The promotional image heading this week’s E-dition is from Amrita Hepi (Bundjalung NSW/Ngapuhi NZ) and Jahra Wasasala’s (NZ) Passing, a collaboration in hip hop and contemporary dance with costumes styled by installation artist Honey Long. Passing “maps two bodies under pressure from the responsibility that comes from being of mixed cultural background,” and is one of a number of works in 2016 Next Wave featuring Indigenous artists in a program rich in diverse forms and invention.
Biennale of Sydney artist Mette Edvardsen’s haunting No title—a performance in which the world was erased around and within us—brought quite laterally to mind in later days the ‘gones’ of the Turnbull government—reforms to superannuation and negative gearing, the states' sharing of income tax—as well as prospective disappearances, the Great Barrier Reef and, rumoured, 60% of key previous Australia Council grant recipients. Going, going … Also gone are the never paid taxes of the corporate sector which could pay for equitable health, education and, yes, arts funding.
VICTORY OVER THE SUNIn the Biennale of Sydney’s performance program, Justene Williams and Sydney Chamber Opera brilliantly resurrect the Russian Futurist anti-opera, transforming it into an opera for our times.
TRAUMA & DANCE In Vancouver, Alex Ferguson is haunted by Betroffenheit, Kidd Pivot & the Electric Company’s account of unspeakable trauma incurred by those suffering PTSD and addiction.
DISAFFECTED In this Blacktown Arts Centre production, artists confront us with the plight of peoples in our region whose lives are already challenged by the harsh realities of climate change.
GONE Virginia Baxter encounters the subtly unfolding tragedy of Norwegian dance artist Mette Edvardsen's performance No title, part of the 2016 Sydney Biennale.
THE DAUGHTER Katerina Sakkas finds much to admire in Simon Stone’s feature film debut including evocative cinematography and immersive sound design.
PROPEL Cadi McCarthy, Artistic Director of Newcastle’s Catapult Dance, tells us about Propel, her cross-artform residency program; two of its works will appear as installations at Newcastle’s The Lock-Up.
PODCASTIn the first of a series of podcasts, made in partnership with Making Waves, Matthew Lorenzon interviews composer Jessica Wells about a new work for harp which you can also listen to.
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