small scale performance propositions
The first time I saw Brian Fuata perform was, I estimate, around 1999. He was wearing a spangly dress, had an enormous afro and was declaring...
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brian fuata
everyday expertise
In The Experts Project Lara Thoms takes the idea of walking in someone else’s shoes to the extreme. She actually convinces people to let her come into their...
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lara thoms
everything is noiseful
In the middle of Martin Place, Sydney, a woman in black, her face obscured by hair, lets out a death metal roar of apocalyptic proportions. She continues to...
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image: s.i.t.e (screaming in the everyday)
kusum normoyle
the roundabout of life and death
Culture-jamming duo Soda_Jerk is well-known for savvy video works that laugh in the face of copyright and tease audiences with media moments of...
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soda_jerk
shifting incarnations
Nasim Nasr’s art is about identity—her own in a new culture and how it is always changeable. “I see identity as a transient invention,” she says, “it...
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Nasim Nasr
beautiful fear
Typically, facing a fear of heights on camera involves a high octane and thrilling but fleeting collision of speed and adrenaline. There were no such quick fixes to...
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image: vertigo
Fiona McGregor
if walls had ears
Noise cancellation systems listen to the noise in an environment and produce the same frequency bands but with inverse polarity to eliminate unwanted sound. This...
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image: noise cancellation: disrupting audio perception
Cara-Ann Simpson
delusional therapy
As I descend into the darkened lower level of the UQ Art Museum to view Kate Murphy’s single-channel video installation The appointment (2009), a comforting...
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Kate Murphy
suspended disbelief
Push open the door into the semi-darkened gallery space of video installation artist Sam Smith's latest exhibition, Special Effects, and a gigantic head...
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Sam Smith
stacked
Alright I admit it. I do get impatient with the current plague of cyclists on the roads. But unlike Magda Szubanski’s recent remarks about taking them out with car...
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image: i fell off my bike
Isobel Knowles
you're not thinking fourth dimensionally
Jaki Middleton & David Lawrey
sweat
Branch Nebula
idea of south
Roger Mills
infestation
Penelope Cain
the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie robot
Wade Marynowsky
the real thing
Jordana Maisie
emerging artist
Sarah Firth
memory untitled
Dean Linguey
six women standing in front of a white wall
Little Dove Theatre Art