Arts House Listening Program

and the earth sighed is a large scale immersive video and sound environment that focuses on desert, fire, flood and coral reefs. The audience is encouraged to ascend stairs to a platform where they view large-scale floor projections from above, and then descend into the floor projections where their bodies are immersed in the moving sea and landscapes. The ambient surround soundscape designed by A...

This Artist Talk was recorded Saturday 25th June 2016 In this adventurous and celebratory performance event, Glasgow based artist Nic Green exuberantly examines feminism, inviting women of all ages and backgrounds to share the stage in an energetic tribute. Presented across the UK to wide acclaim, Trilogy now greets Melbourne with its bold and joyous proclamation. Trilogy begins by celebratingwome...

This postshow Q&A was recorded on 9/6/16 Mira Fuchs is an expert. An expert private dancer. She’s also the public face of artist Melanie Jame Wolf’s eight-year private life as a stripper in a gentleman’s club. Mira wants to dance you through the myriad questions and contradictions of her work, that time and her world. In an intimate, in-the-round work, Wolf speaks, prances and twists her way throu...

This postshow Q&A was Recorded on 2 June 2016. We hold memeories in our blood. It connects us. It defines us. Blood on the Dance Floor explores the legacies and memories of our bloodlines, our need for community, and what blood means to each of us questioning how this most precious fluid unites and divides us. A choreographer , dancer and writer from the Narangaa and Kaurna Nations of South Austra...

From Luke George and Collaborators 'Erotic Dance' this sound score is one half of a duet between dancer (Luke George) and sound artist (Nick Roux). Exploring the sensuality of form, it summons an experience of art that is primitive and seductive, intimate and visceral. This Work was presented by Arts House as part of The Festival of Live Art, March 2-5 2016 Created and performed live using an asso...

This postshow Q&A was recorded on 20/11/15 EDMUND. THE BEGINNING is both an exercise in distorted biography and a confessional torrent. Brian Lipson summons a disordered array of characters from the impatient past and the murky present: some are familiar, some are famous, some are known only to Lipson. None is comfortable. Fifteen years ago Lipson’s acclaimed solo show, A Large Attendance in the A...

This postshow Q&A was recorded Thursday 19th November 2015. In a kitchen, somewhere in West Wales, a war veteran called Zach has withdrawn into a box. A friend called Ieuan arrives, o ering recovery in the form of dialogue and a capsule containing 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine. He’s participated in trials for treating chronic PTSD with psychedelic drugs, and says he’s cured. What follows soars...

This postshow Q&A was recorded on the 12th November 2015. Piece For Person and Ghetto Blaster is the story of a man, a woman and a duck. It is about the excruciating realms of human behaviour. It is an attempt to navigate the complexities of an ordinary person struggling to become a better human. Preoccupied by how social conventions obstruct the possibility of personal liberation, Piece for Perso...

At the intersection of theatre, dance and visual art installation, Bronx Gothic gives palatable force to the charged relationship between two girls on the verge of adolescence in 1980s outer-borough New York City. Their world emerges through the clandestine and sometimes sex-saturated notes that are passed between them. Orchard Beach, Nathan’s hot dogs and Whitney Houston’s hair are all part of th...

This post show Q&A was recorded on the 12th September 2015. The signs are there: over the past few decades, humanity’s 5000-year collaboration with the honey bee has been building toward a grim conclusion. If we fail to heed their warning, could we be casually swept into the fossil record alongside them? Dance of the Bee is a remarkable interspecies musical collaboration: a work performed by three...

New Zealand-born, Brussels-based artist, Kate McIntosh, creates an improvised laboratory for unusual recordings and acoustic experiments, using everyday objects and materials. Chairs are dragged, paper is torn, glasses are toppled; sounds are recorded and played back along the way. As curious scientist, mischievous questioner and eclectic storyteller, McIntosh creates a distinctive journey made of...

In this new work by Melbourne choreographer Jo Lloyd (Future Perfect, 2013), hypnotic tension is generated by three dancers as they negotiate a dysfunctional system of choreography. Navigating their physical histories, both recent and distant – from traces of folk dance to idiosyncratic body rhythms – the performers reveal a series of desperate encounters, in a destabilising flood of movement. Con...

Wesley Enoch, Playwright and Director Tue 18 August, RECLAIM AUSTRALIA - with guest and co-host Deborah Cheetham. What are we trying to do as a nation - to legislate-out racism, or to remove racism from our central document - the Constitution? What does it look like and is it even possible? Join Wesley and Deborah and guests for this pertinent discussion.

Wesley Enoch, Playwright and Director Tue 18 August, RECLAIM AUSTRALIA - with guest and co-host Deborah Cheetham. What are we trying to do as a nation - to legislate-out racism, or to remove racism from our central document - the Constitution? What does it look like and is it even possible? Join Wesley and Deborah and guests for this pertinent discussion.

Composer Kate Neal creates a compelling and intriguing multimedia exploration of signalling, communication and miscommunication in Semaphore. Using physical, visual and aural encoding systems – Semaphore, Morse code, pennants, lights and binary code – three dancers and eight musicians synchronize in a complex coordinated choreography of bodies, music and illumination, to generate an immersive disp...

Acclaimed performance maker Tamara Saulwick employs portable turntables, reel-to-reel tape players and live performance in a moving meditation on cycles and the ending of things. Featuring the voice of Paddy Mann (Grand Salvo), an electro-acoustic score by Peter Knight, and design by Ben Cobham, Endings explores the experiences – both ordinary and extraordinary – that cluster around death, dying a...

The highly charged and evocative sound and smell of a struck match provide the ignition point for A Small Prometheus; a new work for five dancers about the consequences of small actions and the fragility of physical systems. Combustion and transformation drive the unfolding choreography as dancers synchronise, mesh and collide. Fire-driven kinetic sculptures become part of live interactive sound-a...

The boxing gym: a place of dreams of glory, of a better life. The walls are covered in inspirational quotes; bodies are in constant motion; the stakes are high. For 18 months theatre-maker Roslyn Oades and her trusty tape recorder followed a determined young boxer from Bankstown as he prepared for a world title fight. On the way she encountered past legends, up-and-comers and failed contenders who...

When a large sports bag full of cash is brought into Peter’s very ordinary home, his family finds itself caught up in a sinister and disturbing chain of events. You are invited to step onto the floor and into this gripping thriller, experiencing first-hand the sordid betrayal and moral philandering that’s about to blanket this suburban dream. Devised by Zoe Pepper and Adriane Daff of award-winning...