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.

APHIDS LISTENS EPISODE 12: SAMMANEH POURSH

In our latest 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.

APHIDS LISTENS EPISODE 13: FRANCES BARRETT

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.

APHIDS LISTENS EPISODE 14: Lucy Bleach

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 powerful 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.

APHIDS LISTENS EPISODE 15: TRA MI DINH

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

APHIDS LISTENS is a direct response to the current political climate of experimental arts and operates as an ongoing living archive. Through audio interviews, APHIDS invites female and non-binary experimental artists to speak, in their own words, about projects of inspiration, early influences and the life of a project from conception to delivery.

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