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First Nations Dance Program: BlakDance workshops

chloe metcalfe ·

Photo: Luke Currie-Richardson and Tjarutja Dance Collective.

The Mill is facilitating a series of professional development workshops at The Mill, Adelaide, with dance industry leaders from BlakDance QLD.

Workshop 1: Intro Yarn, April 21

Getting to know each other, discussing each others practice/creative goals, about BlakDance, the organisations history, programs, how we operate and work with artists.

Workshop 2: Business Basics for Independent Artists, April 28

Business Basics for Independent Artists - the decision to set up as a business, minimum things needed to apply for funding, enter contracts etc, auspicing vs self-managed.

Workshop 3: The First Nations Dance Ecology, July 28, 5:30pm - 7:30pm

A workshop on how new work is funded and developed, overview of the sector, who is making work, where is it being produced, the different business models/structures in which artists are making work e.g. independents, companies and collectives presented. BlakDance will be delivering this workshop online from Brisbane.

Workshop 4: Managing Cultural Protocols, September 8, 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Merindah Donnelly (Wiradjuri) Co-CEO & Executive Producer and Kate Eltham Co-CEO & Business Director from BlakDance will be facilitating the workshop and will have guest speaker Olivia Adams (Wulli Wulli) who is Associate Producer and Associate Artist at Blakdance.

Workshop 5: Grant Writing/Producing skills, November 3, 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Co-CEO & Business Director Kate Eltham from BlakDance will be leading this workshop about grant writing and producing skills.

This program is supported by:

 
 

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Movement Workshop with Bulareyaung Dance Company

Adele Sliuzas ·

All images: Bulareyaung Dance Company by Lee Chia Yeh.

Workshop

October 17, 1:30-3:10pm

AC Arts, Level 3, Rehearsal Studio, 39 Light Square, Kaurna Yarta

$30 (+ booking fee)

Bulareyaung Dance Company dancers will share what they have learned from indigenous Paiwan tribes including ancient daily chants.

What to expect:

Participants will have the chance to explore their physicality while singing and incorporating body movements.

Experience level:

Recommended for 18 yrs and above, no prior experience required.

  • The Bulareyaung Dance Company was founded in 2015 in Taitung by Bulareyaung Pagarlava, an indigenous choreographer from Taiwan. Creation of dance pieces and dancer training are accomplished by working in the mountains and singing old chants by the waterside. Dancers develop unique body movements and vocabulary by delving into their indigenous heritage and culture through regular field trips.

 

Tian Tiamen Episode 1 is showing as part of OzAsia Festival 2023.

 

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Artist Talk: Yasemin Sabuncu, Alchemical

Adele Sliuzas ·

Image: Daniel Marks

Artist Talk

Tuesday, August 8, 12-1pm

The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

  • You can find Yasemin Sabuncu’s Alchemical in The Mill’s Exhibition Space,
    located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

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

Yasemin Sabuncu will chat with The Mill’s Visual Arts Curator Adele Sliuzas about the works in her solo exhibition Alchemical. This Artist Talk will also be live streamed via The Mill’s YouTube.

This exhibition reclaims the artist's space and power as a creative who has had their career and life effected by late-stage diagnosis of endometriosis and ADHD.

Yasemin Sabuncu is the recipient of the Mahmood Martin Foundation Sponsored Studio for the January-June residency in 2023.

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  • Yasemin is 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 ActNow Theatre’s digital residency in 2021 and FELTdark program 2022. She has also been a Midsumma Pathways participant,receiving mentorship from Victoria Falconer and Tj Dawe, Canada, for her 2021 Fringe show 'the Illest'.

  • 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 info@themilladelaide.com

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Workshop: Yasemin Sabuncu, Alchemy

Adele Sliuzas ·

Image: Daniel Marks

Workshop

Friday, August 11, 2-4pm

The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas Street, Kaurna Yarta

$20 (+ booking fee)

  • You can find Yasemin Sabuncu’s Alchemical in The Mill’s Exhibition Space,
    located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

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

Join Yasemin for a 2-hour workshop exploring themes from the Alchemical exhibition, viewing the alchemy of chronic illness and art as a process that changes and transforms.

Yasemin invites participants to bring along something that they would like to transform- a situation, a feeling, an illness or diagnosis. Yasemin will guide participants through her process of reclaiming power as a creative, transforming it into something unexpected, new, and uncharted. Not-quite-therapy, but more than just the process of art, the workshop encourages collectivity and community as part of the transformation.

