Based in New York over the last years Andie Tham had to hit the ejector seat button and return to the big island at the outbreak of CV-19. A firsthand account of the controlled chaos of hotel quarantine, Andie relates her time under biosecurity detention, how to make friends over WhatsApp while detained in a three star hotel room and the psychic reinforcements provided by ASMR videos online.
Interview record date: 26/05/20
Andie Tham https://www.instagram.com/andie_tham/
Pandemic Playlists is a project by Emile Zile. Sound by Carl Anderson. Graphic by Lauren Messina. Supported by a City of Melbourne COVID-19 Quick Response Arts Grant, produced at Boyd Studios Melbourne.