Expand: Make|Shift Forum

Image credit: Margie Medlin

July 9, 3pm

The Mill Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: $15 (+ booking fee)

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The Mill invites you to the Make|Shift Forum where you can hear from the artists about their practice and process. The forum will feature a panel of exhibiting artists and will be chaired by Artistic and Curatorial Facilitator Margie Medlin and The Mill’s CEO/Artistic Director Katrina Lazaroff (live captioned and live streamed).

Make|Shift is an immersive and experimental exhibition of projection art as part of Illuminate Adelaide. The exhibition features digital image and projection based work by six South Australian multidisciplinary artists; James Alberts, Ray Harris, Sarah Neville, Liam Somerville, Inneke Taal and Tanya Voges, with Margie Medlin as Artistic & Curatorial Facilitator supported by artistic mentorship from illuminart’s Cindi Drennan and Tim Gruchy.

The Make|Shift exhibition will be open for viewing across The Mill’s Exhibition Space and Showcase galleries, The Breakout and outdoor spaces. 

• About the program

  Make|Shift is part of The Mill’s Expand program, a responsive process and development program, with interest in challenging artists to explore interdisciplinary, site-specific and audience-focused new work.

  Expand supports artists to explore different modes of collaborating and encourages peer-learning. It enables risk taking, experimentation and freedom of expression in the creation and realisation of new works.

  Expand invites audiences to not only appreciate, but actively participate in the practice of art-making through artists talks, Q&A’s and public workshops.

  The exhibition has been developed through Expand’s Cinematic Experiments: Projection Techniques and Technologies program.

• Forum speakers

  to be announced

• Accessibility

  The Mill has two entrances, the main entrance on the corner of Angas and Gunson Street and an accessible entrance further down Angas Street. Unfortunately, the main entrance is not accessible, as it has a small step from the pavement.

  Both doors are locked from the outside, there is a doorbell on the main door that will alert The Mill team you would like to come into the building.

  A member of The Mill team sit in the foyer Monday to Friday and can assist you with access to our wheelchair accessible entrance.

  The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

  Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.

  If you have questions or would like to talk to one of The Mill team contact us via email

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This project has support from

Expand: Make|Shift Exhibition

Image credit: Inneke Taal

July 8 - 28, 2023

Immersive opening weekend: Saturday, July 8, 6-8pm, and Sunday, July 9, 12-4pm

Free entry

• Visiting the exhibition

  You can find Make|Shift at The Mill Exhibition Space,
  located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

  The exhibition will run July 8-28. The Exhibition Space will be open:

  Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm

  Saturday-Sunday July 15-16 and 22-23, 4:30pm-7pm.

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The Mill presents Make|Shift, an immersive and experimental exhibition of projection art as part of Illuminate Adelaide. The exhibition features digital image and projection based work by six South Australian multidisciplinary artists; Larrakia man James Alberts, Ray Harris, Sarah Neville, Liam Somerville, Inneke Taal and Tanya Voges, with Margie Medlin as Artistic & Curatorial Facilitator.

Working across dance, performance, visual arts, installation and experimental media the exhibition explores digital and virtual spaces. Make|Shift aims to create a space for the artists to experiment with ways of making and shifting time, place and space. Make|Shift artists are supported by artistic mentorship from illuminart’s Cindi Drennan, and Tim Gruchy.

• Curatorial Statement

  Make|Shift invited artists to explore their approach to formal notions of screen-media in an art gallery context. We invited each other to provoke the boundaries and traditions of photography, the moving image, sculpture, performance, and interaction within screen technologies. In workshops and practice-led discussions, across the gallery, we explored the interstices and intermeshing of these forms.

  As a group we mapped the gallery space as series of sites and surfaces. Projecting along the right angles, adjacent walls, corridors and crevasse of the galleries the moving images to create encounters that dominate the built environment, like geographers, our survey explores the shifting terrains of space, memory, story, and image. The exhibition asks how can cinematic ephemera interact with/in the gallery.

  -Margie Medlin

• Ray Harris

  Spirit Shelf

  On a domestic shelf filled with jars, books and plastic, spirit shelf nods to preserved animals floating in flammable liquid on shelves in museums. But by projecting live animals filmed going about their daily life Spirit shelf speaks to extinction, cruelty, indifference humans have for the other inhabitants of the earth, through our use, abuse, denial, consumption, greed and destruction.

  Much as we are slowly destroying our home, we are rapidly affecting those who innocently live and try to survive and adapt around us. While we treat them with very little regard or relevance, much like the mundane inanimate objects in our pantry or office. Or token special items we hold in higher regard, a much-loved book or pet cat, while others become our endless mass of the unwanted.

  Ray Harris is an Adelaide artist working in video, performance and installation exploring the psychological complexities and struggles of the self. She is also a curator, advocate and initiator of projects and studios. Ray is committed to furthering the SA arts through participation, support, spaces and opportunities. She has a Master’s degree from UNI SA has won several grants and awards and has exhibited locally, nationally and internationally including: the Samstag Museum, AEAF, Adelaide Festival Hugo Michell Gallery, Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Casula Powerhouse, Brenda May Gallery, Pirimid Sanat and Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair (Turkey) and SEEAF Art Festival (South Korea). Her work is held in The Borusan Collection and Project 4L- Elgiz Museum Collection, Turkey and private collections in Australia and has featured in publications such as Artlink, Art Collector, Broadsheet, Real time, and ETC magazine Canada. Ray led, curated (2 co-curated) and managed 3 group exhibitions and performance events at Holy Rollers, and Led, initiated, developed and executed Neoteric, a 20 mid-career SA group exhibition with 20 writers in Adelaide Festival, 2022. Ray was a co-director of FELTspace ARI from 2010 to 15, the co-founder of Peer studios, founder and director of Holy Rollers Studios, Prospect and now The Third Level Studios in the Adelaide CBD.

• Sarah Neville

  T = I/I0 Transmittance

  T = I/I0 Transmittance is a daylight simulator that explores the amount of light energy that glass absorbs, scatters, or reflects. The installation is constructed of glass and light, projecting weather as shadow for personal reflection on winter-time ambience in enclosed spaces. In a speculative future world, where underground/ weatherproof living is normal, identifying the psychological importance of dappled light as light fairies on walls will connect with us with seasonal shifts to enhance quality of life.

  Sarah Neville is an Australian choreographer and scenario designer who devises new media performance, instigates inter-disciplinary practices and invests in multi-platform processes and production outcomes. Sarah has created work for Adelaide Festival and Fringe, Ausdance Choreolab, Dance House, Australian Choreographic Centre, ADT’s Ignition season, Strut Dance, Link Dance Company (WAAPA) Vitalstatistix, MOD UniSA and the Venice Biennale 2019. In 2021 Sarah was awarded an Arts SA Fellowship to create dance for virtual reality experiences. In 2022, Sarah received a PhD from Deakin University/ Coventry University researching embodied participation in immersive digital environments. Sarah was an intern at the research centre for interactive and virtual environments (IVE) at UniSA and has presented at Siggraph, Technart and the 7th MoCo Conference. Sarah is currently an adjunct research fellow at UniSA Creative/ IVE.

