Sunday Arts Magazine

25 Sep 2016

Docos, Emptying The Bucket, Loving You Ad Nauseum, Terry Williams

Arts, Performing Arts, TV & Film, Visual Arts

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Docos, Emptying The Bucket, Loving You Ad Nauseum, Terry Williams

David and Brendan will focus on documentaries later today and ask listeners to message in about their favourite ones. Brendan reviews the new Blair Witch–3 stars and The Secret Life of Pets–4 stars. He also briefly mentions the docos– We Were Here (2011), Paris Is Burning (1990) and The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)

Special Guests today are:

16:22 to 34:44 mins– Contemporary Dance Choreographer Nebahat Erpolat is here to tell us about herself and her Melbourne Fringe show Emptying The Bucket on from 28 September to 1 October at the Meat Market in North Melbourne. Nebahat talks about how her background and experiences influenced her practice now which is a very experimental approach to dance, performance and the body in live art. Emptying The Bucket essentially means ‘letting things go’ and looks at love from a very unconventional perspective. Nebahat explores the many layers of it with her four dancers.

36:49 to 55:13 mins–Choreographer and Design Artist Geoffrey Watson also has a show (with Tara Samaya) at the Melbourne Fringe called Loving You Ad Nauseum-The gratuity of gratitude on at 6.30 & 8.15pm on 30 September at the Trades Hall Council Chambers. Amazingly, Geoffrey and Nebahat (the previous interviewee) have worked together in the past. He explains. Geoffrey trained in classical ballet but became disillusioned with it moving to contemporary dance. He sees contemporary dance as more of a state of mind that you look at something with, rather than a codified understanding of what the project is. He describes his show as diffuse involving disorientation and confusion as we try to make sense of our contemporary world.

Brendan and David along with Neil (from the Taste Of Radio course) do a segment on documentaries. They review some docos, discuss why they are important and talk about ones they’ve seen and that listeners have mentioned. Docos covered in their discussions include– Eight Days a Week (2016), The Times of Harvey Milk (1984), The Out List (2013), The Celluloid Closet (1995), Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (2016), Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper(2016), Citizenfour (2014), Weiner (2016) and Grey Gardens (1975) which also had a recent musical made of it!

1:22:23 to 1:33:45 mins–Gallery Manager and Curator Sim Luttin and Studio Manager James McDonald are from Arts Project Australia. They are here to talk about a survey exhibition they have put together of one of their most established artists called Terry Williams: Rhythms of the Handmade on until 15 October at Arts Project in Northcote. They describe some of the work they brought in as ‘creatively crude’ or ‘crude stitching’– ‘in the nicest possible way’– along with soft sculptures inspired by the Thriller video or Tim Burton. Terry Williams has been an artist at Arts Project for 27 years and both Sim and James talk about his variety of work, his inspirations, his artistic style and how his work has changed over the years. They also talk about the ‘immersive’ exhibition and the artist himself.