Sound (in my car)
I listen to a podcast, The Huberman Lab, as I drive to the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP). Psychiatrist Dr Anna Lembke warns the host, Andrew Huberman, that we are experiencing the most boring time in the history of humanity. Despite enormous inequality, Lembke notes that most people can satisfy all their physical needs without ever leaving home. It makes the pace of life both predictable and paradoxically hard to deal with. The irony resonates with me as I arrive to view Fertile Ground, an exhibition exploring food as an index for the complex social, historical and personal politics at the heart of globalisation. Curated by Sarah Bond and Olivia Poloni, it features works by nine artists from Australia and Southeast Asia.
Touch (in the gallery)
Miriam La Rosa is a Sicilian-born, Naarm/Melbourne-based art curator and PhD Candidate at the University of Melbourne. Her current research looks at notions of gift exchange and host-guest relationships in the arts residency, with the South as a geopolitical focus.
