There is a sense of timelessness and harmony, as you watch over 30 people unite in movements to create a large human kaleidoscope. “connect: kaleidoscope” is a meditative work with an almost spiritual feel, that… Read More »Connect: kaleidoscope
“Water ways” is a film about human engagement and the waterways that connect a group of people. The film’s protagonists take us on a journey that transports us into the lives of a riverside community… Read More »Water ways
Research tells us that we laugh for less than 6 minutes a day. This is surprisingly only a third of the time people laughed in the 1950s, and we are correspondingly almost 20% less happy… Read More »World Domination
How do you try to understand what life is like for someone working in the armed services, more specifically, for someone who is trained for warfare and combat situations. How do you ask personal questions… Read More »A Naval Novella
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In Launceston in late 2011 the public was allowed on to the field at half time during the regional Aussie Rules grand final. Kids kicked balls, little children and parents wandered around taking in the… Read More »Along white lines
Talking about death is difficult. And yet not talking about death can sometimes be more difficult. In her film, “A shared space”, Schwenk approaches the subject side-on by showing us death from the perspective of… Read More »A shared space
“Sometimes awful things have their own kind of beauty”is a project that tells stories about prisoners and people who were committed in mental asylums, in a beautifully simple, yet powerful way. These works consider spaces,… Read More »Sometimes awful things have their own kind of beauty
“birds and clouds from one life to another” by Sylvia Schwenk and Nikola Dicke references Bertolt Brecht’s poem “The Lovers”, that centres on the lives of a flock of cranes. In this art event, which… Read More »Birds and clouds from one life to another
“In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people”, which takes its name from a quote by famed mime artist Marcel Marceau, Schwenk re-stages one of the most famous of all visual gags.… Read More »In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people
