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Looking forward: Director Dialogues address key areas of focus for the VCA in its 50th year
The Victorian College of the Arts’ (VCA) 50th anniversary represents a chance to reflect on the last half-century of arts practice in Naarm/Melbourne and position itself for the next.
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'If you can show call opera, you can show call anything': Meet Will Barker, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production) graduate
It might seem like a long road from your living room to the Sydney Opera House, but for Will Barker, the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production) helped him make that leap. Will talked to us about his study experience and the hustle of a creative career – and how he went from miniature set models to show calling for Opera Australia.
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Adult survivors take back their power in documentary film 'Left Write Hook'
Left Write Hook is a new documentary film focusing on a University of Melbourne-supported program helping adult survivors take back their power.
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Podcast: Professor Sally Smart, “The power of artists is extraordinary”
The Expert Hack Podcast sat down with Victorian College of the Arts alumna artist Professor Sally Smart to discuss how artists are influencing politics and social change.
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Dr Raafat Ishak and Professor Patricia Piccinini selected to create new works for the Metro Tunnel project
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(In) Corporeal Encounters Podcast Series
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Deaf storytellers share knowledge and challenge audism in What I Wish I'd Told You
By Sarah HallThere are stories that can only be told in Auslan.Artists Chelle Destefano and Claire Bridge have created a home for some of them in What I Wish I’d Told You, an immersive show of large-scale video projections centring Deaf voices, identity, language and culture, which is now open at the Footscray Community Arts Centre. The videos feature over seventy Deaf Auslan contributors and hearing allies from across the continent (and internationally) responding to an open callout to the prompt “What I wish I’d told you”.
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Head of Theatre, Associate Professor Chris Mead discussed his latest book on ABC Radio National
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Epic opportunity for animation students
Animation students are creating a short film using cutting-edge 3D technology, as part of a competition from gaming company Epic Games.
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Victorian College of the Arts researchers recipients of ABC TOP 5 Arts Media Residency Program
Early career researchers Amaara Raheem and Yvette Grant from the University of Melbourne’s Victorian College of the Arts, have been awarded a 2022 ABC TOP 5 Arts Media Residency.
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Resurfacing vital Indigenous history through historic film footage
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Goran Stolevski’s 'Of an Age' to open MIFF
After a decade working in relative obscurity, Australian-Macedonian writer-director and VCA grad Goran Stolevski has landed in the film industry in a big way. With thirteen feature-length screenplays in his pocket, and an uncompromising artistic vision, he has hit the ground running.
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Lengger Lanang: Immortalising a vanishing Indonesian dance with the help of motion capture technology
New digital technologies at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) are helping to preserve Lengger Lanang, a centuries old cross-gender dance from Central Java.
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Recent grad Danni A. Esposito making waves in sound design
by Sarah HallSince graduating last year from a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production), Danni A. Esposito is already making waves in the sound design industry.
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VCA alum team up for Netflix teen hit series 'Surviving Summer'
Directed by VCA alum Ben Chessell, Sian Davies and Charlotte George, with cinematography by alum Katie Milwright, Surviving Summer has already been a Netflix hit since it was released on June 3. We spoke to Producer Joanna Werner, Set-up Director Ben Chessell, and Director of Photography (DoP) Katie Milwright about the series ahead of its premiere.
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Flipping the script at the Venice Biennale
Recently returned from launching her second Venice Biennale exhibition, for Sāmoan-based artist Yuki Kihara who is representing Aotearoa New Zealand, curator Professor Natalie King OAM reflects on being part of the most diverse Biennale yet.
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From the VCA to RISING: The many guises of Scotty So
VCA graduate Scotty So is performing and exhibiting in this year’s RISING festival. Just don’t ask him to stick to one medium.
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Theatrum Botanicum: the choreography of ecology
by Sarah HallGregory Lorenzutti has united his life’s passions for dance and ecology in Theatrum Botanicum, which opens this week at the Victorian College of the Arts, with Bachelor of Fine Arts Dance and Production students. A Brazilian-born dancer, choreographer, photographer and urban farmer, Lorenzutti comes from a farming and conservation lineage. His father and grandfather were taxidermists of Brazilian fauna.
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The edges of sculpture: artist Nabilah Nordin on what drives her playful practice
“I’m inspired by the impossible and always looking for what sculpture can be, and what it can do,” says Melbourne based artist, and graduate of the VCA, Nabilah Nordin, as she prepares for her latest show, Parade for the Moon at this month’s RISING festival.
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Vale Bernhard Sachs, a mentor who lived his belief in art and artists
The Faculty of Fine Arts and Music was incredibly saddened to hear of the recent passing of Dr Bernhard Sachs, Lecturer in the School of Art at the Victorian College of the Arts. Here, former Director of the VCA, Professor Su Baker, remembers him as an artist, mentor, and remarkable scholar whose legacy continues in the lives and art of many.