X-mas with Cait Harris and Ivan Cheng

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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

DESTABILIZING CANON: WOMEN IN POP ART & WHY DON’T WE KNOW THEM

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Silk Road : contemporary Iranian photography at MILS Gallery

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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.”

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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

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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

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    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

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  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