pilot episode: media, autonomy, dreams & trans stuff
woke-ish talk
hiii we're Dira & Fran 🫰🏽 we both have a distant past as media producers when we were very young: Dira as MTV host in Indonesia and radio announcer, and Fran as a youth cultural journalist in Nicaragua. life took us in many directions before crossings 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!
💽 about this episode
hosted by Dira & Fran, produced by imaginary box
in this pilot episode we talked a bit freely and ended up going to the beginnings: how we met, why we clicked, and what it means to make media completely on our own terms. we also play a little game that takes us somewhere unexpected: dreams we've let go of, and the ones we're somehow already living ^^ it's messy but honest work. we hope u love it as much as we do! please please please let us know what u think
💽 about Dira & Fran
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 gender-nonconforming 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 run 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