Akira and Nathan Lasker are twins who form a loose artist collaborative. They employ video performances to explore how everyday rituals and the gestures associated with them can become absurd theatres. In their mutual mimicries, everyday actions become intense affective experiences of abjectness and comical humour that reflect...
For the past eight years Australian filmmaker Tony Lawrence has been working almost exclusively with 8mm and 16mm found footage and home movies. He now has a collection over 300 films which bare the physical effects of time, chemical decay, and even rot and mould which he further manipulates to...
Cars speed along highways. Explosions destroy buildings. People scream, cry and burst into fits of wild verbal aggression. An aircraft is torn apart, wings burning, fuselages ruptured, bodies flying – yet the aircraft continues to crash, over and over, without end.
Mike Leggett is as an artist, curator, lecturer, researcher and administrator. Working since the mid-1960s Leggett has produced experimental film and video works, live performances and installations, collaborations with poets and playwrights and pioneering work with interactive media and computer technologies. Leggett’s oeuvre represents an abiding fascination with the material...
Rainer's work includes an opera and numerous chamber and electronic pieces for concert performance. The Oxford companion to music in Australia (OUP 1999) notes that 'Linz's innovative and entrepreneurial work in Melbourne has been a significant factor in the city's prominence in experimental music'. Under the title,'New Listener', he has...
