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 …
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 …
Field Theory was dreamed up by a group of artists with varying interests and practices. It is fair to say that all of us are interested in different ways in which to engage people in experiences of meaning. If that sounds a bit vague it is because the actual parameters of the work that we …
Australia’s David Williams and Jason Maling star in the latest edition of the Live Art Almanac (Volume 2). Read Jason here or purchase the whole kit and kaboodle here; Live Art Almanac
Charlie Sofo is a visual artist based in Melbourne, however his recent B.E.D. project, a project that has people sharing their bed with Charlie for a night, moved into the realm of live and participatory art practice. I recently wrote an article that discussed B.E.D., and Jason Maling’s project The Vorticist, for un magazine 4.2 …
Three things have happened in the last month that I think will forward the discussion around Live Art in the country and region… The first is Visible City, I won’t go into it as I was intimately involved in the project and it really is for others to speak or write about in more depth …
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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, …
One of the most interesting and underground artists in Melbourne is Jason Maling. His three year project The Vorticist is so secretive that you need to be part of the experience to understand it fully. Lala invited Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy to interview Jason Maling, a Melbourne based live artist currently presenting The Vorticist, a three-year durational …