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House Conspiracy Podcast
by House Conspiracy
A regular podcast documenting the art and artists of House Conspiracy, Brisbane's newest contemporary arts space. Conversations and discussions about practice, process, and what makes local creatives and their culture tick.
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#51 – Dani Cabs closes out the House Conspiracy Podcast Season 1.
Performance artist and clown Dani Cabs sits down with House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien to chat about honesty in performance, community, and the clown as facilitator. Dani Cabs is an actor and physical comedian based in Brisbane, Australia. He has performed original work in numerous comedy and...
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#50 – The Sauce: 'It all comes back to Brisbane'
The Sauce theatre collective sits down (twice) with House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien to talk about teamwork, show redevelopment, and design-led practice. The Sauce is a collective of Brisbane-based emerging theatre artists focused on the creation of new collaboratively devised work. First...
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#49 – Jeanette Stok on science, art, and action
Scientist and artist Jeanette Stok sits down with House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien to discuss the minute details of things. Jeanette Stok is both an artist and a scientist. She is particularly interested in how repetitive actions are an integral component of the everyday, the generation of...
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#48 – Cami Duran & Nick Rees: 'Imperfection makes the work feel earnest'
Comic book duo Cami Duran & Nick Rees sit down with House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien to talk about growing up overseas, as well as how their journeys are the same and how they differ. Camila Duran and Nick Rees are comic book artists working on visual stories about displacement and identity,...
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#47 – Michelle Vine on the importance of empathic embrace
Artist of many hats Michelle Vine sits down with Jonathan O'Brien to talk about empathic embrace, collaboration, and the differences between galleries and museums. Michelle Vine is a contemporary artist and photographer who graduated from QCA in 2016. She has travelled across Queensland and to...
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#46 – Gemma Elsom: 'It never occurred to me to lie'
Actor and artist Gemma Elsom sits down with House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien to talk about radical honesty, performance, and social media. Gemma Elsom is a an artist from the Sunshine Coast, with a practice centred in performance. Combining a background in long form improv and the Meisner...
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#45 – Hilary Davies on the house formerly known as Mascot
Public historian Hilary Davies talks to House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien about what it means to be a historian in 2017. Brisbane writer and historian Hilary Davies writes Australian history books and articles, and historical fiction. She holds a PhD in history and is the author of Surveying...
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#44 – Pipi Cucu Theatre on starting something new in Brisbane
Performance artists Jason McKell and Elizabeth Bloomer of Pipí Cucú Theatre talk to House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien about theatre, skill-sharing, and starting something new in Brisbane, Australia. Pipí Cucú began life in 2016, as a collective that specialises in Physical and Visual Theatre.…
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#43 – David Oberg: 'I get sick of hearing me'
Writer David Oberg sits down with Jonathan O'Brien to talk about voice, style, and the joyous experience of reading. David Oberg is a Brisbane-based writer whose work has been published in The Lifted Brow and Best Australian Stories 2017. See more of David: houseconspiracy.org/david-oberg
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#42 – Anna Litwinowicz: physical/metaphysical
Contemporary artist Anna Litwinovicz sits down with Jonathan O'Brien to talk about the natural shift of focus from the physical to the metaphysical. Anna Litwinowicz is a Brisbane based emerging artist currently undertaking a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art) at QUT. She explores a wide range of...
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#41: Helen Hardess & Jude Roberts: arts power duo
Visual artists Helen Hardess and Jude Roberts sit down with Jonathan O'Brien to talk about responding to nature, presenting those responses, and the process of doing it all together. Helen Hardess is currently completing a Bachelor of Fine Art, Queensland College of Art majoring in Sculpture.…
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#39 – Jacinta Giles on capturing the affect of pulse
Multidisciplinary artist Jacinta Giles sits down with Jonathan O'Brien to discuss moving into art later in life, working with other people's images, and how to establish and maintain a critique group. Currently a research candidate at Queensland College of Art, Jacinta Giles’s practice merges...
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#38 – Adele Grobler Dellit: 'People have a preconceived idea of what a Christian is'
Christian contemporary artist Adele Grobler Dellit talks to House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien about what it's like to be an artist before and after finding faith. Adele's work focuses on her relationship with God. After becoming a Christian in 2016, it became clear to her that there are very…
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#37 – Kailum Graves: 'My art almost got me sued'
Digitally-focused artist Kailum Graves talks to Jonathan O'Brien about the internet as a tool, curation as art, and the legality of copyright and appropriative works. Kailum Graves is an emerging artist critically obsessed with the artifactual digital object. He works predominantly in the medium…
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#36 – Rosie Funder: 'There was no one thing—it was a long process of shedding'
Writer Rosie Funder joins House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien to talk about uncertainty, monomaniacal bodybuilders, and the Melbourne-Brisbane divide (or lack thereof). Also Jack Vening. At the end we mention Jack Vening. Rosie Funder is an emerging writer of creative non-fiction based in…
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#35 – Ellie-Lea Jansson asks: are our reactions to light learned or innate?
