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 …
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 …
Star******S Arts House Melbourne 6-8 September 2012 Presented by Arts House, Laura Caesar and Malcolm Whittaker. Performed by Laura Caesar and Malcolm Whittaker. Photos – Ponch Hawkes Reviewed by Jason Maling I once fell asleep in a durational performance and I think it improved the work. Not because it was boring, it was going all night and …
From Monday 31st October to Thursday 3rd November members of the Field Theory collective will be undertaking a four day meetings binge. They will engage members of the Sydney community in discussions around the meaning and relevance of Live Art. The artists will drink one coffee for every meeting they have, to see the outcome …
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 …
Strategies for Leaving and Arriving Home 1. Find the longest way to leave 2. Announce your dramatic departure to be sure there’s no turning back. 3. Sell everything you’ve spent the last ten years collecting on eBay so that you can afford ultra-light, warm, waterproof hiking equipment that you will only use this once. 4. …
Hi Melody, welcome to lala, Thanks lala! Tell me about the Neo-intimacy pod you made earlier this year? Well, it was a piece for Exist-ence Performance Art Festival in Brisbane in Jan 2010. I wanted to create a kind of surreal installation and improv performance looking at the evolution of intimacy and how we connect. …
Hi Fiona, Welcome to lala. The last time we spoke was when you were in Berlin and your were having issues with your artist residency, did that manage to resolve itself? I had a fantastic, unofficial residency with Basso Art Collective. The rest of the time I rented rooms in apartments – most of my …