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 …
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 …
Throughout March and April, UK-based media artist Simon Pope will be holding a series of workshops and master classes. Presented by the ADA Network, Pope’s ‘The Netwalking Tour will focus on the themes emerging from Pope’s recent projects such as The Memorial Walks (2008), A Common Third (2010) and Memory Marathon (2010). These projects involve …
MCA ARTBAR Curated by Emma Price Feb 22 @ MCA Sydney / 7pm / $15-$20 “Pucker up as Emma Price (The Kingpins) presents a night of heavy petting for music, museum and art lovers alike. Roving performance, video installations and random acts of desire turn the MCA into a temple of love” Featuring: Scott Redford, …
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 …
Presented by Performance Space in association with Sydney Festival between 11-13 January 2013, 2pm – 7pm Benched / Martin del Amo and Julie-Anne Long I am an Island / Jess Olivieri with the Parachutes for Ladies Wabi-Sabi Afternoon Tea / Sarah Goffman Some Extra Luck / Kate Mitchell http://www.performancespace.com.au/2012/micro-parks/
The 12th annual NOW now festival of exploratory music January 9th- 13th 2013 Running over five massive days, the festival presents music, sound and art without borders. Featuring a huge array of local, interstate, and international artists, expect an enormous presentation of exploratory/spontaneous/experimental/improvised/outsider/other music. Day passes, 3-day passes and festival passes available from moshtix.com.au or on …
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 …
Legs On The Wall are hosting their second instalment of Rapid Prototype at 107 Projects, Redfern. “The goal for Rapid Prototype’s loose layout is for the public to feel comfortable and inspired to provide feedback to our guest artists, whether through conversation over a drink, a public tweet, an anonymous note scribbled on paper or an email …
In conjunction with Kings Cross Festival, ALASKA Projects presents- HIGH HORSE RIDER This is your time to speak, to voice your opinion about what matters to you. No subjects are prescribed, all possible points of view are free to be expressed and argued without fear of persecution. Having in saying this, there is no immunity …
For its 21st edition, Dimanche Rouge partners with three Australian cities, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney to produce a cross streamed festival on Sunday, November 18th 2012. Each city will present a one-hour program to be live streamed to the other cities. The edition will begin with the Melbourne program from 7-8pm (Melbourne time), followed by Sydney …
SEXES is Performance Space’s festival of visual and performing arts exploring sexuality and gendered identities in contemporary Australia. As part of SEXES - Performance Space has a Live Art program underway featuring Atlanta Eke, Fiona McGregor, Maude Davey, norrie mAy-welby, Parachutes for Ladies, Paul Gazzola, Philip Brophy, Sarah Coconis, Travis de Jonk, WART. Head over to Performance Space’s website …
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 …
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 …
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 …
No Reasonable Offer Refused brings together object-based and performance projects that explore if, and how, it is possible to reshape acts of commerce and exchange. This involves gestures that do not exclude the artist from the activities of the market, but instead actively use this system as a medium that can be negotiated. Curated by …
Public Art: Models of Possibility As artists shift their concerns to engage with current social, political and environmental changes can we see these shifts reflected in approaches to art in the public realm? Or does the large-scale of many public artworks and/or desire for spectacle or comfort on the part of commissioning agents lead to …