Creative Revolutionaries: Recent Episodes
Sebastian Tomczak
Produced by the Sia Furler Institute (University of Adelaide, Australia), Creative Revolutionaries is an ongoing series of live presentations by some of the most fiercely visionary cultural creatives driving change. Local, national and international leaders share their perspectives on opportunities unfolding before our eyes.
The University of Adelaide, the Sia Furler Institute, Creative Revolutionaries, RCC and local artist Dave Court invite you to join us for a chat with Elizabeth Close and Jimblah.
Elizabeth Close is a Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara woman from the APY Lands in Central Australia. Now based in Adelaide, Elizabeth's arts practice has evolved from canvas beginnings to now also include large scale public art and digital design. Elizabeth's work is a unique and distinct fusion of contemporary and traditional Aboriginal Art, using vivid warmth to convey the landscape of the APY while also drawing upon sociopolitical themes of identity, forced removal policies, loss of culture and intergenerational trauma.
Jimblah is a producer, MC and vocalist from Adelaide, South Australia. Hailing from the Larrakia Nation in Top End Northern Territory, he is influenced by a wide range of different artists and genres, his main passion being hip hop.
Caitlin Ellen Moore is a writer, activist, and freelance producer. Most of the time, you can find her at ActNow Theatre as their Marketing and Development Coordinator. At other times you can find her writing for This Is Radelaide, co-hosting and producing Radio Adelaide’s queer show Pride and Prejudice, quietly launching podcasts under Wickedly Good Productions, or dabbling in spoken word poetry.
Patrick Martin is a journalist with ABC Adelaide. He’s passionate about arts, regional Australia and politics. Based in Port Pirie, he has covered a variety of issues impacting regional Australia and SA's future.
The University of Adelaide, the Sia Furler Institute, Creative Revolutionaries, RCC and local artist Dave Court invite you to join us for a chat with Sophie Hyde and Desiree Akhavan.
Australian filmmaker Sophie Hyde is a founding member of film collective Closer Productions. She lives and works on the lands of the Kaurna people and makes provocative and intimate fiction, documentary films and TV.
Desiree Akhavan is the director and co- writer of The Miseducation of Cameron Post, starring Chloe Grace Moretz and Sasha Lane, which won the 2018 Sundance Grand Jury Prize. Her first film, Appropriate Behaviour, was her graduate thesis at NYU. It premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for Best First Screenplay at the Film Independent Spirit Awards as well as Breakthrough Director at the Gotham Awards. Most recently, Akhavan created the Hulu original series The Bisexual. She is currently working on a collection of personal essays to be published by Random House. She has a BA from Smith College and an MFA from New York University’s Graduate Film Program.
Caitlin Ellen Moore is a writer, activist, and freelance producer. Most of the time, you can find her at ActNow Theatre as their Marketing and Development Coordinator. At other times you can find her writing for This Is Radelaide, co-hosting and producing Radio Adelaide’s queer show Pride and Prejudice, quietly launching podcasts under Wickedly Good Productions, or dabbling in spoken word poetry.
Recorded at The Cloisters, University of Adelaide on 11 March 2020.
Aphids and Scott Marsh join Caitlin Ellen Moore and James Dodd to examine the role of art and culture in social change and progress.
Aphids is 25-year-old artist-led experimental art organisation based in Melbourne. Collaborative and future-focused, APHIDS is led by co-directors Eugenia Lim, Lara Thoms and Mish Grigor. The work of APHIDS is feminist, intersectional, angry and funny. They bring artists into meaningful exchange with audiences through performance, critical dialogue and unpredictable encounters in the public realm.
Scott Marsh (b.1984) is an Australian fine artist who picked up his first spray can at the age of 12 and began tagging the streets of his Sydney neighbourhood. In his teens, his focus turned to train carriages. He embarked on several tours of rail yards across the globe, forging a reputation as one of the most talented graffiti writer of his generation and taking the so-called Sydney-style to bold new levels. In 2009, he completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts, majoring in Painting, at the UNSW COFA (College of Fine Arts) and soon after began receiving commissions for large scale commercial murals.
