Spring Season 2009

Aphids is pleased to announce our new Spring Season program for 2009!

The later part of 2009 for Aphids featured a diverse range of performances and projects both locally and overseas, including:
Aphids Residencies and Mentorships. This ongoing program provides mentoring, support, and significant opportunities to young and emerging artists working in music and cross-artform practice.

Cynthia Troup and Margaret Cameron's wonderful play, Care Instructions, toured August to Denmark, following the July season here in Melbourne at the Malthouse. Care Instructions was also be presented as a video installation work at the Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts in St Kilda between the 21st October and 8th of November 2009.

Waiting to Turn into Puzzles, composer David Young and film artist Louise Curham's collaboration, which was presented as a video projection and sound installation at Cube 37, Frankston Arts Centre, between the 10th and 30th of August.

Developed in collaboration with David Young, Matthew Gardiner's Radiobots, a network of small mechanical robotic hammers that can tap rhythms into buildings and other structures, were presented at the Shepparton Art Gallery between the 1st - 20th of September.

System Building, a series of performances featuring Rosemary Joy's miniature percussion instruments, toured four venues spanning the Netherlands, Germany, Melbourne and Sydney.

Xantolo, a work for Rosemary Joy's miniature percussion instruments drawing inspiration from the artist's experience of the Mexican Day of the Dead was performed Mexican percussionist Evaristo Aguilar at the Melbourne Recital Centre (25th October.)

A Quarreling Pair, a collection of three miniature puppet plays by Jane Bowles, Lally Katz and Cynthia Troup, toured under the direction of Margaret Cameron to La MaMa Theatre in New York between the 29th of October and the 8th of November.

So You Think You Can Cow returnedto the stage again at the Big West Festival, with performances between the 20th and 22nd of November at the Dog Theatre, Footscray.

For more details of the Spring Season program projects, click here.