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Roman Berry will be bringing his solo performance work Not Very Berry to Waterside for Adhocracy 2023. We caught up with him to discuss memories, creativity, and much more. Firstly, tell us about Not Very Berry – what’s the core concept of…
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Before Solomon Frank appears at Adhocracy 2023 to expand our definitions of musical genre, we sat down to talk all things The MacroPlastic Workout. First of all, tell us about The MacroPlastic Workout – what’s the core concept that you’re exploring,…
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Ahead of her appearance at Adhocracy 2023, Isobel Marmion dropped past to have quiet conversations about her project Streetlights and Long Nights. Adhocracy – Vitalstatistix’s renowned annual arts hothouse – supports the development of new art and performance. It runs September…
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Ahead of their upcoming dual-project residency The Paranormal is Personal, we caught up with artists Jason Sweeney and Fiona Sprott to talk ghosts, haunting, and paranormal audio investigation tools. The Paranormal is Personal comprises two distinct, separate, but deeply interconnected projects. Where did…
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The board of Yerta-Bulti/Port Adelaide-based not-for-profit arts organisation Vitalstatistix is pleased to announce the appointment of Cassie Magin to the role of Executive Director/Co-CEO. From its home in the heritage-listed Waterside Workers Hall, Vitalstatistix plays a significant role in the Australian arts ecology by…
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In the lead up to our final presentation for 2022 – Sightings, a new performance and portrait of place – creator, director, and choreographer Gabrielle Nankivell dropped past to talk about heat on the road, points in time, and Grandma’s…
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Daley Rangi stopped by to wax poetic with us on all things I Don’t Owe You. This is the resultant dialogue. Firstly, tell us about ‘I Don’t Owe You’ – what’s the project all about and what inspired it? To…
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We chat all things protest and We the People related with multidisciplinary artist Katie Sfetkidis. Adhocracy – Vitalstatistix’s renown annual arts hothouse – supports the development of new art and performance. It runs September 2-4. Full details, including program, HERE. First of…
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We sat down with artist Catherine Ryan to discuss The Two Body Problem. Adhocracy - Vitalstatistix’s renown annual arts hothouse - supports the development of new art and performance. It runs September 2-4. Full details, including program, HERE. Firstly, tell…
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Photo by Pier Carthew Vitalstatistix Artist in Residence, writer Jennifer Mills, has written a response to YES, the new performance work by acclaimed feminist theatre makers THE RABBLE. Rather than attempt to describe or translate the experience of this extraordinary…
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Photo by jen mills @millsjenjen_prints Our 2022 Writer in Residence Jennifer Mills has been developing her ideas around labour issues in the arts and advocating for solutions to the current reliance on unpaid/underpaid and undervalued work, practices which see artists…
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With residencies at Vitalstatistix in April and May, two projects now in development address questions of labour and pleasure, embodiment, sex work, and online/IRL interactions. The Read is a collaboration between dancer and choreographer Amrita Hepi and writer, sex worker…
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Photo by Jess Alice/Writers SA Writer and 2022 Vitalstatistix Artist in Residence Jennifer Mills delivered a closing address to the Living Landscapes writers festival on 9th April at Hart’s Mill. Speaking on the subject of ‘Writing for Tomorrow,’ Mills invited…
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We sat down with Em König and Jason Sweeney to discuss Emission. Tell us about Emission. Where did the idea come from? Jason: Initially we wanted to make a work that was centred around eco-grief and to create an immersive…
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Vitalstatistix has made the extremely difficult decision to cancel the public program of events for this year’s Adhocracy, our experimental art lab and festival, scheduled to take place 3-5 September. Adhocracy is a national arts event that takes place in…
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We sat down with Meg Wilson and Sascha Budimski from Progress Report to talk about the design elements of the work. Alison and Alisdair have talked about how a random piece of styrofoam they found in a dance studio was…
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We sat down with Alison Currie and Alisdair Macindoe from Progress Report to talk about the work. Tell us about Progress Report. Where did the idea come from, and what are you hoping that people get out of the work? Alisdair:…
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pvi collective led local rebels in a series of meetings and actions between May 19-30 as part of tiny revolutions. This is their report. REBEL REPORT: Port Adelaide, Kaurna Country Summary: Rebels based in Kaurna Country assembled nightly across the week of…
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We had a tiny chat about tiny revolutions with pvi collective's Kelli Mccluskey and Annalee Ladiges. tiny revolutions is on 19-23 May. Book HERE. Vitals: Tell us a little (pardon the pun) about tiny revolutions. Where did the idea come from? Kelli: It came…
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Cher sound designer and co-creator Steve Mayhew has elected to share (cher?) music that inspired the show. Read below for his notes and links to the playlists. Book tickets to Cher HERE. When composing and constructing Cher’s soundtrack Larissa, Sam…
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VITALSTATISTIX STATEMENT – 12 OCTOBER 2020 Casey Jenkins – IMMACULATE A PDF version of this statement can be downloaded HERE. See Casey Jenkins' statement HERE. Vitalstatistix unequivocally expresses our support for the artist Casey Jenkins, and their work IMMACULATE. We…