What to expect:

Participants will use pens, pencils, paper, and paint to explore something that they are finding emotionally or physically tricky, and turn it into art.*

Experience level:

Open to all skill levels, 18+

*please note: The Artist and The Mill are not trained Art Therapists. This workshop is about exploring Yasemin’s process as an artist.

  • 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 info@themilladelaide.com

 

Yasemin Sabuncu is the recipient of the Mahmood Martin Foundation Sponsored Studio for the January-June residency in 2023.

 

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Exhibition: Yasemin Sabuncu, Alchemical

Adele Sliuzas ·

Image: Courtesy of the artist

August 4 - September 22, 2023

Exhibition opening: Friday, August 4, 5:30-7:30pm

The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

  • You can find Yasemin Sabuncu’s Alchemical in The Mill’s Exhibition Space,
    located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

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

    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.

For SALA 2023, The Mill is excited to present Alchemical, a solo exhibition by multimedia artist Yasemin Sabuncu. This exhibition reclaims the artist's space and power as a creative who has had their career and life affected by late-stage diagnosis of endometriosis and ADHD. The works explore how to find safety, rest, home, and love in a body that is often labelled wrong or is causing pain and disability.

Yasemin Sabuncu is the recipient of the Mahmood Martin Foundation Sponsored Studio for the January-June residency in 2023.

 
 

  • This exhibition explores the transformative power of chronic illness and how it can alchemise you into something unexpected, new, and uncharted. I wanted to show the shadow and light of the process of evolution I experienced trying to find healing, meaning, and answers to why I was feeling so out of sorts and being so sick I couldn’t work.

    Through tens of thousands of dollars in medical costs, being bed bound, unable to work, countless hours of appointments, surgeries, invasive tests, waiting up to a year for certain appointments, and evaluations I finally found some answers. It took almost two decades for me to find this diagnosis. I was not alone with the length of diagnosis, Endometriosis which effects 1 in 9 people who were assigned female at birth, takes on average 10 years to diagnose which is not good enough.

    The whole process had nearly broken me many times and I had to rely on my inner strength to survive and persevere with the uncertainty and my degrading health. Despite my best efforts I had slipped through the cracks of the medical system, and been living with undiagnosed endometriosis, adenomyosis, chronic fatigue syndrome/ME, and ADHD. It was a relief in some ways to find out what was ‘wrong’ with me, but then I had to let go of who I used to be and create a new life within the limitations of my conditions.

    Luckily now with understanding of my body and finding suitable treatments and surgery I have been forever altered and beginning a new life initiated by the alchemical process of living with my conditions. The liminal space I endured birthed into something beautiful, at times terrifying, and ultimately life changing. It made me look deeper into my spirituality, consciousness, and deep investigation of life and the universe. This process is represented through the spectrum of colours, shapes, textures, biological and geological imagery, and various mediums to reflect on some of my experiences through this process.

  • Yasemin Sabuncu 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 ActNow Theatre’s digital residency in 2021 and FELTdark program 2022. She has also been a Midsumma Pathways participant,receiving mentorship from Victoria Falconer and Tj Dawe, Canada, for her 2021 Fringe show 'the Illest', with support from Adelaide Fringe Artist Fund. Recently, Yasemin created a mural for My Lover Cindi, supported by Adelaide Fringe Fund.

Photos: Daniel Marks

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Spotlight Residency: The CRAM Collective, 'The Future is YOU'

chloe metcalfe ·

Photo: Verity Lo.

Showing and Q&A

When: Friday, August 25, 6-7pm

Cost: $10 (+ booking fee)

Note: Please arrive at 5:45pm arrival for a 6pm sharp start. This event will be 1 hour (including the Q&A). 

  • This showing and Q&A will be held in The Mill Breakout. Please come to the Exhibition Space at 154 Angas Street, the bar will be open to grab a drink before we take you through to The Breakout.

    Please arrive at 5:45pm arrival for a 6pm sharp start.

    This event will be 1 hour (including the Q&A).

From first grade, we’re told you can be anything you want to be. In high school, we’re told the world is your oyster. In our twenties, we’re told the future is yours – seize it. In a capitalist world, the future is an investment. But what does this mean for young people inheriting a planet facing a climate crisis, filled with injustice and the consequences of generations gone? 

The idea for this show came from a moment of nihilism. We felt like the future of our dreams was impossible. We started reflecting on the climate crisis, the impossibility of ever owning our own homes, the reliance our generation has to our screens. From this a strange anger came towards previous generations and a guilt for those to come.

We started asking questions like do we make an active effort to improve the future or dance while the world is burning? Should we be ambitious and focus on our own futures or consider the state in which we want to leave the planet? What will future generations think of the mistakes we’re making? Is it possible to be both ambitious and conscious of others? 

