Aïo: Looking for a thread
Putting on a show requiring audience participation is risky. For a start, there needs to be a large enough audience, as well as a crowd that joins in, preferably slightly … Read More
Once Removed: A clear view of art world bollocks
Behind all the impeccably clean (sterile?) exhibition openings propped up with champagne or wine and addresses by eminents, the jet-setting to biennales on international shores, and auction prices that resemble … Read More
Vroom! Vroom! Performance rubber hits the art road
SBYA winner Angel-Ho gets festival’s engine revving Vroom! Vroom! Potato, potato! goes the familiar rev and idle of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle as the doors at the back of the theatre … Read More
A man walked into a bar
Sometimes I have to lean in is a gutting dance performance that puts its hand into your emotional chest and rummages around, producing fart jokes, amongst other bits and pieces. … Read More
National Arts Festival battles to get much-need lottery funding
One of the major funders of arts and culture organisations in the country, the National Lotteries Commission (NLC), has declined to provide funding for the National Arts Festival (NAF), which … Read More