Melbourne, Melbourne Fringe 2015, Uncommon Places 2015

Follow Them: a conversation with Georgia Symons and Lee Shang Lun, Melbourne Fringe 2015

No Comments 21 August 2015

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 […]

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Melbourne, Melbourne Fringe 2015, Uncommon Places 2015

Smashing aphorisms: an interview with Shane McGrath, Uncommon Places Melbourne Fringe 2015

No Comments 14 August 2015

If you’ve flown into Melbourne from overseas recently, you’ve probably seen Shane McGrath’s work. He’s the artist behind the large-scale mural that lines the walls of the snaking corridors at Tullamarine Airport’s international terminal. It’s a piece that celebrates cultural diversity, depicting dozens of people from an array of backgrounds hurling a myriad of brightly […]

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Melbourne Fringe 2015, Uncommon Places 2015

Combobulated : an interview with artist Frank Duyker, Uncommon Places 2015

No Comments 08 August 2015

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 […]

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Melbourne, Melbourne Fringe 2015, Uncommon Places 2015

Beguiling Giles: an interview with sound artist Vincent Giles, Uncommon Places 2015

No Comments 07 August 2015

Vincent Giles, in spite of his busy schedule, always makes time for a coffee. The sound artist/composer is also Artist in Residence at the University of Melbourne’s School of Chemistry, as well as a PhD candidate at Monash University. His thesis: ‘Microsound, Spectra, Objectivity: a meme’s-eye view of comprehension in music’. He also blogs infrequently […]

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Melbourne, Melbourne Fringe 2015, Uncommon Places 2015

It’s murky territory, the space between female agency and subordination

No Comments 06 August 2015

“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 […]

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