Metro Arts is a unique and

robust multidisciplinary
organisation dedicated to
professional artists and
their work operating under a
cultural enterprise model. A
multi-artform incubator for
independent practice, Metro
Arts provides a platform of
infrastructure, mentoring,
development and producing
support, networks and
leadership for artists at all
stages of practice, while
concurrently promoting new
and emerging ideas, forms
and practices to the market.
Metro Arts practice is underpinned by
comprehensive venue infrastructure housed
across two dynamic arts spaces in Brisbane
city and Norman Park, which offer a large
gallery, three performance spaces, four
rehearsal spaces and 45 artist studios and
workspaces.
Metro Arts recognises and responds to the
need for greater artistic exchange. By actively
fostering relationships and partnering with
national and international cultural bodies,
Metro Arts seeks to extend beyond its own
capacity and establish opportunities and
connections to share resources, trafc
information and build exchange networks
thereby facilitating career pathways for a
community of artists without the capital or
facility to do so themselves.
Metro Arts development support for
performing and visual artists focuses on
facilitating artists capacity to unreservedly
experiment with form and content and
infuse their process with critical dialogue
that challenges and aids extension and
evolution of their work. Equally important
to the delivery of structured development
programming is the provision of accessible
workspace and equipment where artists
can make work on their own terms. This
combination of support is central to the
cultivation of creativity.
Complementing its investment in seeding
new performance work is Metro Arts
producing services, connecting new work with
the local, regional, national and international
marketplace and ensuring Metro Arts
investment in stimulating and developing
ideas has impact.
Metro Arts has played a signicant role in the
cultural life of Brisbane for nearly 40 years as
a communitys gathering place, a workspace
for artists and a platform for the development
of their work. Its history speaks to a
commitment to an artist-centred approach,
inclusivity and open communication.
What makes Metro Arts unique is the vibrant
artistic milieu at its core a continuous
conversation both formally and informally
among practitioners, arts workers and
audiences. We invite you to come and
participate.
COVER DavisThomas, 2010, Unravel v.1 installation shot, image courtesy of the artists.
METRO ARTS
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the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its
arts funding and advisory body.
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Metro Arts acknowledges the support of the following partners to deliver its 2014 program.
Metro Arts acknowledges the assistance
of the Queensland Government through
Arts Queensland.
Norman Park Substation No. 9 Partner
Creative Sparks is a joint initiative of Brisbane
City Council and the Queensland Government
through Arts Queensland.
// ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
ANITA HOLTSCLAW
The work of Anita Holtsclaw explores how
vision is constructed culturally by cinema and
can be reimagined through screen-based
installations. As Artist in Residence, she will
explore expanded experiences of spectatorship
by developing a new body of work.
// WORKS IN RESIDENCE
I DIDNT LIKE THE ENDING / DANIEL EVANS
In the face of glittering annihilation, a knot of
intertwined characters try to make amends with
all they have left. A scathing look at all we hold
dear; there will be no survivors.
MADAME CARANDINIS TRAVELLING MUSICAL
CURIOSITY SHOW /
STEPHEN CARLETON, SANDRO COLARELLI,
DAVID FENTON, JOHN RODGERS
Secrets, lies and killer anthems: a new
contemporary music theatre work exploring
colonialism and its enduring legacy of racism. An
exceptional composition featuring the didgeridoo,
nyckelharpa, bowed psaltery and the magical
and mysterious glass armonica, is coupled with a
sharp, witty and empowering script.
SUBURBIA / THE ESCAPISTS
Continuing their unique approach to storytelling,
critically acclaimed theatre, performance and
installation makers, The Escapists, turn their gaze
towards that strange and wonderful landscape
on the citys fringe: the Suburb. Suburbia is a
man-made and hand-made simulation of the
experience of life in the suburbs.
THE PSYCHOLOGY PROJECT / LIESEL ZINK
Examining patterns of human interaction, theories
of emergence and collective action, this collaborative
dance and sound project takes the exploration of
mass vulnerability and activism in Australias current
political climate to the public space.
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING / THOMAS QUIRK
Historical icons, pop gods, and convenience store
workers come together to dissect our obsession with
nding meaning, creating a tapestry of clamouring
voices to interpret all known phenomena.
VIS & RAMIN / BARAN
Lyrical storytelling and contemporary performance
combine in this adaptation of a pre-Islamic Iranian
text; a two thousand year old feminist love story
weaving together and experimenting with multiple
languages and traditions.
// SHORTFUSE
DUST COVERED BUTTERFLY /
THOMAS HUTCHINS & MICHAEL WHITTRED
Drawing on stories of serial killers, abduction, and
imprisonment, this work examines obsession and
domination through music and performance.