Interdisciplinary installation artist Ellie-Lea Jansson sits down with Jonathan O'Brien to discuss art-life balance, and how lighting affects our interactions with space. Ellie-Lea’s practice currently explores the role of objects and their power to influence personal and societal identity....
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#34 – Julia Scott Green: 'I'm focussed on preserving the means to keep making'
Photographer extraordinaire Julia Scott Green sits down with Jonathan O'Brien to discuss the complexities of the information age, art as a historical artefact, and the different paths to 'emerging' as an artist. Julia Scott Green is a visual artist who works with and investigates photography. She...
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#33 – Kristian Santic: 'Great work accesses the invisible'
Physical theatre-maker and dancer Kristian Santic joins House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien to talk about liminality, enlightenment, and how money and clinical political correctness leads to bad art. Kristian is a Brisbane-based performance artist specialising in the forms of Contact…
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#32 – altform: a collective of identities
House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien chats with altform about what it's like for a single person to become a collective. altform is a collective of artists working together to collaboratively curate experiences. Through the development of interactive installations, immersive performances, and...
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#31 – Ella Donald on the internet; angles vs. ideas
Writer Ella Donald chats with House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien about real life and the internet and how they're becoming more and more the same thing. Ella Donald is an arts and popular culture journalist and critic from Brisbane. Her work regularly appears in the UK-based film magazine Little...
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#30 – Rachael Wellisch: 'I thought we were going to talk about art!'
House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien chats with Rachael Wellisch about living in Dubai and how the history of indigo is an illuminating touchstone for New Materialism. Rachael Wellisch’s practice is positioned within a conceptual framework that considers humans and culture in relation to physical...
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#29 – Joseph Burgess: 'Koalas are f***ed'
House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien chats with Joseph Burgess about the life of an artist on the road. The works of Joseph Burgess concern palaeontology, the destruction of sacred sites and identity . Combining stop motion animation and time based video art with an anthroposophical sentiment The...
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Introducing: Love Letters to F***bois Presents: #1 – The Politics of Sleeping With Younger Men
This week we bring you a cross-broadcast and introduction to a new show: Love Letters to F***bois Presents, hosted by Melina Wightman and Lia Stark, available everywhere except iTunes (though soon to be iTunes). You can also check them out here: https://soundcloud.com/loveletterstofuckbois In…
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#28 – Craig Garrett: 'The creative process can't be compartmentalised'
House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien chats with local writer and community radio hero Craig Garrett about juggling projects, having discipline, and the dangers (or lack of dangers) posed by modern technology. Craig Garrett is a Brisbane-based radio and sound producer, creative writer and…
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#27 – The SUI Ensemble: 'We always respond to what the audience gives us'
House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien chats with Sampson Smith and Dan Gough of The SUI Ensemble about interactivity, working with an ever-changing team of collaborators, and the shock factor of their work. The SUI Ensemble have been making provocative theatre work in Brisbane for the last 3 years....
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#26 – Adam Anderson: 'Categories were invented to control and keep an eye on people'
House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien chats with Adam Anderson about identity, performance, Instagram, and taking the middle path. Currently undertaking a PhD in Griffith University, Adam’s practice incorporates masquerade performance, video, animation, projection, sound, drawing, photography and...
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Bonus – Craig Garrett's 'The House Conspiracy: A Day In The Life... [A Narrative Soundscape]'
A broadcast of Craig Garrett's key residency project: The House Conspiracy: A Day In The Life... [A Narrative Soundscape], featuring the artists of Round 8, House Conspiracy alumni, and the character of the House itself in the evolving context of West End.
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Bonus – Yarn Storytelling with Ryan and Jasmine (cross-broadcast)
House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien speaks with Ryan Sim, prefacing this cross-broadcast of his new podcast with Jasmine Fairbairn: 'Yarn Storytelling with Ryan and Jasmine'. Yarn Storytelling's next event is this Friday, August 18 @ Metro Arts. Details here:...
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#25 – Tess Mehonoshen: 'Conservation is futile'
House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien sits down with Tess Mehonoshen to discuss decay, writing papers, documentation, and the new necessity of incorporating digital with analogue. Tess Mehonoshen examines the contemporary phenomena of transient living and the ensuing disconnection that occurs with...
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#24 – Holly Anderson on how to 'win the game of art'
House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien sits down with Holly Anderson to talk about the 'art-act'. Holly Anderson works principally with painting and drawing mediums with an emphasis on theatrical installation practice. Her strong concerns for narrative, simulation and notions of femininity are found...
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#23 – April Giblin: 'Their stories become the colours'
House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien sits down with April Giblin to chat about colour, queer communities, and the respectful processes that surround telling others' stories. April Giblin experiments with portraiture by using colours to evoke emotion to tell a story. Her art style flirts and blurs...
