{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/66fdce854f98175c753d63ee/68011c2638088415692108b4?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Live at MAV’s Block Partee with Matisse Laida, Banda and Nickila De Silva","description":"<p>Matisse Laida is an artist whose practice is based around community and food. They are the founder of We Eatin’ Good, a platform for queer people of colour to come together.</p><p><br></p><p>Anthony 'Banda' Bandalan is a producer who cares deeply about community cultivation and uplifting his creative counterparts.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Nickila De Silva is an artist who creates across video, music and writing. Her work explores collaboration and how it can exist alongside hierarchy and power.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>We interviewed Matisse, Banda and Nickila, as part of Multicultural Arts Victoria’s Block Partee.</p><p><br></p><p>We chat about:</p><ul><li>Hierarchy and power in the arts</li><li>Networking being a white concept</li><li>Performative leadership</li><li>When gatekeeping is good</li><li>Queer people becoming removed from our cultures</li><li>Connecting people through food</li><li>Art is archival and friendship</li><li>Code switching your practice&nbsp;</li><li>Reflections on creating art together and apart&nbsp;</li><li>How sharehouses shape us</li><li>The challenges of working within institutions&nbsp;</li><li>Food that makes us feel the most</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Hosted by: </strong>Maria Birch-Morunga and Kate Robinson</p><p><strong>Guests: </strong>Matisse Laida, Anthony Bandalan and Nickila De Silva</p><p><strong>Music by:</strong> The Green Twins</p><p><strong>Edited by: </strong>Kate Robinson</p><p><strong>Special thanks:</strong> Multicultural Arts Victoria, City of Darebin, Creative Victoria, Creative Australia, Melbourne Polytechnic, Victoria Government and VicHealth’s Future Reset Program.</p><p><br></p><p>This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the eastern Kulin Nations.</p><p><br></p><p>You can find us on Instagram @beingbiracialpodcast or send us an email at beingbiracialpodcast@gmail.com</p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Maria Birch-Morunga and Kate Robinson"}