Beyond the Green: Radical Encounters in Interviewing

What can radio journalism learn from performance art? A LOT...

What can radio journalism learn from performance art? A LOT...

Multimedia-maker Sook-Yin Lee and audio artist Veronica Simmonds share art-world practices that can re-invigorate the standard radio interview. In this session they introduce unconventional inspiration for their CBC podcast Sleepover . From Bela Tarr's seven-hour cinema provocation to documentarian Allan King’s fly-on-the-wall disappearing act, find out how time + space + face-to-face durational encounters with strangers = exceptional stories.

Video 1: Sook-Yin Lee's sleep deprivation experiment
Video 2: Girl walking with her dead cat - Sátántangó - Bela Tarr - 1994
Video 3: Inside Warrendale

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Featuring

Sook-Yin Lee (@sookyinlee) is a filmmaker, musician, actor, visual artist, dance-maker, and radio & TV broadcaster.

Veronica Simmonds (@veesimmonds) (she/her) is a podcast producer, story editor and audio artist based in Toronto, Canada.