• Liam Somerville AKA CAPITAL WASTE

  marine_digital_conservation_SA_2023.exe

  marine_digital_conservation_SA_2023.exe, looks toward the inevitable digital future where we may live on a lifeless, artificial planet with only poor digital representations of the extinct species we have destroyed. Wouldn't it be so much better if we preserved the real thing instead?

  All over the world climate change caused by human hands under western capitalism has already made an enormous impact on the extinction of biodiversity of flora and fauna. If we continue on this path, which we show no meaningful signs of slowing down, soon there will be nothing left other than us humans and the livestock we like to consume. Millions of years of evolution annihilated for the sake of short-term corporate profits.

  As a society we have chosen not to stop our unsustainable consumption practices but to instead poorly digitise these living natural beauties before they are lost forever. Some chilling examples include the last remains of the extinct thylacine - 80 seconds of black and white film footage and a handful of pelts. Or the island digitisation project of Tuvalu, a Pacific Nation which will soon be underwater due to rising sea levels who are creating a virtual replica in a desperate effort to preserve their cultural heritage.

  Liam Somerville is a video artist and cinematographer living and working on unceded Kaurna Country in South Australia. After completing a Bachelor of Digital Media Arts from University of South Australia in 2010 Liam went on to form CAPITAL WASTE PICTURES where he has created and collaborated on music videos, video installations, feature films, documentaries, television commercials, VR games, dome projections and live visual experiences. Their digital works often circulate around inputting the beautiful imperfections of the human experience into the digital space to create cyborg interactions through the use of interactive sensors and motion capture. This can be witnessed in ESCHATECH VR, a post-human VR experience created in Unreal Engine with the assistance of Flinders University's 2021 Assemblage Artist in Residence Program. Other residencies such as with Cinematic Experiments with Margie Medlin at The Mill, Adelaide (2021) and Morphos Digital Dome Artist in Residence (2016) with Denver Arts +Tech Advancement in Denver, CO have all been beneficial for his continual visual exploration of the moving digital image.

  As a cinematographer Liam has credits including feature music doco The Angels: Kickin’ Down the Door (2022) directed by Madeline Parry which opened the 2022 Adelaide Film Festival, Video Nasty: The Making of Ribspreader (2020) directed by Matthew Bate and Liam Somerville and Yer Old Faither (2020) directed by Heather Croall.

• Inneke Taal

  A series of self-credits (as object; as site; as drama)

  I am considering the cross-over of theatricality behind the gallery (white-cube) and the theatre (black-box) as corresponding spaces at The Mill. Each are make-shift spaces that house processes of rehearsal, editing, experimentation, and production.

  I am moved by the invitation embedded in rehearsal processes. Impulse, improvisation, and the slow reflexive consideration of the space to be dressed for performance or exhibition as what activates a site and makes it responsive. The plurality of these bodily-spatial dialogue holds a state of becoming that I find precious, a series of vital passing moments that gather over time to form a multi-faceted whole.

  I also wish to interrogate the inextricable act of self-crediting that goes into making and viewing art.

  Through multiple modes of deconstruction, the collapsed rolling credits and truss as figures in space; the projection of the infinite gallery architecture reflecting itself and those who pass through in delay; and the illumination of an empty blacked-out performance space, I seek to promote the embodiment of these processes with the act of anticipation and viewing.

  The before the event.

  Inneke Taal’s sculptural practice utilises multi-media installation and performative practices as a way of considering subtle embodied experiences and spatial relationships. Taal has a particular interest in reflecting the making and receiving of artwork as a subject in her work, as well as producing site-responsive works. With a focus on process-based modes of production, Taal seeks to interrupt common modes of presentation, and interrogate linear narrative and logic, using a range of media including found objects, paper, moving image, text, and sound. The role of video and projection have become central mediums in her practice to explore the agency of the body, the lens, and site. Inneke completed a Bachelor of Visual Art Honours in 2019 following a Bachelor of Visual Arts in 2018, at Adelaide Central School of Art. She has a background working for performing arts organisations after completing a Bachelor of Arts Double Major in Linguistics and Drama in 2006 at Deakin University, Melbourne. Inneke received an Adelaide Fringe Festival Weekly Award for Art & Design in 2022 for her solo show ‘Site Interrupted’ at Sauerbier House and is a recipient of The Anne and Gordon SAMSTAG International Visual Arts Scholarship 2023 - 2024.

• Tanya Voges

  With/In

  With/In illustrates the relationship of the body to space, between the bodies of performer and witness and to itself as a kinaesthetic exploration. The interplay of the projected figure within the installation and architecture invites the viewer to consider their own sense of physicality as they are moved with and in the space. The experimental projection techniques show a study of the dance artist’s process informed by movement scores demonstrating elements of contemporary dance linage. Unlike viewing an ephemeral performance With/In offers an interactive glimpse into the ever-evolving practice of the artist’s signature choreographic process and only exists with the presence of the audiences’ movements.

  Interdisciplinary artist Tanya Voges brings her experience in dance, drawing, community engagement and dance film making to make multimedia performance works, live dance pieces and dance for screen. A 2004 graduate of Victorian College of the Arts, Tanya is currently back at the University of Melbourne undertaking a Master’s in Dance Movement Therapy. The cross over between arts and health has been a common theme in the community engagement works Tanya has created in recent years especially as Artist in Residence at Flinders Medical Centre Arts-in-Health (2020 & 2021) where she developed Drawn to Movement and Dance for Tender Times particularly with the patient experience in mind. Other residencies have been through Australian Dance Theatre (2021), The Mill (2020) and Guildhouse/SA Museum Tracing the Anthropocene (2020), Critical Path (2014), BigCI(2014) and Bundanon (2011 & 2013). Recent collaborations with Artist Louise Flaherty and Musician Belinda Gehlert have led to participatory performances in the Parklands (2020), Adelaide Botanic Gardens (2021 Nature Fest), Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens (2022 Fringe) and a new work for Lobethal Bushland Park (April 2023 Fabrik). As an advocate for dance for all ages Tanya facilitates choreography, contemporary dance and improvisation for Adelaide Festival Centre, Tafe SA, Restless Dance Theatre, Flinders Medical Centre and Carclew.

• About the Creative Team

  James Alberts, aka Jimblah, is a Larrakia Brother who specialises in activating community & using the power of creative space to bring about healing, joy, and play where Community and Country are concerned. James is a music producer, vocalist, photographer & cinematographer, and utilises Song & Story to help uplift and transform Community for the better, and has close to 20 years of experience working within the First Nations sector, in particular youth spaces, all across the Country.

  Artistic & Curatorial Facilitator:

  Margie Medlin’s practice tracks in a linage of expanded cinema, her interdisciplinary projects explore interrelationships between movement, devised spaces, and media technologies. Throughout her practice, she has continued to experiment and forge new ground aesthetically, collaboratively, and technically. Her media artwork has been exhibited extensively including in India, the USA, Cuba, Australia, Germany, the UK, Japan, and Finland. As an educator, Margie was the director of Critical Path, centre for choreographic research in Sydney from 2007-2015.

