About | Wombat Radio

Wombat Radio is:

Exploded View discussion on contemporary practice with interesting people.

Often artists working with choreography or performance, but not always.

It hopes to archive sentiment over time by asking:

what are you doing? what do you hope that is doing?
how are you doing it?
why are you doing it? what is your biggest hope?

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Wombat Radio works to be:

in some small part a battle against the ephemeral nature of dance and live performance and the discourse surrounding it.
in some part mobilising the voices of interesting practitioners, creators or artists.
forming a part of my practise in asking better questions of myself, of my colleagues and of the medium of live (and often non-spoken) performance.
a provocation to the artist, a push for deep reflection, macro and micro. Often great thoughts and conversations happen after the initial podcast and would not have happened without the sacred space facilitated by this construct.

Wombat Radio is chronically interested in:

choreography, culture, social structure, community, systems, the embodied condition. Speaking with people who can zoom way in to take action and also zoom wayyyy out to see the irrelevance of their efforts (and the humour in that). Always working towards fostering epiphany, either for the host or artist or the listener (but because that is a lot of pressure to put on a conversation, usually trying to forget about it and just practise listening).

Text vs Podcast format – An effort was made in 2013 to compile texts from artists, but reading takes dedicated time that people seem to convince themselves they have when actually most do not. Wombat Radio as audio can be a part of your commute or cleaning activities or workout etc. A partner in thinking, a time shifted conversation.

Longform – An unedited discussion rather than distillation of grabs is an effort towards meeting the people where they are, hearing them think, and giving a listener time to consider their own position on the matter. (Even though I often listen to longform podcasts at 2x speed – apparently we can listen a lot faster than talk)