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 …
Paul Gazzola’s What I Think About When I Think About Dance: A First Attempt is a-sweep with formal deviations and subtle derivations. A piece of art and an idea informing . The work, created with 3rd year dance students of ACArts is abundant in possibility, interrogation marks, formulaic deconstruction, formic reconstruction and set renditions – …
Recently Madeleine Hodge visited Lois Keadon at the offices of the Live Art Development Agency to find out what is going on in the UK live art scene. The cultural landscape in London has shifted in the past two years, in the wake of the appointment of a conservative government and in the following slew …
‘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 …
I love lying. I do it a lot in my work. I tell white lies, grey lies and a few fluorescent lies. This is both a confession and a justification for my duplicitous nature. During a recent forum around participatory art the group discussion veered into the contentious territory of ethics. Good old-fashioned cheating, lying …
Preface. Barry Laing delivered the article below live in an abbreviated form during a recent public forum called “Who Needs Live Art”. The forum was hosted by Field Theory and took place in the Supper Room at Arts House on August 31st. It grew out of what appears to be a growing desire amongst ‘cross …
Some months ago LALA asked me to write down my impressions on the League Of Resonance – an ambitious live art project that occurred in Melbourne from December 2010 to April 2011. As I’m a slow writer and pedantic academic, it’s taken me a little time to settle on my response. Currently I’m writing a …
In my own musings that happened after the project Visible City in Melbourne in 2010, I have begun to wonder about the role of culture in Australia. There is a pretty standard cliche that is spoken about how ‘in Europe the society values the arts more’. I have to say that I don’t know this …
Dear theatre audience, This is it. I am standing backstage. Between me and you is a door, slightly ajar. When I hear my name announced I will walk through this door, across the stage and into the spotlight. I will strut and I will pose (as best as I can). I will meet your gaze …
lala asked Melbourne based (via New Zealand) artist Jason Maling to explain just what he meant by Inbetweeness in terms of his practice. In-betweeness I was talking about love the other day. It was with a stranger. We had veered into the territory via a discussion about cutting the fat. We spoke about defrauding someone, …