Artemis Projects

“Vignettes flickers fades” is an experimental archive conceived by Ira Ferris for the 20th anniversary of Critical Path choreographic research centre. The project consists of a text, a sound montage, a map, and live performances. This sound-montage was created in collaboration with musician and sound artist Alexandra Spence. A sonic archive is made from the flickers of words recorded during Ferris...

Conversation with dancer and choreographer JASMIN SHEPPARD about PREPARING GROUND – a new dance work that invites us to join First Peoples’ care of Land as an urgent act for our shared future. PREPARING GROUND is a First Nations-led dance work co-directed by pioneering indigenous artist Marilyn Miller, alongside Jasmin Sheppard and Katina Olsen. It dances of the future Future—a world where care fo...

Conversation with artist THOMAS THORBY-LISTER about his solo exhibition SITE ACTIONS showing at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf from 9th of April. to 11 May 2025 SITE ACTIONS is an exhibition of site-responsive paintings that engage with the natural environment that surrounds Woollahra Gallery. The landscape acts as an active participant in the creative process, with elements such as rain, wind, sun...

Conversation with choreographer and dancer EMMA HARRISON about HIGH OCTANE, her latest choreographic work premiering at Campbeltown Arts Centre on 27 March 2025. HIGH OCTANE is a super-charged dance work that reflects on the forces that drive us. This electrifying performance challenges us to rethink our relationship with success, power, and the relentless pursuit of more. In a world fuelled by co...

Conversation with artist Carolyn Craig about their most recent solo exhibition – ALGEIC INTENT – on at Firsdraft gallery (Sydney) until 15 March 2025. ALGAEIC INTENT investigates the ways in which Algae thrive in the wreckage of capitalism. The work intermingles breathe, sound, image and desire through diffractive echo, to leak affect and challenge conventional narratives around social responsibil...

Conversation with performance artist Alan Schacher who works across the terrain of dance and installation, with an interest in architectural experiences and the performativity of public space. His performances “attempt to eke out the essence of site, materials and objects in relation to and with the performer’s body, the situation, and memory of place.” From Friday 27th to Sunday 29th of December,...

Conversation with walking-artist and curator MELINDA HUNT talking about the group exhibition WALK WITH ME, taking place at Drawspace in Sydney from 28 November to 22 December 2024. WALK WITH ME gathers nine local and international artists-researchers who utilise walking as part of their practice, encountering and mapping the walking sites and terrains through the medium of drawing. These drawings...

Conversation with artist Belinda Yee about her coming solo exhibition INCREMENT at the Wentworth Galleries (Pitt St, Sydney) 7 to 10 November 2024. An exhibition of large-scale drawings, plus a live movement-based performance, INCREMENT explores the notion of temporality as reflected through the cold stone media – such as marble, graphite, sandstone – and soft tissues of the human body. Belinda’s...

Conversation with performance artist BRIAN FUATA about STORY SENT – a live and mediated performance he is presenting as part of CEMENT FONDU’s exhibition – TOO MUCH INFORMATION – throughout June and July 2024. https://cementfondu.org/tmi-too-much-information/ Partly an email performance, partly a live improvisation, STORY SENT explores repetition, references Authentic Movement, and finishes on a 2...

Conversation with visual artist and curator BEATA GEYER about the CHAIR exhibition, showing at Articulate Project Space until 28 July 2024. This group exhibition includes 25 artists who look at the CHAIR not only as an object but also as an image and a text. https://www.articulateprojectspace.org/project/24-07-DU Originally aired on Eastside Radio 89.7FM on 22 July 2024. Interviewer: Ira Ferris Th...

Conversation with artist and writer Ju Bavyka about their latest work – REST YOUR IDENTITY – currently on at TILES gallery in Lewisham, Sydney (till 20 April 2024). REST YOUR IDENTITY is a part of Ju Bavyka’s long-term project ‘On Rest’. This most recent iteration involves a performative facilitation practice that leans on meditation, where you are invited to identify parts of your identity that r...

Conversation with the Artistic Director of The Living Room Theatre, Michelle St Anne, about their latest work THE SEEPING WOMAN. The LIVING ROOM THEATRE has been in existence for more than 20 years and is known for giving voice to the unspoken and unseen. They create works that are non-linear and composed through movement, light, sound, and atmosphere – rather than the rigidity of the given langua...

