Artworks
Amanda Smith converses with people in the visual and performing arts and presents features on artists' lives and work. An edgy new look at the arts in relation to history, society and ideas.
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Artworks 2009-11-01
Published: 2009-10-31 10:00:00Wayfarer v2 - Urban Agents Wayfarer v2 - Urban Agents is a hybrid of a live and an on-line event created by Kate Richards and Martin Coutts. It's the second part of their Wayfarer series - this one under the auspices of the Victorian Arts Centre in Melbourne. Strict Rules Peter Garrett said recently on this program that he was never the same again after Midnight Oil's Black Fella White Fella tour of the Northern Territory. The Dame on the Ten Dollar Note Twenty-five years ago, well-known actor Beverley Dunn created a memorable portrait of the dame on the ten-dollar note: Dame Mary Gilmore. She was a gifted teacher, a pioneer journalist, poet, and social reformer and she was also an idealist who sailed to Paraguay in 1895 to join William Lane, the leader of the New Australia Movement, on his mission to set up a utopian society Artworks Feature: Theatre Royal 2009 marks the 175th anniversary of the laying of the Foundation Stone for Hobart's Theatre Royal, Australia's oldest working theatre, an iconic landmark in the city of Hobart and an important cultural icon of Australia's theatrical history.
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Artworks 2009-10-25
Published: 2009-10-24 10:00:00I Blame Duchamp Edmund Capon is the long-standing director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and the author of a collection of essays with the deliciously provocative title: I Blame Duchamp. Peter Greenaway: Nine Classic Paintings Revisited Leonardo's Last Supper, the recreation in light and sound and space by the film-maker Peter Greenaway of this painting, is part of a project of Greenaway's to re-vision nine classic paintings. During the Melbourne Festival, Peter Greenaway gave a public talk about his project. Soda Jerk Have you ever wanted to travel back in time? Course you have. As have Dominique and Dan Angeloro, two sisters based in Sydney who are also known as Soda Jerk. They're re-mix artists, and for them, the video store is a Tardis, and a video cassette is a teleporting device that can bring fragments of the past to the present. Artworks Feature: Reuse, Recycle, Reclaim Can artists make a regular income out of their art? And can they support themselves through economic downturns, government funding cut-backs and the ever increasing cost of living?
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Artworks 2009-10-18
Published: 2009-10-17 10:00:00Performance in Place of War Performance in Place of War is the title of a book out this month that's the result of a long field project by three researchers. Their task was to record the thoughts and experiences of people in conflict zones around the world who've been involved in making theatre performances and to look at why in such dangerous and unstable situations, people want to make performances for each other. A Kick In The Arts At the Brisbane Festival last month, a series of public discussions was held called A Kick In The Arts. They were deliberately provocative in intention and questioned things we often take for granted. The topic today: The End of Funding: do government handouts help or hinder the arts? Artworks Feature: Home is where the art is. The Melbourne International Arts festival is in full swing and in today's Artworks feature, a look at some of the offerings of the visual arts component. Artistic director Brett Sheehy's broad brief to visual artists across town was to think about, 'spaces we occupy', a theme that has resulted in a plethora of shows about homes, dwellings and notions of shelter.
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Artworks 2009-10-11
Published: 2009-10-10 10:00:00Simon Stephens: Pornography One of the big events coming up at the Melbourne International Arts Festival is a play performed, in German, by Deutsches Schau-Spielhaus Hamburg. Sasha Waltz: Medea and Korper The German contemporary dance company Sasha Waltz and Guests is in Australia for the first time. They're at the Melbourne International Arts Festival, performing two programs: one is a dance-opera of Medea composed by Pascal Dusapin with a text by Heiner Muller; the other is a dance work called Koerper (bodies). Although the two were created ten years apart, and they're really different kinds of performances, each of them was in part inspired by the company spending time in a couple of Berlin museums -- for Medea it was the Pergamon Museum, for Koerper it was the Holocaust Museum. Sasha Waltz speaks to Amanda Smith from Berlin. Donna Jackson: Dust If you were thinking of a subject to make a theatre show about, what would you come up with? There've been musicals written about all sorts of seemingly unlikely people and places: Keating the Musical...Urinetown... Artworks Feature: Greyworld: Andrew Shoben When you think of public art you may think bronze man on a horse, covered in pidgeon droppings, or you might think graffiti on a city laneway somewhere. But what about a bronze man on a horse that winks at you, or a busstop that bursts into a song inspired by what colour you are wearing? That's the kind of thing that gave the UK public art group Greyworld its reputation.
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