Being Heard

There is something surprisingly silent about Lauren Brincat’s drum sextet Other Tempo.

Staged in the vestibule of Carriageworks, where it is showing as part of the 2019 Liveworks festival of experimental art, the work is at once an inanimate mute installation and a multidisciplinary live performance that splits our attention between the visual and the aural, challenging the common idea that sound is only heard and image only seen [1]. As an inanimate installation, Other Tempo is comprised of six drum kits that sit in the Carriageworks’ foyer throughout the two-week long festival. These are set against a pink wall above which is suspended a curled-up silk drape. On Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, the installation is ‘activated’ with live performances.

X-mas with Cait Harris and Ivan Cheng

Ivan Cheng, EVEN!, a second stage of ‘epoche-lacan-orbits’ performance series (2014)

For the special x-mas show on Eastside Radio 89.7fm comedian Cait Harris and performance artist Ivan Cheng recorded their work for us. Have a listen here.

Movement-generated Bodyscapes

Sydney based audio-visual artist, Mary Mainsbridge from the Deprogram talks about her new work ‘Bodyscapes’ showing at PACT as part of the 2014 Sydney Fringe Festival.

Sonic Social

This week on Something Else, Julia & I spoke about SONIC SOCIAL, a program of participatory sound works that occur site-specifically throughout the Museum of Contemporary Art. Our guests were sound artist / curator GAIL PRIEST and performance / multimedia artist LAUREN BRINCAT.