Podcast: Elia Bosshard

Wonderful artist Elia Bosshard invited me over for a cup of tea to her charming house on the edge of Glebe. We set at her kitchen table overlooking the garden, the afternoon birds visiting the neighbour’s trees, and we spoke about our mutual interest in spaces, phenomenology, and inter-corporeal relationships. We also spoke about daily routines and rituals we create in order to structure our lives and stay productive. And we’ve considered how do resting, dreaming, and spending time looking at the ocean, into the open horizon, fit into that?

We spoke about walking, note-keeping, and value of conversation. About neighbours and their mysterious sounds. About the impact of spaces on our mental wellbeing. And why should urban developers be more compassionate to the special meaning that some spaces have to people who made them into places.

Podcast: Mish Grigor

Conversation with Mish Grigor, Melbourne-based theatre and performance maker whom I skyped shortly after her first online performance titled Wasting Wasting Wasting Time. We talk about her experience of performing via the zoom and how she feels about the liveness of the ‘in real life’ or ‘in person’ theatre being replaced by the digital interface. As we consider the idea of ‘wasting time’ - a theme of Mish’s recent URL performance - we question: are we rushing to update and reinvent and therefore missing on the opportunity to slow down and cultivate deeper thoughts? Is speeding up in order to follow up with the change blurring the clarity of our vision? Could ‘wasting time’ and doing nothing be the most responsible thing to do right now?

Podcast: Josipa Bubaš & Neva Lukić

A conversation with Croatian performance artist Josipa Bubas and poet Neva Lukic recorded during the Covid19 lockdowns in April 2020. We speak about transition from IRL to URL art, workshops, and performances and ponder on ‘what would Corona look like without technology?’.

Podcast: Anja Dimitrijević

Conversation with Belgrade-based filmmaker, performer, and video-artist Anja Dimitrijević recorded via Skype on 17th May 2020 during the Covid19 lock downs. We speak about online learning, experiences, performances, connections, and contents. What kinds of new art languages we need to create in order to keep engaging with one another and with our audiences in participatory and tangible ways.

Mia Kevo: Two Metres Future?

Restriction of movement and prohibition of touch is harsh on us all, but for a dancer it has a whole other currency. I speak to Croatia-based dancer and performer Mia Kevo about how Covid19 affected her personally and professionally; what are her views on zoom-performances; and how she has managed to maintain her dance practice in this time of prescribed physical distancing? We also anticipate the post-Corona future and wander if we will be measuring distances for quite some time, and if so what impact will this have on the performance arts.

Darko Dragicevic: On Failure & Nothingness

Conversation with Berlin-based visual and performance artist Darko Dragicevic whom I’ve called over Skype to talk about his projects ‘Failure as Practice’, in which he not only explores our individual and collective relationship to failure within artistic practices, but also the broader cultural and historical definitions of value and success.

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