Arts House Listening Program

Kate and Adele in conversation about their upcoming works Worktable and Wowzzzeee, discussing themes around construction, destruction and reconstruction. Recorded for the Festival of Live Art 2018.

S. J. and Georgia in conversation about their upcoming works Rest Area and Stone Tape Theory (S. J.) and Intercourse with the Artist (Georgia), and exploring the changing notion of intimacy. Recorded for the Festival of Live Art 2018.

Arts House spoke with co-creator of WE ARE LIGHTNING!, JOF, about the role of live music and public spaces in society and why they are so important.

Jen Rae, Artist; Alison McMillian, Department of Health & Human Services & Alan March, University of Melbourne.

Jen Rae, Artist; Alison McMillian, Department of Health & Human Services & Alan March, University of Melbourne.

Jen Rae, Artist; Alison McMillian, Department of Health & Human Services & Alan March, University of Melbourne.

Supper Club: Place & Displacement is a facilitated exploration of our overlapping relationships to place. Wurundjeri elder Joy Murphy Wandin, urban planner Timmah Ball and natural history expert Gary Presland each frame their view of place through Indigenous culture, our natural environment and the ways that we design new spaces and transform place. Supper Clubbers can then grab a plate and join i...

How can art, actions and interventions create sites of resistance within colonial and institutionalised arts settings? Hosted by Tania Cañas, an all-female panel including Sethembile Msezane, Odette Kelada and Mariaa Randall, explores the intersecting roles of race, gender and class in the lives of First Nations Women and Women of Colour navigating the arts sector. In particular, discussion will f...

Stephanie Lake (Pile of Bones) and Melanie Lane (Nightdance) - Long edit by Arts House Listening Program

Stephanie Lake (Pile of Bones) and Melanie Lane (Nightdance) - short by Arts House Listening Program

wāni (Tales of an Afronaut) and Tania Cañas (Art & Action) - long version by Arts House Listening Program

wāni (Tales of an Afronaut) and Tania Cañas (Art & Action) - short by Arts House Listening Program

Skin in the Game - Shian Law and Phillip Adams (Vanishing Point) by Arts House Listening Program

Skin in the Game - Rebecca Jensen (Deep Sea Dances) and Rhiannon Newton (Bodied Assemblies) by Arts House Listening Program

Skin in the Game - Mariaa Randall (Divercity) and Lucy Guerin (Split) by Arts House Listening Program

Skin in the Game - Lilian Steiner (Noise Quartet Meditation) and James Batchelor (Deepspace) by Arts House Listening Program

Skin in the Game - Lz Dunn (Aeon) and Martin Hansen (if it's all in my veins) by Arts House Listening Program

Arts House is a core program of the City of Melbourne and presents and develops the work of local, national and international experimental artists. In this introductory podcast, Angharad Wynne- Jones, Artistic Director of Arts House, explains the vision and focus of Arts House curatorial approach and the spectrum of work that is presented, stretching across form and discipline. Arts House acknowle...

The two podcasts in this series follow the collaborative work of artists Lorna Hannon and Jen Rae, and their ongoing interest in visionary activist, Ruth Crow. Ruth Crow provided the artists a way to explore ideas surrounding community gathering and change in North Melbourne. Commissioned by Arts House 2016 Amy McMurtrie – Artist & Deviser Michael Vescio – Consultant Sound Artist and Technician

The two podcasts in this series follow the collaborative work of artists Lorna Hannon and Jen Rae, and their ongoing interest in visionary activist, Ruth Crow. Ruth Crow provided the artists a way to explore ideas surrounding community gathering and change in North Melbourne. Commissioned by Arts House 2016 Amy McMurtrie – Artist & Deviser Michael Vescio – Consultant Sound Artist and Technician

Silent Supper Club will look at expressive forms of non-spoken communication – Auslan, tactile experiences and live captioning. Hosted by artist and director Jo Dunbar, guests include writer and poet Quinn Eades, co-founder of The Delta Project, Anna Seymour and photographer Kate Disher Quill. Surrounded by delicious food, Silent Supper Club explores the types of silences saturating spaces of perf...

Silent Supper Club will look at expressive forms of non-spoken communication – Auslan, tactile experiences and live captioning. Hosted by artist and director Jo Dunbar, guests include writer and poet Quinn Eades, co-founder of The Delta Project, Anna Seymour and photographer Kate Disher Quill. Surrounded by delicious food, Silent Supper Club explores the types of silences saturating spaces of perf...

This forum was recorded on 30th July 2016 “The question is, am I a monster, or am I myself a victim? And what if I am a victim?” One hundred and fifty years since Dostoevsky’s masterpiece, Crime and Punishment, we’ll be talking about our enduring obsessions with transgression, retribution and justice. What purpose does punishment play in society? Is punishment good for you? And what is the connect...

This post show Q&A was recorded on 28th July 2016 Devised by both artists and former prisoners, The Chat takes a dark and humorous look at the criminal justice system. Led by theatre maker and former parole officer,
J R Brennan, with writer-performer David Woods (Ridiculusmus), The Chat is an administrative nightmare of comic proportions where offenders become parole officers, actors become crimin...

This postshow Q&A was recorded on 7/7/2016 Dance, video, poetry and song are breathtakingly combined in a major new work from intercultural and interdisciplinary company, Marrugeku. In a burnt landscape a group of climate change refugees faces yet another extreme weather event. Propelled back and forward in time, they revisit conflict with mining companies, the destruction of fauna and the relegat...