Drug Trends - The Changing Face Of Addiction
Whether we like it or not, many people in our community are touched by substance abuse. One of the major obstacles in tackling these issues is the fact that trends and patterns in drug use are constantly changing.
Drugs such as crystal meth and ecstasy are allegedly becoming harder to procure. A recent spate of police raids on meth labs in and around the Perth metro area is said to be partly responsible. (more…)
Putting The Drama In Dama
It might sound a little complex, converting a play into a movie and then a television show before bringing it to Australia as a multi-lingual musical… complete with subtitles. But such is the premise of Dama Orchestra’s I Have A Date With Spring, a work which spans three decades of love in a Shanghai nightclub. (more…)
New Young Pony Club: Bigger, Badder, Better
When New Young Pony Club (NYPC) hit the scene in 2005 they helped defined a generation of sound. New Wave had just exploded across London with all the swagger and poise of a Gen Y kid in neon brights and a half shaved head. NYPC were leading the charge, all lipstick and attitude.
Now, almost half a decade later, the veritable queens of New Rave (Klaxons being the kings) have toured the hell out of their debut long player – Fantastic Playroom – and are polishing off the final bits on their highly anticipated follow-up. This March, their sophomore album The Optimist drops. (more…)
The One, The Only
The Only are quite possibly the most exciting dance act in Australia at the moment. They’ve just released a mix disc on Ministry of Sound’s Electro House Sessions 3 and they’re all set to blow 2010 festivals apart next summer when they tour with holograms. Yes, holograms. Jeff, one half of The Only, took some time to chat with OUTinPerth. (more…)
Trend Predictions 2010… Part Two
There’s no need to say too much. With the start of not only a new year but a new decade, fashion is sure to once again reinvent itself. The basic premise is that we borrow from 20 years back (the opposite being in architecture, where we build for 20 years in the future) to inform and influence the present. It’s enough distance to make sense of the good, the bad and the ugly while rediscovering what made that era so exciting, transmuting that zeitgeist into something new, yet slightly nostalgic. (more…)
The Dark Prince Of Electronica
If opposites attract, then science and art make the perfect couple. Together these two seemingly disparate practices inform each other more than people could imagine, and in ingenious, enterprising ways.
Take, for instance, the work of German electronica artist Pantha Du Prince, aka Hendrick Weber. His latest opus Black Noise delves into the science of sound, merging field recordings, frequency and superstition into a heady mix of experimental electronica. (more…)
It’s A Jungle Out There
Dance is a form of interpretation. Through it, we can transform the individual and their place in the environment. Dance has the ability to shift, beguile and communicate in a way that language can’t.
For Martin del Amo, dance is a way for him to explore the relationship between the individual and the place they occupy. His new work, It’s A Jungle Out There, del Amo has created a piece which incorporates dance, movement and spoken text, with collaborator Gail Priest supplying an experimental and electronic sound score, one filled with field recordings. (more…)
Five Minutes With Mary Gauthier
Mary Gauthier is heading down to West Coast Blues ‘n’ Roots, bringing with her the sounds of her new folk album The Foundling. OUTinPerth grabbed five minutes with Gauthier to find out what’s new and just what the folk is going on.
Do you have a particular favourite festival, at all?
I really enjoy the folk festivals a lot, because people sit down and sit back and listen to the words for the songs. I like to have an audience that will listen because I’m not a rock artist; I’m not going to jam and make people dance, I’m a storyteller, so I’m drawn to those kind of festivals. (more…)
Perth Street Art Profiles: Captain Plaknit
Yarn-bombing is not about spinning stories that fail dismally. Rather, it’s a technique of bringing craft skills and aesthetics to the streets, in effect creating graffiti out of thread and wool by using crochet or macramé or some other form of knitting.
It’s a form of street art that would seem more at home in your grandmother’s house but has a huge following in Texas, London and Vancouver. In fact one of the leading practitioners of yarn bombing, WooWork (aka Howie Woo), did a recent installation at Vancouver’s Davie Street Gardens, installing loads of crocheted water droplets, each one with either an amigurumi* cat or dog’s head poking out of it. Apparently it does rain cats and dogs at the Winter Olympics. (more…)
Art Shorts - February
ART SHORTS compiled by scott-patrick mitchell
STORMIN’ LIKE STORMIE
We have some undeniable powerhouses of talent here in Western Australia, a veritable role call of awesomeness across many fields (think Danny Green, Dr Fiona Stanley, John Kinsella etc etc). When it comes to street art, one name is the top of that game: Stormie Mills. This March Stormie returns to LK Galleries in Subiaco with 100 x 150, an exhibition of work which explores the streets of New York. His usual flair for dark and brooding character work is there, yes, but so are yellow cabs, Central Park snack stands, Macy telephones and all manner of Big Apple-isms. Sure to be yet another success. www.lkgalleries.com.au (more…)
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