Hours: 7pm Tuesday - Saturday
Meet the Artists Wed 30 September
Bar and box office open 1 hour prior to show time.
Cost: $22 / $15 conc. Blue Room members $18 / $12. Preview all tix $10
More Info: www.blueroom.org.au

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Bubba and Bubby are on a quest for fulfilment.

Contemporary avenues of satisfaction such as fast food and Real Estate offer limited consolation.

All is overseen by TV. Always there; advertising canning laughter and flattening life, sex and death onto a screen.

“Any on of these people could be a terriblist…”

And who is Rotto? Will they ever meet her? Do they even believe in her?

Melding art, performance and music (and absurd references to quokkas, Madonna, and Hungry Jacks), Waiting for Rotto heralds the return of eclectic duo Simon Gevers and Luke Murphy (sub:URB), in a collaboration based on Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.

“No, they’re not self-indulgent self-abusers” – Lynn Fisher, The West Australian.

Waiting for Rotto is a comedy, tragedy, eulogy, vaudevillogy, Willagee; sure to appeal to anyone who has ever lived in Perth, questioned the meaning of life, or waited for Rotto.

Featuring Simon Geveres and Luke Murphy
Directed by Simon Gevers
Costumes by Reginald Murphy
Dramaturgy by Marcelle Schmitz
Videography by Phil Bo

Hours: Wed-Fri 11am-2pm and 3-6pm
Sat 10am-2pm
Cost: 0
More Info: www.gallerycentral.com.au

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A Body of Knowledge will be shown in the Showcase Space at Central TAFE Art Gallery at the corner of Aberdeen St and Beaufort St, Northbridge. Official opening at 6pm on Tuesday the 22nd of September, and public viewings Wednesday the 23rd to Friday the 25th 11-2pm and 3-6pm and Saturday the 26th 10-2pm. This is part of Sexual Health Awareness Week.

Hours: 8pm: Fri 11th, Sat 12th, Tue 5th, Wed 6th, Thu 7th, Fri 8th, Sat 9th, Tue 12th, Wed 13th, Thu 14th, Fri 15th and Sat 16th

5pm: Sun 27th

2:15pm: Sat 19th and Sat 26th

Cost: Tickets: Standard $25, Concession $15, Students $15
More Info: www.bsstc.com.au/pool-no-water/

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Venue: Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA)


Director: Adam Mitchell



West Australian Premiere



Sally, a famous artist, invites her old friends to luxuriate by her new pool. They have struggled to make a living from the art world, while she has achieved international success. They are all back together once again and the party is in full swing.



A horrific accident occurs to the hostess and pushes the group to make a bold decision. Could Sally lying in a coma become their greatest work of all? Is it their one chance for success?



Inspired by a true story, this shocking new play by British playwright Mark Ravenhill (author of Shopping and F**king) exposes professional rivalry, jealousness and the innermost thoughts nobody wants to confess.



“compulsively watchable” The Times
“darkly comic, visually spectacular” The British Guide



Tickets: Standard $25, Concession $15, Students $15
Bookings: BOCS Ticketing, ph (08) 9484 1133, www.bocsticketing.com.au.

More info: www.bsstc.com.au

Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 11am-6pm
Cost: FREE
More Info: www.pica.org.au

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Artists: Aleks Danko (VIC), Emily Floyd (VIC), Kirsty Hulm (VIC), Anastasia Klose (VIC), Andrew McQualter (VIC), Rose Nolan (VIC), Mark Parfitt (WA), Tom Polo (NSW), Rachel Scott (NSW)

A rare glimpse into the artistic process, this exhibition offers an insight into the decisions artists make when developing their work, and their hopes and fears about how it will be received by their audience.

Presenting work by eminent senior artists such as Aleks Danko and Rose Nolan alongside work by recent graduates such as Tom Polo and Kirsty Hulm, the exhibition highlights that the aspirations and anxieties that accompany the making of an artwork remain constant throughout an artist's career. The approach taken to the subject ranges widely, from Andrew McQualter's poetic and earnest wall drawings about the role of the artist in society, to the bitingly funny videos by Rachel Scott about the pitfalls of working from her parents' garage.

Ultimately, what these frank and deeply personal works reveal is that the desire of the artist to communicate and connect with the viewer is the driving force in why they do the things they do.

Hours: Tuesday - Sunday 11am-6pm
Cost: FREE
More Info: www.pica.org.au

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Sydney based artist Izabela Pluta's practice explores the psychological connection (or disconnection) between places. Featuring a new series of large format photographs and a wallpaper mural this exhibition highlights work specially developed for PICA focusing on Western Australia's resource industries.

Examining the semi-permanent, fly-in-fly out lifestyles of regions such as the Pilbara, Gestures of the Landscape delves into the impermanence and transience of WA's mining towns.

Hours: Tuesday - Sunday 11am-6pm
Cost: FREE
More Info: www.pica.org.au

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Janet Biggs' video, Anana Dream examines the role of free will in the lives of polar bears in captivity. Anana Dream is the dream of things that can never be and the loss of things unknown. Now on the endangered list due to their shrinking sea ice habitat, polar bears face the prospect of survival in captivity or extinction.

Biggs' video takes its name from the Inuit word for pretty, which is also the name of one of the bears she filmed. Anana and her brother Lee swim in perfect synchronisation. On initial viewing, their movement, grace, and power is awe inspiring.

The music, a love song from the 1982 film Blade Runner, presents a romantic relationship between the two bears, and by extension examines an overly romanticised relationship between humans and animals of prey.

Upon continued looking, the polar bears synchronised swimming reveals itself as the mind-numbing, repetitive behavior of animals in captivity.