  Artistic Mentorship and Professional Development:

  Tim Gruchy’s extensive career spans the exploration and composition of immersive and interactive multimedia through installation, music and performance, whilst redefining its role and challenging the delineations between cultural sectors. He has exhibited multimedia works, photography, video, music and performance since the early 1980s on 5 continents as well as his larger expressions in the public art arenas. His installations and performances feature in many international and Australasian institutions, festivals and public spaces including IlluminateADL 2021, Future Intelligence Shanghai 2019, WOMAD (2018/7), Wenzhou Bienalle (2016), Dak’ Art Dakar (2016), Auckland Arts Festival (2015 & 2009), New Zealand Arts Festival (2014), SCOUT Auckland (2012), Biennale of Sydney (2012) (collaboration), Beijing 798 (2011), Shanghai Expo (2010), 2nd Asian Art BIennial Taiwan (2009), Melbourne International Arts Festival (2009), Adelaide Festival (1986-2008), and Sydney Festival (2004). Theatre and opera credits include ‘AIDA’; Sydney Opera House and touring Australia (2009-2013), ‘Ainadamar’, Adelaide Festival (2008);The Leningrad Symphony (2006). His visual designs have featured in works by Opera Australia, OzOpera, Sydney Theatre Company, Australian Dance Theatre, Auckland Philamonia Orchestra and Mau. He is an Adjunct Research Professor at the University of South Australia, and was Art Director and Distinguished Professor of the Digital Art Department, Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts from 2018 – 2021. His research has extended into areas of interactivity, the human computer interface, performative interactives, having established dedicated labs at QUT in Brisbane and SAFA in Shanghai. He is represented by Kronenberg Mais Wright Gallery in Sydney. He has lectured and facilitated workshops in video art and interactive digital design at creative institutions around the world including Shanghai; Future University of Hakodate (Japan); National Institute of Dramatic Art (Sydney); University of Technology Sydney; Te Papa (New Zealand) and Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane). He has also been extensively involved in museum design and various projects at the intersection of architecture and multimedia. www.grup.tv

  Cindi Drennan/Illuminart is an Australian multimedia artist and artistic director, specialising in projection art, with a passion for community building at the heart of her practice. Cindi is the founder and director of illuminart, bringing a wealth of experience and passion for the artform, and leadership to the projects. Architectural Projection and Projection arts projects directed by Cindi include Luminous Hall for UWA 2013; award winning No Boundaries Project in 2012; award winning Port Inhabited for Port Festival 2011; RED on Sydney Opera House for World Aids Day 2011; Fractured Heart for ARIAS and VIVID 2011-2012; The Ribbon for the Regional Centre of Culture program in Murray Bridge SA 2010, and Landed for the National Regional Arts Conference in Launceston, 2010, and Harts Mill Inhabited and Promise in 2009. Cindi’s multi-disciplinary background encompasses over 25 years experience in filmmaking, illustration, animation, community arts & interactive media. Cindi founded Illuminart in 2007, a South Australian arts company that integrates community consultation and engagement within high quality projection arts, architectural projection and audiovisual storytelling. Prior to this Cindi’s creative leadership roles included Tesseract Research Laboratories 1997-2004, The Electric Canvas 2004-2006, and also team leadership roles at the Institute for Interactive Multimedia (UTS) and Unlimited Energee 1993-1997. Cindi’s accomplishments include contributing projection art for the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, DOHA opening ceremony and Singapore National Day; directing several short films and television commercials; directing two experimental AV theatre projects (Alpha Release at p-space, and Sprocket at The Studio Sydney Opera House); pioneering VJing and projection mapping in Australia.

• About the program

  Make|Shift is part of The Mill’s Expand program, a responsive process and development program, with interest in challenging artists to explore interdisciplinary, site-specific and audience-focused new work.

  Expand supports artists to explore different modes of collaborating and encourages peer-learning. It enables risk taking, experimentation and freedom of expression in the creation and realisation of new works. Expand invites audiences to not only appreciate, but actively participate in the practice of art-making through artists talks, Q&A’s and public workshops.

  The exhibition has been developed through Expand’s Cinematic Experiments: Projection Techniques and Technologies program.

• Accessibility

  The Mill has two entrances, the main entrance on the corner of Angas and Gunson Street and an accessible entrance further down Angas Street.

  Unfortunately, the main entrance is not accessible, as it has a small step from the pavement.

  Both doors are locked from the outside, there is a doorbell on the main door that will alert The Mill team you would like to come into the building.

  A member of The Mill team sit in the foyer Monday to Friday and can assist you with access to our wheelchair accessible entrance.

  The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

  Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.

  If you have questions or would like to talk to one of The Mill team contact us via email

This project has support from

First Nations Dance Program: Supported by Australian Dance Theatre

Photo: Supplied by Tjarutja Dance Collective

As part of The Mill's First Nations Dance program, Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) is offering the following programs including; dance technique classes, choreographic workshops and secondments at ADT.

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ADT Secondment week

Two dancers to join ADT for their upcoming secondment week. Learn ADT’s repertoire, and enhance and refine your dance technique alongside ADT’s First Nations Artistic Director Daniel Riley, Company Artists and both emerging and professional dancers. Level of dance experience required.

Details

When: July 3-7, 9:30am-5:30pm

Where: The Odeon, Australian Dance Theatre, 57A Queen St, Norwood

Ages: 18+

Cost: Free

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TREAD

Tread is ADT’s artist program giving two First Nation dancers exposure to the company’s range and training methods, aiming to further develop their creative dance skills. Artists will be learning alongside other young dancers as part of the program. Tread offers a three-term program of training and performance opportunities to motivated First Nation dancers. Tread artists train at ADT’s home The Odeon and are led by ADT’s teaching artists, alumni and professional dancers to develop and advance their dance technique and skills.

Details

When: July 27 - September 28

Where: The Odeon, Australian Dance Theatre, 57A Queen St, Norwood

Ages: 16-18

Cost: Free

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Tuesday night classes

A 6-week block of contemporary dance classes led by Australian Dance Theatre Artistic Director Daniel Riley and company dancers. Offering the opportunity to learn a wide range of dance skills/technique. All levels of dance experience welcome, an interest in contemporary dance preferable.

Dance class facilitators:

September 5: Daniel Riley

September 12: Adrianne Semmens

September 19: Karra Nam

September 26: Kaine Sultan Babij

October 3: Adrianne Semmens

October 10: Daniel Riley

Details

When: September 5 - October 10, 6:30pm-8pm (dancers can arrive from 6pm to warm up)

Where: The Odeon, Australian Dance Theatre, 57A Queen St, Norwood

Ages: 18+

Cost: Free

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Groundswell

Groundswell is ADT’s First Nations and Diverse Choreographic Development Program. This year we will have a Torres Strait Islander artist in residence at ADT developing new work and sharing their choreographic practise with the ADT Company Artists. This will be a wonderful opportunity for a First Nations dancer/choreographer to be part of their creative process working alongside and observing the company in the development of new work and ideas. The chosen artist would spend a week with ADT within the period September 25-October 20. Dance experience required.

Details

When: September 25 - October 20

Where: The Odeon, Australian Dance Theatre, 57A Queen St, Norwood

Ages: 18+

Cost: Free

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This program has support from

First Nations Dance Program

In 2022, The Mill undertook a First Nations Dance Community Consultation with SA-based dance artists, to understand their needs and challenges. This consultation has informed the development of a broader extended program to benefit the First Nations dance community as a whole.

