What, one might wonder, is the value of an international festival of exploratory music? And why is it in Bendigo, in north-west Victoria? In Australia, we have so many festivals featuring music, film…
Extreme duration can transform otherwise simple activity into something strange and powerful.
Marina Abramović, The Artist Is Present, 2010, MOMA, New York. Andrew Russeth
Last September, I sat down in the Capital Theatre in Bendigo to listen to American composer Morton Feldman’s String Quartet No.2 played by the Flux Quartet from New York. Sounds a nice way to spend an…
The Amis are fighting to safeguard what remains of their own heritage.*
Alistair Noble
How do we move beyond being a cultural tourist to having some deeper level of understanding of what local festivals mean to the people involved? That question has been on my mind of late. Just before midnight…