At the Drive-in: The Event

Photo by Sasha Cohen. Shopfront, Hazelhurst, and The Harmony Institute presents At the Drive-in. A free all-weather event Combining live music, performance, dance and film, At the Drive-in will arise and stalk the grounds of the Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Gymea from 26-29 August, before hitting the road and becoming a unique touring [...]

Back to School

[Interview conducted by the Harmony Institute with Charlie Turner, aged 15] I just remember all these ads on Facebook about how it was okay to go back to school. They had these dumb-looking kids in school uniforms walking down the path with smiles on their faces and books in their hands. One of my friends [...]

You can only be scared for so long

[Interview conducted by the Harmony Institute with Valerie Turnbull, triage nurse, St. Vincent's Hospital] I had just started at St. Vincent’s and didn’t know too much about the whole thing. There had been rumours, you know, just whispers about what the poor people might look like or how you could tell. In the beginning I [...]

Harmony Reclaimed

All excerpts from “Reconsidering Death: A Brief History of the Zombie Phenomenon” provided courtesy of author Dr. Jeremy Tuckwell. All rights reserved. On the 2nd of December, The Harmony Institute is established by the Federal Government under the custodianship of Dr. Jeremy Tuckwell, a newly-formed team of leading scientists, social psychologists and policy-makers from around [...]

Remembrance of things past…

[Transcript of unbroadcast radio interview conducted with Audrey Hampton outside of [redacted] processing centre] It was a big white room in a medical centre out in [redacted]. I had to put on this white suit and had to have a shower before with this awful green disinfectant. It was horrible. They sat me down in [...]

Quarantine

All excerpts from “Reconsidering Death: A Brief History of the Zombie Phenomenon” provided courtesy of author Dr. Jeremy Tuckwell. All rights reserved. During the initial burst of hysteria that swept Sydney the Federal and State governments, in co-operation with the major media companies, sought to downplay the risk of the virus. All reports claimed that [...]

Deep red through the clouds

[interview conducted with internally-displaced citizen (designate #48761986: "Madeleine Lee") at Parramatta Emergency Processing Centre] My family were in our car driving to our Auntie’s house in Sydenham. I was happy to be going there because it reminded me of Christmas. Every now and then my Mum would start crying, just very softly. I asked her [...]

Infection

All excerpts from “Reconsidering Death: A Brief History of the Zombie Phenomenon” provided courtesy of author Dr. Jeremy Tuckwell. All rights reserved. …After scientists concluded that the initial spread of the poultry “zombie” virus was too widespread to contain through established quarantine measures, much of the fertile farming land in New South Wales was destroyed. [...]

A call for action – video response

A call for action – a call for submissions

A WORLD WHERE THE DEAD ROAM THE STREET A SOCIETY STRUGGLING TO UNDERSTAND ARTISTS READY TO FACE THE TRUTH Australia is in a state of emergency. A virus is turning people into zombies – snarling, unpredictable and dangerous. Most alarmingly, the virus comes and goes leaving humans who only vaguely remember… Society is in chaos. [...]