In 2023, The Mill created our First Nations Dance Program supported by BlakDance (QLD) and Australian Dance Theatre, coordinated by proud Ngarrindjeri, Narungga and Kaurna woman Caleena Sansbury, supported by The Mill’s CEO/Artistic Director.

In 2025, the program continues with the aim to support First Nations dancers and dance groups who reside in South Australia by offering them the following - as identified needs through consultation;

• Business development skills workshops

• Residencies at The Mill

• Culturally safe dance technique classes at The Mill and AC Arts

• Culturally safe choreography and composition labs at The Mill

Through this program, artists are supported to explore new ideas, interrogate existing work, explore new collaborative relationships, and/or research their movement practice in connection to Country and kin. They are supported to make new work and explore dance practice to develop new or existing ideas or processes and make space for experimentation and culturally engaged collaboration.

Photo: Supplied by Tjarutja Dance Collective.

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Adelaide Fringe: The Mill 2023 program

Expect everything from theatre to circus, comedy, live music and more. This year, in The Mill’s intimate 50-seat black box theatre, we will be playing host to shows from across Australia. Take a look through our program list below or browse our shows via Adelaide Fringe.

The Mill is an accessible space. Disability access is available via Angas St, and a disability toilet is also available. If you have any questions or additional accessibility requirements, please contact us at info@themilladelaide.com

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Table for Two?
Feb 15 - Mar 11, 2023

Award-winning physical comedy, Table for Two?, is a riot that will whisk you off your feet. Full of good laughs, terrible table service, and a melting pot of characters, this show is an escape into the nonsensical. Mix Monty Python with Mr Bean, cocktails with polony- rustle up your appetite for a night that is sure to be remembered.

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PROTOTYPE
Feb 15 - 26, 2023

Captivating vocal force SASHA MARCH launches her new music. An immersive Electro Art Pop dreamscape, with dark humour and lyrical prowess – this show will hook you in deep. A world torn apart and put back together in alluring song and glitchy visuals.

Come for the Art–Pop–Alypse!

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Presentation is Everything
Feb 15 - 26, 2023

The antidote to every bland lecture and boring work presentation you’ve ever endured. Performed by two of Melbourne’s fastest-rising comedians Sweeney Preston and Ethan Cavanagh, this is an hour of fast-paced stand-up comedy, visually complemented by Microsoft PowerPoint.

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The Late Nite PowerPoint Comedy Showcase
Feb 17 - 26, 2023

A wild late-night showcase with a rotating line-up of 6 comedians, putting the ‘show’ back into show-and-tell! Hosted by Sweeney Preston & Ethan Cavanagh, this cult classic comes to Adelaide after sell-out seasons at Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Sydney Fringe. Past guests include Tom Ballard, Dane Simpson, Emma Holland and more.

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i am root
Feb 15 - Mar 17

Told from the perspective of a Ukrainian Canadian living in Australia, this ritual performance piece is a topical, deep, playful exploration (Akubras & Vegemite rituals involved) of culture, identity and belonging in the land down under. Olenka employs her mother tongue (Ukrainian), song, dance, clown, folk traditions, recipes, storytelling, spoken word poetry and prayer to enliven the depths of the unspoken, mysterious places where spirit lives.

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Sheltered
Feb 16 - March 4, 2023

Come bunker down with Kathryn Hall in this hilariously honest take on the ups and downs of finding adulthood in a youth shelter while learning to manage cerebral palsy.

Blending comedy, drama, puppetry, dance and one very special quilt, Sheltered is an autobiographical rollercoaster that playfully challenges perceptions of disability.

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Be A Doll, Won’t You?
Feb 22 - Mar 5, 2023

Ever felt like a piece of meat? Lulu does! As a woman in the sex industry, the world constantly objectifies her, until she eventually becomes the thing everyone always sees her as - a doll. 'Be A Doll, Won't You?' looks at what it means to have your body constantly commented on, commodified, and packaged for sale. It's the girliest take on Kafka yet.

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Here We Are
Feb 22 - Mar 18, 2023

Here We Are is a live, improvised story telling event by Emma Beech. Every show is utterly unique, the story selection will be made up on the spot, inspired by a conversation with you - the audience - about where you're at and what you what you hear. Directed by Tim Overton, buckle in for a journey that you help create.

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Go, Sports!
Mar 1 - 5

Sports is COOL! Matty Johns, Israel Folau, Wayne Carey: Heroes. It’s the BEST part about Australia, and there’s nothing problematic about it. Award winning clown and theatremaker, Kyle Walmsley, brings this marathon of comedy and sports bullying to the stage. There will be blood (fake), sweat (real), and tears (who knows).

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Vegas Residency
Mar 1 - 5

The Burton Brothers have got their lucky break! Set five years into a decade-long residency at a fictional casino on the Las Vegas Strip, this sketch comedy show is the highest of stakes! After doing a devils deal with the shady casino owner, now each show is a dice roll for life or death!

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Pickled Sink
Mar 8 - 19, 2023

Playschool. Karaoke. Die Hard. With great silliness, Will Tredinnick returns with his off-beat style of home-pickled physical comedy. Come for the laughs (and then also stay for the laughs) brought on by this multi award-winning mind. Leave your troubles at the door and be wrapped in a world that is as nonsensical as it is charming. Yippee-ki-yay.

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Party Girl
Mar 8 - 12, 2023

Fairy Sprinkles is the kids party entertainer of every gross dad’s dreams. This rock n’ roll monologue challenges notions of traditional feminine behaviour, and explores the impact of mental illness on family. A story about love and faith, Party Girl is an intimate, funny, and deeply moving work that speaks (and sings) directly to the audience.

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300 Paintings
Mar 8 - 18, 2023

Winner of Best Comedy and Directors Choice Award at 2022 Sydney Fringe Festival. Is art a joke? Comedian Sam Kissajukian takes you through 300 paintings he made in 5 months of isolation. A comedian’s take on art, the artistic process, mental health and its ties to creativity.

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A Lovely Day To Be Online
Mar 15 - 19, 2023

Singer-songwriter and self-obsessed internet addict Connor Morel fronts a live band in this original gig-theatre show that asks: are we doing the internet right? And would life just be easier without it all?

From the Instagram influencers, to the keyboard warriors: we’re all in the sauce. But is it all going too far? And what would it take for us to realise it is?

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This program has support from

Information session: Delima Residency

A photograph of lush tropical plants.

Information Session: Friday April 14, 4-5pm 2023

The Mill Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide)

Free entry, all welcome

• Accessibility

  Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, access the pedestrian ramp on the corner of Gunson St to get to our front door, which will be open.

  The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

  Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.

  If you have questions or would like to talk to one of The Mill team contact info@themilladelaide.com

Applications are now open for the Delima Residency at Rimbun Dahan 2023

Join us at The Mill for an Information Session about the residency and application process, and hear from artist Rob Gutteridge about his experience at Rimbun Dahan.

In 2023, The Mill will be offering one South Australian artist the opportunity to travel to Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia, for a 3-month (residential) residency, October-December 2023, in cooperation with Mahmood Martin Foundation. This will be followed by a 3-month (non-residential) studio residency at The Mill, and a solo exhibition outcome presented in The Mill Showcase.

