This is Capital City is on sale now at La Boite Indie (May 8-25) – book here. In the urban surrounds of the Kelvin Grove Village, solo audience members embark on a journey into an imagined world called Capital City. Armed with a supplied mobile phone, you are charged by city officials to investigate the …
LALA speaks with Ben Speth about his live project WeTubeLIVE, which was presented by Dancehouse at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne as part of Dance Massive. How did you come to the idea of WeTubeLIve? i worked for many years in nyc in the film/tv business and have made several feature films. back then, making …
Proximity Festival is the first platform in Australia dedicated to the creation and presentation of one-on-one intimate artworks. An artist run initiative led by co-curators James Berlyn and Sarah Rowbottam with provocateur Kelli Mccluskey, Proximity provides critical peer support, encouraging artists from all disciplines to experiment with new modes of practice in the creation of …
The editor of Australian Book Review, announced details of the second ABR Ian Potter Foundation Fellowship. The theme this time is the performing arts. ABR seeks proposals for a cogent, entertaining article on any aspect of the performing arts (music, theatre, dance) – either a profile of an individual or a discursive essay. The article …
CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PROPOSALS Performance, the Body and Time in the 21st century 26-27 June 2013 Hosted by: exist www.existenceperformanceart.wordpress.com Queensland College of Art http://www.griffith.edu.au/visual-creative-arts/queensland-college-art Venue: Queensland College of Art, Project Gallery Griffith University 226 Grey Street, South Bank Qld 4101 This two-day symposium will explore issues surrounding Performance, the Body and Time …
LALA talks with Tristan Meecham about the third incarnation of FUN RUN, which opened the Sydney Festival on January 5th this year. His alter-ego ‘Humps’ ran a marathon on a treadmill during the work. Why running? What is it about running that is so important for the work? The important thing about Fun Run is …
Metro Arts in Brisbane have opened the call for applications for the second half of the year for the Performance Maker’s program. The reshaping of the Metro Arts program sees the organisation shifting to better frame hybrid and interstitial work; the Performance Maker’s program is not just about theatre work – it’s a framework for …
Christchurch, New Zealand was the city of my grandfather and the city of my formative art-school experience. From a personal perspective this always made any visit nostalgically heady. I have passed through it several times since the February 2011 quake and each time I have the oddly dislocating experience of looking down streets I vaguely …
The MCA’s ‘external projects’ model (which appears to have grown out of both the need for works happening off site due to recent refurbishments to the MCA buildings, a want to connect with the west of Sydney and also the interest in participatory/public work) is called C3West. The most active and recent project is Lara …
Punctum’s Seedpod Initiative closes on the 18th of January, get in quick… Applications are invited from early career and confirmed artists and organisations working in any area of live arts, contemporary performance and installation for our Seedpod sponsorships worth $1,000 each plus up to $1,000 of in-kind technical and management support and one month’s free …
In the former underground public toilets at Melbourne’s Victoria Square, four outstanding artists whose work spans sound and composition, visual and performance art, and theatre, offer four durational solo works in neighbouring cubicles to form a collective response to site, situation and humanity. Artists – Claudia Escobar. Madeleine Flynn. Tim Humphrey. Jason Maling. Melbourne’s underground …
Salamanca Arts Centre is calling for expressions of interest from Tasmanian performance makers, visual artists, musicians and composers, collaborators, and live art explorers to join the HyPe Creative Community. The HyPe Program strives to enable work in which artists explore the live experience of artistic processes, pushing conventions of theatre, performance art and site-specific work. …
After 3 years LALA is expanding its horizons, with new thinking and new voices. We are very happy to welcome Boni Cairncross who will be the Guest Editor for 6 months, see below for her experience and interests. YAY! You can reach Boni at boni@lalaishere.net Informed by performance, installation and conceptual art, Boni Cairncross …
All of those of you in Sydney on January 5, get down to Hyde Park to see FUN RUN by Melbourne based artist ‘Humps’, it has been performed at Next Wave Festival 2010 and Darwin Festival 2011 and is a ridiculous camp spectacle whilst also being a subtle commentary on durational arts practices. For those …
DIMANCHE ROUGE #21 – AUSTRALIA-FRANCE – Paris, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney in Partnership with Exist/Tape Project/Ptarmigan Exist: existenceperformanceart.wordpress.com Tape Projects: tapeprojects.org Ptarmigan: ptarmigan.fi Dimanche Rouge will hold a special edition in Australia, on November 18, 2012 and is looking for proposals for this edition. Dimanche Rouge will consider proposals for experimental art performances in all formats …
This intensive three day master class facilitated by UK performer Adrian Howells will give participants an unprecedented opportunity to explore both personal and performative boundaries. Investigation will be facilitated via a series of sometimes challenging exercises around ideas of appropriate and intimate touch, communication and deep connection with self and others. Participants will be encouraged and supported to …
In July this year, From 1am – 5am on FBI radio, over a period of four hours, starting with the letter A, Sarah Rodigari made her way through the White Pages toasting as many people as as she possibly could throughout Sydney. This performance was part of Time Machine, a time based arts festival presented …
In-Habit International applications for 2013 are now open and will close on Friday 18th January 2013. In-Habit International is an exciting arts research and cultural exchange program began in 2010 by Punctum. Each year over the next 3 years, Punctum will cover travel and accommodation costs with a combined worth of up to $4000 …
Artist collective Brown Council reflect on their latest durational performance, Mass Action. At 12pm on Tuesday 28th August Donna Wilkins – the CEO of CWA NSW – dusted off an antique CWA bronze bell, which had been found moments before at the CWA Headquarters in Potts Point, and rang it three times to signal the …