Som Chai meets my family & friends
I am so excited that Som Chai is now in Oz and has been granted a partner visa.
He's met my family and friends, and even come along to Uni with me.
It is wonderful having him here with me - no more lonely nights or awkward outings on my own!
I can throw my wish list in the fire now because he fulfils all my dreams. I am so proud of him - he is charismatic, generous and kind, and he is also Budhist and a meditator!
I wondered whether there was a difference between art made by a human and art made by a machine? So I made a fan that painted, and I became a painting human fan.
Conclusion: there was no difference.
Just an Ordinary Peasant is based on my uncle’s experience as an inmate at Treblinka extermination camp in 1944. His memoir recounts that while being forced to carry corpses from the gas chambers to an open-air pyre, he was handed a sack which held little children who were still alive. The guard commanded the sack be thrown into the fire. The woman I play in Just an Ordinary Peasant is a hybrid character created from the memoirs of my uncle, my parents and my own research. She sings and dances and also throws a sack of babies into the fire. This piece explores my own biases as well as questions the culpability of ‘ordinary people’ who were accomplices to the atrocities carried out during the Third Reich.
Miss World Peace
in Melbourne
"History never repeats, but sometimes it rhymes."
-Mark Twain
A demonstration affiliated with ‘Boycott Apartheid Israel week’ was held recently in Melbourne town. The streets were full of University students and others, chanting vitriolic messages such as:
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‘Is-ra-el and the USA,
How many kids did you kill today?’
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I carried two flags – the Palestinian and the Israeli one. My message is as naïve as the character I define – namely, to convey a hope that these two conflicting groups might be able to talk and listen to each other, with the ultimate goal, one day, of ‘peace’.
Unfortunately, it was impossible to talk with anyone. The Israeli flag I was holding was ripped up by one of the protesters.
 A fresh beginning |  The rally starts |
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 Anti-Israel rally in Melbourne City |  'Palestinians, Israelis, We Love You' |
 Plonk in the Middle |  Oops, wrong country. Friendly Israeli-Palestinian Rally in Israel |
 An i for an i makes the whole world blind |  Oh oh, there goes the Israeli flag |
 I Have a Dream |  The end of The Dream |
 Baby steps: Miss World Peace's first time in the City |  ‘Women in Black’ protest |
 Fuck off you racist Zionist! |  Mum's in the foreground holding an upside down video camera |
 Trying to stay peaceful |  Screen Shot of video |
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 Screen Shot of video |  Miss World Peace |