‘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 …
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 …
It is interesting to see that the Melbourne Fringe Festival, a Festival that Creative Producer Emily Sexton is calling an ‘Open Access’ Festival has delivered a new live art category. I was intrigued that a large and uncurated festival had such a thing. As the Festival launched this morning I was interested to hear what …