The showing will be followed by a short Q&A with CRAM artists, hosted by The Mill CEO / Artistic Director Katrina Lazaroff. Audiences will have the opportunity to ask questions about the development and provide feedback about the performance.

 

About the artists:

The CRAM Collective features Connor Reidy, Henry Cooper, Elvy-Lee Quici, Praise Mangena, Jennifer Stefanidis, Kate Burgess, Alix Kuijpers, James Starbuck, Ren Williams and Melissa Pullinger.

  • Connor Reidy is a South Australian director and theatre maker. He graduated with first class Honours in Directing at the Flinders University Drama Centre. His directing credits include pool (no water), BC, Control, Iphigenia in Orem, The Seagull, and Lungs (Flinders DC).

    In 2016, Connor underwent a playwriting mentorship with Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP). In 2021, Connor co-founded The CRAM Collective, a South Australian independent theatre company. His credits for CRAM include NEW WORLD COMING and Anna Barnes’ Something Big. CRAM is the proud recipient of the 2022 Helpmann Academy Creative Innovator seed funding.

    Connor’s professional assistant directing credits include Lines and The Bleeding Tree (Theatre Republic), Oleanna (Flying Penguin Productions), and The Normal Heart, Prima Facie and Hibernation (STCSA). Connor recently directed Emily Steel’s The Worst as part of Theatre Republic’s Future:Present 2.0 and Proud for Famous Last Words.

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    Henry Cooper is a South Australian actor who has recently graduated from the Flinders Drama Centre. During his time at the Drama Centre, Henry had the opportunity to portray a diverse range of characters. These include: Peer Gynt in Gynt: After Henrik Ibsen (Dir. Nescha Jelk), Demetrius, Starveling and Peaseblossom in William Shakespeare’s Midsummer Nights Dream (Dir. Tom Healey), Joseph in Rita Kalnejais’ B.C (Dir. Connor Reidy), Hamlet (Dir. James Wardlaw), Roland in Nick Payne’s Constellations (Dir. Tom Healey), Kulygin in Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters (Dir. James Healey) and Dionysus in Euripides’ Bacchae (Dir. James Wardlaw). Through his time studying, Henry also developed a keen interest in devised theatre and hopes to further pursue this area.

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    Elvy-Lee recently graduated from the Flinders University Drama Centre in 2022 with a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours). Elvy-Lee’s professional theatre debut was as Mei in Single Asian Female for the State Theatre Company of South Australia. She also starred in Elena Carapetis’ short film Blame the Rabbit ahead of pursuing her acting career in theatre, film and television. Elvy-Lee is eager to create passionate, socially and politically charged work, and further her artistry delving into diverse and inclusive projects.

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    Praise Mangena is an up and coming full time artist trained in event organization, sketching, dance, creative writing, poetry and modeling. Praise has organized multiple successful social events with Adverse Reign (2022-) and has worked with SANAA Festival and FESHENE, curating music. She specializes in contemporary afro-fusion dance influenced by South-East African traditional movement and most notably to date, has performed at WOMADelaide (2022), SANAA Festival (2022/23) and at TheFinestFilth during the 2023 Fringe Festival. Praise has also been actively involved as co-director, producer and writer in the development of ‘Unheard’- a multidisciplinary collective that showcased stories of intersectionality in 2022 for the Adelaide Festival Centre In-Space Development Program. Currently, Praise is working on her writing and recently had the opportunity to showcase her work at the open-mic event Soul Lounge as a feature where she incorporated dance with poetry.

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    Evyenia “Jennifer” Stefanidis is a multidisciplinary Greek-Australian artist working on Kaurna Country, South Australia. An alum of the Flinders University Drama Centre, she continued her collaborative, ensemble-based practice as a member of Slingsby’s Flying Squad. In 2022, Jennifer undertook a directorial secondment with State Theatre Company South Australia on Antigone, for which she performed various offstage roles before stepping in as an understudy. Evyenia finalised her work with Slingsby Theatre in The River That Ran Uphill, as part of the 2023 Adelaide Festival and Slingsby’s By Request program, touring metropolitan, rural and regional South Australia. She is enthusiastic to join Patch Theatre’s Spark program as a Glow & Tell creator and performer, as well as for her collaboration with The CRAM Collective on THE FUTURE IS YOU. Her recent credits include The River That Ran Uphill, This Tree is a Story (Slingsby Theatre), The Seagull (Dir. Connor Reidy) and Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (Dir. Anthony Nicola).

