For Melbourne Now, Montez Press Radio will be broadcasting live from Community Hall, collaborating with artists, musicians and organisations in Melbourne to bring their work to a global sonic commons.

This broadcast is guest-curated by Miranda Shutler in partnership with NGV.

Listen to the live broadcast here.

Program

10.00am – Introduction session with Miranda Shutler and Amita Kirpalani
11.00am – Australian Queer Archives (AQuA): Sharing our Queer Histories
12.00pm – recess: Olivia Koh with Liang Luscombe, Claire Coleman and Jen Rae
1.00pm – The Art of Aboriginal Storytelling: Murrundindi, Moorina Bonini and Deanne Gilson
2.00pm – Fiend Bookshop x Verve Zine
3.00pm – Liquid Architecture: LA MEMLORDS
4.00pm – noom live

Montez Press Radio (MPR) is an experimental broadcasting and performance platform. They were founded in 2018 with the goal of fostering greater experimentation and conversation between artists, writers, and thinkers through the medium of radio. This platform invites different corners of the art world to interact with each other in person and on air—a place where media finally meets flesh. MPR are drawn to art that exists in the unexpected, the authenticity of sharing without a script, the sounds of ideas in the making, conversation that forgets there’s an audience. MPR is broadcast out of Chinatown, New York, with offshoot broadcast streams coming out of London and Mexico City.