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The Mill’s Sponsored Studio program is presented in cooperation with Mahmood Martin Foundation

Exhibition: Surviving the Sunset

A photograph of a river landscape, the sky is orange and the sun is a bright orb close to the horizon. In the foreground, a shadowy person is pulling a fishing net out of the water. Image: Courtesy of the Artist.

April 4 - 15, 2023

Launch event: Tuesday April 4, 4-6pm

Free entry, all welcome

• Visiting the exhibition

  You can find Surviving the Sunset at The Mill Exhibition Space,
  located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

  The Exhibition Space is open Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm.

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The Mill is pleased to host the Surviving the Sunset fundraising art exhibition, organised by the Australian Myanmar Institute for Democracy, Human Rights and Peace Limited (AMIDHRP) and Amnesty International.

The theme, Surviving the Sunset, refers to the current situation in Myanmar, where the military-led junta known as the Tatmadaw overthrew the democratically elected government. This theme alludes to the need for the people of Myanmar to overcome the "sunset" of democracy in their country and to restore human rights and peace.

We welcome art lovers from the Adelaide community and beyond to join us for this exhibition. The collection features a selection of works from Myanmar and Myanmar-Australian artists, curated by LuLu Htet, founder of iLearnBurmese and Director of AMIDHRP.

In addition, the exhibition includes artwork donations from local Australian artists Kingsley Wilson-Head, Director-Secretary of AMIDHRP, Andrew Wilson-Head, Peter Westerhoff, as well as some framed photographs from Anne Wilson.

Contact the registered charities of AMIDHRP and Amnesty International to find out more about their programs and how to donate to their charitable aid causes.

• Accessibility

  Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, access the pedestrian ramp on the corner of Gunson St to get to our front door, which will be open.

  The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

  Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.

  If you have questions or would like to talk to one of The Mill team contact info@themilladelaide.com

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Artist + Curator Talk: Museum of Old Money, THE GOOD NEW$ BANK, Steph Cibich

Friday, March 24, 2023, 12-1pm

The Mill Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free to attend

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Join us on the final day of Museum of Old Money for a lunchtime Artist and Curator Talk with THE GOOD NEW$ BANK's Nick Hanisch and Cassie Thring, and curator Steph Cibich.

The talk will discuss themes explored in the exhibition, playfully touching on the ideas surrounding ‘currency’, ‘value’ and ‘worth’ under consumer-capitalism.

• About the exhibition

  The Mill is excited to present a new exhibition Museum of Old Money by THE GOOD NEW$ BANK curated by Steph Cibich. THE GOOD NEW$ BANK is the collaborative moniker for artist duo Nicholas Hanisch and Cassie Thring, who have been working closely with Cibich to develop a body of work that playfully comments on the ideas surrounding ‘currency’, ‘value’ and ‘worth’ under consumer-capitalism. What is art worth? What value does the artist play within our society? How do we understand the exchange value of creative work? How do you put a price on the way that works of art make us feel?  

  With the current ‘cozzie livs’ (cost of living crisis), we are all making daily choices to determine how we can make our money stretch. Art can be seen as a luxury item, but at what cost? We know from our times in pandemic lockdown that art and creativity are central to our sense of self, and sense of community. Featuring Art Vending Machine Australia’s (AVMA) ‘Adelaide Art Vending Machine’, in which Curator Steph Cibich seeks to democratise the process of buying artwork, without undermining the work of the artist.

  The vending machine will sit alongside other works, developed through a collaborative relationship between curator and artists, offering unique moments for audience participation. Artworks will be available for purchase giving audiences an accessible option for becoming collectors of contemporary art.

• About the artists

  Steph Cibich is a Kaurna Country (Adelaide) based curator and arts writer. Since 2019, she has worked as the Assistant Curator/Program Officer at the Centre for Creative Health and has built a strong independent curatorial practice. She is the founding force behind Art Vending Machines Australia (AVMA) and received the inaugural City of Onkaparinga Contemporary Curator Award (SALA 2019). In 2020, Steph was simultaneously appointed FELTspace Emerging Curator and the inaugural ART WORKS Emerging Curator, presented by Guildhouse and the City of Adelaide. Recently, Steph was appointed Co-chair of the Art History & Curatorship Alumni Network (AHCAN) and was a writer for ‘Neoteric’, an exhibition presented as part of the Adelaide Festival (2022). Steph’s curatorial approach centres on collaborating with and championing the work of contemporary artists. Through democratic and meaningful art projects, Steph seeks to bring people and ideas together by fostering connections between artists, art and audiences.

  @steph_cibich

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  Nicholas Hanisch is a sculptural installation artist graduating as a scholarship recipient at Adelaide Central School of Art. Hanisch’s ongoing practice has involved a diverse and continual exploration of mediums, conceptual themes, and collaborations. His recent body of work investigates creation narratives within the field of figurative sculpture. Hanisch’s sculptural forms are informed by the history of figurative sculpture, whilst celebrating the humour, the horror, the happenstance, and the sheer endeavour of creation. Previously Hanisch has attended the New York Studio School, practiced, and exhibited in Berlin, participated in residencies across India, and exhibited as part of The Art Gallery of South Australia collection.

  @nicholashanisch

  www.nicholashanisch.com

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  Cassie Thring is a multidisciplinary artist working from Floating Goose Studios on Kaurna land, Adelaide, SA. A passionate advocate for accessible community art programs, her work reflects an interest in the riches and sorrows of life, often through an apparently humorous lens. A graduate of Adelaide Central School of Art, Thring has participated in local and international residencies. Her work A Gazillion was exhibited as part of The Art Gallery of South Australia and is now in their permanent collection. Thring’s work is also held in the National Museum of Canberra and private collections, both in Australia and internationally.

  @cmthring

  www.cassiethring.com 

• Accessibility

  The Mill is an accessible space. Disability access is available via Angas St, and a disability toilet is also available on-site.

  You can find more detailed information on our accessibility page.

  If you have any questions or additional accessibility requirements, please contact us at info@themilladelaide.com

Photographer: Daniel Marks

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This exhibition has support from

Adelaide Festival Masterclass: Freestyle to Choreography with Feras Shaheen

Photo: Jean-Pierre Mattos.

Masterclass

When: Tuesday, March 14, 2023, 10am-12pm (arrive at 9:45am to sign in)

Where: Dance Hub SA, Lion Arts Centre, Cnr Morphett St & North Tce, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: $30 (+ booking fees)

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The Mill in partnership with Adelaide Festival are excited to present a masterclass with Feras Shaheen.

Feras will be performing in Marrugeku’s Jurrungu Ngan-ga [Straight Talk] as part of Adelaide Festival 2023.

About the masterclass:

This contemporary / street dance masterclass is about finding your choreographic language through your freestyle. It focusses on practicing and discussing methods to help develop your freestyle skills.  

Understanding the importance of a challenge in a process and finding the playfulness in your process. We will explore how to create for your next door neighbour, as well as your colleagues.

Experience level:

Intermediate to professional dancers.

