Podcasts about liveworks

Kate joins Regina Botros to talk about the Liveworks festival highlights and spotlights. Kate Britton is the Aritsitc Producer of the Performance Space, a producer, curator and arts manager with more than 10 years experience in festivals, performance, visual art and public programs, with a focus on cross-disciplinary and queer practices.   

In traditional Weitou culture (the first people of Hong Kong), brides defiantly sing of grief and bitterness towards their arranged marriages. Drawing on these folk songs and her own Weitou heritage, Rainbow Chan has written The Bridal Lament — a new song cycle coming to this year's Liveworks and OzAsia Festivals. Also, Paradise or The Impermanence of Ice Cream is inspired by Parsi sky burials where the dead are consumed by vultures, theatre maker Wang Chong shares the work on his Top Shelf, and we delve into the ABC archives to encounter the construction and opening of the Sydney Opera House 50 years ago this week.

Conversation with artists Virginia Barratt and Jessie Boylan about the transmedia installation/performance RUPTURE showing as part of 2022 Liveworks festival: https://performancespace.com.au/program/rupture-all-the-stars-unshining/ We speak: slow emergencies, shimmer body, affective text, panic as a progressive force, and more. This conversation was originally aired on Eastside Radio on 24 October 2022. Sympoiesis radio show is produced on the Gadigal land of the Eora nation, traditional custodians of this land. We pay our respect and gratitude to the elders past, present, and yet to come. Facebook: www.facebook.com/sympoiesisradioshow Instagram: www.instagram.com/sympoiesis_radio_show PRESENTER/INTERVIEWER: Ira Ferris (www.instagram.com/artemisprojects)

Conversation with performance maker and Artistic Director of Living Room Theatre, Michelle St Anne. We talk about her unique approach to theatre making, touching upon two latests productions: - Enter Sally Stage Right (showing as part of the 2022 Liveworks Festival, in the program stream Tidal): https://performancespace.com.au/program/live-dreams-tidal/ - The Reckoning (showing at the BrandX in December 2022): https://www.brandx.org.au/event/the-reckoning This conversation was originally aired on Eastside Radio on 10 October 2022. For more about Michelle St Anne and the Living Room Theatre see: https://livingroomtheatre.org Sympoiesis radio show is produced on the Gadigal land of the Eora nation, traditional custodians of this land. We pay our respect and gratitude to the elders past, present, and yet to come. Facebook: www.facebook.com/sympoiesisradioshow Instagram: www.instagram.com/sympoiesis_radio_show PRESENTER/INTERVIEWER: Ira Ferris (www.instagram.com/artemisprojects)

Teddy Tahu Rhodes is a stalwart of the opera and musical theatre stage, but there was a time when he thought that accountancy was his true calling. So, what brought this powerful singer out of the office and into the spotlight?Also, playwright Michèle Saint-Yves reflects on her father's dementia and her own acquired brain injury in A Clock for No Time and choreographer Sue Healey compiles eight years of unique encounters with dance on film in On View: Panoramic Suite at Liveworks.

Teddy Tahu Rhodes is a stalwart of the opera and musical theatre stage, but there was a time when he thought that accountancy was his true calling. So, what brought this powerful singer out of the office and into the spotlight? Also, playwright Michèle Saint-Yves reflects on her father's dementia and her own acquired brain injury in A Clock for No Time and choreographer Sue Healey compiles eight years of unique encounters with dance on film in On View: Panoramic Suite at Liveworks.

Teddy Tahu Rhodes is a stalwart of the opera and musical theatre stage, but there was a time when he thought that accountancy was his true calling. So, what brought this powerful singer out of the office and into the spotlight? Also, playwright Michèle Saint-Yves reflects on her father's dementia and her own acquired brain injury in A Clock for No Time and choreographer Sue Healey compiles eight years of unique encounters with dance on film in On View: Panoramic Suite at Liveworks.

