AustLit

'In approaching the editorial for this special issue, we began by reflecting on the processes that we had been through in writing and gathering content. Meeting in Yoni Prior’s backyard, we began preliminary discussions just before the pandemic hit again and agreed that we wanted to include lots of conversations. We wanted to make space in the issue for people to talk. The pandemic initially upset this desire to place the recorder on the table and talk, but as is all too familiar now, Zoom offered us the chance to extend our conversations across locked-down suburbs, closed borders, even oceans, and to gather people together in new ways. So, coming to write the editorial, we thought it best to continue the theme of talking. Locked down as we still were in Melbourne, we met over Zoom to discuss new dramaturgies of sound and vision. (Pia Johnson and Miles O'Neil Editorial introduction)