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    Kate Burgess is an Adelaide College of the Arts Graduate, completing her Honours of Creative Arts (Dance) in 2022 and Bachelor of Creative Arts (Dance) in 2021. Kate has studied a range of multidisciplinary subjects, however found a strong interest in Euro crash tumbling, dance on film, capoeira-inspired movement, classical ballet technique and contemporary dance technique. She is drawn to inspiration from a variety of different art forms including visual art, film and physical theatre; to create original, hybridised works. Her Honours choreographic work “THAT’S AMORE.” 2022 was a combination of dance theatre and five short films.

    Since graduating Kate has hit the ground running, being one of three Co-founders of Adelaide's newest Collective "ALCHEMY DANCE COLLECTIVE '' alongside Caroline De Wan and Hanna Instrell-Walker. Bringing Alchemy's debut performance to Adelaide Fringe in 2023, "SOUL & DEJA VU" as both performer in Soul By Hanna Instrell-Walker and Director of Deja Vu. Alchemy was also accepted into the Helpmann class of 2023 for the Creative Innovator, and is co-curator for “TRILOGY FILM FEST” supported by Goodwood Theatre and Sponsored by Bacardi.

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    Alix Kuijpers is a multidisciplinary dance based artist with a passion for queer centered performance work, sound design and experimental dance theatre. The award winning choreographer has been celebrated for their multiple choreographic works including i know the end, IMMATERIAL and Cowl and is currently a sharehouse resident at Carclew. Kuijpers most recently has completed time overseas performing in Jacob Jonas's Mind Cry at Orsolina 28 and Annamari Keskinen & Ryan Mason's Particle Accelerator at B12 research or die.

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    Since graduating from Drama Centre and entering the industry, James Starbuck has dived into a wide variety of projects. From acting in short films, physical theatre and motion capture to writing and developing upcoming projects with artists overseas, James is making a name for himself as a versatile performer for all mediums of storytelling.

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    2020 Honours Graduate from the Flinders University Drama Centre; Ren Williams (she/her) is an Actor, Writer, Director and Film-maker and co-founder of CRAM Collective, creating work on Kaurna Yerta.


    Through her writing, Ren recently won the 2021 Award for State Theatre Company SA’s Young Playwrights Competition for her play ‘Modified’, after her play ‘Touch’ won a merit in the competition in 2020. In August 2021, Ren worked with Under the Microscope with their interactive theatre development of ‘Guthrak’; and with Kinetik Collective’s development of ‘Kill Climate Deniers’ by David Finnigan, which will be part of STCSA’s StateSide program in 2022. 


    Making her Stage Directing debut in November 2021, Ren was thrilled to have directed Deadset Theatre Company’s production of Lachlan Philpott’s ‘Truck Stop’.

    Ren’s film-making has won multiple awards over the last four years at the Adelaide 48 Hour Film Project; her 2018 film ‘Andii’ winning Best Film, taking it to Filmapalooza in Orlando Florida. This has led to Ren co-founding her new film company ‘Error Squared Productions’ which has recently released their 2021 film ‘INGÉNUE’, winning her the title of this years Best Actress.

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    Melissa Pullinger is an actor, deviser and creative, and is a 2020 Honours graduate of Flinders University Drama Centre. Growing up in England, Melissa appeared in the Andrew Lloyd Webber production of The Sound of Music (2008) at the London Palladium, where she played Brigitta Von Trapp for six months. Upon emigrating to Adelaide, Melissa performed in Border Project’s Disappearance (2008) and then Windmill Theatre and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s Granpa (2008), whilst being extensively involved in an array of theatre groups.

    Melissa has starred in and been on the production team of various award-winning short films. She is a founding member of the 48hr Film Project team, The Dee Cees, later rebranded as Error Squared Productions, who have won multiple awards, including Best Film in the Adelaide competition with their film ANDII (2018). With this film, they went on to win a further award at Orlando’s international Filmapalooza. Melissa was Production Manager, co-created and starred in the feature film, The Garden (Dir. Aarod Vawser).

    Since graduating, Melissa has toured with Perform! Education in their Book Week Tours in 2021 and 2022. In 2021, Melissa co-founded The CRAM Collective and has produced and starred in NEW WORLD COMING (2021) and the world premiere of Anna Barnes’ Something Big (2022). In 2022, Melissa travelled to England after being selected to be part of Frantic Assembly’s International Summer School. In the 2022 and 2023 Adelaide Fringe season, Melissa was the Schools Program Coordinator, and she also teaches at True North Youth Theatre Ensemble and True Ability. Melissa is a proud member of MEAA and RUMPUS. Melissa was recently part of Illuminate Adelaide, puppeteering a crab with Slingsby and Blanck Canvas, and has now joined the American tour of Bluey’s Big Play for the next six months, where she will be puppeteering Bingo.

