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?
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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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