Talia Smith

Talia Smith is an artist, curator and sometimes writer from New Zealand, now based in Sydney. She is proudly of Cook Island, Samoan and NZ European heritage. She is the current Chair of Runway Australian Experimental Art and the Founder and Co-Director of Petersham ARI – Cold Cuts.

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By Talia Smith — 11 September, 2020

‘You’re not supposed to move the body.’ ‘The Body’, Season Five, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)    I had been rewatching Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the defining show of my youth, at the same time as writing this piece. I was thirteen when it first aired in New Zealand and I became immediately obsessed. Buffy…