SALTWATER / JAMIE LEWIS
Experimenting with intimate forms, this one-woman
semi-autobiographical meditation on strength and
vulnerability invites the audience to share a table.
Enter into stories and conversations of loss, grief,
love and commitment.
RESIDENCIES
JANUARY JUNE 2014
// EXHIBITIONS
BRAINAL PIPES CONFUSION CAVE /
WILKINS HILL
19 FEBRUARY 8 MARCH
Collaborative artists Wilkins Hill build on work
developed in Germany, extending on their
interest in the process involved in communicating
meaning between an artwork and an audience.
EVERYTHING IS A DISTRACTION /
MARNIE EDMISTON
19 MARCH 5 APRIL
Combining image, object and text, Marnie
Edmistons practice focuses on the unheimlich,
absurd and humorous currents operative within
common experience. This exhibition presents
new work that contemplates intentions,
obstacles and the spending of time.
MORE OR LESS HUMAN / LEENA RIETHMULLER
16 APRIL 3 MAY
In an exhibition of new performance and
sculptural works, Leena Riethmuller will host
somatic experience events, inviting participants
and viewers to encounter their bodies in new or
different ways.
NEW WORKS BY CHRISTOPHER CIPOLLONE /
CHRISTOPHER CIPOLLONE
18 JUNE 5 JULY
In an exhibition of sculptural works, Christopher
Cipollone explores commercial materiality by
altering and rebranding products, intervening
with commodied forms.
// PERFORMANCES
CIMARRN / SALLY LEWRY
5 22 MARCH
Casting aside the thin veneer of social decorum, this
new contemporary performance work awakens the
beast inside the feminine untameable, savage,
escaping captivity.
DRIFT / JULIE VULCAN
1 5 APRIL
CO-PRESENTED BY METRO ARTS & ARTS HOUSE
A otilla of vessels drift in a twilight space, offering
tentative refuge. Floating between security and
fragility, Drift is a durational performance and a
space for contemplation. Participate, or simply
watch the ebb and ow.
// ELSEWHERE
A TRIBUTE OF SORTS / BENJAMIN SCHOSTAKOWSKI
7 17 MAY
PRESENTED BY QUEENSLAND THEATRE COMPANY
& METRO ARTS
Oddball teen-cousins, Ivan and Juniper, present a
glitzy variety show. This brilliantly inventive, wickedly
funny journey chronicles the short lives of some
doomed infants in an artful, dark, morbidly funny
celebration of the art of theatre itself. Its a tribute
of sorts!
BEAR WITH ME / TYRONE & LESLEY
16 JANUARY
PRESENTED BY MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE
An intimate concert especially for younger bears,
children (and their grown-ups). Bear With Me is
playful, ukulele-ful and made for joining in.
IN PRESENTATION
EMERGENCY CRASH LANDING /
THE DECONVERTERS
Through interactive performance and video,
The Deconverters put the audience in charge
of a science-ction narrative and question
the idealism and realities of how we treat our
environments and each other.
HILDEGARD/KNEF / APRIL ALBERT
Amongst the ruins of her memories and a
nation ravaged by war, Hildegard/Knef explores
success, ambition and the boundary between
performer and subject in post-war Berlin.
ODD-BODY / MAGGIE BROWN, KERENSA
DIBALL, TONI MAIN, WILLIAM MCBRIDE,
YUHUI NG & ADVA WEINSTEIN
A collective of performance makers undertake
a process-led development. Exploring
strategies to organically generate new work,
this collective places different ideas and bodies
together, allowing new possibilities to emerge.
PACKED / THE ESCAPISTS
Leaving our shores to explore the world has been a
rite of passage for young Australians for decades.
Many leave, most come back, and all are changed by
the experience. Told with The Escapists trademark
wit, whimsy and lo- theatrical brilliance.
Packed is a co-production between Hothouse
Theatre and The Escapists with Metro Arts and will
play 23 October 1 November at Hothouse Theatre.
RED DOOR / CYNTHIA FOSTER
Embarking on a visual and visceral journey, this new
work follows three distinct but intertwined lives;
strands of memory and sensation, drawn together
by a mysterious and recurrent red door.
IN DEVELOPMENT
AURELIAN / GENEVIEVE TRACE
A young woman stands in front of a crowd
to speak her memories, her truth and her
construction. Reality gives way to memory and
memory gives way to imagination. Constructing
the set around her in real-time, the performer
acts as a conduit of multiple stories as reality,
memory and imaginings play out in a lmic and
sonic landscape.