• About the facilitator

  Feras Shaheen is an artist curious in letting his conceptual interests lead him across a variety of mediums. Using choreography, installations, design, film, performance, digital media, and street dance to communicate his ideas, the core of Feras’ practice is to connect and engage with audiences. Holding a Bachelor of Design from Western Sydney University (2014), Feras often subverts traditional relationships between mediums to challenge audiences' perspectives.

  Born in Dubai to Palestinian parents, and moving to Western Sydney at age 11, Feras’ perception of the world is constantly shifting and changing. Winner of The Australian Ballet’s Telstra Emerging Choreographer (TEC) in 2021, Feras has performed and exhibited at Carriageworks, Venice Biennale, Pari, Kampnagel, Campbelltown Arts Centre, and Théâtre de la Ville.

  Recent works include Cross Cultures, Plastic Bag, ongoing collaboration Klapping, and Forum Q. Cross Cultures, a body of work shown at Pari Gallery Parramatta (2020) and Carriageworks (2021) explored the fluid contemporary identities of ‘Generation Y’ and how street culture is heavily impacted by media culture, specifically where commercial and urban industries intersect and reconcile. Where Plastic Bag a full-length show including performative video installation, directed by Feras, drew from the postmodern concept of hyperreality and premiered at East Sydney Community Arts Centre in 2022. Feras is currently working with Marrugeku, presenting Jurrungu Ngan-ga, a collaborative production that addresses both local and global issues regarding the fear of cultural differences.

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Emerging Producer Xchange

The Emerging Producer Xchange is a flagship mentorship program developed between Metro Arts (QLD) and The Mill with the support of The Ian Potter Foundation and Arts SA Market Development and project grants. Over 2021-2022, six emerging producers will be invited to participate in paid 10-month internships, embedded within nationally-recognised multidisciplinary arts organisations.

Under the mentorship of a lead producer in each state, the emerging producers will receive exclusive insights into the operation of two professional and prolific Australian arts organisations, and have unparalleled access to networking, skill-sharing and professional development opportunities. Between January – November, the emerging producers will support the delivery of the host organisations’ annual artistic programs, supporting artists in the creation, presentation and touring of new work.

The emerging producers will also accompany lead producers to attend a number of major industry events, conferences and marketplaces throughout the year, and participate in a series of dedicated activities specific to the Emerging Producer Xchange. This includes an intensive 3-day skills-sharing and development bootcamp. Emerging Producers will complete the program with a detailed understanding of the Australian performance landscape including funding and tour/presenting frameworks, and meaningful new connections with artists and fellow producers around Australia and internationally. The Emerging Producer Xchange is designed to address the ongoing shortfall of professional development opportunities for skilled producers in the independent performance sector who are equipped with the knowledge and networks to practice rewarding, long-term careers in their home states.

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2022 Associate Producer

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The Mill Producer Support 2022

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2021 Associate Producer

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 The Mill Producer Support 2021

Adelaide Fringe Masterclass: Poetry and Spoken Word with Huda Fadlelmawla

Photo: Supplied by Metro Arts.

Masterclass

When: Monday, February 20, 2023, 1:30pm-3:30pm (arrive at 1:15pm to sign in)

Where: The Mill Breakout, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (enter via the Exhibition Space)

Cost: $30 (+ booking fees)

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The Mill in partnership with Metro Arts are excited to present a masterclass with writer, performer and champion slam poet Huda Fadlelmawla.

Huda Fadlelmawla will be performing in Betwixt as part of Adelaide Fringe 2023.

About the masterclass:

This masterclass is broken into two parts, beginning by going back to the basics of poetry elements, and how to get your story onto the page in a way that best expresses your own voice. The second part will bring participants to the stage, with specialised tips in performance, public speaking, and the chance of an in-house poetry slam of our own.

Experience level:

All writers and creatives, from amateur to experienced poets and writers, adults 18+.

Materials:

Please bring paper and a pen.

• About the facilitator

  Huda Fadlelmawla (aka Huda The Goddess) is spoken word poet, educator, and community activist. Huda is the current Australia Poetry Slam Champion and two-time QLD champ.

  Huda is a spoken word poet, educator, mental health advocate, dancer and workshop facilitator. She describes poetry as one of her senses that has allowed her to turn her experiences into art and maintain her connection to her people.

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Adelaide Fringe Masterclass: Devising Physical Theatre with Will Tredinnick

Masterclass

When: Monday, February 20, 2023, 10:30am-12:30pm (arrive at 10:15am)

Where: The Mill Breakout, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (enter via the Exhibition Space)

Cost: $30 (+ booking fees)

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About the masterclass:

Will Tredinnick is a self-proclaimed ‘Professional Idiot’. This workshop is for anyone interested in pursuing anything professionally, be that dance, theatre, comedy, music, masonry, small business, or baking!

This masterclass will focus on developing skills in devising for performance and will start with some light physical activity to get the blood pumping around our performance vessel: the body. From there we will discover how to play, explore some tools to help us make something out of nothing, learn some simple storytelling tricks and then bring it on home with a short display of our new mastery of devising.

The workshop will be physical (but not too physical) so wear something comfortable (there will be a prize for the most comfortable outfit).

Experience level:

Suitable for individuals, duos, trios and larger ensembles - all experience levels are welcome!

Age recommended 15+

• About the facilitator

  Will is a diverse and passionate theatre-maker from Western Sydney.
 With a Bachelor of Communication (Theatre/Media), Will developed his physical theatre, learning skills in circus, dance, and acrobatics. He’s performed at multiple Australian festivals, and led venue teams at international Fringes.

  In 2018, Will developed his first solo work Table for Two?
The show has since won awards and performed to sell-out audiences at Bondi Feast, Sydney and Adelaide Fringe. Since then, he's created his second touring piece, Pickled Sink, receiving multiple 4 and 5 star reviews.

  When not touring, Will performs as a ‘Captain’ for the Starlight Children's Foundation, Front of House Manager at multiple large venues, and teaches, performs, and leads festivals in remote communities across NSW and WA.

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ilDance Professional Development 2023: Jazzy Williamson-Gray

The Mill is thrilled to announce Jazzy Williamson-Gray as the 2023 recipient of the ilDance Professional Development.

The ilDance Professional Development program provides the opportunity for an emerging South Australian based dancer within five years of graduating from a tertiary institution, to work with ilDance’s project-based junior company, ilYoung, in the creation process and tour of a new dance work throughout Sweden.

About the artist:

• Jazzy Williamson-Gray

  Jazzy Williamson-Gray (21) is a contemporary dancer based in Adelaide/Kaurna land.

  She graduated with a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Dance), from Adelaide College of the Arts, after performing works by Kialea-Nadine Williams, Peter Sheedy, Tobiah Booth-Remmers, Lee Brummer, Garry Stewart, Alison Currie, Daniel Riley, and Daniel Jaber.

  Following her graduation, Jazzy aspires to explore a variety of movement methodologies and processes to gain a broad understanding of her practice. Additionally, Jazzy is interested in interdisciplinary collaboration and is empowered by the creative freedom of improvisation and choreographic composition. She is passionate about exploring themes of the human condition, philosophy, and psychology in future choreographic works.

  Jazzy is grateful to be selected as a part of IlYoung’s cast of 2023 and she is excited to explore the many possibilities this opportunity will offer her.

