Aphids

📂JOIN APHIDS AS A BOARD MEMBER

We are looking for up to three dedicated individuals to join our voluntary group of Board of Directors 👀 We are committed to pushing boundaries in the arts and are seeking board members who can ensure our relevance, viability and impact will continue to develop.
Details and application via the link in our bio.

EOI’s close October 5pm 17th.

Image: Thomas McCammon

📢 The ‘Class Act’ tour continues!! Next stop 📢

26-28 SEPTEMBER, 7PM
Waterside Workers Hall

“Class Act is refreshing and confronting. With smart directorial choices and two performances that sit right on the edge of many peoples comfort zone, it’s the kind of show that constantly challenges and surprises.” - Cultural Binge

Get your tickets via the 🔗 in our bio and tell your Adelaide friends!!

📸 Yael Stempler

📣 CLASS ACT is going on tour to !! 📣

WHEN
28 - 31 August, 7pm
Studio, Sydney Opera House

In ‘CLASS ACT’ working class unfortunatepdf tells the story of a grotesque world of class and social mobility straight from her dirty mouth.

This work addresses the unspoken rifts of the class system through a bombastic, unexpected deconstruction of My Fair Lady.

Joined by dancer .i.c.e.dixon, directed by , and with some experimentally arranged orchids, Grigor’s performance shines a light on the unseen costs of a social glow up. Plus there’ll be high tea (but only for the bourgeoisie).

🎟️Tickets on sale now
🔗Link in bio

Love, APHIDS

Some more moments from ‘An Evening of Performance II’ 🌹🍰

CREDITS:

Performances by Deborah Kayser, Lz Dunn, with DJ
Party Food by with and
Cakes lovingly made by .mood &
2024 Paper Mache Vase by
Lighting Designer & tech: Max Gebauer
Archive table
Merch screenprinted by .xyz
Publication printed by
Flowers by

Photos:

Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate 30 years of APHIDS! It was such a special night 💞🌹

Here’s a pic drop so you can relive ‘An Evening of Performance II’ with us, more to come 😘

CREDITS:

Performances by Deborah Kayser, Lz Dunn, with DJ
Party Food by with and
Cakes lovingly made by .mood &
2024 Paper Mache Vase by
Lighting Designer & tech: Max Gebauer
Archive table
Merch screenprinted by .xyz
Publication printed by
Flowers by

Photos:

Only three days left to witness what VULTURE (NY Magazine) calls ‘the buzz of weird stunted souls and awkward bodies groping for some form of communal expression and connection, no matter how embarrassing’. Mish Grigor, APHIDS co-director, performing with Irish theatre legends Pan Pan. .melbourne

Join us in an underground ballroom on Swanston Street to recognise 30 years of APHIDS. 🌹

WHEN: 5 July, 2024 7pm
WHERE: Arrow on Swanston. 488 Swanston St, Carlton

In a sharehouse in 1994, a group of artists held a night called 𝘈𝘯 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦. It was part gallery opening, part concert, and part party. There was a human-sized paper vase, suits tailored from coffee bags and music made with fax machines. The event left a lasting impression on both guests and performers, leading the collaborators to continue collectively as ‘APHIDS.’

𝘈𝘯 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘐𝘐 celebrates this lineage and looks to the future with Pony Cam, Deborah Kayser, Catherine Ryan, Thea Baumann, Tra Mi Dinh, Lz Dunn, Sammaneh Pourshafighi and DJ Sullivan. Hosted by Mish Grigor and Lara Thoms, with conceptual food offerings from Long Prawn, expect immersive installations, video hits and a bespoke drink on arrival.

https://events.humanitix.com/aphids-turns-30-an-evening-of-performance-ii

We can't wait to share this night with you!

📢 CLASS ACT is going on tour to as part of UnWrapped 2024!! 📢

More info ⬇️

WHEN
1 – 4 May, 7pm
Studio, Sydney Opera House

In ‘Class Act’ working class unfortunate .pdf tells the story of a grotesque world of class and social mobility straight from her dirty mouth.

This work addresses the unspoken rifts of the class system through a bombastic, unexpected deconstruction of My Fair Lady, albeit with less bonnets.

Joined by dancer .l.i.c.e.dixon, directed by , and with some experimentally arranged orchids, Grigor’s performance shines a light on the unseen costs of a social glow up. Plus there’ll be high tea (but only for the bourgeoisie).

🎟️Tickets on sale now
🔗 Link in bio

Love,
Aphids

Created by Triad member Amrita Hepi with Co-Director Mish Grigor as Dramaturg, Liable is one of our 2024 Superdrive projects.

We saw the performance today as part of the Triennial and we luvd it.

Project Credits
Choreographer/Performer: Amrita Hepi
Creative Producer: Zoe Theodore
Music Composition: Daniel Jenatsch
Rehearsal Director/Performer: Sarah Aiken
Moving image: Rel Pham
Performer: Jonnine Standish
Dramaturg: Mish Grigor
Wardrobe, costume and dressing: D&K – Ricarda Bigolin & Chantal Kirb

Photos: Michael Pham

HQ sending chookas to and the team who are working hard in the UK ahead of tonight’s opening of at the epic festival.

