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https://vimeo.com/373845963 "the amount of time it (the work) sits in activated states in front of other humans"Holly Durant Holly Durant is an artist who crafts sites for performance with choreography to evoke senses of pleasure and empowerment. Her works consistently gather communities and provide platforms for interrogating how bodies occupy and negotiate space.  By exploring ideas of embodimen...

Natasha Sturgis creates feminist work that examines the ways in which patriarchal structures contribute to how girls and women define themselves. Themes explored in her work include taking up space, the researching terms feminine vs unfeminine as polar opposites and redefining strength in women and reclaiming our narrative. Natasha is interested in interdisciplinary work, collaborating with animat...

https://vimeo.com/61072731#t=133s "The performers are so occupied by their task that they're not worried about the audience. But they know the audience is watching and invested in what they're doing."Matt Prest Matthew Prest makes performance and installation that exists in the space between theatre and performance art. His practice includes some solo work, but mostly involves collaborations with...

"The boundaries and where they are, are just dependant on what point in history the history books were written." Dean Cross Dean Cross was born and raised on Ngunnawal/Ngambri Country and is of Worimi descent. He is a trans-disciplinary artist primarily working across installation, sculpture and photography. We cover. Indigenous heritage and familial background Disconnections with familial lineage...

"Look back and see the gallery that the body is"Wendy Yu Wendy Yu is a dance or movement artist based in Sydney. Her work has generally been centred around exploring dance outside of it’s theatrical context and placing it on a medium in which viewers may witness the intricacies of movement that bodies, in the space, may achieve. We cover. Matt's lineage and backgroundDesigning interactive Jitter m...

"A really hard (glass) ceiling gives you cuts and bruises" (breaking through it leaves scars)Candy Bowers Candy Bowers is an award-winning writer, actor, director, theatre maker, social-activist, comedian and producer. The artistic director of Black Honey Company, Candy has pioneered a fierce sub-genre of lyrical theatre that delves into the heart of radical feminist dreaming. We cover. Background...

Curator: Anna Kirk "Do less. Do it better."Anna May Kirk Anna May Kirk is an emerging curator, artist and project maker based in Sydney, Australia. She currently holds positions as the Executive Producer of Arts and Culture at FBi Radio and the Coordinator of AD Space.  Casula Powerhouse installation workFinding the creative process Running dancing workshopsBeing the performer and conducting the p...

"We can easily fool ourselves to thinking we've created something new"Sophia Ndaba Sophia Ndaba is a dance theatre, site specific, community outreach, object and installation and collaborator with live musicians and other multidisciplinary artists. Sophia is a founding member of the Dance Makers Collective, a group of independent dance artists in Sydney who collaboratively choreograph and produce...

"Art is that space for difficult conversations"Andrew Westle Andrew Westle is passionate about gender equality, social justice and making art accessible to everyone. His work defies boundaries and includes research, performance, evaluation, writing, theatre making, public health and stage management. We cover. Providing art that is not socially engagingHow do we get rich people to come to artthe c...

"I make dance pieces because I can think through everything that interests me" Kareth Schaffer and Cathy Walsh are performers and makers living in Berlin. We met just after their season of Merkel, a dual performance of Angela Merkel and life sized cutouts of other world leaders to talk about the show, their process, the power of coming together and the skill of thinking together. Dance in theatre...

"Seeing what can happen when we observe very basic things"Alice Gale-Feeny Alice Gale-Feeny is an artist working with performance, video, writing and facilitation. Interested in dialogical ways of working, non-theatrical techniques, processes of improvisation and the voice, her work examines the relations between individual subjective experience and shared space. We cover. Commonalities between te...

Photo by Jai Rafferty "Making art happen better"Cui Yin Cui, pronounced as tsuèi is an independent producer and arts / project manager based in Singapore. Exploring the intersection(s) between anthropology, art, and social action. We cover. The business of making art and making art happen What do you do when you artistically and creatively disagree? Wombat toysPushing back arts as an industry Danc...

