By Marcus Whale — 1 November, 2019
Partway through Body of Knowledge, Samara Hersch’s new performance for Liveworks, an attendee’s phone goes off. Except, it’s not exactly their phone, but one assigned to them—a smartphone. In fact, each of the dozen-or-so audience members has been assigned a device, and by the time it’s my turn to participate, almost everyone has a phone…
By Amelia Zhou — 18 June, 2019
I am dancing in the club and thinking how many times I’ve gone out wishing I’d stayed in. Earlier, I read Summer Kim Lee’s article on obliged forms of sociability. Her conception of ‘staying in’ is a refutation against the exhaustive demand to be active in any given moment. It can be a politics of…
By Stella Maynard & Em Size — 4 October, 2018
This text is the next instalment in RD’s feature series of paratextual responses, and is in dialogue with All Ears: A Listening Party—a Campbelltown Arts Centre project conceived by Frances Barrett and co–curated by Frances Barrett & Jessica Olivieri. All Ears invited audiences to attune themselves to the practice of queer listening and featured the…