APHIDS LISTENS

This episode is hosted by Amaara Raheem, in conversation with Anna Kennedy-Borissow, whose research investigates how arts engagement stimulates recovery and resilience in disaster-affected communities.

Together they speak about site-specific art, the Strathewen bushfire memorial and community engagement.

APHIDS LISTENS is an online archive where an artist shares a work they love and a work they've made.

This episode is hosted by Amaraa Raheem who speaks with artist and curator Priya Namana about concerts, borders, dewdrops and autonomy. Priya's practice is led by felt senses and lived experience.

APHIDS LISTENS is an online archive where an artist shares a work they've made and a work they love.

This episode is hosted by Amaara Raheem who chats with Naarm based artist Jamie Lewis about food as practice, migration and intergenerational exchange. Jamie is a Singaporean-Australian artist, curator, dramaturg and facilitator making site-responsive, autobiographical and participatory work.

APHIDS LISTENS is an online archive where artists share a work they've made and a work they love.

In this conversation, Anna Nalpantidis talks to dance artist Tra Mi Dinh about rebelling against the black box, competitive dancing and “immersive empathy design”. Tra Mi reflects on her award-winning Keir Choreographic piece, The __ and Olafur Eliasson’s work, Beauty. They also speak about sensorial engagement and how art can be a tool for eliciting visceral bodily experiences.

APHIDS LISTENS is an alternative archive where artists share a work they’ve made, and a work they’ve loved.

Original APHIDS LISTENS theme and music by Becky Sui Zhen, audio engineering by Nina Buchanan.

In this episode of Aphids Listens Lara Thoms talks to Tasmanian artist Lucy Bleach about homing pigeons, donation bins and flying a Mulholland Drive star to perform in her work Homing. They also speak about Bokei, a collaboration between artist Rei Naito and architect Ryue Nishizawa held on one of the rural Japanese islands that make up the famous Benesse Art Site Naoshima. 

In this episode of APHIDS LISTENS Mish Grigor speaks with artist Frances Barrett, who lives and works on Kaurna land, Adelaide. We dive deep into how Fran thinks of thresholds: between inside and outside the body, between artist and curator, between making sound and receiving it. She talks to us about her upcoming project Meatus which opens at ACCA Melbourne in April and shares her thoughts on a work that has stayed with her long after she left the gallery - Megan Cope's (Untitled) Death Song.

APHIDS LISTENS is an alternative archive where artists share a work they’ve made, and a work they’ve loved.

Original APHIDS LISTENS theme and music by Becky Sui Zhen, audio engineering by Nina Buchanan.

In this episode, Lara Thoms speaks with artist  Sammaneh Poursh about multidisciplinary practice, performance art, art crushes, phenomenological experiences and sex magic. Sammaneh is a Queer genderfluid Muslim who arrived in Australia as a refugee after the Iranian Revolution. Her work plays with identity, ritual, the Body, diaspora, Middle Eastern and Western histories, and comedy as a way to address trauma.

RISING PROFILE

Lara Thoms speaks with multi-talented artist, dancer and choreographer Amrita Hepi, a Bundjulung and Ngapuhi woman interested in movement as manifested by all bodies. Amrita is also a curatorial consultant with RISING Festival and a collaborating artist with APHIDS on EASY RIDERS.

This episode dives deep into the gaze, pashing and the video OTHER — a fast paced montage of film clips depicting attraction between races by Tracey Moffatt.

Mish Grigor chats with artist Harriet Gillies about new weird art and performance, including Jeremy Shaw’s 'Liminals,' and her own practice — Harriet has most recently been working with Xanthe Dobbie, creating ‘PleasureDome’ for Sydney Festival with Griffin Theatre. They discuss art, technology, and reality. Mish misquotes her young friend, stating AFKEY — instead of AFK — when talking about being away from her keyboard as the new phrase describing life away from the internet. Harriet also details how the internet and memes have fed into her creative thinking.

MELBOURNE FRINGE SPECIAL

Eugenia Lim talks with Taipei-based choreographer Chang Chien-Hao about dancing with robot vacuums, why screens can never replace touch, and how he’s gotten to know his family by dancing together.

Something About Skin, Chien-Hao’s collaboration with Lee Tsung-Hsuan is on this Thur 26 Nov as part of Melbourne Fringe’s Fringe Focus Taiwan season.

Lara Thoms chats with artist Amy Spiers about art in public space including Gillian Wearing's Dancing in Peckham and her own work with Catherine Ryan, Closed to The Public (Protecting Public Space). They also question social distancing circles in parks and lament the current lack of queer dance parties.

In Episode 6 of APHIDS LISTENS Mish Grigor speaks with Sri Lankan born Australian artist Amaara Raheem about their performance practice based around the breath and wind, across poetic and political associations. Amaara reflects on a work seen long ago at a festival far away, and how formative arts experiences can create foundations that we explore in our practice for many years to come.

In this episode Lara Thoms speaks with New York based artist Buzz Slutzky about their video work that sees Anne Frank meeting Justin Beiber, as well as the politics of curating trans artists. Buzz reflects on the facetious humour in Cecelia Condit's video work Possibly in Michigan; including a poodle in a microwave.

Episode 04 features Hoda Afshar, a Tehran-born, Melbourne-based image-maker whose work brings to light unseen or hidden realities, in conversation with Eugenia Lim.

Our latest episode of APHIDS LISTENS is a conversation between Mish and Talya Rubin. Talya is a poet and performance maker living in Fremantle (WA). She is a co-founder of Too Close to the Sun, who make performance work that takes a hybrid form, weaving non-linear narratives that combine rich text, video, sound and objects to transcend expectations of theatrical storytelling and create resonant experiences for audiences.

In episode two of APHIDS LISTENS, Lara Thoms, Co-Director of APHIDS, speaks with New York based choreographer, dancer and artist Faye Driscoll. 'A postmillenium postmodern wild woman' (Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice) Faye and Lara talk about the many lives projects can take, and the multiple ways they can be viewed.