Something Else

Thursdays 6 – 6:30pm

Presented by Justine Poon, Lauren Harris, Maren Smith, Joel Hagen & Tanya Johannesen

Art is inclusive and everyone has different ideas on what it means. Something Else offers a weekly half-hour slice of alternative arts, where definitions are thrown to the wind, and the creativity of folk is explored. The show facilitates conversations with artists at all stages and experiences of their work with a particular interest in new ways of engaging audiences.

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Justine Poon loves reading about all sorts of things from realist fiction to graphic novels, philosophy to law blogs and from fantasy to poetry (not that those things can’t all mix together). She has been published in Going Down Swinging, the UTS Writers’ Anthology, Lip Magazine, various zines and law magazines. She is currently studying a combined film and law degree.
Justine blogs at http://jellyfishlore.wordpress.com

Lauren Harris recently completed a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Fine Arts at UNSW, Sydney, majoring in film studies and painting. Lauren’s work explores how social and environmental issues can lead to the disturbance of the self. Currently, her work metaphorically uses storms to find a visual expression for the mood of anxiety related to global warming and human impacts on the planet, and to look at how alienation from nature can lead to alienation from ourselves, and each other. Drawing on the work of artist Francis Alys and academic John Bellamy Foster, she hopes to create internal landscapes of psychological wilderness that communicate the sense of estrangement from the world and therefore the self. http://lch.drupalgardens.com/

Maren Smith has been making films since 1995, with a professional hiatus during the ‘school years’ coming to an end in 2007 when she moved to Sydney to study film & media production. A year based in Berlin indulged her passion for film, contemporary art and new flavours; now that she’s back in Sydney, making and consuming anything that moves and fits in rectangles with a variety of different aspect ratios, Maren’s sedatephobia can be put to good use on the airwaves in co-presenting Something Else on Eastside FM. She can be contacted in real life, if you can catch her (attention).

Joel Hagen is about to complete a Bachelor of Digital Media in mid-October at CoFA. Through his studies and many projects on the side Joel has gained an affinity for video production with experience in screenplay writing, producing and production management of short films and music videos. He has also jammed his foot in the door of the theatre world with his recent directorial debut of three short plays which were well received and earned him a profit of $54. Did someone say professional director? Beyond his own work, Joel is an avid fan of all things fringe with a particular passion for performing arts and film. You can follow Joel on twitter @joelhagen.

Fresh out of CoFA, Tanya Johannesen is bursting at the seams to flex her textiles savvy in an overdue bid for (material) world domination. When she’s not painting houses, making lobster earrings, or building sets for music videos, she can be found drowning under a tonne of lovingly collected frocks and fabrics all awaiting sewing machine revival surgery. TJ is the supervising producer.