X-mas with Cait Harris and Ivan Cheng
For the special x-mas show on Eastside Radio 89.7fm comedian Cait Harris and performance artist Ivan Cheng recorded their work for us. Have a listen here Cait Harris is a Sydney based performer… Continue reading
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DESTABILIZING CANON: WOMEN IN POP ART & WHY DON’T WE KNOW THEM
When we think of Pop Art we usually think of it as being a male dominated movement. Names such as Warhol, Lichtenstein, or Hamilton immediately spring to mind while it is almost impossible… Continue reading
Listen: Mega Arts News
Make sure you tune in to 89.7 East Side Radio at 6pm tonight for another mega arts news! Charlotte and Shane chat about the latest exhibition at A-M Gallery ‘Home’ featuring the work… Continue reading
50 years of PACT & Fringe premiere of movement-generated BODYSCAPES
On Thursday 11 September, we spoke about PACT’s 50th birthday and Sydney Fringe Festival performance ‘Bodyscapes’. PACT’s Artistic Director, Katrina Douglas took us back to 1960s and explained why the centre for emerging… Continue reading
PRIMAVERA with Mikala Dwyer
Curator of 2014 Primavera, Sydney-based artist Mikala Dwyer joined me in the studio couple of weeks ago (August 14, 2014) to talk Australian emerging art scene. How do we define emerging? Why she… Continue reading
Listen: Circaholics Anonymous
This week on Something Else Charlotte speaks with Calvin Grant, ring leader of Circaholics Anonymous – the fire circus! Calvin and his troupe of six have been throwing OH&S laws in to disarray for… Continue reading
Score: experience an edgier and more experimental side of the best in Australian and international dance-making
Jeff Khan, Artistic Director of Performance Space, came to our studio last Thursday (July 24th) to talk about SCORE, a five-week festival of dance and sound-art taking place at Carriageworks from Friday 1st… Continue reading
Sonic Social
This week on Something Else, Ira & Julia spoke about the Performance Space curated SONIC SOCIAL, a program of participatory sound works that occur site-specifically throughout the MCA building. Their guests were sound… Continue reading
Why confusion is important…
Last night on Something Else, we spoke to Michelle St Anne, founder and Artistic Director of The Living Room Theatre, a Sydney based performing company engaged in production of multidisciplinary and “sensory oriented”… Continue reading
SENSORY ORIENTED THEATRE
Tonight on Something Else we chat to Michelle St Anne, founder and Artistic Director of The Living Room Theatre specialising in multidisciplinary practice and production of so-called “sensory oriented theatre”. Since… Continue reading
Silk Road : contemporary Iranian photography at MILS Gallery
Last Thursday 8th May on Something Else, your weekly dose of alternative arts and culture, Maren Smith interviewed Adriano Rosselli, director of MILS Gallery, Surry Hills, about MLS027 ‘Silk Road’, an exhibition of… Continue reading
“I aim simply to know it.”
In the realms of emerging photographers, the work of Lyndal Irons feels strangely refreshing, almost comforting. Through gentle negotiating and a sincerity towards her subjects, Irons and her lens capture scenes from Sydney’s… Continue reading
On Endurance Art with Frances Barrett
Last Thursday, we spoke to Frances Barrett about the Long-durational Performance Art. We touched upon the strategies employed in physical and mental preparation for these endurance pieces, potential ethical concerns involved, questions of time… Continue reading
LONG-DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART
Inspired by the upcoming visit to Australia of the renowned New York based artist Tehching Hsieh, tonight on Something Else, Julia and Ira talk about LONG-DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART. Their guest in… Continue reading
Nice To Meet You, Giselle Stanborough
Giselle Stanborough is a Sydney based intermedia artist whose practice addresses online user generated media and the way in which such technologies encourage us to identify and perform notions of self. Her… Continue reading