Conversation with the Artistic Director of The Living Room Theatre, Michelle St Anne, about their latest work THE SEEPING WOMAN.

The LIVING ROOM THEATRE has been in existence for more than 20 years and is known for giving voice to the unspoken and unseen. They create works that are non-linear and composed through movement, light, sound, and atmosphere – rather than the rigidity of the given language.

In making the Living Room Theatre works, Michelle St Anne often reaches out to collaborators who come from diverse art disciplines. This time – for The Seeping Woman – she is collaborating with digital artist LINDA DEMENT, dancer ANCA FRANKENHAEUSER, and musicians MARY RAPP & NIKI JOHNSON.

The Seeping Woman is described as a site-specific work that focuses on gestures both human and digital held within the seepage of fluids, fabric and observations.

For more about The Living Room Theatre works see: https://livingroomtheatre.org

This conversation was originally aired on Eastside Radio 89.7FM on 1 April 2024.

Conversation with choreographer and dancer Emma Harrison about her solo dance work Wolverine, showing as part of 2024 Sydney Festival.

Transformation, eruption, and melting of rage and joy - Wolverine sits between dance, cabaret, and performance art to explore and subvert feminine archetypes, mythology, wolves, pop culture, and self-defence.

We talk about many layers of the work - from its cinematic influences, to the relationship to the moon and deep blue, skin and fur.

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

Originally aired on Eastside Radio 89.7FM on 8 January 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 dancer, performer, choreographer, educator, and a ball of positive energy Azzam Mohamed. We talk about his move from Sudan to Australia, from street dance to contemporary choreographic works, his dance video 'Katamat' and the program 'Sculptured Riddims' he has put together for the 2024 Sydney Festival.

Check him out here: https://www.instagram.com/shazam_jr/

Sculptured Riddims: https://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/events/sculptured-riddims

Watch Katamat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDZoKO86P84

Originally aired: 25 Dec 2023 on Eastside Radio

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)

FEATURED TRACK:

Jill Scott, Golden

St Germain, How Dare You

Lady Alma & The Rainmakers, Let It Fall (Harlum Mix)

Heavy-K & Ami Faku, Andikayeki

Conversation and reading with poet Renay Pepita.

Renay is reading a selection of poems from their 2022 book 'Untitled [Notes for Blue]' as well as the more recent poems that will be published in 2024 as 'Untitled [The Un-forgetting of Air]'.

In between the readings we are unpacking the process behind writing each as well as Renay Pepita's overall working methodologies.

Originally broadcast: 28 August 2023

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)

GUEST: https://www.renaypepita.com

Conversation with artist Renay Pepita about their Airspace gallery exhibition: 'Untitled (This Too is Beautiful)'.

Originally aired: 11 Dec 2023 on Eastside Radio

Conversation with sound artist and musician ALEXANDRA SPENCE and installation and visual artist ELIA BOSSHARD. We talk about their recent collaboration on an audio-visual performance EDGE OF A CLOUD presented at the Phoenix Central Park, Sydney in Nov 2023.

EDGE OF A CLOUD explores the dynamic and ephemeral aspects of light and sound to offer breath, movement, and sentience to non-human forms and objects.

Originally broadcast: 23 October 2023

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)

GUESTS:

Alexandra Spence: https://www.instagram.com/alxandraspence/

Elia Bosshard: https://www.instagram.com/elia.bosshard/

FEATURED TRACK:

Intro: Alexandra Spence, Suddenly Silent

Final track: https://alexandraspence.bandcamp.com/track/blue-waves

Sympoiesis EP11: Alexandra Spence by Artemis Projects

Conversation with curator, writer, and researcher ANABELLE LACROIX about the project RADIO INSOMNIA, an all-night broadcast for night communities which is interested in the political and poetic forces of waking at night and asks: What is the potential of listening at night when wakefulness is embraced rather than endured?

More info: https://insomnia.radio.fm

We talk about the unsettling in the body and mind that keeps us awake; whether artists are especially prone to insomnia, the history of sleeping and sleep regimes, porosity between dreaming and wakefulness, the revolutionary prospect of the night time, and the specific type of listening that is available to us at these eerie hours.

Originally broadcast: 9 October 2023

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)

FEATURED TRACKS:

Into your Dreams - Hector Zazou & Laurie Anderson

Three of a Mind - Pauline Oliveros, Timothy Hill & David Rothenberg

Pasties and a G-String (At the Two O'Clock Club) - Tom Waits

Conversation with painter and performance artist KATYA PETETSKAYA whose solo exhibition 'Am I Nature' is showing at Blue Mountains Cultural Centre in Katoomba until 8 October 2023.

Katya Petetskaya’s works are made through gestural language and expressive mark making. The experiences that are stored in the body are translated into the large-scale abstract paintings that are left to feel alive, vibrating with energy. Her process-driven practice is led by the choice and use of materials, which she treats as collaborators who propose their own ideas and limitations to which she responds.

Katya’s current solo exhibition – Am I Nature – investigates the complex relationship between humans and nature, which we on the one hand feel a part of and equal to whilst also trying to overcome and master.

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 Eora-based poet LUCIA MOON.

Lucia is an Italo-Australian writer living on Gadigal land. She is a regular reader at venues around Sydney and, in the written form, her works can be found in Riverstone, Sydney Review of Books, and LOR Journal. Lucia’s writing is playful, ecological, and queer. She holds a Master of Research in poetics, and works for an environmental NGO.

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.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/sympoiesisradioshow

Instagram: www.instagram.com/sympoiesis_radio_show

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