Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Saturday 03 May
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Breakfast Club starts with a bang as Fierce Festival’s Laura McDermott puts the chaos theory to the test. Many famous artists have experimented with abandoning control as a means of directing the creative process. Laura invites musicians, educators and business figures to help us consider how less control can sometimes result in more rewarding outcomes.
Start your weekends with big ideas, breakfast by Yoghurt Culture and coffee from Small Batch by donation.
Next Wave Breakfast Club
Kickstart your brain with a dose of stimulation courtesy of Next Wave. Breakfast Club is your morning shot of artistic and intellectual insight. We’re not interested in expert-led formats or a room full of people thinking the same things; we want big opinions, good discussion and personal stories.
Featuring
Tania El Khoury
Tania El Khoury lives and works between London and Beirut. She creates immersive installations and challenging performances in which the audience is an active collaborator. Her work has toured around the world and won multiple awards. It has been shown in spaces ranging from the British Museum to a cable car, a fisherman’s boat and an old church in Beirut once used as a military base during the Lebanese civil war.
She is the co-founder of Dictaphone Group, a Beirut-based research and live art collective aiming at reclaiming public space. Gardens Speak, Tania’s latest work, will be presented at Next Wave Festival 2014: an anti-monument, participatory artwork and a testimony to Syrian activists who died during their struggle for freedom.
Phillip O'Carroll
Philip O'Carroll, with his wife Faye Berryman, founded an alternative primary school in 1976. Fitzroy Community School, still going strong, is now run by their former first pupil, their oldest son Timothy Berryman. The school has gained public recognition in recent years for its extraordinary achievements in the NAPLAN.
These outcomes are as much a surprise to the founders as to anyone else. The school was founded to sustain the child’s spirits throughout the primary years. The school costs no more to operate than a state school, spends less time in class, does not select children for enrolment, and includes all children in the tests.
Pierre Proske
Pierre Proske is an electronic artist, creative technologist and director of Media Lab Melbourne. He is an Australian artist intrigued by the pervasiveness of technology in science and culture and its relationship to nature.
His work involves exposing the unspoken relationships we have with technology and harnessing machines into exploring new aesthetics. Pierre is founder and director of electronic media arts organisation Media Lab Melbourne and runs his own creative technology studio Sensory Empire.
Laura McDermott
Laura McDermott is joint artistic director (along with Harun Morrison) of Fierce Festival – an international festival of live art and public intervention.
Fierce takes place annually in arts venues and other sites across the city of Birmingham, UK. In 2012-13 Laura was awarded a CLORE Fellowship in Arts Participation and Engagement, supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
As part of the fellowship, she completed a secondment at Collide@CERN, an artist residency programme at CERN – the particle physics laboratory, located just outside Geneva in Switzerland.
Previously, Laura was a theatre producer and programmer at BAC (Battersea Arts Centre) in London. Laura currently sits on the board of directors of Uninvited Guests theatre company.