Sunday Arts Magazine

12 Jun 2016

Trilogy-Nic Green, The History, Eoin Andersen (MSO), Downriver

Arts, Music, Performing Arts, TV & Film, Visual Arts

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Trilogy-Nic Green, The History, Eoin Andersen (MSO), Downriver

Brendan and David discuss horror films and why they seem thin on the ground in Australia. Brendan reviews The Conjuring 2 directed by Aussie James Wan of Saw fame. It is a horror film based on the Enfield Poltergeist story in the UK. It is set in the 1970s and has a great soundtrack–‘used in a creepy way’. The acting is great, including Australian Frances O’Connor as the single mother – 4.0 stars. David saw the NICA show called Things Not of this Earth (on until 18 June) involving the 3^rd year circus arts students–two of which were guests on Sunday Arts last week. David thought it was a high level production and he and his 12 year old guest really enjoyed it. Both thought it was the best NICA performance that they’ve seen so far. Especially good were Jordan the contortionist (who was on the show last week) and the girl on the tightrope at the start.

Special guests this week are:

10:08 to 24:01 mins–Angharad Wynne-Jones – Artistic Director of Arts House is in again after being on our Second Anniversary show 2 weeks ago. She’s here to talk about Arts House and what’s on, especially- Trilogy – Nic Green on from 21 to 26 June at Arts House. Arts House has been operational for 10years & is located in North Melbourne Town Hall and recently it was further endorsed recently by The City of Melbourne and runs a full-time arts program. Angharad initially came to Melbourne with Giddy Obarzanek to set up Chunky Move –a contemporary dance Co. She elaborates on this and then goes on to describe Trilogy. It was devised by UK artist Nic Green and is an invitation to celebrate the diversity of the female human body–how it’s been portrayed, what the possibilities might be, and an invitation to perform naked. Over 100 women volunteers wanted to be involved in this piece as they heard from previous performers that ‘it’s a real rite of passage’–a chance to come to terms with your own body and ‘discover your inner and outer beauty’. There are 5 principal performers–3 from UK and 2 local–and the 100 volunteers around them who also perform. Nic Green had been workshopping the piece with all of them. There are 3 parts to the piece, not all naked. Angharad describes these and how they were inspired by Germaine Greer’s Female Eunuch and Germaine’s interview with Norman Mailer in 1971.

30:35 to 47:20 mins–Gallery Owner Mary Warnest and Sculptor Thomas Bucich whose work will be regularly showing at Mary’s new gallery called The History at 206 Wellington street Collingwood. The launch of the gallery is on 17 June and it will be open Tuesday to Sunday each week. Thomas was always interested in drawing, art and structure. He studied art and architecture together, which he sees as a natural combo. His main interest now is bronze which is challenging to work with. He produces many drawings leading up to the bronze stage. The drawings are quick, ‘gestural’ and less precious- than the more ‘immortal’ bronze- and are about figures and movement. Often the whole body isn’t shown–more a gesture. Thomas works quickly and stays in ‘the zone’ when working; taking only 4-8 weeks to complete a bronze piece. He works with hot wax over a skeletal structure and then makes molds (at a foundry) around the wax, creating a cast which is then filled with bronze. He has done public art too and feels more ‘responsible’ when doing that. He talks about the experience. Mary talks about meeting Thomas and the ‘great energy’ of collaboration. She imports furniture and ‘curious objects’ from some European countries and finds that they become really interesting in a space when paired with contemporary art. She and Thomas discuss the pairing. Each import is a one-off and has something unusual and a sense of ‘history’ to it, hence the name of the gallery. The History has Facebook & Instagram.

48:43 to 1:05:45 mins— Eoin Andersen is one of the 2 Concert Masters for the MSO. He is originally from Wisconsin but now his main home is in Berlin. Eoin grew up in a musical household and learned to play the violin. Later he stuck with classical music as he loved it and was also proficient in playing it. Even so, he has also played violin in a rock band and has done ‘out of the box’ classical music too. He feels the boundaries separating different genres of music are evaporating. His favourite composer is Bach as he’s timeless, relevant and there are no bad pieces. In Western classical music there is pre and post Bach. He loves living in Berlin and considers it the new classical music capital of the world. It has 5 major orchestras and 3 major opera companies and a thriving underground scene. He loves Melbourne seeing it as a cross between Berlin and Chicago. He loves the food, the architecture and the arts and sees it as a de facto destination for world artists to come here to perform. The Recital Centre is one of his favourite concert halls in the world. Eoin first performed with the MSO in 2013 and has been back here many times since. He outlines what MSO performances are on next including Haydn’s Drumroll Symphony 12 July, and a French pianist playing Rachmaninov’s Paganini Rhapsody 16 and 17 June, Mahler 6 30 June to 2 July.

1:09:17 to 1:27:03mins–Actor Reef Ireland is here to talk about a film he stars in called Downriver–which has been shown at MIFF, MQFF and other film festivals to great acclaim. Reef grew up on a farm south of Auckland and was a keen movie watcher and knew he wanted to be an actor. The family moved to Australia and Reef really got into doing drama when at High school. He auditioned for a short film via his teacher and got the lead role; and also through this film he met his agent. Things snowballed from then–he did a film called ‘Blessed’ where he met some very experienced actors including Frances O’Connor. From there he kept working. He was very happy about getting the meaty role of the lead in Downriver and did a lot of work on himself to prepare. It’s the story of a young man released from prison where he’d been since 10 years old for the murder of a younger child. He returns to the town where it happened to try to get some closure for himself and the victim’s family. But through various twists and turns he finds the situation much bigger than what he anticipated. Reef talks more about his experience in this film, watching himself onscreen and going to festivals and doing Q&As. Also about the film’s reception and distribution in Toronto and in the US. It is being released in cinemas from 16 June and the Nova and Lido Cinemas in Melbourne will be screening it.

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