A Field Guide to Getting Lost in the Southern Universe project, supported by Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab. This project aims to create a fictional Field Guide in the form of radio drama by integrating writings of western explorers in the 19th and early 20th century who “discovered” colonies, science fiction texts (e.g., radio drama The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), first-person writings such as travelogues or reports, and particular economic landscapes during the colonial periods of Taiwan and Malaya. Aside from reading literature and images, study groups, interviews, audio tours, and three international online seminars organized by curator Alice KO Nien-pu, providing feedbacks relevant to the research themes.

This is the first one of the four podcast episodes will be produced under the Creation / Research Support of Creators Program, including the Chinese and English Version of “The Southern Universe Archives”. (Voiceover: Shiu Shiou-hau, Cheng Yin-Chen; recorded by The Compound Ears Studio; script by Rikey Tenn; produced by A Field Guide to Getting Lost in the Southern Universe)