Whoa! That was just the best! So much to say, so many people to thank but the stars were the team of young production crew and the young performers that delivered a mind blowing 🤯 event! Congratulations to all involved!! We will share more over the next few days but now it’s pack up and to find time for a cuppa tea and a lie down!! Southern Lights Festival is delivered in partnership with the Bioluminescence Project, Candelo Arts Society, Griffith University, RMIT and the Yuin Folk Club (Cobargo Folk Festival), with support from Destination NSW and assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
@bioluminescenceproject@cobargofolkfestival@southeastarts@candeloartssociety@cobargomac@sams.caravan
#southernlightsfestival #bioluminescenceproject #cobargo #regionalartsnsw #regionalarts
Join us on Thursday eve for some works in progress showing and sounds!!!
Hey pals! I’m at @metroarts athis week Collaborating with the excellent @alyciabennettart . Join us Thursday to see what we’ve been up to!!
I’m thrilled to be receive a scholarship as part of the 2026 National Disability Research Program alongside many fantastic candidates! Looking forward to joining the program
I’m performing at @ace.gallery.adelaide this Sunday, 18 January. They have an amazing program of events running from 3 to 7 pm. It’s free but you need to RSVP. I’m putting the link in my stories. How can artists be friends with machines? While the threats and risks associated with the rise of AI to contemporary art are serious and a full discussion is warranted, are there alternative - potentially more generative - ways of thinking through our artistic entanglement with algorithms? What might a conscious systems engagement look, sound and feel like for artists (and audiences)?
This event brings together artists and musicians who explore these and other questions involved in exploring non-self agencies and/or collaborating artistically with machines. The day will begin with granular synthesis demonstrations, include a talk and open discussion about artists working with machines, and conclude with (somewhat) musical electronic performances involving technological collaborations.
“Technology is not neutral. We’re inside of what we make, and it’s inside of us. We’re living in a world of connections - and it matters which ones get made and unmade.” – Donna Haraway
Program:
Stephen Atkinson
Live improvisational performance with discarded mechanical and electronic devices.
Phantom Chips (Tara Pattenden)
Live electronic performance using wearable sound and custom-built electronic circuits.
John Ferguson
Talk on imagined agency and the role of resistance and inertia in performing technologies.
Alex Grant
Talk exploring anthroponormativity, machine cognition and the decentring of human authorship in contemporary art.
Tara Pattendom
Talk on how AI, generative learning and custom-built technologies can enable access and active creative participation for people with disabilities.
Marian Sandberg
Talk reflecting on shared creative agency with non-human systems, including working with machines as tools, collaborators and authors.
Granulator synthesiser workshop participants (Cultivating Electronic Music in Regional Australia, ARC research project)
Demonstrations of newly built granulator synthesiser instruments.
LAST SHOW TIL FEB We have visitors from Kamberri/Canberra for our final Bunker show of the year!!!! Joined by local artist Phantom Chips
Get ready for Making Out and Marlene Claudine Radice to tickle your ears with sweet noises. Joined by Phantom Chips this show will be a sweaty ball of fun. Don’t forget to bring water!
Making Out:
Making Out (Rosa Bassett) is an Indonesian composer, performer, sound artist and
organiser based on Ngunnawal/Ngambri Country. She works across noise, free
improvisation, new music, and punk and hardcore. As an improviser she explores
patience, discipline, embodiment, and touch. Her performance practice searches for
and embeds embodiment in noise, seeking soundworlds which are at times enveloping
and haptic, and at others bare, raw, and ascetic. Making Out proposes challenges to
herself around stamina, stasis, and focus.
/meg_ganic
Marlene Claudine Radice:
Marlené Claudine Radice is an Australian composer who specialises in notated electroacoustic composition by exploring how art and sound compliment one another. Taking recorded sounds away from their original sources, they process and manipulate these into new musical structures. Raw industrial noises, looped voices and hypnotic soundscapes are layered to create a nuanced and original sound.
/about-1
Phantom Chips
Phantom Chips (Tara Pattenden) wields a mass of plush squishy tentacles that control a mashup of noises and squeals.
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Photos by @valeriejoy.jpeg
Next week I’m playing our end of year show at cyber bunker!!! Alongside special guests from Kamberri/Canberra, Making Out (@meg_ganic )and Marlene Claudine Radice (@marlene_plays_pedals )
In collaboration with @the_lobster_trick , I’ve created a pig guide so you can seen what pigs are happening around South eastern QLD. never miss a local music pig again! #bnemusic #meanjinmusicscene #meanjinmusic #whatsonbrisbane #diymusic
I'm sooooo PUMPED to play GIG CITY next weekend... So many amazing bands
next year will be kunt's 30th anniversary. We always joked we'd be touring with walkers one days and it's happening. 🙂
Here's a lil video we made with our mate Scorpio Scorpio almost 20 years ago....
