If you were trying to put together a dream team to create a story installation in Melbourne, it’s quite possible that you’d end up with the powerful combination of live media artist Georgia Symons and independent game designer Lee Shang Lun. The duo met at the 2014 Fresh Air Festival, the annual festival run by […]

Frank Duyker comes prepared for our interview. Eager to illustrate the merits of his perhaps unusual materials, the sculptor removes three unlikely objects from his pocket. There is a brown square ceramic block with gold plates and pins arranged on the surface, or a CPU chip circa 1989, as he likes to call it. There’s […]

“Don’t walk alone, don’t leave your house,” Melbourne playwright and poet Izzy Roberts-Orr cautions. “But also, don’t stay inside because your partner’s the one most likely to kill you.” It’s these sorts of contradictions, filtering through to women in public, that Roberts-Orr hopes to explore in her latest offering for the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Her […]