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Furtherfield, my favourite online community, has started a new podcast, “News from where we are<\/a>“. Inspired by reports from members of the Netbehaviour email list located around the world, the podcast is “a conversation with many voices from the ground to explore how the collaborative-imaginative fieldwork of artists, techies and activists is informing how we organise, imagine and build solidarity, good health and post-capitalist realities. Working together and supporting others to do the same.”<\/p>\n

I’m delighted to be included in the first episode<\/a>, which was published on Friday 10 April. The episode also includes reports from Rob Myers, Isabelle Arvers, Tacira and Edward Picot; conversations between Marc Garret and Cassie Thornton, and Ruth Catlow and Cade Diehm; an audio essay by Jaya Klara Brekke; a review by Regine Debatty; and a poem by Jeremy Hight. Sounds from Ethernet Orchestra<\/a>, Ouch Those Monkeys, Alan Sondheim, Azure Carter, Luke Damrosch, Stewart Home.<\/p>\n

The podcast will continue fortnightly. Here’s my contribution:<\/p>\n

Kia Ora, I\u2019m Helen Varley Jamieson and I\u2019m in lockdown in Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand. We\u2019ve been at \u201clevel 4\u201d lockdown for two weeks, staying at home, only essential services operating. We currently have 1160 confirmed cases of Covid19, with 12 in hospital, 241 recovered, and one death. The number of new cases decreased today for the first time since we began the lockdown.<\/p>\n

\"PandemicLockdown is not difficult for me. I\u2019m in an ideal place, with everything I need, and I was already having a kind of sabbatical so I haven\u2019t lost any work – yet. For more than 20 years, I\u2019ve been developing cyberformance<\/a> \u2013 live online performance \u2013 and it\u2019s been a pretty quiet niche, populated by experimental artists, researchers, and a few curious public. Now, it\u2019s as if a rampaging group of noisy and enthusiastic tourists has suddenly burst in and taken over. Wonderful things are happening all over the internet. We\u2019ve had a Pandemic Party in UpStage, and new performances are in development. It\u2019s exciting, but also overwhelming. I have to practice some \u201cvirtual distancing\u201d to stay sane.<\/p>\n

There is suffering and hardship, stress and uncertainty; but I\u2019m optimistic about the post-pandemic future. Massive changes can be made very quickly – when there is the political will. Cleaner air, cleaner water, the increase of bird-song thanks to the quietening of our cities \u2013 all this demonstrates that we can easily make improvements \u2013 IF we want to. The pandemic is opening our eyes to what we really need and value, and what is superfluous and superficial. My hope is that we can use this time to reprioritise what is important in our lives, and begin to make the necessary changes towards holistic co-existence as part of a healthy ecosystem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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