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 …
I recently visited Redfern for the first time in several months and clocked the sharp gentrification evidenced by a quick influx of small bars and delicious coffee. Now a place just slightly cheaper to live than Surry Hills, it would be fair to say that perhaps the artistic community are partly the perpetrators of such gentrification, …
Thinking of going to MONA FOMA in January? Well you might also like to catch Touchy Feely. Touchy Feely will be five days from January 25 to 29 packed full of artist-led talks, workshops, performances and presentations held at Inflight ARI, Hobart, Tasmania. Curated by Amy Spiers and Pip Stafford, it will bring together a …
Responding to Thrashing Without Looking. A feisty party game I got to play twice – first as what I’d call ‘predator’, and then second as ‘prey’. The audience is divided and there are no spectators here – except perhaps the Aphids crew, who bring us twelve-at-a-time into their latest private experiment in live cinema. The …
Tiny Stadiums is over for yet another year. This year the festival began at PACT in Erskineville on the 4th May with the opening nights of Applespiel’s Executive Stress/Corporate Retreat and Nat Randall’s Cheer Up Kid and culminated in a weekend of Live Art on the streets of Erskineville on May 14 and 15. If …
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 …
lala talks with Mish Grigor from Sydney performance curators Quarterbred. Quarterbred, can you tell me how this started? Well, the lovely Lara Thoms and Di Smith were having an ongoing conversation about how amazing the PACT space is and what it has meant to a lot of artists and groups in Sydney in the last …