'Amrita Hepi crosses boundaries of visual art, dance and performance, making her one of the most in-demand artists of the moment. By Emma Pegrum.'
'Jacob Boehme is an award-winning, multidisciplinary artist who began in dance and is now a writer, puppeteer, visual theatre-maker, choreographer, producer and festival director. He wrote and performed the critically acclaimed dance work Blood on the Dance Floor and is artistic director of the Wild Dog project in South Australia. Boehme is a proud man of the Narangga people from the Yorke Peninsula and Kaurna people from Adelaide. As director of First Nations programs at Sydney’s Carriageworks, he is presenting a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the National Black Theatre, Party | Protest | Remember, on November 12.' (Introduction)
'Men I Trust is the sophomore graphic novel from Australian (now Montreal-based) Tommi Parrish. Like fellow artists Simon Hanselmann, Lee Lai and Adrian Tomine, Parrish’s work summons a mumblecore – the indie film genre that quietly flourished in the early 2000s – sensibility. But while mumblecore on film – with its dialogue-heavy, action-light plots and inwardly obsessed protagonists – arguably registered as somewhat twee and myopic, in graphic novel form this approach to storytelling is much more nuanced and affecting. Men I Trust sees Parrish perfectly capture the vulnerability, tension and flux of navigating relationships – romantic, familial, self-fulfilment – under the pressures of capitalism.' (Introduction)
