Punctum’s Seedpod Initiative closes on the 18th of January, get in quick… Applications are invited from early career and confirmed artists and organisations working in any area of live arts, contemporary performance and installation for our Seedpod sponsorships worth $1,000 each plus up to $1,000 of in-kind technical and management support and one month’s free …
Listen to the full interview here Below is a quick-glance text of the interview: What are you currently working on? A series of drawings, which are extending on a previous body of work – exploring an outsider’s perspective of colour, light and scientific theory. Focusing on spending time developing a systematic process with a visual …
In the new 2012 program at Arts House in Melbourne, there appears to be a continuation of the type of programming done in previous years with a nod to the UK intimate performance style. Some works of interest that is being premiered in Australia are; And The Birds Fell From The Sky Pixel Rosso An …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Australia Council announced today their new Live Art touring initiative Hopscotch. This pilot initiative supports national or international tours of innovative Australian live art. Your work must be tour-ready and you must have confirmed tour presentation spaces. Objectives This Australia Council initiative aims to increase national and international touring opportunities for Australian artists to: extend …
When lala (live art list australia) started it felt like an important thing to do – something necessary in the ecology of those artists who as Jason Maling put so beautifully in his essay sit ‘in-between‘. In recent times I have begun to wonder if this ‘live art’ thing is another fad, like the ‘locative …
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, …
lala invited Suzanne Kersten of bettybooke to interview director and performance-maker Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy about three live art events she has created in 2009. Suzanne – Hi Katerina, can you tell me a bit about your relationship with live art, and some of the work you’ve made this year? Katerina – I’ve been intrigued by live …
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 …