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Just a quick episode out today to say thanks so much for listening to How Are You Today? and thank you to each of our amazing guests. We hope you are all doing well and staying safe and we look forward to being in a gallery again with you soon.

How Are You Today? is generously supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program.

Eugenia Lim chats with us about sitting with time, working on a new project for APHIDS, the prominence of the divisions of labour within the home and across society during lockdown, and observing the community reassessing priorities. Eugenia shares her worries about about hard right politicians using this time to utilise xenophobia and racism to solidify inequity; and her hopes for increasing social justice and curbing the disastrous outcomes of climate change.

How Are You Today? is generously supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program.

Hayley Millar-Baker chats with us today about working from home,with a toddler, while pregnant; postponing exhibitions and international residencies, and re-thinking the pace and output in which artists are expected to work and produce. Hayley shares with us her concerns about the state of the world, keeping family safe, and creating safety for herself on social media. How Are You Today? is generously supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program.

Artist and Writer Manisha Anjali joins us on the show today to chat about her public dream journal Neptune, documenting dreams of individuals around the world during the pandemic. Manisha shares how they are finding hope in love, and imagination being the place in which we envision and create change as we go forth.

How Are You Today? is generously supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program.

Amrita Hepi chats with us about postponing work, experiencing both personal and collective mourning, her frustrations in not being able to get a car licence which is hindering her access to the studio, and projects including ACCA Open, Soothsayer Serenades, and Kaldor Public Art Projects Do It Australia. Amrita shares her concerns that society will be expected to work at double its speed once we move out of lockdown, and is looking forward to a renewed appreciation of being collectively together. How Are You Today? is generously supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program.

Laura Castagnini talks with us about her time in hotel quarantine, staying with parents while in isolation, spending time throwing pottery, visiting Leigh Bowery’s grave, and apprehensions about returning to London, where she works as an Assistant Curator, Modern and Contemporary British Art at Tate.

How Are You Today? is generously supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program.

Stephen Palmer joins us on the line and shares the changes to his day to day life, the frustrating and rewarding aspects of home schooling, his work creating a new artist union, how his students are adapting to change, not knowing how to feel in these unclear times and finding hope in seeing the support across community. 

This episode was recorded on Friday 12th of June.

How Are You Today? is generously supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program.

Kevin Chin shares with us how coronavirus has caused him to postpone exhibitions, made future sales unpredictable, the benefits of quick response grants and learning new ways to promote and present your work online. Kevin shares his worries about the state of the world and his hopes for the continued spotlight on Black Lives Matter movement both Internationally and in Australia, hoping there will be positive outcomes and change. 

How Are You Today? is generously supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program.

Artist and Arts worker Channon Goodwin talks to us about having time to reflect on "toxic aspects of normality”, Australia having a work ethic that is often unproductive, the sustainability of working in the arts and acknowledging support networks and privilege. Channon shares how Bus Projects has been affected by Covid-19 and lets us know about his project Composite: Moving Image Agency.

How Are You Today? is generously supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program.

Jake Preval joins us today to share how he’s spending his time in isolation including learning to play the harp and making feijoa jam. We discuss mental health, not saying yes to everything, getting excited about going to galleries again and radical reimagining of what kind of society we want to return to. This episode was recorded on Friday the 29th of May.

How Are You Today? is generously supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program.