Photo: Sam Roberts

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Workshop: Portraiture, Identity and Symbolism with Charlene Komuntale

Artwork: Charlene Komuntale, Aqua Dresses, 2022

Workshop

When: Tuesday, February 14, 1-3pm

Where: The Exhibition Space, The Mill, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: $25 (+ booking fee), all materials included

• Accessibility

  The Mill has two entrances, the main entrance on the corner of Angas and Gunson Street and an accessible entrance further down Angas Street.

  Both doors are locked from the outside, there is a doorbell on the main door that will alert The Mill team. They will meet you at the accessible entrance to welcome you into the building.

  The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

  Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.

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Join Ugandan artist Charlene Komuntale for a workshop exploring her portraiture practice. Charlene Komuntale is a digital artist and illustrator based in Kampala, Uganda. She is the current LK Artist in Residence, she will be spending 6 weeks living in Adelaide and working from a studio at The Mill supported by Sanaa. Charlene uses digital mediums to create stunning portraits of Black African women that centre empowerment, liberation and confidence.

What to expect:

Participants will hear from Charlene about her digital and conceptual process, and how she creates her work. The group will then work with her to develop their own symbolic self-portrait in Charlene's style. Portraits will be created using paper, collage, texta and acrylic paint and can be taken home on the day.

• About the artist

  Charlene Komuntale is a digital artist and illustrator based in Kampala, Uganda. She holds a BA in Animation from Limkokwing University, Malaysia. In her recent series “Not Fragile”, Komuntale portrays women - mostly black African women.

  The subject matter is personal yet presented in a relatable way as inspiration is drawn from her own experiences but also informed by the experiences of other women around her.

  The heads of the women she portrays are covered by different elements, which create poetic yet striking narratives around a broadly relatable figure. At first sight, the works evoke a dreamy, peaceful, and quiet atmosphere, whereas at a closer look powerful, empowering and unapologetic messages come to the fore. Dominant, male-centered perspectives on women’s roles and supposedly nature-given capabilities and constraints attached to female bodies are being evaluated and re-examined. The juxtaposition of different elements creates an interesting asymmetry between awareness of self and the (male-centered) gaze of others. Intimacy, tenderness, vulnerability, and female beauty do not suggest fragility. Instead, it is related to strength and unapologetic confidence. Komuntale’s digital paintings deconstruct patriarchal narratives as shaped by culture, religion, and politics and provide a ground for inquiry and interrogation, and for visions of different futures.

  Her compositional choices create a space at the edges of reality – moments frozen in time and filled with surreal elements and metaphorical and symbolical references.

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This Sponsored Studio has support from

Adelaide Fringe Masterclass: Nailing a Spoken Story with Emma Beech

Photo: Daniel Marks

Masterclass

When: Friday, March 3, 2023, 10:30am-12:30pm (arrive at 10:15am to sign in)

Where: The Mill Breakout, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (enter via the Exhibition Space)

Cost: $30 (+ booking fees)

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This masterclass is about getting to the heart of what you want to say and nailing the craft behind storytelling.

Stories are an incredible source of material and connective juice between a performer and their audience. This masterclass will help you find the heart, hone in on the point, and tune the delivery, so your story can do what it needs to do - express, connect and delight.

This could be a story that is used as a part of or as the whole basis for a show, told as between set 'banter' or even used to 'pitch' a work. You can take stories from your life, the lives of others or even a story you have heard or read about - all of them can be crafted into telling power. 

After a couple of quick palate-cleansing games to get your minds ready to access, this masterclass will go full steam into your story crafting, from story - selection through to story delivery. Emma writes by improvised speaking, so she will also share her 'dot-point' writing style.

Get ready to work, talk and listen. 

Bring a note-book, a bottle of water and a story.

Experience level:

This masterclass is open to people who practice performance of any kind, who either want to build on a story-telling practice, or incorporate it into their own genre of practice. General public are welcome to attend yet will need to be ready for working within a theatrical environment with performing artists who are familiar with improvisation and responding to unknown creative tasks ie: written, verbal and physical.

• About the facilitator

  I started making shows for my mum in her bedroom when I was six. Since then, I graduated from Flinders Drama Centre, worked in theatre and screen as well as developing an arts practice of making theatre shows from intimate conversations with other humans, from strangers to my dad, drawing from documentary to create my own docu-theatre style.  The best moments of these conversations I collect together to make shows, which exalt the un-exalted in our daily lives, and hone in on our life-changing stories.  My work is often direct address, and montages monologue storytelling, gestures and physical narratives that are collected from interviews, conversations, confessions and observations.

  I work with collaborators that include installation-theatre companies in Demark and Singapore, and various companies / festivals locally including The Rabble, Arts House, DreamBIG festival, Aphids, OSCA, No Strings Attached, STC SA, Brink Productions and Vitalstatistix. Emma has just finished her one-woman show commissioned for the Adelaide Festival, The Photo Box.

Breakout Residencies 2023: Announcing the successful recipients

Spotlight Residency: CRAM Collective

Photo: Verity Lo.

About the artist:

CRAM is a South Australian independent theatre collective. By cramming the most passionate and daring creatives into a room, creating opportunities for independent artists, we make work that excites and strengthens the Adelaide art scene. Since CRAM’s launch in November of 2021, we have presented two sold out, world-premiere seasons of work – first a devised piece, titled NEW WORLD COMING, which was created in just 5 days through a collaboration with 11 artists, and the second show, award-winning playwright Anna Barnes’, Something Big.

CRAM have collaborated with Renew Adelaide to open the CRAM Hub on Pirie Street, running an Artist in Residence Program, and monthly CRAM Scrams, our scratch night program. We were also part of the Helpmann Creative Innovator Program for six months, being awarded the seed funding upon completion. 

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Free-range Residency: Astrid Pill

Photo: Supplied by Astrid Pill.

About the artist:

Astrid Pill is a performer/theatre maker who has worked with numerous companies and collaborators since 1996. She worked with Restless Dance Theatre and Patch Theatre Company, both over 10 year periods and has a 20-year collaborative relationship with Ingrid Voorendt and Zoe Barry, with whom she is creating the new work – Widow Weirdo. She has worked with Brand X, Yashchin Ensemble, The Border Project, Sarah Neville, Maude Davey and Vitalstatistix, Ingrid Voorendt, Ladykillers, Daisy Brown/Cabaret Festival, Windmill and State Theatre SA/Brink.

She sang for The New Pollutants re-score of Metropolis, which toured to major venues and film festivals including The Sydney Opera House and Fed Square. Astrid has won many awards including an Adelaide Critics Circle Award for Cake, which she wrote, toured and adapted for ABC’s airplay and an Arts SA Emerging Artist Award, which enabled her to study voice and physical theatre in France and Poland. 

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Free-range Residency: Taylor Nobes

Photo: Jamie Hornsby.

About the artist:

Taylor Nobes is a professionally trained actor, singer and theatre maker based in South Australia and a 2019 graduate from Adelaide College of the Arts. Taylor has a passion for creating innovative art with elements of music, dark comedy and physical theatre, with a strong focus on mental health awareness.

