Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Monday 13 October
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
We’ll talk about both shows, and their explorations of family life, death and constructions of reality. With musician David Bridie, visual artist Gabrielle de Vietri and dancer/choreographer Gerard Van Dyck and chaired by Emily Sexton.
Eavesdropping on Artists
A series of interactive talks, presented by the Wheeler Centre, in which prominent artists discuss shows presented as part of Melbourne Festival.
The catch? The artists must talk about artworks from outside their own practice.
Come and find out what artists really think about each other’s work, in this fascinating, cross-disciplinary discussion on the practice and presentation of art.
Featuring
Gerard Van Dyck
Gerard’s career in dance has spanned 20 years. His practice integrates storytelling and humour into movement and choreography. He also teaches, reviews, and provides dramaturgy and discourse for dance. He co-founded KAGE with Kate Denborough in 1997 and together they have produced over 18 original award-winning dance theatre works.
Gabrielle de Vietri
Gabrielle de Vietri is a Melbourne-based visual artist and co-director of A Centre for Everything, a collaborative programme of creative, pedagogical and culinary events. Her work develops from an involved collaborative practice. It often looks at modes of communication and community, and the ways in which language is used, interpreted and manipulated to create or distort meaning.
In 2013, de Vietri invented a three-team football game based on Aussie Rules and in 2012, she invented a language based on the digital Turing test word-images CAPTCHA. As well as video and performance, de Vietri’s work manifests itself as sculptures, texts and images. Whether turning daily news into musical performance, drafting relationship contracts, or gathering life advice from children, her work deals with the lifelong learning process, which confronts us with continuous changes.
Solo exhibitions include Mysterema, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2012); CAPTCHA, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2012); Things I’ve Learnt, Perth Institute for Contemporary Arts, and Philosophy for Kids, The Goat Gallery, Natimuk (2011).
De Vietri was a recipient of an Arts Victoria Arts Development Grant and City of Yarra Arts & Culture Grant in 2013, an Australia Council New Work grant in 2012, and the Australia Council Berlin Residency Grant in 2011.
Emily Sexton
Emily Sexton is a former Head of Programming for the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas.
She was the recipient of a prestigious Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship in 2014. Previously, she was Artistic Director of Next Wave (2010–14), where her key achievements were a radical rethink of an arts festival model, and a series of landmark commissions, publications and talks featuring First Nations artists, co-curated with Tony Albert and Tahjee Moar and titled Blak Wave.
In 2013, she was Artistic Director of the Ian Potter Cultural Trust’s 20th Anniversary Celebrations at the Melbourne Recital Centre. She was also Creative Producer for Melbourne Fringe Festival for 2008–10.
Emily has been a proud Board Member for Arena Theatre Company, Snuff Puppets and Theatre Network Victoria, and is alumnus of the Australia Council’s Emerging Leaders Program (2011). She is a regular peer assessor for the Australia Council for the Arts, Creative Victoria, and other philanthropic trusts and foundations. Emily holds a Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communications, English) from the University of Sydney (2005). She is a regular host and facilitator for writers’ festivals and arts organisations around Australia.
David Bridie
Seven-time ARIA award-winning songwriter and composer David Bridie has enjoyed a distinguished career as one of Australia’s most innovative musicians.
His repertoire as a recording artist, soundtrack composer, producer, lyricist, expert in the music of Melanesia, and as a uniquely Australian songwriter, singer and social commentator, Bridie has certainly stamped his mark.