AVAILABLE TO TOUR
PARTNERS
ELEPHANT GUN / THE ESCAPISTS
The Escapists arrive a fortnight before a festival or
event and, in collaboration with the local community,
create an interactive, performative adventure that
responds to the surrounds and one or more of its
landmarks, capturing what is wondrous, magical and
special about the chosen place.
THE EMPTY CITY / THE HUMAN COMPANY
What if for one day only, everyone disappeared
and the city belonged entirely to you? Follow Toms
adventure through the urban wilderness, as he gets
tricky, rocks the city, and ghts a curious enemy.
HOME / MARGI BROWN ASH
HOME explores what it means to belong in a fractured
world. Using mythology, personal and political
stories, Margi engages with her audience both on and
off the stage. Together they re-imagine the potency of
home, where-ever, what-ever and who-ever home is.
PERFORMANCE ANXIETY / BRIAN LUCAS
If weve never had it so good, why do we feel so bad?
Nationally acclaimed performer/choreographer
Brian Lucas holds a mirror up to our age of anxiety,
revealing reections which dazzle and provoke in his
solo dance work Performance Anxiety.
PIANO LESSONS / ANNA GOLDSWORTHY
Based on Anna Goldsworthys bestselling memoir,
Piano Lessons is an intriguing, tender and humorous
insight into what it takes to be a musician and
performer. Performed by Anna Goldsworthy herself
an internationally-acclaimed concert pianist.
TRADE WINDS / POLYTOXIC
A stunning site-specic performance installation
featuring Polytoxics trademark innovation,
physicality and pop aesthetics. Performed atop
water this stunning collaboration re-imagines
voyages, meetings and exchanges seen on the trade
routes of the Pacic Ocean.
METRO ARTS & NEXT WAVE
CO-PRESENT //
THE BOX (THE DOKBOKI BOX) / YOUNGHEE
PARK [KOR] & NATHAN STONEHAM [AU]
21 MAY 7 JUNE
Pull up a stool and hear the good person
sing her story as you share a snack with the
stranger next to you. Who knew we all had so
much in common?

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The Box has been co-commissioned by
Metro Arts and Next Wave for presentation in
Next Wave Festival 2014.
ALTERTRUISM DEMOS / GOLDEN SOLUTION
21 MAY 24 MAY
Kiah Reading, Michael Candy and Andrew
McClelland posit an engineered symposium-
cum-boozer: freeform public lectures and
roundtable dialogue open to all, addressing
surveillance, hedonism, restriction, and
enticing rewards.
BLAKTISM / MEGAN COPE
21 MAY 7 JUNE
Blaktism is a satirical new media work
exploring Megans recent experience in
obtaining her Certicate of Aboriginality. The
work translates issues of authenticity, power,
cultural transgression, race and popular
culture within an Australian context, presented
in a crisp HD pop video.
LESSER GODS / RYAN PRESLEY
21 MAY 7 JUNE
Utilising animation, projection mapping,
interactive technologies, sound design and
wood carved prints to create an immersive
exhibition, Lesser Gods plays off Western
religious symbols against imagery representing
Aboriginal spirituality.
Alterturism Demos, Blaktism and Lesser Gods
have been commissioned and developed by
Next Wave for presentation in Next Wave
Festival 2014.
FRIDAY NIGHTS
7 MARCH / 4 APRIL / 2 MAY / 6 JUNE
On the rst Friday of the month, Metro Arts
throws open its doors to give you an insight
into the artists world through a range of new
projects. This glimpse past closed doors is not
about polished work.
Friday Nights platforms and facilitates
audiences engagement with work that is still in
development; rough, ready, and full of potential.
Step into studios and rehearsals, see the unseen
and give feedback on new ideas in development.
Over May and June, Friday Nights will feature
events and works by students from University
of Southern Queensland. Have a glass of wine.
Start a dialogue with an artist and share your
experience of their work to broaden their
perspective on how their work might evolve.
SWIMMING THROUGH AIR / CAROLINE DUNPHY,
KATE LEE, JO THOMAS
This trio of performance makers converge in
process, perceptions, and form, ruminating on
dreams, darkness and the feminine subconscious.
In 2014, Boy Girl Wall and Trade Winds will
be showcased at the Australian Performing
Arts Market. Metro Arts is dedicated to
extending networks and touring works
nationally and internationally.
BOY GIRL WALL / THE ESCAPISTS
This is not a love story. This is a story about love
featuring chalk, sock puppets, over two-dozen
characters and Lucas Stibbards tour de force
performance. Live music by Neridah Waters.