Caitlin Ellen Moore is a writer, activist, and freelance producer. Most of the time, you can find her at ActNow Theatre as their Marketing and Development Coordinator. At other times you can find her writing for This Is Radelaide, co-hosting and producing Radio Adelaide’s queer show Pride and Prejudice, quietly launching podcasts under Wickedly Good Productions, or dabbling in spoken word poetry.
James Dodd is a South Australian artist, arts educator and street artist who used the nom de plume Dlux for his street art when he operated out of Melbourne.
Dave Court is a multi-disciplinary artist working in areas of painting, design and installation. Current work includes large scale mural painting, event activation, venue design and creation of immersive installations.
After graduating with Visual Arts honours specialising in painting in 2013, Dave was involved with award winning immersive art project Mr IST. Other major projects from here include running ethical clothing brand foolsandtrolls, retail store / art space Created Range and working as creative director of Yewth Magazine, as well as ongoing freelance work and art practice.
Dave’s practice is based around painting, and has expanded to include experimental aspects of photography, video, performance, installation and collaboration.
Caitlin Ellen Moore is a writer, activist, and freelance producer. Most of the time, you can find her at ActNow Theatre as their Marketing and Development Coordinator. At other times you can find her writing for This Is Radelaide, co-hosting and producing Radio Adelaide’s queer show Pride and Prejudice, quietly launching podcasts under Wickedly Good Productions, or dabbling in spoken word poetry.
Patrick Martin is a journalist with ABC Adelaide. He’s passionate about arts, regional Australia and politics. Based in Port Pirie, he's has covered a variety of issues impacting regional Australia and SA's future.
Recorded at The Cloisters, University of Adelaide, on 27 February 2020.
The University of Adelaide, the Sia Furler Institute, Creative Revolutionaries, RCC and local artist Dave Court invite you to join us for a chat with Kit Redstone and Jolie Booth.
Kit Redstone is an award winning London-based trans writer, director and performer of playfully bombastic theatre. His work balances absurdist comedy with heart-felt explorations into what it means to be human, and uses an eclectic mix of performance tropes and styles. Much of his theatre work uses direct address as a way of forging a really active and engaged relationship with his audience.
Jolie Booth is an award-winning Brighton based feminist writer, theatre maker, museum creator, producer and woman of magic. Her work is extra-live, giving permission from the performers to the audience to relax and that anything can happen. Her work weaves between the inner and outer worlds, seeking to provoke and instigate social change. She sees theatre as a spiritual path.
Kerith Manderson-Galvin is a Melbourne based performance maker who creates unconventional works of theatre, live art and performance art. They make work concerned with queer femininity, a feminine aesthetic, the marrying of high and low culture, and feelings. Kerith’s work appears in galleries, theatres, gigs, online and at music and arts festivals and they have performed across Australia at venues and events including Dark Mofo, Mecha: Festival of Experimental Art, PICA, MTC (Neon), and Provocare Festival. Kerith is one third of live art pop sensation Expen$$$ive and creates and performs with their sibling, Tobias Manderson-Galvin. They have a Masters in Writing for Performance from VCA.
Caitlin Ellen Moore is a writer, activist, and freelance producer. Most of the time, you can find her at ActNow Theatre as their Marketing and Development Coordinator. At other times you can find her writing for This Is Radelaide, co-hosting and producing Radio Adelaide’s queer show Pride and Prejudice, quietly launching podcasts under Wickedly Good Productions, or dabbling in spoken word poetry.
Patrick Martin is a journalist with ABC Adelaide. He’s passionate about arts, regional Australia and politics. Based in Port Pirie, he's has covered a variety of issues impacting regional Australia and SA's future.
Recorded at The Cloisters, University of Adelaide, on 27 February 2020.
The University of Adelaide, the Sia Furler Institute, Creative Revolutionaries, RCC and local artist Dave Court present the first AGITATE session with Motez and Peter Drew hosted by Patrick Martin and Caitlin Ellen Moore.