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#22 – Kaitlyn Rogers: 'This is for Margaret'
House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien sits down with Kaitlyn Rogers and together they make a big mess. Kaitlyn Rogers is a comedian, actor and the no.1 fan of Australian icon, Shannon Noll. Kaitlyn trained in France with master clown Philippe Gaulier. She won the London Comedy Virgins Competition…
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#21 – Tamara Lazaroff: 'I have a love-hate relationship with Macedonia'
House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien talks with author Tamara Lazaroff about developing as a writer, the origins of inspiration, and 'Macedonian-ness'. Tamara Lazaroff is an emerging writer of fiction and creative non-fiction based in Brisbane. Her work has been published, performed and broadcast…
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#20 – Sonny O'Brien: 'Humans are distracted because we're not capable'
House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien talks with Sonny O'Brien about developing a multidisciplinary practice, working with technology, and the politics of global issues. Sonny O’Brien is a multidisciplinary artist exploring themes of impermanence, chance, power, and emergence. He abusively merges...
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#19 – Chloe Jane Hambleton: 'Dance is a way I can be honest with myself'
House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien chats with House Conspiracy's first ever Resident dancer and choreographer, Chloe Jane Hambleton, about contemporary dance, teaching, and her processes as an emerging artist. Chloe Jane Hambleton is an emerging contemporary dance artist. Chloe recently…
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#18 – Sancintya Mohini Simpson: ‘You can think about big things in small pieces.'
House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien sits down with Sancintya Simpson to talk about the history of her family across the globe and the process of unveiling that history. We also talk about intergenerational trauma, decolonisation, and about the artist as a facilitator for healing. Sancintya Mohini...
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#17 – Caroline Kropp: 'It's hard to decide what the angle is until you have everything in front of you'
House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien sits down with Caroline Kropp to discuss her show 'The Repairman', and the representation of your own stories compared with other people's, verbatim theatre, and the chemical contamination of Oakey.
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#16 – Peter Kozak: "The footage becomes what the work is."
House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien sits down with Peter Kozac to discuss vulnerability, how form and process are intertwined with the nature of a work, and how to make that work universally accessible. Peter Kozak is an emerging artist whose practice focuses on representations of human fragility...
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Bonus – Matt Seery: "What makes Brisbane's arts culture special is the people"
House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien sits down with Matt Seery to chat about his directorial debut of Tim Crouch's 'ENGLAND', Brisbane's arts scene, and what a modern arts career might look like.
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#15 – Aron Oroszvari reads 'Tomato'
House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien sits down with Aron Oroszvari to read and discuss Aron's story 'Tomato', and to talk about reading, writing, dogs, and babies. Aron Oroszvari is a fledgling writer who composes minimalist fantasy and surrealist short stories. He is based in Brisbane and splits...
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#14 – Rebekah Evans: "I don't know if there's such thing as true and not-true."
House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien sits down with Rebekah Evans to discuss truth, ecocentrism, the divide between humanity and nature, and how to create and experience things from outside your own perspective.
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#13 – Gwan Tung Dorothy Lau: "I don't know where home is."
House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien speaks with Gwan Tung Dorothy Lau about identity, the personal and the political, moving cities, and, for a surprising amount of the show, time travel.
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#12 – Amanda Wolf on how to get a job: "Just wear a leopard outfit."
House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien sits down with Amanda Wolf, performance and installation artist, about sewing, performance, and watching (or not watching) scary movies as kids.
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#11 – Rebecca Cheers: "I used to moderate a Zelda forum… now I'm writing a novel"
House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien sits down with local writer Rebecca Cheers to talk about publishing, writing novels, ambition, and literature.
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#10 – Rhiannon Dionysius: "I couldn't imagine being a brain in a jar"
House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien sits down with Rhiannon Dionysius to talk sculpture, the body, the difference between community and personal arts practices, and Shia Labeouf.
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#9 – Lia Stark: "Are we being ethical sluts?"
House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien sits down with Lia Stark to talk sexuality, feminism, New York, and why she's so damn angry.
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#8 – Alice Hung: "Bamboo is the future"
House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien sits down with Alice Hung to discuss bamboo, the blurred distinction between artistic and utilitarian creation, and how bamboo is so contextual in how it's valued as a medium.
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#7 – Jesse Perrin
House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien sits down with Jesse Perrin to talk process-based artworks, happiness, experience, and haircuts.
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#6 – Caitlin Strongarm / Caitlin Armstrong
House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien sits down with Caitlin Strongarm on a sleepy morning for a shockingly articulate conversation about games, play, childhood, and the different ways of framing theatre, action, and intent.
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#5 – Bri Lee
House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien sits down with Bri Lee, prolific freelance writer, memoirist, and editor of Hot Chicks with Big Brains to chat about writing and the writing industry, and about balancing not just work and life, but also balancing the different kinds of work that one person…
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A regular podcast documenting the art and artists of House Conspiracy, Brisbane's newest contemporary arts space. Conversations and discussions about practice, process, and what makes local creatives and their culture tick.
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