Skye Gellman, Kieran Law, Blindscape, La Boite Theatre Company (2013) photo Sarah Walker |
la boite indie, part 1
Each year Brisbane’s La Boite showcases works from a selection of emerging/underground/indie performance companies (whatever nomenclature you prefer). There’s not a traditional sit-down-and-shut-up audience experience among the first three shows currently showing. Sandra Carluccio’s This is Capital City lets the audience loose in Kelvin Grove charged with the mission to unearth the town’s myths with the help of some “city officials” and a mobile phone. The Séance by Mark Pritchard and Bridget Balodis invites the audience to a secret location where they will be complicit in the summoning of spirits. Blindscape, by Skye Gellmann collaborating with Kieren Law, turns the theatre space into an inhabited installation—the audience is guided through the performance via the Blindscape App supplied on entry. After the second Indie season later in the year audiences will be invited to vote for the performance they’d like to see remounted at QPAC in 2014.
La Boite Indie, May 8-25; http://laboite.qtix.com.au/laboiteindie2013/
lineage, form dance projects
(left) Aruna Gandhimathinathan, Shruti Ghosh; (right) Tammi Gissell photos (left) Annalouise Paul, (right) Lorna Sim |
Form Dance Projects, Lineage, May 23-25, Lennox Theatre, Riverside, Parramatta; http://form.org.au/2013/01/nritya-roopa/
anne landa award for video and new media arts 2013, agnsw
Lauren Brincat, Hight Horse (2012), documentation of an action, The space between us, Anne Landa Award for video and new media, AGNSW courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery |
Anne Landa Award for Video and New Media Arts 2013, May 16-Jul 28, Art Gallery of New South Wales; http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/space-between-us/
everyday rebellions, gertrude contemporary
1) Dane Mitchell, The Smell of an Empty Space (Solid), 2011, Perfume, photographic paper, frame, courtesy Hopkinson Cundy and the artist, photo Sam Hartnett; 2 & 3) Kitty Kraus, Untitled, 2006, lamp, ice, ink, Courtesy of Galerie NEU, Berlin |
Everyday Rebellions, Danica Chappell, Joan Jonas, Kitty Kraus, Dane Mitchell, Virginia Overell, Danae Valenza, Simon McGuinness, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, May 11- June 8; http://www.gertrude.org.au/exhibitions/gallery-11/current-13/
suncorp twenties, sydney theatre company
You can’t accuse Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton of losing touch with the average Australian—they know theatre tickets here are prohibitively expensive and they’ve actually found a solution. Brokering a deal with Suncorp, there will now be $20 tickets available for (nearly) all STC shows. You don’t have to be a student, pensioner, or under 30, you just have to try your luck on a Tuesday (via phone or in person at the box office) for the followings week’s shows. The partnership with Suncorp kicked off yesterday and will run for two years.
Sydney Theatre Company, Box Office 02 9250 1929; more info www.sydneytheatre.com.au
joachim koester, frances stark, ian potter museum of art
1 & 2) Joachim Koester, Tarantism, 2007, © & courtesy the artist and Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen; 3 & 4) Frances Stark, My best thing, 2011, © & courtesy the artist and Marc Foxx, Los Angeles |
Joachim Koester, Tarantism, Frances Stark, My Best Thing, Ian Potter Museum of Art, until June 2; http://www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au/exhibitions/exhib-date/2013-03-20/exhib/joachim-koester-tarantism
stories then & now, performance 4a, carriageworks
Stories Then & Now courtesy Willa Zheng |
Stories Then & Now, presented by Performance4a & Carriageworks, May 22-25; http://www.performance4a.org.au/
goodbye jamie boyd, buzz dance & monkey baa
Goodbye Jamie Boyd is an interstate collaboration between two leading companies making performance for young people, Monkey Baa in NSW and Buzz Theatre in WA. Based on the verse novel by Elizabeth Fensham, the production uses movement, text and video design to evoke the story of a teenage girl fighting schizophrenia, haunted by the spectre of her deceased elder brother. After a successful NSW tour in 2012, Goodbye Jamie Boyd is now showing in Perth.
Goodbye Jamie Boyd, Buzz Dance & Monkey Baa, directed by Sandra Eldridge & Cadi McCarthy, Studio Underground, State Theatre Centre, Perth, May 15-25, http://www.buzzdance.com.au/productions.html#goodbye
still in the loop
direct democracy, muma
Monash University Museum of Art, until July 6
http://www.monash.edu.au/muma/exhibitions/upcoming/direct-democracy.html
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bloom—space, aeaf
Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, until June 1
http://aeaf.org.au/exhibitions/21_bloomspace.html
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peter dailey, apparition: the syndicate ii
Fremantle Arts Centre until June 2; http://fac.org.au/events/288/peter-dailey-apparition-the-syndicate-ii?mid=12
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networked art forms & tactical magick faerie circuits, cast
Hobart, May 31-June 30;" http://tacticalmagick.net/
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conduit arts space initiative
May Music & Performance Program, Conduit Arts Initiative, Fitzroy
Full program http://conduitarts.wix.com/conduitarts#!program-music/ch3c
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diffuse, uts
May 23 & June 6, Bon Marche Studio, UTS
http://diffuse2013.wordpress.com/
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opal vapour, jade dewi tyas tunggal, mobile states
Adelaide, Perth, Hobart, Cairns, McKay, Brisbane, Canberra, Blacktown
May-June, see website for details http://performinglines.org.au/productions/opal-vapour/; http://opalvapour.com.au/
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gemeinboeck & saunders, velonaki, ingram, artspace
ISEA satellite exhibition, May 2-June 16 http://www.artspace.org.au/gallery_upcoming.php
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composition to movement festival, creative practice lab, unsw
May 24-26, part of Vivid Sydney
http://sam.arts.unsw.edu.au/c2m
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eve and eve, rebecca agnew, 24hr art
until June1
http://www.24hrart.org.au/
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hatched: national graduate show 2013, pica
until June 9
http://www.pica.org.au/
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no child, nilaja sun, theatre works
until May 26
http://www.theatreworks.org.au/whatson/event/?id=136
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shadowlife, bendigo art gallery
until July 28 http://www.bendigoartgallery.com.au/Exhibitions/Current_Exhibitions/Shadowlife
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RealTime issue #114 April-May 2013 pg. web
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