I recently visited Redfern for the first time in several months and clocked the sharp gentrification evidenced by a quick influx of small bars and delicious coffee. Now a place just slightly cheaper to live than Surry Hills, it would be fair to say that perhaps the artistic community are partly the perpetrators of such gentrification, …
I spoke with Daniel Santangeli after seeing his theatre show Room 328 at the Melbourne Fringe, as I was particularly interested in the participatory nature of the work. Although this was the first time we met, we ended up having a good yarn about River Phoenix and pashing audience members. LT: Lets get this out …
To wrap up the durational latte project, field theory invited guests into their ‘office’ at performance space to see some data visualisation and watch some youtube clips. This was the introductory speech: I know you’ve been waiting for this party for a long time so we wont keep you long. Thank-you Kadigal people of the …
Placing artists in residence within ‘industry’ is often criticised for being too short term to allow the time for artists and employees to form rich relationships or to collaborate. Artists can feel ostracised in a new environment where employees have not been properly briefed and may be resent having to perform extra artistic ‘duties’. Artists …
Who: Eric Jensen Role: Journalist Sydney Morning Herald Office Measurements: Small cafe. Lara and Jason met Eric in a Darlinghurst café to chat about the medias role in the arts. Eric does not think we have a culture of great arts criticism in this country and acknowledged it can be both difficult an easy to …
‘All art forms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.’ Bertolt Brecht ‘We admire Margaret Thatcher greatly. She did a lot for art. Socialism wants everyone to be equal. We want to be different.’ Gilbert and George[i] In trying to plot the movements of an emerging and shifting …
The Natimuk Fringe festival is around the corner, with artists making work on cliff faces, lakes, silos and illuminated traffic signs. Natimuk in is rural Victoria, not far from Horsham. It has one of the largest percentages of artists and rockclimbers in Australia. www.natifrinj.blogspot.com/
This Thursday Next Wave Festival’s Artistic Director Emily Sexton will lead a jaunt across Melbourne to recent public sites for live art, exploring questions around how festivals navigate audience engagement with site-specific work. Discussions will range from politics, to spectacle, to community participation, the challenges of working in public space, and a whole lot …
Hey Bron, You are about to premiere you new show that includes your parents as performers. What was the impetus for this work? What are some of the processes you use working with non-artists? The idea for this work really started when my company The Last Tuesday Society staged an interpretation of Nick Enright’s play …
Responding to Thrashing Without Looking. A feisty party game I got to play twice – first as what I’d call ‘predator’, and then second as ‘prey’. The audience is divided and there are no spectators here – except perhaps the Aphids crew, who bring us twelve-at-a-time into their latest private experiment in live cinema. The …
Fun Run part 1 The live art endurance spectacle FUN RUN returns for its Darwin premiere on August 19th. Tristan Meecham will run a 42km marathon on a treadmill supported by performances from local communities of cheerleaders, body builders, zumba enthusiasts and Darwins own Grey Panthers, (a 70+ dance troupe). FUN RUN is at once hilarious, gruelling, camp and …
Melbourne collective Triage will take their new work ‘Strange Passions’ to Berlin for the Exchange Radical Moments Festival. You can support their project here: http://www.pozible.com/index.php/archive/index/1272/description/0/0
Lemonade Stand 20.07.11 Sydney Karl Khoe, Tessa Zettel & Chay-Ya Clancy Runway Launch Frasers Studio. Lemonade Stand 26.05.10 Melbourne Amy & Claire Spiers Great Heights 2: Floating Above Shadows, Moored Beneath Clouds Curated by Meg Hale Melbourne Central. Next Wave Festival. Lemonade Impossibe 2010 Edinbrough Alex Goodman Photographer credits go to: Laureen Villegas, Shivanjani Lal …
Tessa Leong and Emma Beech are mastering the art of talking to strangers. They were recently in Adelaide developing a project ‘The Australian Bureau of Worthiness’ using psychogeography to document a single road. Tessa offers some insight into their research: Strangers we spoke to: Boat man / Don’t ask me girl/ Osman/ Op shop lady/ Rose man/ …
Sometimes you make an ‘interactive’ work and you underestimate the agency you have given your audience. Mostly people politely observe and slowly warm up to the work. Sometimes they get carried away and test the boundaries of what is possible. I have been in an outdoor performance where an audience member decided to take a …