Conversation with dancer and choreographer JASMIN SHEPPARD about PREPARING GROUND – a new dance work that invites us to join First Peoples’ care of Land as an urgent act for our shared future.

PREPARING GROUND is a First Nations-led dance work co-directed by pioneering indigenous artist Marilyn Miller, alongside Jasmin Sheppard and Katina Olsen. It dances of the future Future—a world where care for Country and community continues generationally. It reminds us that our survival depends on an enduring relationship with the land, and that the path forward is one we must walk together.

More about this work: https://www.blakdance.org.au/articles/preparing-ground

Also featured on the show, a music from SOUND THE ALARM, a 16-piece ensemble led by double bassist Clayton Thomas, in response to the genocide in Palestine.

The track was recorded during their live performance at Johnston Street Jazz (June 2024). The music is a composed improvisation, described by Clayton as “a sonic allegory and a simple way to collect human energy in the right place for the right reasons.”

All the proceeds from the album go towards humanitarian aid in Gaza: https://claytonthomas.bandcamp.com

Originally aired on Eastside Radio 89.7FM on 12 May 2025.

The track featured at the very beginning is by Samuel Pankhurst who is a sound designer on PREPARING GROUND.

Sympoiesis radio show is produced on the Gadigal land of the Eora nation, traditional custodians of this land. We pay our respect and gratitude to the elders past, present, and yet to come.

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PRESENTER/INTERVIEWER: Ira Ferris (www.instagram.com/artemisprojects)

Conversation with artist THOMAS THORBY-LISTER about his solo exhibition SITE ACTIONS showing at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf from 9th of April. to 11 May 2025

SITE ACTIONS is an exhibition of site-responsive paintings that engage with the natural environment that surrounds Woollahra Gallery. The landscape acts as an active participant in the creative process, with elements such as rain, wind, sun and water leaving marks on the sheets of linen, which are eventually rendered in subtle monochromatic tones to reflect the natural hues of the environment.

Allowing the natural forces to shape and imprint their textures onto the fabric, Thomas Thorby-Lister relinquishes a part of his agency to give a greater voice to nature and engage in the collaborative process of ‘making with’ more-than-human.

More about Emma's work: https://www.thomasthorbylister.com

Originally aired on Eastside Radio 89.7FM on 31 March 2025.

Sympoiesis radio show is produced on the Gadigal land of the Eora nation, traditional custodians of this land. We pay our respect and gratitude to the elders past, present, and yet to come.

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PRESENTER/INTERVIEWER: Ira Ferris (www.instagram.com/artemisprojects)

Conversation with choreographer and dancer EMMA HARRISON about HIGH OCTANE, her latest choreographic work premiering at Campbeltown Arts Centre on 27 March 2025.

HIGH OCTANE is a super-charged dance work that reflects on the forces that drive us. This electrifying performance challenges us to rethink our relationship with success, power, and the relentless pursuit of more. In a world fuelled by competition, HIGH OCTANE takes us on a high-speed ride through ambition, self-identity, and the price of making it to the top.

More about Emma's work: https://emmaharrison.info

Originally aired on Eastside Radio 89.7FM on 17 March 2025.

Sympoiesis radio show is produced on the Gadigal land of the Eora nation, traditional custodians of this land. We pay our respect and gratitude to the elders past, present, and yet to come.

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PRESENTER/INTERVIEWER: Ira Ferris (www.instagram.com/artemisprojects)

Conversation with artist Carolyn Craig about their most recent solo exhibition – ALGEIC INTENT – on at Firsdraft gallery (Sydney) until 15 March 2025. ALGAEIC INTENT investigates the ways in which Algae thrive in the wreckage of capitalism. The work intermingles breathe, sound, image and desire through diffractive echo, to leak affect and challenge conventional narratives around social responsibility that isolate bodies as discrete entities that sustain the meritocracy myths of capitalism.

Carolyn’s practice operates through conceptual ideas of how power is embedded within material exchanges – between bodies, objects and at a quantum level. They see material practices as a relational act connected to political spaces and the broader arts ecology, and have founded artist run space SCHMICK Contemporary in Haymarket with this ethos in mind. Carolyn is a lecturer at the National Art School, and a member of research group Intermedial Composition Network at the University of New South Wales.

More about Carolyn's work: http://www.carolyncraig.com

Originally aired on Eastside Radio 89.7FM on 17 February 2025.

Sympoiesis radio show is produced on the Gadigal land of the Eora nation, traditional custodians of this land. We pay our respect and gratitude to the elders past, present, and yet to come.

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PRESENTER/INTERVIEWER: Ira Ferris (www.instagram.com/artemisprojects)

Conversation with performance artist Alan Schacher who works across the terrain of dance and installation, with an interest in architectural experiences and the performativity of public space. His performances “attempt to eke out the essence of site, materials and objects in relation to and with the performer’s body, the situation, and memory of place.”