Nisha Madhan (Basement Theatre, NZ) sits down with Jeff Khan to discuss the role of the curator, re-Indigenisation and a whole lot more. Nisha is one of four guest curators for LIVE DREAMS, a new platform for artists to share works-in-progress and ideas in development in a dynamic and responsive environment. LIVE DREAMS will be a part of Liveworks 2021. Find out more here: https://performancespace.com.au/program/live-dreams-ancestry-live-on-the-line/

Moreblessing talks with Regina about theatre, women of colour and making a difference on the stage. Moreblessing Maturure is a Zimbabwean/Australian inter-disciplinary artist, TEDx Speaker and the Creative Director of FOLK Magazine. The award-nominated actor has appeared in a suite of projects pre-Rona, most recently ‘THE RETREAT' (Victoria Zerbst) and CH 9's ‘SEACHANGE: REBOOT' (Wayne Blair) as well as on various stages across Sydney. Moreblessing also works with various theatre companies as dramaturg, outreach producer and cultural advisor, which supports the advocacy practice Moreblessing carries out within the arts for accurate and diverse representation. She's an Equity Member and sits as Co-Chair of MEAA's Equity Diversity Committee. Most recently she appeared in Yana Taylor's sold out season of LEADING IS FOLLOWING IS LEADING for Liveworks 2020 and can be seen in the SELL OUT season of seven methods of killing kylie jenner at Darlinghurst Theatre Company . - Recent credits include: THEATRE: Leading Is Following Is Leading (Liveworks 2020)// A Little Piece of Ash (Jack Rabbit Theatre, KXT Bakehouse)//Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again (House of Sand, Old 505)//Fallen (Sport for Jove, She Said Theatre)// Undertaking, The Bee and the Tree, Like Me, Age of Entitlement, The Way of the Wall (Mongrel Mouth) SCREEN: (TV)- Back To The Rafters, SeaChange, Deadly Women (FF)- Akoni (WS)- The Retreat, Ang Wilson, Afro Sistahs (SF)- (W)hole, STIGMA, Prelude, I am Black and Beautiful and. Searching for Babel  

Join Emily Parsons-Lord, finalist in the churchie emerging art prize 2020, in conversation with exhibition curator Talia Smith, exploring the themes and ideas embedded within her practice. Emily Parsons-Lord’s practice is concerned with air and explosions. Recent work has recreated the air from past eras in Earth’s evolution, recreated starlight in coloured smoke, and experimented with pheromones, aerogel, and explosions. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally and participated in Primavera (2016), the NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (2017), Liveworks (2017), Bristol Biennial: In Other Worlds, (2016), John Fries Award (2018), A BROKEN LINK, Central St Martin’s, London (2017), Stuttgart Film Winter Festival for Expanded Media, Firstdraft, and Vitalstatistix, amongst others. https://ima.org.au/exhibitions/the-churchie-emerging-art-prize-2020/

Leading experimental artists Gail Priest, Lauren Brincat and Alex Murray-Leslie all create work that sits at the forefront of sound, technology, experimental music and contemporary art. In a lively conversation facilitated by Clare Cooper (co-founder of the NOW now festival, Splinter Orchestra, Splitter Orchestra and Frontyard Projects), these Liveworks artists discuss their research interests and artistic practices, as well what it means to create collaborative work that spans sound, installation and performance. Podcast music: Other Tempo by Lauren Brincat, recorded live for Liveworks 2019. Image: Lauren Brincat. Photograph by Jessica Maurer/Artspace.

Liveworks artists Joel Bray (Daddy) and Samara Hersch (Body of Knowledge) in conversation with theatre maker Roslyn Oades as they explore the boundaries of audience participation, consent and dangerous social dynamics in contemporary performance. Joel and Samara’s works both create complex audience-performer relationships to ask important questions about sexuality, the body, and social taboos and intimacy. Podcast music: Other Tempo by Lauren Brincat, recorded live for Liveworks 2019. Image: Credit: Samara Hersch, Dybbuks (2018). Photograph by Pia Johnson.

Writer and scholar Theron Schmidt leads an artist-centred conversation celebrating the launch of his new book Agency: A Partial History of Live Art (2019). A collection of dialogues and provocations from radical artists and thinkers around the world, Agency explores how and when we make possibility for action in the face of what oppresses us. Agency was commissioned for the 20th anniversary of the Live Art Development Agency in London. For this conversation, Theron is joined by Sydney-based artists Brian Fuata and Sarah Rodigari. Podcast music: Other Tempo by Lauren Brincat, recorded live for Liveworks 2019. Image: Cassils, Inextinguishable Fire, SPILL Festival of Performance, London (2015), produced by Pacitti Company. Image Guido Mencari. © Cassils 2015. Image courtesy of the artist and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts

Performance Space has long been a hub for queer artists from diverse artistic practices and cultural backgrounds. The Queer Together conversation features Jeff Khan (Performance Space Artistic Director), Joy Ng, Frances Barrett and Bhenji Ra discussing new horizons in queer performance, the intersection between queer club and art communities and the diversity and vitality of Sydney's LGBTQIA+ artistic culture. Podcast music: Other Tempo by Lauren Brincat, recorded live for Liveworks 2019. Image: FAFSWAG performing in Day for Night, 2018. Photograph by Alex Davies.

