In the toilet.

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 …

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Back To Nurture – Master Class facilitated by Adrian Howells

    This intensive three day master class facilitated by UK performer Adrian Howells will give participants an unprecedented opportunity to explore both personal and performative boundaries. Investigation will be facilitated via a series of sometimes challenging exercises around ideas of appropriate and intimate touch, communication and deep connection with self and others. Participants will be encouraged and supported to …

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Starfuckers

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 …

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Arts House Season One – 2012

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 …

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Who Needs Live Art. An ongoing rant.

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 …

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Excursion #3 – Dance Dialogue

LALA invites you to take part in a meeting of minds. Lucy Guerin Inc. hosts a night of work called First Run. This night is for dance work or movement-based practice being developed to be shown and then discussed by an interested audience. First Run is hosted by Brooke Stamp and Luke George. First Run …

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You Got Me But Baby I Got You

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 …

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Rate of Exchange

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 …

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Bedding down with Charlie Sofo

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 …

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Roarawar Feartata Collective

At the recent LIVEWORKS at Performance Space, I interviewed Roarawar Feartata (Benjamin Cittadini and Craig Peade) from Melbourne, who were there developing a work I Luv Amanda Crowe 4 eva. Here is a very small portion of that interview, covering a number of previous works that happened in Dandenong and Frankston, which are outer suburbs …

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Follow me – Michael Yuen

lala was in Beijing in the minus 10 degrees snow of late 2009. Michael Yuen was in the scorching Adelaide heat of January 2010 This interview was conducted between these two temperature extremes lala: In talking with you and looking at your website, I am really intrigued by how diverse your work is, recently I …

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Inbetweeness

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, …

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Jason Maling – The Vorticist

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 …

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