The anti-yarn bomb.

an exhibition by NANCY.

You will vote. They will vote. But there can only be one winner!
And that winner is everyone The Party Party (Party).

Live coverage of the votes, far too many televisions, and performance and such like.

An installation work by Sandra Fiona Long.

Twenty one years ago the first UN Climate Change Conference aka ‘Conference of Parties’ (COP) was held, in Berlin, Germany. In her lounge room in Melbourne, Australia; Sandra connected over forty heaters together despite it only being late March.

Twenty-one years later and the COP has continued to offer empty promises, broken agreements, and corporate green-washing, so Sandra recreates her lounge room for HOT!HOT!HOT! Festival and invites you to do nothing in the room.

Definitely don’t come in and try to be active; or resist; or to rebel in anyway against her extravagant display of power.

EDITORS NOTE: Sandra says there were far less than 40 heaters and not to believe any of this flashy, electric, brilliant, shiny, fierce, top-range, super-charged, white-hot, powerful marketing copy!

PERFORMED AND CREATED BY

HUGH SILITOE + HOWLING SPOON (SCOTLAND)

The most central question is – will it be okay for fruit and veg to be thrown around in the space? Of course, I’ll clean up after, but flying kiwis/strawberries/aubergines are key. There will be several pieces – the order of which will be determined by the fruit and veg on the night. The spoon will make sure this runs smoothly. Still finalizing a list of props that could be useful – but for now is there likely to be any way of obtaining something that might pass as a huge fruit bowl – maybe a bathtub, or paddling pool, or strong round box? It would need to be able to fit a human in it. ALSO – attached is an image inspired by the new show idea of a spoon full of goodies. I’m off to Tokyo tomorrow, excited to catch up soon, sad to miss some of HHH, but hope it kicks off explosively. Do you need more info from me? Like a wee 100 word blurb or anything like that? Let me know and I’ll get onto it. Hugh

One day everyone will get 15 minutes of fame, and seven minutes in paradise.

But there is a tipping point, and some things can’t be undone.

Arts funding has been cut. Art schools don’t teach you how to get a job or how to write a grant application. Art makers have dedicated their life to abject poverty. This is not a real job. You will pay to show us your work. Describe a time where you did a degree that has no material value. It’s a struggle, it’s a war, and there’s nothing that anyone’s giving. But there is a way out. In the words of the esteemed prophet Britney Spears: “You wanna Bugatti? You wanna Maserati? You better work bitch.” Luke Devine takes us through his top 3 fave jobs as an artist, from collecting actual garbage at the HCC to describing a different kind of trash at the NGV. Watch as Devine details how a dual career in government jobs has prevented him from getting on top of his creative game. Listen as his mother’s capitalist mantra is embodied by the instructions delivered in Britney Spears proletariat dirge Work Bitch. The very same orders Britney’s own mother gave her from the age of 8. Laugh, cry and troll because other people’s misfortunes are really the only thing that can make your dead soul feel better.

www.lukedevine.com

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WORK BITCH
Performer/Artist | Luke Devine

HOT!HOT!HOT! Climate Arts Festival
Presenter | MKA Theatre of New Writing
Primary Supporter | Creative Victoria
Venue Partners | SiteWorks & These Are The Projects We Do Together
Local Supporter | Moreland City Counci

Praise for The Land That Time Forgot

“The writing alone is so finely crafted that it would be a shame not to extend it into a long-form memoir for publication.”

Arts hub

“His words hit home for many of us and opened the window to what small towns can really be like for the rest.”

Melbourne Arts Club

“It was less funny than appalling.”

Bruce’s blog

It’s November 1964: In a Long Island studio, a hot mess of performers film the new science fiction movie… ‘Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster’. Martians have arrived on Earth with the sole purpose of kidnapping WOMEN! to continue the breeding stock of their dying planet!

In barely 90 chaotic minutes, as scripts fly, these DIY trashbags bring the 60s B-grade movie to life with rubbish props, costumes, special effects, terror, fallen pieces of popcorn, and then they destroy it all over again.

#queer #trash #bmovies

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Adapted by Kristian Fletcher with additional ideas by the original B Movies Live team Based on a Screenplay by George Garrett
Director/Thief/Writer | Kristian Fletcher (BRISBANE)
Sound Design & Composition | Chris Richards (BRISBANE)
Initial Costume Design | Kristine Von Hilderbrandt
Set + Costume Design | Kristian Fletcher + Tobias Manderson-Galvin + Cast
Cast Includes | Charlotte Fox, Sam Young, Sam’s English Friend, and more to be announced!
plus Live Foley, Special-ish Effects, electrical lighting!

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B MOVIES LIVE is currently touring Queesland to sell-out audiences.

Bris-Vegas icon Kristian Fletcher launched B MOVIES LIVE in 2016. A staple of his hometown’s cult cinema and retro music scene for over 15 years, he’s dabbled in promotions with the legendary Suzi Quatro, even performed alongside Courtney Act and The Veronicas; and legendary film director John Waters dubbed him “an ambassador of cult movies”. www.kristianfletcher.com

Photos: Willem Whitfield / Model: Cecile Blackmore

A durational performance work by Kerith Manderson-Galvin

Fresh and a little crumpled from Dark Mofo’s Blacklist, PONY embarks on a new course- a one hour long race in an elevator to nowhere. “I kept thinking, oh my god. I’m just a little girl in a pony suit.”

PONY is ripped off her own work of plagiarism “Being Dead (Don Quixote)” (Midsumma, Melba Spiegeltent 2015, Summer Nights Fringe World PICA) in collaboration with pony-head maker Tobias Manderson-Galvin and composer Jules Pascoe.

PONY is a work of commitment to the failures and fireworks of femininity. Stay for the race or walk on by 8pm-9pm, the elevator in Siteworks for MKA’s Hot Hot Hot Festival.

**PONY is also a chance for Kerith Manderson-Galvin to live her primary school friend’s life long dream of growing up to be a horse.