  • 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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Exhibition: Kat Bell, Threads

Adele Sliuzas ·

Image: Courtesy of the artist

August 4 - September 22, 2023

Exhibition opening: Friday, August 4, 5:30-7:30pm

The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

  • You can find Kat Bell, Threads in The Mill Exhibition Space, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

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

    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.

The Mill is excited to present Threads, a solo exhibition by regional First Nations artist Kat Bell exploring the threads of memories and dreams that are stretched and broken through trauma, and their role in the healing journey.

  • This is a story of life, dreams and memories intertwining, entangling, and unravelling like threads falling from the tail of a wiry old beast.

    The artist has used painting, basketry, crocheting, embroidery, beading, weaving and digital projection, to represent the threads of dreams and memories as a survival of complex trauma, living through PTSD and the healing journey.

    Contrary to the darker, central topic of this exhibition, pieces are made using bright colours, playful imagery, and a childlike presence. The artworks are intended to be a mixture of pleasing, playful, wilful, dreamlike, imaginative, and challenging to the viewer. The viewer may not necessarily feel the immediate impact of the serious topic that is represented in these works, but when looking deeper into the pieces, and through written accompaniments, the somewhat uncomfortable and challenging nature of trauma and PTSD will bare through. This is intentional, as the artist believes that trauma doesn’t always mean that things need to remain dark and uncomfortable.

    Through healing, we can learn, grow, and take hold of these threads of memories and dreams, rethreading them into a new story, a new path, a new future.

    Why threads?

    The use of textiles, fibres, paint, and other mediums seemed like the most apt way to depict how our dreams and memories can be interwoven, or even confused as time goes on and the details become blurred as our minds age and memories slip away into muddled up images of reality and imagination. It also, speaks to the artists relationship with thread-based artforms, such as embroidery, fabric dying, hand stitching, crocheting, knitting, and so on, in their healing journey.

    The broader description

    This exhibition tells the tales of the past and the now, through the artist’s First Nation lens, using storytelling, akin to the dreaming, that looks to the wisdom and guidance of our ancestors to heal her heart, mind, and soul. The wiry beast (trauma) has left an echo of itself (PTSD), which plays a role in her waking thoughts and dreams, visiting her (like the old spirits of our dreaming stories), to remind her of what has been, what she has survived and that despite the past she can find peace, calm, freedom through the healing power of art.

    The artist is interested in how trauma expresses itself in our dreams, memories, and imaginings. How do we conceive and better understand these threads of memories, dreams, and imaginings, with and separate from their trauma beginnings? As each thread is unravelled over the years, how do we distinguish between what are threads of reality and those that are not, those that are the minds internal conjuring’s meant to protect the traumatised mind, those that are the individuals creations (a way of retelling events and seeing things through a different lens, whether intentionally or otherwise) or those that are simply broken, fragmented, damaged imaginings in our minds that are neither real or made-up?

    Somewhat contrary to the darker notion of trauma, the artist has chosen to represent their experiences of trauma in a lighter note, drawing on the idea of dreams as a way of controlling how past trauma can be halted from seeping through into the now.

    For more than 3 decades the artist suffered at the hands of their PTSD, with their trauma flooding through into every aspect of their life. A significant part of that was the way in which their trauma invaded their dreams. A life lived with nightmares, little sleep, a tightly wound nervous system and barely any reprieve from their past trauma, they were captive in what felt like an endless cycle of torture.

    The mind is a powerful tool. Understanding its power and how to take back control of it, was the only way forward. This is where dreams and their role in dealing with trauma became key to the artists own recovery. Through a lengthy process of learning how to regain control of their dreams, mastering the events and their reactions within the dream state and pulling apart these images thread by thread, replacing them with the now (or reality as it is), gave them greater control over their waking experiences. But the artist continues to unravel the threads of their dreams and memories, asking (rationally and logically) always, what is real and what is not.

  • As a First Nation Gudjula and Girramay woman, mother, and autistic person, I am interested in using a range of art forms to create narratives about my life experiences, in particular "surviving complex trauma (e.g. C-PTSD, DV, sexual violence)", and most importantly "what it means for me to be a neuro-diverse Aboriginal woman navigating a neurotypical world". These experiences sit at the core of my artistic practice. I am passionate about continually learning and sharing my Aboriginal cultures and reimagining them in a contemporary context, while also drawing on my experiences living and travelling to other places around the world. I draw on these influences, and my love for country and the colours that lather the Australian landscapes.