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Isolation Conversations is by Shopfront Artist-In-Residence Jane Howard. Jane speaks with Kate Power about how COVID-19 has affected their work, their process and their lives. By the time Kate Power and I find time to talk in late May, the…
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Darling Vitals family, this is quite a long message and I appreciate the time you take to read it in these difficult days. Our Federal funding outcome Vitalstatistix was extremely disappointed to receive news on Friday that our Four Year…
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Vitalstatistix has appointed a new Chair to our Board of Management on Tuesday night (May 14). Long-term board member Narelle Walker has stepped down after completing an eight-year term on the Vitalstatistix board including six years as Chair. Replacing Narelle…
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Download full program here Book here A festival of climate change art for the 21 st century: three weeks of performances, installations, talks, workshops and special events in Port Adelaide. Climate Century opens this coming Thursday 8th November. We…
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Vitalstatistix spoke with artist Rebecca Conroy about her interests in economics, labour and artist-led study of these topics, along with her new work Iron Lady, in development with Vitalstatistix and Performance & Art Development Agency. Rebecca Conroy is an interdisciplinary…
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At the beginning of September, Vitalstatistix presented Adhocracy, our national arts hothouse. Adhocracy featured nine project and around forty artists, all developing new experimental and multidisciplinary artworks. You can read about why Adhocracy (and the artists it supports) are important…
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Vitalstatistix spoke with artists SJ Norman and Meg Wilson about their multidisciplinary practices, the queering of feminism, and their upcoming projects for Adhocracy 2017. SJ Norman is a multidisciplinary artist and writer. Their work traverses performance, installation, sculpture, text, video and…
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Vitals spoke with sound artists and composers Cat Hope and Jason Sweeney, about their extensive experimental music practices and their current works in development with Vitalstatisix. Cat Hope is a composer, sound artist, performer, songwriter and noise artist. She is…
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Vitalstatistix spoke with artists Nicola Gunn and Steve Mayhew about their thoughts on theatre making and collaboration, other obsessions, and their current projects with Vitalstatistix. Nicola Gunn makes contemporary performance that combines text, choreography and visual art in a self-generated…
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Vitalstatistix spoke with artists Mish Grigor and Rebecca Meston about feminism, new writing for performance, the value of residencies and their relationship to Vitalstatistix. Rebecca Meston is a South Australian-based writer and theatre-maker. Her work has a particular focus on…
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Vitalstatistix spoke with artists Chris Scherer and Larissa McGowan who are both developing solo dance works through a partnership between Vitalstatistix and Performance & Art Development Agency (PADA). Chris is a South Australian-born cross-disciplinary artist and performer currently working between…
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Vitalstatistix spoke to artists Emma Beech and Ashton Malcolm about what they hope to get out of their yearlong residencies with Vitals this year. Both Emma and Ashton are Adelaide-based theatre makers and actors who have a continuing relationship with the…
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Vitalstatistix spoke to dance artists Atlanta Eke and Erin Fowler about the changing face of local and national dance practice. Atlanta is a Melbourne-based choreographer and dancer who is developing her new work I CON with Vitalstatistix in November. Erin is…
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Vitalstatistix spoke with performance-maker and conversationalist Emma Beech and curator, producer and director/dramaturge Steve Mayhew, who is also Creative Producer at Country Arts SA. Vitalstatistix and Country Arts SA will premiere Emma’s new work Life is Short and Long, in…
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Vitalstatistix spoke with Melbourne-based artist Lz Dunn, whose work Aeon features as this year’s Adhocracy residency project, and South Australian artist and creative producer Alysha Herrmann who will be participating in the Aeon residency. V: Could you each tell us…
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Vitalstatistix spoke with Adelaide-based independent artists Sasha Grbich and Jason Sweeney. Sasha is a visual artist, writer and lecturer; Jason is a singer-songwriter, composer and multidisciplinary artist. Both have long-term associations with Vitalstatistix and each is involved in our five-year…
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Vitalstatistix spoke with Hilary Kleinig from Zephyr Quartet and Jennifer Greer Holmes, independent creative producer and ZQ’s manager, about contemporary and experimental music, their focus on collaboration and how they are feeling about the future of Australian arts three weeks…
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Vitalstatistix spoke with Paul Gazzola, Adhocracy co-curator and Artistic Director of OSCA - Open Space Contemporary Arts (South Australia); and Willoh S.Weiland, Artistic Director of Aphids (Victoria) and co-creator of Crawl Me Blood, a new work in development with Vitalstatistix.…
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Vitalstatistix spoke with Emma Valente, co-Artistic Director of Victorian-based theatre company THE RABBLE, and South Australian-based visual artist and theatre designer Meg Wilson, who has joined THE RABBLE as lead artist intern in 2016. V: Emma, tell us about THE…
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Welcome to Vitalstatistix’s new blog. On the first Friday of each month, we will be publishing a new conversation with artists who we work with. The articles will pair together artists whose practices overlap in some way – from tangible collaborations,…