Taylor has worked and collaborated with BRINK Productions on The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2021) and performed in FRANK Theatres’ Chameleon (2020) and then again as part of the SALT Festival in 2021.

Taylor’s original work “Does It Please You?” debuted as part of the Adelaide Fringe 2021 and was the recipient of the week 4 Best Emerging Artist Award and was the winner of The Holden Street Theatres Award for 2021. The remounted version of "Does it Please You?" played its latest season as part of the Adelaide Fringe 2022 at Holden Street Theatres.

Taylor’s most recent work MUSIC & YOU premiered in 2022 and received many accolades, its developed version (MUSIC & YOU - Cabaret’s Not Really My Thing) will be showing as part of the Adelaide Fringe 2023 at the Adelaide Migration Museum.

Taylor will be collaborating with local creatives Jamie Hornsby, Felicity Boyd and Max Garcia-Underwood for this residency.

Artist Talk: Tikari Rigney and the Solidarity Collective

Artwork: Tikari Rigney. Photo carousel: Daniel Marks.

Artist Talk

When: February 21, 5:30-6:30pm

Where: The Mill Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: Free

• Accessibility

  The Mill has two entrances, the main entrance on the corner of Angas and Gunson Street and an accessible entrance further down Angas Street.

  Both doors are locked from the outside, there is a doorbell on the main door that will alert The Mill team. They will meet you at the accessible entrance to welcome you into the building.

  The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

  Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.

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Join artist Tikari Rigney and members of the Solidarity Collective for an informal artist talk, chatting about themes in their collaborative work as part of Tikari’s exhibition Snug Diaries. The collective have contributed an installation of objects, performance and poetry. The emphasis on peer learning and multidisciplinary collaboration within this project create a profound sense of community and care.

The Mill’s Solidarity Collective (working title) is a new project initiated and facilitated by Kaurna, Narrungga and Ngarrindjeri artist, and 2022 Sponsored Studio recipient Tikari Rigney. The Solidarity Collective is made up of South Australian based artists who identify as First Nations, and/or People of Colour. The collective has held regular meetings in late 2022, creating a community of multi-disciplinary artists who share, create and work collaboratively. Ultimately providing a platform for artists to express themselves and share stories within a safe space, while also making friends and sharing.

• About the artist

  Tikari Rigney is a non-binary (they/them) Kaurna, Narrungga and Ngarrindjeri visual artist and poet living and working on Kaurna land. Their process is centred around their language, identity specifically their family’s First Nations history and informed by personal challenges and experiences. Their interests are in community connection, solidarity and learning. These are explored through a range of mediums however, their practice currently is focused on textiles and fleshy anthropomorphic sculptures. 

  Tikari has been involved with several group shows and will be exhibiting their first solo exhibition at the completion of their residency at The Mill in February 2023. Their next residency is at Nexus towards the end of 2023.

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This project has support from

The Mill’s Sponsored Studio program is presented in cooperation with Mahmood Martin Foundation

MMF Sponsored Studio 2023: Yasemin Sabuncu

The Mill is thrilled to announce Yasemin Sabuncu as the recipient of the Sponsored Studio for the January-June 2023 residency. The Mill’s Sponsored Studio is a new initiative supported by the Mahmood Martin Foundation. In 2023 two selected artists will join our community, with each receiving 6-months of studio space and an exhibition outcome as part of The Mill Showcase.

About the artist:

• Yasemin Sabuncu

  Yasemin is a multidisciplinary creative with a Turkish background who works as a writer, director, actress, artist and comedian. Studying a double major in screen and theatre production at Flinders University, she went on to study Honours specialising in video, digital technology and performance.

  She also studied long form improv and sketch comedy at the improv conspiracy in Melbourne, and at Groundlings and UCB in LA.

  Yasemin aims to create stories that uplift, engage and promote diversity in innovative ways. Her work explores ideas of belonging, identity, liminality, spirituality, the environment, race, health and being “the other.” 

  Her work has been shown as part of FELTSpace’s FELTdark program in 2022 and she has participated in ActNow Theatre’s digital residency in 2021. She has also been a Midsumma Pathways participant,receiving mentorship from Victoria Falconer and Tj Dawe, Canada, for her 2021 Fringe show the Illest.

  Yasemin will be presenting her latest work Sick Bitch as part of Adelaide Fringe 2023 at The Mill, supported by the Adelaide Fringe Artist Fund.

Photo: Courtesy of the artist

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The Mill’s Sponsored Studio program is presented in cooperation with Mahmood Martin Foundation

Virtual Gallery: Sonya Mellor, Deep Listening

Sonya Mellor's Deep Listening was a multi-disciplinary exhibition that utilised various mediums such as sculpture, installation, movement, sound, and performance art to create a unique and immersive experience for the audience.

The focus of the exhibition was on the concept of deep listening, which refers to the practice of listening with full attention and without judgment. Through her artwork, Mellor invited audiences to engage with the exhibition space in a new way and experience the world around them with a heightened sense of awareness and mindfulness.

This Virtual Gallery includes photographic documentation of the exhibition and Sonya’s performances, as well as an audio recording of the Midsummer Meditation event.

Photo: Finn Mellor

My practice is about finding a unique visual, sound and movement language for ‘deep listening’. I am inspired by nature and what the community/public has to offer, contribute and share. This exhibition will translate community poems into movement, language and sound works. Creating a practice of embodiment, the exhibition is about finding my own way of ‘deep listening’. It navigates my connection to the Earth and Nature, here in South Australia, from a non Indigenous persons perspective, whilst holding a deep appreciation and respect for Indigenous connection to the land, sea and sky.

Photo: Finn Mellor

Life is about movement, moving forwards, under, around and through. By utilizing the action of ‘deep listening’, we can access these movements more readily, with a sense of grace, calm, peace and a sprinkle of humour. In these times of busy, busy, rush, rush...by ’listening deeply’ and weaving gossamer threads of nature, connection and community.

All photos: Finn Mellor

Writer in Residence 2023: Aushaf Widisto

The Mill is thrilled to announce Aushaf Widisto as the recipient of the Citymag 2023 Writer in Residence July-December residency.

The Writer in Residence program, in partnership with Citymag, supports emerging writers from a variety of disciplines. The program creates a broader audience for writing through leadership, mentorship and publication.

About the writer:

• Aushaf Widisto

  Aushaf Widisto is an emerging writer from Indonesia, currently based in Kaurna Yerta (Adelaide), Australia. His writing has been published in numerous publications across the web, both under his real name and pen name Adam Erland.

  As Aushaf, he writes about arts, culture, creative industries and urbanism – which are subjects he is formally trained in. While as Adam, he writes more freely about his other passions – ranging from 'serious' stuff like philosophy to 'trivial' stuff like pop culture.

  Aushaf writes in both English and Bahasa Indonesia, and has dabbled with many writing forms, including reviews, listicles and even academic papers. That said, he is most comfortable when writing memoirs and personal essays. He loves sharing lessons and experiences from his own life and finding the common humanity between his stories and other people’s.

  In 2022, Aushaf launched the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT)’s Emerging Writer Series as the inaugural emerging writer, where he wrote about SPECTRA, ANAT’s triennial festival of art, science and technology.

  Learn more about Aushaf's work on his website.

Photo: Courtesy of the artist

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