 

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Expand: Make|Shift Artist Talk

Adele Sliuzas ·

Image credit: Margie Medlin

July 28, 12-1pm

The Breakout at The Mill, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (enter via the main foyer)

Cost: Free

The Mill invites you to the Make|Shift Artist Talk and mini-doco screening where you can hear from some of the artists about their practice and process. The talk will feature exhibiting artists Ray Harris and Tanya Voges and will be chaired by The Mill’s CEO/Artistic Director Katrina Lazaroff and Visual Arts Curator Adele Sliuzas. Artist James Alberts will also chat about his contribution to the exhibition and will screen his mini-documentary made about the Make|Shift process.

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. 

 
 

  • 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.

  • 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.

    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.

    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.

  • 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

 
 
 
 

Illuminate Adelaide are the presenting partner for Make|Shift.


This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

Make|Shift and Cinematic Experiments: Projection Techniques and Technologies are presented with support from City of Adelaide.

 

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The Mill: Seeking Venue and Event Manager

chloe metcalfe ·

The Mill is seeking an enthusiastic and skilled Venue and Event Manager to join its small team at 154 Angas St, inclusive of our 57 studios, The Breakout performing arts space, The Exhibition Space, The Mill Showcase, Upstairs Studio and Workshop.

The role of the Venue and Event Manager is to manage The Mill Venue at 154 Angas Street, Adelaide, manage relationships with studio residents, program artists and sponsors and promote valuable outcomes and positive community development.

The Venue and Event Manager will be responsible for ensuring The Mill complies with all Occupational Health and Safety laws and building compliances and will ensure all relevant personnel/artists have all the information they require to carry out their tasks and duties in the most effective, efficient and professional manner. This includes supervision of The Mill staff and support staff, as well as interns and volunteers who are assisting with the venue. The Venue and Event Manager will provide clear OH&S guidelines for the scope of work to be undertaken by resident artists.

Key roles of the Venue and Events Manager include:

  • Managing and issuing hire agreements with resident artists and outside hirers

  • Coordinating regular community gatherings for studio residents

  • Issuing and tracking keys

  • Organising cleaning and waste management

  • Managing building maintenance and property improvements

  • Managing events and venue bookings

  • Managing safety and access of all venue spaces

  • Managing venue and event related sponsors

  • Increasing venue hire, attracting new business and maintaining studio occupancy

  • Increasing visibility of The Mill as a venue for hire

  • Being on-site for events and/or coordinating, training and onboarding casual event staff

  • Managing venue emergencies

  • Assisting the General Manager to develop and improve venue procedures and policies.

Key dates

Applications open: Tuesday, July 18, 2023

First round applications close: Tuesday, August 1, 2023, strictly 9:30am

Interviews: Friday, August 4, 2023

Position starts: Early August Date TBC

We require an up-to-date CV and one-page cover letter sent to The Mill CEO/Artistic Director Katrina Lazaroff director@themilladelaide.com

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Free-range Residency: Astrid Pill, 'Peter Out the Obsolete'

chloe metcalfe ·

Informal showing and Q&A

When: Friday, June 9, 6-7pm

Cost: $10 (+ booking fee)

  • This informal showing and Q&A will be held in The Mill Breakout. Please come to the Exhibition Space at 154 Angas Street, the bar will be open to grab a drink before we take you through to The Breakout.

    Please arrive at 5:45pm arrival for a 6pm sharp start.

    This event will be 1 hour (including the Q&A).

    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

Throughout her two-week residency at The Mill, Astrid will be developing this performance work investigating the link between disposable culture, planned obsolescence and the ephemeral nature of human life. 

The starting point to developing this work has been a series of photos she took as a joke present for her son, who kept wheeling home broken office chairs that he’d found on the side of the road. She noticed how many there were, dumped on the street. She has 88 photos of dumped chairs so far!

Something that started out as a joke, has taken on meaning for Astrid. She started to see beauty, loneliness and despair in those chairs; as though they were people with personalities and back stories. The chairs, much like humans, are not designed to last and she started to think about other types of objects that are disposable, the types of people who are ‘disposable’. 

This inspiration and concept is in very early stages of development and this residency will give Astrid the time to explore her thoughts, note making and photo taking.

Please join Astrid Pill and The Mill's CEO/Artistic Director for an informal performative conversation about the process.

  • Astrid 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 years 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. 

