600,000 HOURS (Mortality) Conference Day 21 October 2, 1994

Cover of 600,000 HOURS (Mortality) Conference Day 21 October 2, 1994
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Reading the entrails: Digesting posthuman entanglement
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Sasha Grbich

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Eating together online: The ambivalent conviviality of ASMR videos
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Francis Russell

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Shared food conversations: Jason Phu and Nagesh Seethiah
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In conversation with Sabrina Baker

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NAVA
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A good dinner party: Food as a medium for social change
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Courtney Coombs

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Eat the problem: MONA's carnivalesque of cuisine
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Ashley Crawford

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Fair Share Fare: Recipe for Disaster
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Jen Rae

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Metro Tunnel (Vic Gov)
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Violent dreams of development: A food bowl in the north‑west of Australia?
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Alana Hunt

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Mai Contemporary Kaurna Food
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James Tylor

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Examination of the issues addressed at the conference which accompanied the exhibition 600,000 hours (mortality).

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Death in Excess: Nuclear Imagery
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Mourning: Traditions, Symbols and Meaning
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Guide to...Image Bank
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Exploration of images and statements by artists on the theme of death. Artists include William Kelly, Ross Moore, Bette Mifsud and Dennis Del Favero.

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Familiarity? Re-Examining Australian Suburbia
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