MAKING UP - ELEVEN SCENES FROM A BANGKOK HOTEL

BACKGROUND This interdisciplinary creative work moves at the intersection of contemporary essay practice and creative radio feature production. The contemporary essay has seen a wave of innovation in exploring, for example, lyric (D'Agata), queer (Nelson) and multimodal (Bresland) forms, amid debates on genre boundaries, ethics and transgression. Radio Features have entered a new 'golden age' (Biewan) where collisions between distinct geographical styles and approaches to audio soundwork (Hilmes) have emerged within renewed global interest in the form. CONTRIBUTION Eleven Scenes from a Bangkok Hotel is a radiophonic essay/feature about sexual and textual identity and the act of 'making up'. Set in an international city at the crossroads of many flight-paths, the work interweaves an essay dramatising the mindscape of a Western 'author', with documentary-style representations of young Asian voices from the transgender community. The soundpiece is an adaptation of David Carlin's text essay of the same name. The production traces what happens to words when they become audible and ownership is shared. The final audio work builds on this theme to explore the complex relationship between narrative voice and authorship. SIGNIFICANCE Eleven Scenes was commissioned by ABC RN's Creative Audio Unit, Australia's leading broadcast space for audio art. The feature premiered on ABC RN's Soundproof program to a national audience in December 2015. It has been described by leading US documentary-maker and scholar Michael Rabiger as 'a superb piece of work, the kind of spiralling, multi-layered consciousness one hopes to light upon, and that is so enjoyably challenging compared with 99% of radio.'

背景 本跨学科创作作品立足于当代随笔创作实践与广播专题节目制作的交叉领域。当代随笔在围绕体裁边界、伦理规范与越界议题的学术讨论中，涌现出诸多创新探索形态，例如抒情式（D'Agata）、酷儿（queer）式与多模态（Bresland）创作范式。广播专题节目则迎来了全新的"黄金时代"（Biewan）：在全球范围内重新兴起的对该形式的关注热潮中，不同地域创作风格与音频制作手法的碰撞融合（Hilmes）已逐步显现。贡献 《曼谷酒店十一景》（Eleven Scenes from a Bangkok Hotel）是一部聚焦性别与文本身份，以及"身份建构"行为的广播随笔/专题节目。作品设定于多条国际航线交汇的国际化都市，将一则戏剧化呈现西方"创作者"内心图景的随笔文本，与跨性别（transgender）群体青年亚裔声音的纪实性演绎交织融合。该音频作品改编自大卫·卡林（David Carlin）的同名随笔文本，其创作脉络探究了当文字被诉诸听觉、作品所有权发生共享时所产生的意义变迁。最终成品围绕这一核心主题，深入探讨了叙事声音与作者身份之间的复杂关联。意义 《曼谷酒店十一景》由澳大利亚领先的音频艺术广播阵地——澳大利亚广播公司国家电台（ABC RN）旗下的创意音频工作室委托制作。该专题节目于2015年12月在ABC RN的《Soundproof》栏目首播，覆盖全国受众。美国顶尖纪录片导演兼学者迈克尔·拉比格（Michael Rabiger）曾评价其为："一部绝佳之作，那种层层递进、多维度的意识表达，正是我们期待邂逅的精品；与99%的广播作品相比，它带来的聆听体验既富挑战性又极具趣味性。"