Photo: Courtesy of the artist

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Exhibition: Peter Owen, Flower Punk: Permaculture for Arts'n'Craft

Adele Sliuzas ·

images: Courtesy of the artist

May 1 - June 16, 2023

Launch event: Friday, May 5, 5:30-7:30pm

Free entry, all welcome

  • You can find Peter Owen, Flower Punk: Permaculture for Arts'n'Craft in The Mill’s Showcase Space,
    located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

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

The Mill is excited to present Flower Punk: Permaculture for Arts'n'Craft, a debut collaborative exhibition by furniture maker and The Mill studio resident Peter Owen. Celebrating the history of repurposed materials, Peter’s work brings us back to the transformative power of the artist’s hand. Peter has collaborated with other Mill studio residents Julianne Brandt, Blake Canham-Bennett, Hamish Fleming, Eleanor Green, Evie Hassiotis, Kate O’Callaghan, Bob Window and Robyn Wood.

  • This exhibition explores art and crafts' relationship to sustainable living. My Flower Punk lamps are a celebration of hand-craft as our greatest source of renewable energy. Beneath the logic of mass production, third world exploitation, and in competition with improperly costed fossil fuels, we have lost sight of the efficiency and beauty in skilled work. The Flower Punk's joy and guiding principle is found in every opportunity to celebrate the maker over the machine.

    My lamp series has developed from an expression of my craft, into an opportunity to collaborat. I have worked with fellow artists to create works, some of which have become the lampshade and others the lamp base. I want to dazzle the audience with the creative possibilities of sustainable culture!

  • After his first love of music and philosophy resulted in a decade of stage-hand work at the Sydney Opera House, Peter realised his creative outlet in the end wasn't the ephemeral arts, but carpentry and craft. What has followed has been an eventful career as a furniture maker, both doing commissions and as workshop manager for The Bower - a Sydney not for profit focused on principles of reuse and repair. Having recently moved to Adelaide, Peter has stationed himself at The Mill to now focus on his flower punk lamps: A series inspired by the permaculture movement, by taking their principles and methodology in the garden and applying it to art and craft. These lamps, made from mostly repurposed materials, will illuminate on the theme of our two great solar powers - greenery (photosynthesis) and human labour. Key to Peter's philosophy is that it will be from the arts that we can find the subtle knowledge necessary to redress our societies in the face of climate change.

  • 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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Exhibition: Still Self, Crista Bradshaw, Steel Chronis, Hamish Fleming, Honor Freeman and Angelique Joy

Adele Sliuzas ·

Images: (L) Angelique Joy, Earthly Delights & The Spaces In Between (Audrey) ; (M) Crista Bradshaw, Remember 8; (R) Honor Freeman, Pieces of You. Courtesy of the artists.

May 1 - June 16, 2023

Launch event: Friday, May 5, 5:30-7:30pm

Free entry, all welcome

  • You can find Still Self in The Mill’s Exhbition Space,
    located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

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

The Mill presents Still Self, a group exhibition featuring work by Crista Bradshaw, Steel Chronis, Hamish Fleming, Honor Freeman and Angelique Joy, curated by Adele Sliuzas. Still Self brings together artworks that explore connection to and disconnection from the self. Each work exists as a glimpse, a moment captured and shared. The artists reveal traces of emotions, spaces, and bodies through different mediums including painting, sculpture, moving images, and installation.

  • Crista Bradshaw is a proud Wangkumaran contemporary artist. Residing in Adelaide, South Australia, Bradshaw grew up without a strong connection to her Wangkumaran heritage. She came to discover that through the process of colonisation and intergenerational trauma, her family had lost its relationship with their language group. It was in her late teens that she began to re-establish this connection. Crista works with forms of expanded painting, sculpture and installation, investigating modes of representation that showcase the ways in which Indigenous and Australian art has evolved.

    Steel Chronis is a South Australian Artist working on Kaurna Land. Mostly working in the medium of oil paint, she likes to focus her attention to the practice of still life painting.

    H. Fleming is a contemporary realist painter based in Adelaide (Kaurna Country), South Australia. Fleming’s practice blends together traditional and contemporary approaches to painting. Fleming works in the preestablished traditions of Still Life and Portraiture, utilizing them as avenues to address the shared experience of contemporary life.

    Honor Freeman is an artist living and working in the Fleurieu Peninsula on Ngarrindjeri land in South Australia, whose practice utilises the mimetic properties of porcelain, crafting objects that belie their materiality and purpose. Freeman completed her studies in 2001 at the South Australian School of Art. Following graduation, Honor took up an Associate position and Tenant residency in the ceramics studio at JamFactory Craft & Design. Her work has been curated into major exhibitions at institutions throughout Australia, including the MCA, Tarrawarra Museum of Art and The PowerHouse Museum. She has undertaken international residencies at Guldagergaard, Denmark’s International Ceramic Museum and in the US at Indiana University’s School of Art & Design.