Venuri Perera is a Colombo-based performer, performance artist and movement facilitator and is interested in the body as a "political provocateur".

View this post on Instagram I felt pretty darn fierce moulding the light. 📸 From my latest residency 🔭💡⌛️⏳ @critical_path_ A post shared by Brianna Kell (@briannakkell_) on May 3, 2018 at 1:14am PDT "I was obsessed with this one move..."Brianna Kell Brianna Kell is an independent dance artist based in Sydney who is a force on the dance floor! We speak about what to do in a studioimprovisation...

Nasim Patel is an artist working with dance as well as many and varied millennial mediums. We catch up about: https://www.instagram.com/p/BrkrH6plzRo/ - his video choreographytime in swedenKrangspace since graduating dance collegebeing ethnically ambiguousbecoming "the kid"trendingcollaborations with Rachael Wisbyselfishness and not wanting to be watchedrunning around video game worldsartificialit...

“Embodiment is a tool (a really important one) but it isn’t the same as political agency and political action” - Sam Hertz Sam Hertz is a Berlin-based sound artist and researcher working at intersections of Earth-based sound, sonic sensualities, and climate change. http://wombatradio.com.au/sam-hertz/

"If the (rice) grain is endangered then the knowledge around it is endangered."Anumitra Ghosh Dastidar https://www.instagram.com/p/BvlfP3zn_ye/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=17a923e0naf1v Edible Archives is a project at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2018-19 headed by Anumitra Ghosh Dastidar. The project is focused on engaging people with indigenous varieties of rice that are not commercially avail...

ArtsEquator held a live recording of its year-end dance podcast at Dance Nucleus SCOPE #4 on Sunday 2 December 2018, 7pm. Listen in as Chan Sze-Wei, Soultari Amin Farid and Bernice Lee share about the works they have seen this year in Singapore and Southeast Asia, and further questions and responses from the live audience at Dance Nucleus.

"Come here and touch this!"Bonnie Cowan Bonnie Cowan and Alex Stevenson debriefs about their recent co-curated event - Artifice and Interface - http://www.pact.net.au/whats-on/2018/10/13/pact-salon "to bring artists together and expose them to each other as well"Alex Stevenson we also talk about: ping pong ballsartificeinterfacerobotsVRTwisted Elements Dance group https://www.twisted-element.com/i...

Alice Heyward is an Australian dancer based in Berlin. We cover: making objects through composition the 'tingle' experiential mediums magic relationships capital assets building and undoing https://aliceheyward.com/

Kevin Chin is an Australian painter amongst other things. We speak about his upcoming show Structural Equality as well as minority representation, immigrant realities, demand and supply in high art markets, writing a thesis on gay marriage, the personal being political and so much more. links: http://kevinchin.com.au https://www.instagram.com/kevin_chin_art/ http://thisisnofantasy.com http://marti...

Clarissa Ai Ling Lee is not doing science or art and in this discussion we work at trying to talk about, and how to work in, that third space between and around both. "In the belly of the monster is where so called new knowledge is supposed to be happening"Clarissa Lee http://wombatradio.com.au/clarissa-lee/

Rhiannon Newton and Maria Nurmela met at the beach and got deep dredging through: embodiment studying music encouraging the audience to trust what they feel when watching dance scale of dancing age and being female ruthlessness of the matriarchy being empowered in your body dancing as sharing vs supernatural ability using the audience to make your work. http://wombatradio.com.au/rhiannon-newton-an...

Why dance? We say, hell why not? Before we could speak, dance was a common ground where we communicated and shared our experiences. As hosts of this year’s Participate Program with Supercell, The Farm invite you to join us in establishing a Common Ground for all of us, a place where dance aficionados and novices alike can take to the dance floor. - The Farm at SuperCell Festival http://wombatradio...

Daniele Constance speaks about her work and process and upcoming showing of #explainnormal as part of #INDEX at Supercell: Festival of Contemporary Dance Brisbane ahead of the premiere at Metro Arts later in 2019. http://wombatradio.com.au/daniele-constance-2019/