Motez’ distinctive sound pushes the boundaries of regular house music; from when he was making wholesome, wall-to-wall club cuts and rocking festival stages to current day. Underpinned by a knowledge of classical piano and influences from the 90’s, his music showcases the diversity of his taste and style.
He has won six Hype Machine #1s and an ARIA Gold single alongside writing official remixes for Disclosure, Sam Smith, Goldlink and Ellie Goulding. Motez has joined Diplo & Friends, Beats1 Radio and Triple J 'Mix Up Exclusives' to lay down his favourite selections.
Peter Drew was born in 1983 in Adelaide. He holds a Master’s Degree from the Glasgow School of Art. His artworks have been exhibited at the Art Gallery of South Australia and the National Gallery of Australia, though his most prominent work is installed on city streets.
Drew says “I like to exhibit my art on the street because public space is a great equaliser, and it’s also an ancient forum. When you address the public through the street you’re entering into a tradition that emphasises our fundamental freedom of expression, over the value of property... I enjoy examining our collective identities and my aim is always to emphasize the connections that bind up, rather than the fractures that divide us.”
Caitlin Ellen Moore is a writer, activist, and freelance producer. Most of the time, you can find her at ActNow Theatre as their Marketing and Development Coordinator. At other times you can find her writing for This Is Radelaide, co-hosting and producing Radio Adelaide’s queer show Pride and Prejudice, quietly launching podcasts under Wickedly Good Productions, or dabbling in spoken word poetry.
Patrick Martin is a journalist with ABC Adelaide. He’s passionate about arts, regional Australia and politics. Based in Port Pirie, he's has covered a variety of issues impacting regional Australia and SA's future.
Recorded at The Cloisters, University of Adelaide, on 20 February 2020.
Listen to the first eSports Summit of its kind in Adelaide featuring Nigel Smart, Paladin Amber, FroStee, Alisheria and Misha Sukhinin.
Recorded 7 November, 2019 in Braggs Theatre at the University of Adelaide.
Listen to this unforgettable Creative Revolutionaries event featuring Joe Chindamo and Steve Vizard, brought to you by the Elder Conservatorium of Music, the Sia Furler Institute and the University of Adelaide.
Recorded 17 September 2019 in Elder Hall at the University of Adelaide.
This event featured special presentations by Amanda Stafford, Clinical Lead at Royal Perth Hospital Homeless Team and Michelle Cripps, Director of Centre for Creative Health, Royal Adelaide Hospital about health and homelessness from a Creative Perspective.
Recorded 8 August, 2019 at Sparkke at the Whitmore Hotel, Adelaide.
Which do you choose, busy or intentionally adaptable? Happiness Hacker Penny Locaso seeks to challenge the busy epidemic and the barrier it is creating in humanity's ability to effectively shape the future.
Recorded 22 May, 2019 at St Paul's Creative Centre, Adelaide.
Please join us for a conversation with Leila Henderson, Michelle Perugini and Allison Nikula, three leading experts in innovation and entrepreneurship; each winners of the annual Women In Innovation award.
Recorded on April 29, 2019 at St Paul's Creative Centre, Adelaide.
The iconic Russian feminist punk rock performance art collective tell their story, featuring the three key members of Pussy Riot on stage together. Historic and unmissable - and an exclusive for the 2019 RCC and Adelaide Fringe.
Recorded on March 5, 2019 in The Cloisters at the University of Adelaide.
Reverend Billy & the Stop Shopping Choir are wild anti-consumerist gospel shouters, Earth loving urban activists, and are an OBIE Award-winning radical performance community. This Fringe-first exclusive sees Anthony Roberts get to the bottom of Reverend Billy's radical work and revolutionary ideas, and his creative process behind his groundbreaking show!
Recorded on February 28, 2019 in The Cloisters at the University of Adelaide.
Join Penny Arcade, the undisputed queen of the underground, in a candid conversation with Ros Prosser in a Fringe-first exclusive where we unpack the wild and passionate American performance artist, actress and playwright and delve deep into her mind.
