pushing through confusing times: cancelling plans, uncertainty and ways we're coping
woke-ish talk ep. 3
ep. 3 pushing through confusing times: cancelling plans, uncertainty and ways we're coping .listen on spotify, apple podcasts, youtube
in this episode we talk about what it feels like when the world outside and the personal stuff inside crash into each other all at once. Dira is going through a divorce (yes, a divorce, let's call it what it is), a move, spring allergies, and an emotional rollercoaster of goodbyes. Fran was in production mode and now trying to make space for sadness, fears and uncertainty. so we talk about that. about holding joy and grief at the same time, about burnout and guilt and what rest actually means
hosted by Dira & Fran
produced by imaginary box
💽 about us
hiii we're Dira & Fran 🫰🏽 we both have a distant past as media producers back when we were (even more) young: Dira as MTV host and radio announcer in Indonesia, and Fran as a youth cultural journalist in Nicaragua. life took us in many directions before crossing paths in Berlin (God's timing is purrrfect, as we say) and we've now decided to go back to cultural production with this radio show in which we talk about woke-ish stuff. follow along!
Dirandra Sandyakala (all pronouns/dia) is an Indonesian educator and performance artist based in Berlin. Their multidisciplinary practice touches on themes of self-reclamation, fluid identity, body memory, grief and transformation. Dira's work incorporates playfulness, allowing the body to explore and heal on different mediums and embodied storytelling and rawness as essential tools for artistic expression.
https://www.instagram.com/dirandrakala
fran ilzilú ñurinda (Managua, 1996) is a central american media producer living in Berlin who sometimes doubles as a farm girl on a family-owned plantain field back in Nicaragua. they're currently working on their first written publication and running imaginary box, a production platform that facilitates the exchange of information, media-making resources, equipment and technical skills among trans and/or racialised cultural producers to support efforts in building creative and economic autonomy so that we can reclaim self-determined representation in media and history