What’s the connection between colonisation and gay dating app Grindr? And how do you deal with expectations when you make contemporary art through the lens of the world’s oldest living culture? We chat to artists Joel Bray and Vicki Van Hout about this and more, ahead of their two shows as part of Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art this October.

United by an interest in breaking physical limits, Lee Wilson, Mirabelle Wouters and Mickie Quick join artist and curator Frances Barrett to discuss endurance performance and bodily extremes. This conversation explores the precarious processes behind Branch Nebula’s work High Performance Packing Tape.

Jo Lloyd is Melbourne based dance maker and choreographer. Jo started dance at a young age before going on to further study at the Victorian College of the Arts.Jo has worked with a range of companies as a dancer and choreographer including Lucy Guerin Inc, Chunky Move, Back to Back Theatre Company and worked with artists Deanne Butterworth, Shian Law, Nicola Gunn, Gideon Obarzanek, Shelley Lasica, Sandra Parker, Prue Lang, Rebecca Jensen and many others.Jo has presented work in New York, Japan, Hong Kong and locally in Dance Massive, Next Wave, the Biennale of Sydney, Liveworks and Dark MOFO. She has taught for Akram Khan, Bangarra, Dancenorth, ADT, the Australian Ballet and teaches dance and Yoga regularly at Chunky Move, VCA and Lucy Guerin Inc.In 2016, Jo was Resident Director of Lucy Guerin Inc. where she started developing her work OVERTURE. The work premiered in 2018 at Arts House Melbourne, with dancers reconstruct and invoke lost heroes in order to play out impossible scenarios. As part of Dance Massive OVERTURE, we presented in a new way, with an onscreen version, proposing a new way of experiencing the work. Filmed on special cameras by James Wright (NON Studio), this onscreen version will give a different insight into the work.

New York-based Australian curator and producer Vallejo Gantner joined artist Nicola Gunn for a conversation about Working With Children, exploring Gunn’s unique research and creation process and the moral and ethical ambiguities tackled by this new experimental performance.

This week we spoke to Amrita Hepi about her upcoming work at Art Gallery of New South Wales for The National, and her involvment with Fempre$$: WISHWITCH at Liveworks on October 20. We were also joined by Mellum PR's Uda Widanapathirana, to hear about about Women in Music Empowerment Day 2018 and their work as an artist manager for HABITS and Miss Blanks.Plus, for Rough Idea we heard more of Natasha Matila-Smith's chat with curator Ioana Gordon-Smith, about what it means to be an Indigenous artist in New Zealand.

Curator and writer, Jeff Khan joins Penelope Benton in conversation about Performance Contemporary as part of Sydney Contemporary Art Fair and Liveworks 2018, Performance Space's annual festival.

"Ironic" Toxic Masculinity & Rhetorical Chorus This week we were joined by Agatha Gothe-Snape and Megan Alice Clune for Agatha's new performance work 'Rhetorical Chorus' as part of Liveworks 2017. The work is on until October 22 at Performance Space, Carriageworks. We were also joined by Athena Thebus for her new work ''Dreaming about you woke me up". It's on until October 22 at 55 Sydenham Rd Marrickville. For Thoughts That Count we focused on an article by Junkee writer Jared Richards called Alex Cameron, Kirin J Callinan and The Problem with "Ironic" Toxic Masculinity, and heard from our listeners as well as All Our Exes Live In Texas' Hannah Crofts, LISTEN's Jonine Nokes and Sydney rapper Kimchi Princi.

This week on Agenda, we talked to Melbourne artist Zoe Scoglio and Liveworks director Jeff Khan.

We dig in to the program for Liveworks 2016: Performance Space's festival of playful and experimental art. Hear from Tina Havelock Stevens about the epic Texan storm that inspired her video work, Thunderhead. Then we chat to Pony Express about their 'ecosexual bathhouse', where nature-boners are 100% encouraged. Soundtracked by Stiff Gins, who are bringing indigenous stories to life in Spirit Of Things.