Blog posted on: Posted by: Vitalstatistix
With residencies at Vitalstatistix in April and May, two projects now in development address questions of labour and pleasure, embodiment, sex work, and online/IRL interactions. The Read is a collaboration between dancer and choreographer Amrita Hepi and writer, sex worker…
Blog posted on: Posted by: freerangefuture
Vitalstatistix has made the extremely difficult decision to cancel the public program of events for this year’s Adhocracy, our experimental art lab and festival, scheduled to take place 3-5 September. Adhocracy is a national arts event that takes place in…
Blog posted on: Posted by: Vitalstatistix
At the beginning of September, Vitalstatistix presented Adhocracy, our national arts hothouse. Adhocracy featured nine project and around forty artists, all developing new experimental and multidisciplinary artworks. You can read about why Adhocracy (and the artists it supports) are important…
Blog posted on: Posted by: Vitalstatistix
Vitalstatistix spoke with artists SJ Norman and Meg Wilson about their multidisciplinary practices, the queering of feminism, and their upcoming projects for Adhocracy 2017. SJ Norman is a multidisciplinary artist and writer. Their work traverses performance, installation, sculpture, text, video and…
Blog posted on: Posted by: Vitalstatistix
Vitalstatistix spoke to artists Emma Beech and Ashton Malcolm about what they hope to get out of their yearlong residencies with Vitals this year. Both Emma and Ashton are Adelaide-based theatre makers and actors who have a continuing relationship with the…
Blog posted on: Posted by: Vitalstatistix
Vitalstatistix spoke with performance-maker and conversationalist Emma Beech and curator, producer and director/dramaturge Steve Mayhew, who is also Creative Producer at Country Arts SA. Vitalstatistix and Country Arts SA will premiere Emma’s new work Life is Short and Long, in…
Blog posted on: Posted by: Vitalstatistix
Vitalstatistix spoke with Melbourne-based artist Lz Dunn, whose work Aeon features as this year’s Adhocracy residency project, and South Australian artist and creative producer Alysha Herrmann who will be participating in the Aeon residency. V: Could you each tell us…
Blog posted on: Posted by: Vitalstatistix
Vitalstatistix spoke with Hilary Kleinig from Zephyr Quartet and Jennifer Greer Holmes, independent creative producer and ZQ’s manager, about contemporary and experimental music, their focus on collaboration and how they are feeling about the future of Australian arts three weeks…
Blog posted on: Posted by: Vitalstatistix
Vitalstatistix spoke with Paul Gazzola, Adhocracy co-curator and Artistic Director of OSCA - Open Space Contemporary Arts (South Australia); and Willoh S.Weiland, Artistic Director of Aphids (Victoria) and co-creator of Crawl Me Blood, a new work in development with Vitalstatistix.…