Conversation with choreographer and dancer Emma Harrison about her solo dance work Wolverine, showing as part of 2024 Sydney Festival. Transformation, eruption, and melting of rage and joy - Wolverine sits between dance, cabaret, and performance art to explore and subvert feminine archetypes, mythology, wolves, pop culture, and self-defence. We talk about many layers of the work - from its cinemat...

Conversation with dancer, performer, choreographer, educator, and a ball of positive energy Azzam Mohamed. We talk about his move from Sudan to Australia, from street dance to contemporary choreographic works, his dance video 'Katamat' and the program 'Sculptured Riddims' he has put together for the 2024 Sydney Festival. Check him out here: https://www.instagram.com/shazam_jr/ Sculptured Riddims:...

Conversation and reading with poet Renay Pepita. Renay is reading a selection of poems from their 2022 book 'Untitled [Notes for Blue]' as well as the more recent poems that will be published in 2024 as 'Untitled [The Un-forgetting of Air]'. In between the readings we are unpacking the process behind writing each as well as Renay Pepita's overall working methodologies. Originally broadcast: 28 Aug...

Conversation with artist Renay Pepita about their Airspace gallery exhibition: 'Untitled (This Too is Beautiful)'. Originally aired: 11 Dec 2023 on Eastside Radio

Conversation with sound artist and musician ALEXANDRA SPENCE and installation and visual artist ELIA BOSSHARD. We talk about their recent collaboration on an audio-visual performance EDGE OF A CLOUD presented at the Phoenix Central Park, Sydney in Nov 2023. EDGE OF A CLOUD explores the dynamic and ephemeral aspects of light and sound to offer breath, movement, and sentience to non-human forms and...

Sympoiesis EP11: Alexandra Spence by Artemis Projects

Conversation with curator, writer, and researcher ANABELLE LACROIX about the project RADIO INSOMNIA, an all-night broadcast for night communities which is interested in the political and poetic forces of waking at night and asks: What is the potential of listening at night when wakefulness is embraced rather than endured? More info: https://insomnia.radio.fm We talk about the unsettling in the bod...

Conversation with painter and performance artist KATYA PETETSKAYA whose solo exhibition 'Am I Nature' is showing at Blue Mountains Cultural Centre in Katoomba until 8 October 2023. Katya Petetskaya’s works are made through gestural language and expressive mark making. The experiences that are stored in the body are translated into the large-scale abstract paintings that are left to feel alive, vib...

Conversation with Eora-based poet LUCIA MOON. Lucia is an Italo-Australian writer living on Gadigal land. She is a regular reader at venues around Sydney and, in the written form, her works can be found in Riverstone, Sydney Review of Books, and LOR Journal. Lucia’s writing is playful, ecological, and queer. She holds a Master of Research in poetics, and works for an environmental NGO. Sympoiesis...

Conversation with Naarm-based artist TANIA LOU SMITH who works in performance, video, and photography to explore feminist and autobiographical themes. Her latest work MOVING FREELY is showing at DrawSpace gallery (Sydney) to expend the notion of what drawing is and consider how movement could be considered a form of drawing. More information: https://drawspace.org/exhibitions-and-events/tania-lou-...

Conversation with artist AMY PRCEVICH about a video-installation 'WORKAROUND: Claiming Time and Space for Artmaking'. Emerging from the ongoing ‘problem’ of needing to maintain paid employment alongside an artistic practice, Workaround offers different strategies artists can employ to safeguard their art practice from diminishing under the weight and time constraints imposed by paid work. Check ht...

Conversation with artist FRANCE BARRETT whose sound installation ‘Cry’ is showing at Carriageworks as part of The National and who is also curating a night focused on the voice through poetry, improvised performance, and song. The title of this program is MOUTH and it will take place at Carriageworks 25 May 2023. More about Frances Barrett: https://francesbarrett.com Sympoiesis radio show is produ...

Conversation with artists and co-faunders of DrawSpace, a new gallery on Enmore Road, Newtown dedicated to contemporary drawing that works with a broad definition of what drawing is and encourages continued research and exploration of what it can be. For more about DrawSpace: https://www.instagram.com/drawspacesydney/ Sympoiesis radio show is produced on the Gadigal land of the Eora nation, tradit...