It’s our job as allies to talk to people. Our families, people at the gym, at the shops, on the tram, at school drop off. Difficult conversations to help dispel misinformation and point people in the direction of simple resources that answer any niggling questions. YES YES YES YES YES

INTRODUCING: Sarah Aiken - dance and video artist for GUTFUL: Bug In The System - opening on Wednesday 🪱

Sarah is an artist and choreographer with an extensive body of work presented nationally and internationally. Solo and collaborative projects investigate assemblage, authorship, scale and the self, looking at the roles of audience, performer, subject and object and connecting tangibly with audiences, to consider performance as a site for empathy & exchange. Sarah is co-director of working with Rebecca Jensen to create work that engages rigorously with participation, scale, waste and reckless formalism, and recycles content to consider materiality and how we come together.

Sarah’s performance credits include work by Luke George, Amrita Hepi, Shelley Lasica, Natalie Abbott, Rebecca Jensen, Jo Lloyd, Shian Law, Carlee Mellow, James Welsby, Brooke Stamp and Aphids, Deanne Butterworth/Linda Tegg, Ben Speth, Lee Serle, Atlanta Eke and Maria Hassabi. Video work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Arts Sydney, APHIDS Contentious Buffet, Arts House, Dromana Drive In, Melbourne Fringe Online, HIAP Helsinki and The Substation.

Link in bio for tickets 🔗
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OUTSPOKEN, UNEXPECTED, REAL EXPERIENCE, ARTIST-LED.

We’re in our 29th year of shaking up art in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, and we want you to join the party.

Now, you know us - we're no humdrum art organisation. We're all about smashing stereotypes, shattering glass ceilings, and celebrating creative rebellion.

We make art that raises eyebrows, ignites conversations, and makes people go, "Wait, what just happened?" But here's the thing, we can't do it alone. We need you, with your generous spirit and love for all things wonderfully weird, to help us make a splash.

In 2022, 86% of our annual turnover was spent directly on artist wages and fees. By supporting APHIDS you'll be empowering artists who are pushing the boundaries of what's considered normal and investing in the power of art as a catalyst for change.

If you are in a position to donate, you can give to APHIDS via https://shoutforgood.com/charities/aphids

Donations of all sizes are welcome and every donation of $2 or more is tax-deductible.

With love, laughter, and a bid for a better world,

𝒜𝓅𝒽𝒾𝒹𝓈

Shout For Good Shout For Good

OH DEER! closes tonight.

2 shows only: 330pm & 8pm.

Don’t miss out on what people are describing as “tender”, “epic”, “brave”, “beautiful” and a “full and beautiful gut punch to all the feels”.

A few tix left - link in bio.

𝐿𝑜𝓋𝑒,
𝒜𝓅𝒽𝒾𝒹𝓈

📸:

OH DEER! closes tonight.

2 shows only at .melbourne: 330pm & 8pm.

Don’t miss out on what people are describing as “tender”, “epic”, “brave”, “beautiful” and a “full and beautiful gut punch to all the feels”.

A few tix left - link in bio ⛓️

𝐿𝑜𝓋𝑒,
𝒜𝓅𝒽𝒾𝒹𝓈

📸:

Can't believe we open this show at RISING next Thursday! Grab your tickets before it's too late: https://rising.melbourne/festival-program/oh-deer

What happens when 15 orphans go searching for their inner Batman? Bambi and Batman bring a fairytale framework to a playful exploration of loss.

One of APHIDS biggest projects to date premieres next week as part of RISING festival at the gorgeous Capitol Theatre - get your tix quick!

RISING: Oh Deer! A playful performance work that burrows into pop culture’s most beloved stories and pulls the stuffing out of the orphan trope.

Broadsheet recently paid us a visit in our studio at Collingwood Yards to chat about the resident community at .

Here’s a little snippet from our chat with 👀

If you passed by our studio you would hear:

Loud debates. Sometimes we’re disagreeing about what colour the floor should be on a film work, or passionately debating what would make a funnier prop between Pizza Shapes or Teevee Snacks, and other times it’s about how to respond to a political moment. Big stuff and small stuff. The complex challenges of our time require big ideas and big imaginations, and we try and respond by bringing out the best in each other through rigorous discussion.

In the last week we’ve spent time:

Reading the philosophy of Frantz Fanon, writing a paper about bogans and class drag, vox popping people regarding the weirdness of pink-washing, improvising comedy scenes about performative allyship, eating pastries with our Collingwood Yards friends, gathering letters of support for a grant application, collecting stories for a project from people who have lost their parents, and planning a potential tour to the UK.

Our favourite thing about our studio is:

The Collingwood Yards vision is pretty cool – a permanent place that is affordable for artists and ensures that we stick around in a radically gentrifying neighbourhood. Our studio mates are diverse and there is always someone to borrow tools from or have a gossip with. In winter, lights firepits outside in the afternoons, which makes for a pretty cosy sign that it’s time for tools down and a wine.

Read more about us and a few of our neighbours including & at the link in our bio 💭

𝐿𝑜𝓋𝑒,
𝒜𝓅𝒽𝒾𝒹𝓈 🤍

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Featuring:

Thrilled to be profiled in broadsheet with our Collingwood Yards buddies x

And just like that, The Director wraps up its 2023 tour.

Our hearts are so full. A huge thanks to the team , curators and , & for hosting us 💖

Until next time…

𝐿𝑜𝓋𝑒,
𝒜𝓅𝒽𝒾𝒹𝓈