Artemis Projects

Podcast with Czech documentary and dance filmmaker Kristýna Bartošová. Created as part of the WHY DANCE MATTERS NOW project, commissioned by Delving into Dance and Critical Path for the Interchange Festival. Recorded on 9 January 2020 on the Gadigal land of Eora nation, traditional custodians of the land on which we live, work, and dance. We pay our respect to their elders, past present and emergi...

This sound collage features voices by (in order of appearance): OLGA UZIKAEVA (Russian dancer and choreographer with Serbian address) IRA FERRIS (interviewer) ANA MARIJA MARINOV (Croatian filmmaker) LAURA CAPPELLESSO (Italian filmmaker) LUX ETERNA (Australian artist and filmmaker) GEMMA RIGGS (UK artist and filmmaker) The voices are extracted from the longer interviews with each of the artists, a...

Recorded via Skype (Sydney-Berlin), 27 March 2020.

Read more about it here: https://www.artemisprojects.com.au/sound-study-alpha-house-balcony This is a sample of one of the mentioned recordings.

A conversation with Slovenian puppeteer, musician, PhD of puppetry Matija Solce during his tour in Australia in December 2019/January 2020. Featuring a surprise appearance of panda Fergus Walker Junior, who would like to make a point that even though he is not a person he has a personality. Recorded in Sydney on 20th January 2020 at the Alpha House Gallery. Music used is by Matija Solce's Skandi-B...

A snippet from the interview with photographer Marlous Van Der Sloot, recorded in February 2015 while she exhibited as part of 'Dear Sylvia' at the Australian Centre for Photography (ACP). The exhibition was curated by Claire Monneraye and inspired by life of American poet Sylvia Plath. Music used: @trevorbrownmusic Featured image is a cropped photograph by Marlous Van Der Sloot. Featured in ADSR...

With the controversy of the Miller Point public housing evictions still in the air, a new documentary provides a fly-on-the-wall perspective of life on the Redfern housing estate 57 Lawson. Chronicling the every day lives of public housing tenants it attempts to give us a glimpse of an often misunderstood portion of the population. Stephen Hill spoke to the film’s director Ben Ferris about this ex...

Recorded in Sydney, Australia 30 January 2020.

Recorded in Sydney, Australia 20 January 2020.

Recorded in Sydney, Australia 20 January 2020.

Recorded in Sydney, Australia 26 January 2020.

Recorded in Sydney, Australia 24 January 2020.

Recorded in Sydney, Australia 21 January 2020.

This Artemis Projects podcast is with China-born, Berlin-based dancer, choreographer, painter, musician, and video artist Dan Su, with whom I met in Berlin to talk about her experimental dance video "Wood in Mood" in which she explores the transformation of one form into another, and allows for the energy of the environment to inform her movements. We speak about the influence her background in pa...

In this episode of DANCE CINEMA we speak to Olga Uzikaeva, a Russian dancer and choreographer interested in site specific, improvised performances and inter-disciplinary collaborations. We met in Belgrade, Serbia to talk about the dance video XX filmed through her collaboration with German sound artist and filmmaker Thea Soti. In this podcast, Olga speaks about how she branched from dancing on sta...

This Artemis Projects podcast is with Swedish artist Fanny Hellgren whom I called over Skype to talk about her series of works 'Withering Postures' exhibited at the Nevven gallery in Gothenburg, Sweden. Made of paper-pulps and transformed into a large-scale wall-tapestries, 'Withering Postures' bring attention to commonly discarded materials, making us rethink what can be of value and what can be...

For the 5th edition of the ADSR zine (@adsrzine), I wrote a piece on 'in-between' spaces in art practice, when one idea is completed and the new one only yet to be born. The writing was inspired by my conversation with Sydney-based artist Lux Eterna and this is a sound collage extracted from the larger interview and carried by sound design of Trevor Brown who engaged with the theme in terms of spa...

In this episode of DANCE CINEMA we speak to Australian artist Lux Eterna about her butoh and bodyweather inspired dance film AURA NOX ANIMA shot in the dunes of Anna Bay in Port Stephens, Australia. Through the use of slow pace and wide shots, AURA NOX ANIMA brings us back to our bodies, reawakens the awareness of our susceptivity to the natural order, and encourages contemplation of the cyclical...

Recorded in Novo Mesto, Slovenia, 4 August 2019.

In this episode of DANCE CINEMA we speak to Slovenia film director and editor, Sašo Podgoršek who together with world-renowned choreographer Iztok Kovač created a stunning dance film "Vašhava", performed by the international dance company EnKnapGroup. Divided in three sequences, "Vašhava" starts with François Truffaut inspired scene, more precisely his Fahrenheit 451 movie where government forbids...

Recorded in Sydney, Australia, 30 September 2019.

Recorded in Berlin, Germany, 24 July 2019.

Recorded in Venice, Italy, 15 July 2019.

Recorded in Pula, Croatia, 19 July 2019.

Recorded in Venice, Italy, 9 July 2019.