Published in Overland Issue Electronic Overland · Uncategorized Disappearing Hazel Smith, Roger Dean and Greg White Download the four-channel version of ‘Disappearing’. Hazel Smith Hazel Smith is a poet, performer and new media artist. She has published three volumes of poetry, three CDs of performance work and numerous multimedia works. Hazel is a research professor in the Writing and Society Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney, and has also published several academic books. Her website is austraLYSIS. More by Hazel Smith › Roger Dean Roger Dean is a composer/improviser, and a research professor in music cognition and computation at the MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney. He directs the sound and multimedia ensemble austraLYSIS. His work is on 40 CDs, and he has released numerous digital intermedia pieces. He has written five books on improvisation. His website is austraLYSIS. More by Roger Dean › Greg White Greg White is a performer, composer, programmer and educator. He is currently Associate Dean (Production) and Head of Composition & Music Production at the Australian Institute of Music (Sydney). His creative work has been presented at numerous international venues. He is a core member of austraLYSIS, and the jazz/world music group Gest8. Greg's website is Great white noise. More by Greg White › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 17 January 202517 January 2025 · rape culture Neil Gaiman and the political economy of rape Emmy Rakete The interactions between Gaiman, Palmer, Pavlovich, and the couple’s young child are all outlined in Shapiro’s article. There is, though, another figure in the narrative whom the article does not name. Auckland city itself is a silent participant in the abuse that Pavlovich suffered. Auckland is not just the place where these things happen to have occurred: this is a story about Auckland. 20 December 202420 December 2024 · Reviews Slippery totalities: appendices on oil and politics in Australia and beyond Scott Robinson Kurmelovs writes at this level of confusion and contradiction for an audience whose unspoken but vaguely progressive politics he takes for granted and yet whose assumed knowledge resembles that of an outraged teenager. There should be a young adult genre of political journalism to accommodate books like this.