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Music / “Songs from a Stolen Senate”, Griffyn Ensemble. At Belco Arts, March 13. Reviewed by
GRAHAM McDONALD
THE story so far… This concert was originally planned to open the new performance space at the revamped Belco Arts (previously known as the Belconnen Arts centre) in May last year. The idea for program was to commission a number of First Nations composers to set words, compiled by poet Melinda Smith from various Parliamentary speeches, for performance by the Griffyns.
The plague put a stop to that and in September a live version was streamed with pre-recorded videos of five of the commissioned works interspersed with interviews and commentary from the composers and performers.
Art / “You Want It Darker”, by Stephen Harrison, at the Belconnen Arts Centre. Reviewed by
ROB KENNEDY.
CANBERRA artist Stephen Harrison creates across artistic genres and his works speak of scenes such as evocative and lonely scenes, and of dreamscapes, animal rights, mythology and comics.
The new exhibition galleries at the Belconnen Arts Centre can house a greater array and size of artworks, and they need to with one of Harrison’s artworks, in his exhibition “You Want It Darker”, stretching for 17 meters. This long narrow intimidating and dream-like artwork is appropriately titled “17 meters, 9 weeks” and is a surreal and scary beauty. It is filled with images that would make up many dark and disturbing dreams.