I was out doing an 'observational exercise' on Monday night as part of my uni class. Standing about in Chinatown, wandering down to Sussex and later Pitt streets, it made me realise how little time I spend just hanging out, soaking things in. Really enjoyed it. Anyway, the aim was a ...
New ideas so often come from the darnedest places, as Marcus Westbury notes in the latest Griffith Review. Cultures emerge from the spontaneous, temporary nature of human motivations, passions, interactions and enthusiasms. They often form in rebellion and opposition rather than by deliberation and design. They are unique and idiosyncratic. ...
I do like badges. And these ones are especially cute. They're from Perth. Patrick Pittman of Omit Needless Words - but also freelance writer, editor, indie publisher (zines, an ethical guide to grocery shopping in Perth), community radio ...
I can't imagine there are too many theatre companies that revel in walkouts. Syd Brisbane, an actor with 25 years experience who's worked with the Sydney Theatre Company and the Australian Shakespeare Company, founded The Rabble with designer Kate Davis and lighting/production expert Emma Valente. Their latest - a ...
As if that wasn't a headline waiting to happen. Western Sydney community arts manager Lena Nahlous hinted all was not as it seemed with the 2020 Summit creative strand when she appeared on Canvas last Sunday morning. Nick Pickard's article in today's Crikey makes it explicit, saying the Initial ...
It's true I guess. Sometimes I get half way through the day and realise all the clothes I'm wearing are from Incu and half the best jokes music I've heard came from Chris Wu at Popfrenzy. Designer Vince Frost, uber editor ...
ICE director Lena Nahlous came in to FBI this morning to talk about last weekend's 2020 Summit. She took part in the summit's creative strand, and was one of a small number interested in (and demonstrably capable of) talking about digital media, creativity (as distinct from The Arts), and ...
Often I find these sit in a shopfront stunts contrived - like the infamous Jabba/Regurgitator band in a bubble one a few years ago - but Hiromi Tango, currently holed up in the new window space at Redfern's Grantpirrie, matches the wonderful colour anarchy of Japan's Harajuku girls ...
Sydney artist-run spaces and the work shown in them (at least last Thursday's delivery) got dissed in an opinion piece by art blogger and broadcaster Andrew Frost in the SMH on the weekend. Frost's not happy with what he sees as as a trend "towards the low key, ...
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