atlantis, a festival of new and experimental sound.
A new government always marks a turning point. But will Labor’s election change Australian refugee policies – and if so, how? Where do principles and politics collide? And how will that affect the lives of people who need our protection?
Lawyer and former refugee Nyadol Nyuon OAM sits down with the Federal Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs, the Hon. Andrew Giles, for a conversation about protection principles and policies in Australia.
The border – the place physically crossed in the search for refuge and asylum – appears at first as a single location and moment. And yet ‘borders’ are made and remade through policies, institutions, international and national laws, and conceptions of rights. These, in turn, are founded on specific understandings of ethics and of the human, on historical contingencies, settlements and accidents. Borders can be openings, or they can act as hard limits.
