Conversation with Naarm-based artist TANIA LOU SMITH who works in performance, video, and photography to explore feminist and autobiographical themes. Her latest work MOVING FREELY is showing at DrawSpace gallery (Sydney) to expend the notion of what drawing is and consider how movement could be considered a form of drawing.

More information: https://drawspace.org/exhibitions-and-events/tania-lou-smith

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 AMY PRCEVICH about a video-installation 'WORKAROUND: Claiming Time and Space for Artmaking'.

Emerging from the ongoing ‘problem’ of needing to maintain paid employment alongside an artistic practice, Workaround offers different strategies artists can employ to safeguard their art practice from diminishing under the weight and time constraints imposed by paid work.

Check https://amyprcevich.com for more about Amy's practice.

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 FRANCE BARRETT whose sound installation ‘Cry’ is showing at Carriageworks as part of The National and who is also curating a night focused on the voice through poetry, improvised performance, and song. The title of this program is MOUTH and it will take place at Carriageworks 25 May 2023.

More about Frances Barrett: https://francesbarrett.com

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 artists and co-faunders of DrawSpace, a new gallery on Enmore Road, Newtown dedicated to contemporary drawing that works with a broad definition of what drawing is and encourages continued research and exploration of what it can be.

For more about DrawSpace: https://www.instagram.com/drawspacesydney/

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 and installation artist ELIA BOSSHARD about her project ‘ROOM STUDIES’ showing at Kronenberg Mais Wright gallery (Sydney) from 19 May to 10 June 2023.

The work explores various configurations of doorways within a rectangular space, and how their placement and quantity inform our movements through the space.

Bringing attention to the constructed relationship between our bodies and spaces, these works consider potential for grater agency within the predesigned environments.

For more about Elia's practice see: https://www.eliabosshard.com

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 Sara Black about the contemporary dance work VALUE FOR MONEY showing in May 2023 at Riverside Theatres Paramatta, presented by FORM Dance Projects.

This work is Sara Black’s collaboration with a First Nations choreographer JASMINE SHEPPARD and it looks at the rift between the economic value of human life and the more intangible emotional and physical value of a person – bringing to attention the many ways these values are shaped by different cultures and contexts.

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 Mara Glass about the new contemporary dance work 'Let Them Be Messy' showing at The Phoenix Theatre in Wollongong as part of 2023 March Dance festival.

Inspired by the women of Greek mythology, Let Them Be Messy envisions matriarchal society where women are afforded the same freedoms as men, including those pertaining to the emotions we tend to label as ‘not feminine’.

More about Mara Glass: https://www.maraglass.org/

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/dancer Laura Osweiler about her project 'Falling into Wighted Time' developed during the 2023 March Dance festival.

The work looks at the experience of living with living with cataplexy(a neurological sleep disorder)and the new movement languages offered by that.

More about Laura Osweiler: https://amaradances.com/falling-into-weighted-time/

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 performer and choreographer Bonnie Curtis about the development of a multidisciplinary work - Girls Gone Wild - as part of the 2023 March Dance festival.

The work looks at social expectations and gender roles, and reclaims female right to emotions of anger and rage.

More about Bonnie Curtis: https://www.instagram.com/bonniecurtisprojects/

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-maker Aslam Abdus-samad about his latest multi-disciplinary and multi-media work 'I Can't Sleep' showing as part of 2023 March Dance festival at the East Sydney Community and Arts Centre 17 and 18 March.

Conceived through tired eyes, I Can’t Sleep is an interdisciplinary solo performance entwining autobiographical stories and folklore to examine sleeplessness.

More about Aslam: https://www.instagram.com/aslamaland/

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)