From Friday 27th to Sunday 29th of December, Alan will take a performative drawing residency at Drawspace gallery in Enmore. The project is titled CHASING SHADOWS and in this residency, Alan will capture the outlines of shadows and reflections as they fall onto and into the DRAW space.

More about Alan's work: https://alanschacher.net

Originally aired on Eastside Radio 89.7FM on 23 December 2024.

Sympoiesis radio show is produced on the Gadigal land of the Eora nation, traditional custodians of this land. We pay our respect and gratitude to the elders past, present, and yet to come.

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PRESENTER/INTERVIEWER: Ira Ferris (www.instagram.com/artemisprojects)

Conversation with walking-artist and curator MELINDA HUNT talking about the group exhibition WALK WITH ME, taking place at Drawspace in Sydney from 28 November to 22 December 2024.

WALK WITH ME gathers nine local and international artists-researchers who utilise walking as part of their practice, encountering and mapping the walking sites and terrains through the medium of drawing. These drawings are not only reflective of the sites seen, but also the sites felt or experienced through the multisensory phenomena and the biodynamics of the walking body.

Some of the projects included in the exhibition also foreground responses to habitat loss and species extinction, connection with urban ecologies, and the colonial project.

More about Belinda's work: drawspace.org

Originally aired on Eastside Radio 89.7FM on 25 November 2024.

FEATURED TRACKS

1) Nicolas Jaar, Etre

2) Tune-Yards, Es-So

Sympoiesis radio show is produced on the Gadigal land of the Eora nation, traditional custodians of this land. We pay our respect and gratitude to the elders past, present, and yet to come.

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PRESENTER/INTERVIEWER: Ira Ferris (www.instagram.com/artemisprojects)

Conversation with artist Belinda Yee about her coming solo exhibition INCREMENT at the Wentworth Galleries (Pitt St, Sydney) 7 to 10 November 2024.

An exhibition of large-scale drawings, plus a live movement-based performance, INCREMENT explores the notion of temporality as reflected through the cold stone media – such as marble, graphite, sandstone – and soft tissues of the human body.

Belinda’s work stands as an embodiment of time passing, with fugitive materials that reflect the fragility and impermanence of existence itself.

More about Belinda's work: http://belindayee.com/index.htm

Originally aired on Eastside Radio 89.7FM on 28 October 2024.

FEATURED TRACKS

1) Roj Osa, Tu Si Di Si (album Azbetsni Krovovi) https://kopatonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/azbestni-krovovi

2) Truth ≠ Tribe, Bi ne Bi (album LIVE AT VINYL FACTORY)

https://truthtribe.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-vinyl-factory

Sympoiesis radio show is produced on the Gadigal land of the Eora nation, traditional custodians of this land. We pay our respect and gratitude to the elders past, present, and yet to come.

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PRESENTER/INTERVIEWER: Ira Ferris (www.instagram.com/artemisprojects)

Conversation with performance artist BRIAN FUATA about STORY SENT – a live and mediated performance he is presenting as part of CEMENT FONDU’s exhibition – TOO MUCH INFORMATION – throughout June and July 2024.

https://cementfondu.org/tmi-too-much-information/

Partly an email performance, partly a live improvisation, STORY SENT explores repetition, references Authentic Movement, and finishes on a 20-minute timer.

Originally aired on Eastside Radio 89.7FM on 8 July 2024.

Sympoiesis radio show is produced on the Gadigal land of the Eora nation, traditional custodians of this land. We pay our respect and gratitude to the elders past, present, and yet to come.

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PRESENTER/INTERVIEWER: Ira Ferris (www.instagram.com/artemisprojects)

Conversation with visual artist and curator BEATA GEYER about the CHAIR exhibition, showing at Articulate Project Space until 28 July 2024. This group exhibition includes 25 artists who look at the CHAIR not only as an object but also as an image and a text.

https://www.articulateprojectspace.org/project/24-07-DU

Originally aired on Eastside Radio 89.7FM on 22 July 2024.

Interviewer: Ira Ferris

This program airs from the Gadigal Land of the Eora nation.

Conversation with artist and writer Ju Bavyka about their latest work – REST YOUR IDENTITY – currently on at TILES gallery in Lewisham, Sydney (till 20 April 2024).

REST YOUR IDENTITY is a part of Ju Bavyka’s long-term project ‘On Rest’. This most recent iteration involves a performative facilitation practice that leans on meditation, where you are invited to identify parts of your identity that require a little rest, revision, and kind re-integration on better terms.

More about Ju's work: https://www.instagram.com/ju_bavyka/

Originally aired on Eastside Radio 89.7FM on 15 April 2024.

Sympoiesis radio show is produced on the Gadigal land of the Eora nation, traditional custodians of this land. We pay our respect and gratitude to the elders past, present, and yet to come.

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PRESENTER/INTERVIEWER: Ira Ferris (www.instagram.com/artemisprojects)