"Entangled Labours is a work for video and sound examining the politics, ethics (and poetics) of collaborating with, and transcribing my working-class father’s impromptu guitar improvisations (offerings I am deeply thankful for) and arranging these for an art-music ensemble."

Ensemble Offspring's Hatched Academy Composer Summer School featured six unique new compositional voices from around Australia, mentored by Artistic Director Claire Edwardes alongside Melbourne-based composer Kate Neal, core Ensemble Offspring musicians and guests.

ENTANGLED LABOURS (2021) for Mixed Ensemble (Ensemble Offspring)

Bach - Alle Menschen Müssen Sterben  BWV 643 2

Conversation with Lleah Smith about the project FUTURE SCHOOL developed with Year 3-6 students at the Kandos Public School as a creative re-imaging of the traditional classroom, followed by the experiences of 'home-schooling' during the Covid-19 lockdowns. FUTURE SCHOOL is a framework on how to work with young people so their voices and opinions are heard, valued, and incorporated into the decision making processes. It is a project that builds and develops young people’s confidence, questions the hierarchies of knowledge and the function of the school within the community.  

FUTURE SCHOOL was presented as part of the 2022 Cementa Festival in Kandos NSW, on the Wiradjuri country where my conversation with Lleah was recorded. 

Cementa Festival: cementa.com.au/
Lleah Smith: http://lleahsmith.com/

This conversation was aired on Eastside Radio 89.7FM on 23 May 2022, as part of 'Arts Monday: Sympoiesis'.

Sympoiesis radio show is produced on the Gadigal land of the Eora nation, traditional custodians of this land. We pay our respect and gratitude to the elders past, present, and yet to come.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/sympoiesisradioshow
Instagram: www.instagram.com/sympoiesis_radio_show

PRESENTER/INTERVIEWER: Ira Ferris (www.instagram.com/artemisprojects)

MUSIC: 
#1 (intro): The Four Distressed Waves Of Sleep, from the album 'Message' by Svntax Error
https://svntaxerror.bandcamp.com/album/message
#2 (short intermission between the interview): Passage 4: Daniel Von Jenatsch, from the album Relating to the Immediate Surroundings of Something by Megan Alice Clune

Sympoiesis EP27: Lleah Smith (Future School / Cementa '22)

Conversation with choreographer Eliza Cooper about the making of the Bat Lake, a 50 minute dance work that celebrates the dark and theatrical world of bats. We speak about: the ways these creatures’ behaviour and anatomy has been translated into movement; how the music joined the piece; how the costumes were made; and how David Lynch's Twin Peaks sipped into the work...

The work is premiering at the Riverside Theatres in Parramatta on 13 October 2022 as part of Form Dance Projects: https://riversideparramatta.com.au/show/bat-lake/

This conversation was originally aired on Eastside Radio on 26 September 2022.

For more about Eliza Cooper see: https://www.instagram.com/elizakcooper

Sympoiesis radio show is produced on the Gadigal land of the Eora nation, traditional custodians of this land. We pay our respect and gratitude to the elders past, present, and yet to come.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/sympoiesisradioshow
Instagram: www.instagram.com/sympoiesis_radio_show

PRESENTER/INTERVIEWER: Ira Ferris (www.instagram.com/artemisprojects)

Sympoiesis EP35: Eliza Cooper (Bat Lake)

The second lecture in the Mahmoud Alnaouq lecture series was presented by Angelita Biscotti, a tutor and lecturer at the University of Melbourne. This lecture explores the liberatory potential of psychoanalysis using decolonial reworkings of key psychoanalytic concepts such as transference, resistance and free association. The lecture discusses two cases from Lara and Stephen Sheehi's "Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine." 

Mahmoud Alnaouq was a recipient of an Australia Awards scholarship who had listed the University of Melbourne as his first preference for a Master of International Relations. He would have been with us on campus today, but the Zionist Israeli regime killed him, along with 19 members of his family, in the town of Deir Al Balah last October. The Mahmoud Alnaouq lecture series is held in his honour outside Mahmoud's Hall, formerly known as Arts West, in the University of Melbourne. 

Angelita Biscotti's contact info: http://angelitabiscotti.com.au

For more information about the lecture series and the pro-Palestine student movement at the University of Melbourne: http://instagram.com/unimelbforpalestine

Resistance is Justified: Psychoanalytic Resistance as a Refusal of the Coloniser's Frames

Yeehaw is the voluntary journey to the underworld that transforms Sir Hideous Playful from simply paying lip-service to the redemptive process of brave optimism to actually living it. Much of him must be burned away like deadwood.  What will survive?

Yeehaw

Kaity Fox is an Australian mother of two, a childbirth educator, a birth and postpartum doula, a writer, a performer, and a resident DJ at Salon des Amateurs in Düsseldorf. Recently she has embarked on a journey into Deep Listening.

Tadleeh - Lone - Y21TH

Kaity Fox [29.07.24]

Audio files have been prepared for use alongside or as an alternate to the performed situation of  GEMINI EXIT (beeny’s retirement). They comprise unique texts through different microphones and filters, recordings of the Transeptorgel and acoustic tests in the Oude Kerk, and midi compositional joins. Live viewers will receive some indication of appropriate moments to synchronise playback, but they are provided with a mind to access.
 
0 - Beeny Dérive
Owning ` Pomeranian / Evangeline’s Mother [BC paraphrase]
Contraband Floor / Breeze
Cosmonaught ‘ Chiaroscuro Stratosphere
Glass Descents [A straight rain is rare…] <Lyn Hejinian>

This program is part of Come Closer: a series of four intimate evenings curated by Radna Rumping, where visitors and artists explore the sonic space of the Oude Kerk with dance, performance and deep listening exercises. Come Closer has been developed in relation to The Instrument of Troubled Dreams, a sound installation by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller at the Oude Kerk, curated by Jacqueline Grandjean. The next Come Closer events take place on March 15 and April 12, 2019. Visit oudekerk.nl for further information.
 
GEMINI EXIT (Beeny's Retirement)
come closer: ivan cheng with kristoffer zeiner

Friday 22 February 2019, 18:00-19:00
Oude Kerk, Oudekerksplein (De Wallen), Amsterdam

ENTANGLED LABOURS (2021) for Mixed Ensemble (Ensemble Offspring)

JH

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