Recorded on 21 February, 2019 at Braggs Lecture Theatre, University of Adelaide.
What is happening to stories/storytellers and audiences in a saturated content landscape? A look at the legacy Media Lapse - Is Hollywood a Data Refugee? Join Jessica Bendinger in a candid conversation with Tom Hajdu and Ros Prosser about the state of art and data in Hollywood.
Recorded on January 18, 2019 at St Paul's Creative Centre, Adelaide.
Join our five spectacular guests as they explore the benefits of co-operatives for the creative industries - especially in regards to art festivals and the music industry. This includes the possibilities offered by worker-owned co-operatives and enterprise co-operatives.
The panel, moderated by Christie Anthoney, included:
• Christie Anthoney (Moderator) - CEO of Festivals Adelaide • Thinker in Residence, Dr Guy Turnbull (UK) - Social Entrepreneur & Former Managing Director of Care & Share Associates (CASA) • Rohan Clarke - The Business Council for Co-operatives and Mutuals • Heather Croall - Director and CEO of the Adelaide Fringe • Anne Wiberg - Event and Program Producer, Music Programmer, Board Director • Leah Blankendaal - Arts & Cultural Facilitator with Regional Development Australia
Recorded on November 27, 2018 at St Paul's Creative Centre
Former Lord Mayor of the City of Adelaide Stephen Yarwood, Princeton alumni and entrepreneur Andy Milburn, and Nick Falkner, Director of the Australian Smart Cities Consortium discuss a whole new internet.
They discuss the radical new opportunities for innovation and creativity provided by a new world in which everything that can be connected, will be connected. They examine the ways looming explosive growth in IOT, Smart Cities and Autonomous Systems will create new demands for innovative and creative thinking.
Recorded on October 25, 2018 at Madley Studio, University of Adelaide.
South Australian-born singer, songwriter and producer, Surahn Sidhu has enjoyed a prestigious and prodigious career, from his role as founding member of pioneering disco band The Swiss, his talent and charismatic charm have seen him become a collaborator of choice for multi-Grammy-award-winning and ARIA winning artists like Usher, Kimbra, Empire of the Sun, Hayden James, Flight Facilities and many more. More recently he has signed his new project Happiness Is Wealth to major label Sony Music.
Recorded on 20 September, 2018 at St Paul's Creative Centre, Adelaide.
Michael Eales is a strategy designer with award winning global strategy, design and innovation firm Business Models Inc. Michael helps organisations of all shapes and sizes determine what to make and do, why do it and how to innovate contextually, both now and in the future.
Recorded on 22 August, 2018 at Scott Theatre, University of Adelaide.
Robert Tercek is the award-winning author of VAPORIZED: Solid Strategies for Success in a Dematerialized World. He is an expert in the design and launch of innovative digital media services.
Recorded on July 25th, 2018 at Braggs Lecture Theatre, University of Adelaide.
Proving once again that some of the finest creative minds call Adelaide home, this event featured the secrets of success of two entrepreneurs, Craig Swann (Looplabs) and Matthew Wilson (Novus-Res), whose different paths intersect in unexpected ways. Hosted by Dan Thorsland of Mighty Kingdom.
Recorded 12 July, 2018 at St Paul's Creative Centre, Adelaide.
Laurie Anderson spoke and performed at Elder Hall about her book 'All the Things I Lost in the Flood' - including this Q & A session.
Recorded on 15 June, 2018 at Elder Hall, University of Adelaide
Dr. Ilse Treurnicht (Former CEO, MaRS Discovery District in Ontario, Canada) and Dr. Fiona Kerr (Neural and Systems Complexity Specialist) discuss the neuroscience of collaborative creativity.
Recorded 23 Aril, 2018 at Hub Central, University of Adelaide
Tom Hajdu, Director of the Sia Furler Institute, University of Adelaide, presents an overview of how technological revolution impacts music and media and creative industries, and what the opportunities and threats are.
Recorded on February 2, 2018 at St Paul's Creative Centre, Adelaide.