APHIDS LISTENS

RISING PROFILE

Lara Thoms speaks with multi-talented artist, dancer and choreographer Amrita Hepi, a Bundjulung and Ngapuhi woman interested in movement as manifested by all bodies. Amrita is also a curatorial consultant with RISING Festival and a collaborating artist with APHIDS on EASY RIDERS.

This episode dives deep into the gaze, pashing and the video OTHER - a fast paced montage of film clips depicting attraction between races by Tracey Moffatt.

Mish Grigor chats with artist Harriet Gillies about new weird art and performance, including Jeremy Shaw's Liminals, and her own practice - Harriet has most recently been working with Xanthe Dobbie, creating PleasureDome for Sydney Festival with Griffin Theatre. They discuss art, technology, and reality. Mish misquotes her young friend, stating AFKEY - instead of AFK - when talking about being away from her keyboard as the new phrase describing life away from the internet. Harriet also details how the internet and memes have fed into her creative thinking.

MELBOURNE FRINGE SPECIAL

Eugenia Lim talks with Taipei-based choreographer Chang Chien-Hao about dancing with robot vacuums, why screens can never replace touch, and how he's gotten to know his family by dancing together.

Something About Skin, Chien-Hao's collaboration with Lee Tsung-Hsuan is on Thur 26 Nov as part of Melbourne Fringe's Fringe Focus Taiwan season.

Lara Thoms chats with artist Amy Spiers about art in public space including Gillian Wearing's Dancing in Peckham and her own work with Catherine Ryan Closed to The Public (Protecting Public Space). They also question social distancing circles in parks and lament the current lack of queer dance parties.

In Episode 6 of APHIDS LISTENS Mish Grigor speaks with Sri Lankan born Australian artist Amaara Raheem about their performance practice based around the breath and wind, across poetic and political associations. Amaara reflects on a work seen long ago at a festival far away, and how formative arts experiences can create foundations that we explore in our practice for many years to come.

In this episode Lara Thoms speaks with New York based artist Buzz Slutzky about their video work that sees Anne Frank meeting Justin Beiber, as well as the politics of curating trans artists. Buzz reflects on the facetious humour in Cecelia Condit's video work Possibly in Michigan; including a poodle in a microwave.

Episode 04 features Hoda Afshar, a Tehran-born, Melbourne-based image-maker whose work brings to light unseen or hidden realities, in conversation with Eugenia Lim.

The third episode of APHIDS LISTENS is a conversation between Mish and Talya Rubin. Talya is a poet and performance maker living in Fremantle (WA). She is a co-founder of Too Close to the Sun, who make performance work that takes a hybrid form, weaving non-linear narratives that combine rich text, video, sound and objects to transcend expectations of theatrical storytelling and create resonant experiences for audiences.

In episode two of APHIDS LISTENS, Lara Thoms, Co-Director of APHIDS, speaks with New York based artist Faye Driscoll.

Our first conversation sees APHIDS' Eugenia Lim speak with Amos Gebhardt about their moving image and lens-based work that offers a non-linear, non-binary space of fluidity, desire and the more-than-human. Amos transports the viewer to extraordinary landscapes through their work as they talk about leaving, arriving and working on unceded country.