Millions of years ago Dinosaurs ruled the world. Things changed, they couldn’t adapt and were wiped out. For centuries humans have been chasing ever newer sources of energy, recently becoming totally reliant on fossil fuels. Made for a United Nations conference on renewable sources of energy in 1983, delegates were asked to consider whether we…
Directed by Katherine Araniello Music: Jenny Minton Design & Costume: Miranda Melville Camera & Edit: Deborah May Part of Does it Matter? a series of short films produced by Artsadmin and Xenoki for 14|18 NOW & Channel 4
Cat Hope | Speechless Speechless (2019) is a contemporary Australian opera for four vocal soloists, bass orchestra and community choirs composed by Cat Hope. The work challenges contemporary notions of the operatic, creating an alternative libretto where words do not feature and no intended narrative is provided. Instead, Speechless communicates its intent to address a…
Giving Voice: Mark Atkins & Erkki Veltheim Nightfalls leads us into a nocturnal world of memories, echoes, spirits and dreams, conjuring country through words and breath, music, sound and story. In conversation with Genevieve Lacey and dramaturg Ruth Little, legendary musicians and improvisers Mark Atkins and Erkki Veltheim talk about their collaboration, the journey they…
Giving Voice: Lior, Lou Bennett & Nigel Westlake Ngapa William Cooper came out of a rich collaboration between composer Nigel Westlake, singer-songwriter Lior, and performer and academic Dr Lou Bennett, exploring the story of Yorta Yorta activist William Cooper. In 1938 William Cooper led the Australian Aborigines’ League through the streets of Melbourne in the only…
Giving Voice: Sunny Kim Sunny Kim invited a group of musicians from different musical and cultural backgrounds to share stories of migration, dislocation and motherhood. Here, Sunny, Aviva Endean, Gelarah Pour & Mindy Meng Wang talk about mothers and motherlands, memory, longing and the act of making this piece together.