    Angelique Joy is a Neuroqueer, visual artist working with photography and the expanded nature of the digital image. Angelique’s practice is informed by their Neuroqueer lived experience and through the intersecting frameworks of posthumanism, queer and xenofeminism.

    Their practice has emerged out of a concern with identity, otherness and space. They are interested in the cultural and material spaces we all unfold within. Increasingly their practice is interrogating the digital spaces we populate and how the technologically mediated bodymind is contributing to new worlds.

    They are particularly interested in exploring how each being, both human and non, unfolds, is constructed and performed within the spaces we inhabit, the spaces we claim, and the spaces we are kept from.

    Angelique is currently a PHD candidate at RMIT, School of Art.

  • The still life genre of painting, as an artefact of the western canon of art, can be seen as a public remnant of personal connection to objects; intimate, domestic, and related to our sense of self. The artists in this exhibition use objects within their work to tell stories specific to their experience of life. Tension is drawn between the real and virtual: the plush textile of Angelique’s sculptures and their rematerialised, digital twin; objects echoed in mirrored poses in Steel’s still lifes. Honor’s slip cast ceramic works create a sense of the uncanny, where we recognise the life-like qualities of the objects, but also understand that they are duplicates of the ‘real’. Hamish’s paintings of everyday objects create meaning through presence and absence. Crista invites the audience to witness moments of reconnection, using collage and mixed media to build a faceted journey of her and her family’s reconnection with the Wangkumara Language Group.

    -Adele Sliuzas

  • 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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Expand: Make|Shift Access Tours

Adele Sliuzas ·

Image credit: Margie Medlin

July 9, 2023

The Mill Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: Free

The Mill invites you to experience Make|Shift via one of two access tours:

11am: Auslan interpreted, guided tour

The Mill invites the Deaf community to join us for an Auslan interpreted, guided tour of the Make|Shift exhibition for Deaf and hearing-impaired audiences. In this tour members of the Make|Shift artistic team will talk about the exhibition and the meaning of the artwork, with Auslan interpreters from DeafConnect translating.

1pm: Audio description tour

The Mill invites audiences who are blind or have low vision to join us for an audio-described guided tour of the Make|Shift exhibition. In this tour members of the Make|Shift artistic team will talk about the exhibition and the meaning of the artwork, and the describers will supply visual descriptions of the work and facilitate any touching of artworks/reference objects. Presented with Access2Arts

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. 

  • 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.

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  • 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

 
 
 
 

Illuminate Adelaide are the presenting partner for Make|Shift.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

Make|Shift and Cinematic Experiments: Projection Techniques and Technologies are presented with support from City of Adelaide.

 

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Expand: Make|Shift Forum

Adele Sliuzas ·

Image credit: Margie Medlin

July 9, 3pm

The Mill Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: $15 (+ booking fee)

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. 

  • 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.

  • to be announced

  • 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

 
 
 
 

Illuminate Adelaide are the presenting partner for Make|Shift.


This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

Make|Shift and Cinematic Experiments: Projection Techniques and Technologies are presented with support from City of Adelaide.

 

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Expand: Make|Shift Exhibition

Adele Sliuzas ·

Image credit: Inneke Taal

July 8 - 28, 2023

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

Free entry

  • 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.

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.

 
Featured
Expand: Make|Shift Artist Talk
 

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

 
 
 


Illuminate Adelaide are the presenting partner for Make|Shift.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

Make|Shift and Cinematic Experiments: Projection Techniques and Technologies are presented with support from City of Adelaide.

 
 
 

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First Nations Dance Program: Supported by Australian Dance Theatre

chloe metcalfe ·

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.

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

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

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

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

This program is supported by:

 
 

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Adelaide Fringe: The Mill 2023 program

chloe metcalfe ·

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

The Mill 2023 program
 

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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!

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.

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.

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.

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?

 

The Mill’s 2023 Adelaide Fringe season is supported by The Adelaide Fringe Artist Fund

 

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Information session: Delima Residency

Adele Sliuzas ·

A photograph of lush tropical plants.

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

  • 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.

 

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

 

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Exhibition: Surviving the Sunset

Adele Sliuzas ·

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

  • 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.

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.

  • 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

Adele Sliuzas ·

Friday, March 24, 2023, 12-1pm

The Mill Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free to attend

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.

  • 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.

  • 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 

  • 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

 

Museum of Old Money is presented with support from City of Adelaide.