Shifting Subjects
A podcast documenting stories from Asian Australian life
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 5
- Years Active
- 2023
#4: All Aboard the Hát Xe Buýt (Singing Bus)
Organised and curated by arts producer Lana Nguyễn and artist Hoang Tran Nguyễn, Hát Xe Buýt is part bus ride and part performance event. It was made to commemorate the loss of Footscray Primary Scho…
#3: Listening to Mama Pai
When Alan Weedon met multidisciplinary artist Angie Pai, they were uni students taking their first steps in the adult world. He was struck by Angie’s ability to have fun, youth-fuelled, messy adventu…
#2: A Day at the Tofu Factory
Camly started making tofu by hand 30 years ago. Soon after arriving in Australia, she noticed many Asian grocers in her area weren’t offering Vietnamese-style tofu (the kind that gets its uniquely so…
# 1: Field Notes
In episode one of Shifting Subjects, Lisa explores her love/hate fascination with Australian Rules Football by speaking with three Asian Australians who live and breathe it.
What drew them in? What k…
Introducing Shifting Subjects
Growing up, Lisa Divissi absorbed all sorts of messages about what being ‘Asian’ in Australia might entail from news media, popular culture and the larger zeitgeist. But in her new series, Shifting S…