Hours: Thursday - Saturday, 8pm
Sunday,6pm
Cost: $20-$27
More Info: www.pica.org.au

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'A sharp, confronting and reflective look at today's mediated world'

Amongst a pile of out-of-tune television sets, walls converge and a body is caught between hope and fear. Breakings questions our relationship with the media and how it influences our perception of the world.

Hailed by the West Australian as 'one of Perth's most promising emerging choreographers', Aimee Smith is known for her cutting edge political work.

Breakings is an intense intersection between body, sound, screen and movement.

'Smith's performance itself masterfully affected a form of mediation.' RealTime magazine

After the performance join Aimee and guests from the fields of media, performance and cultural theory, as they unpack her work.

Co-produced by Performing Lines WA & STRUT Dance

Hours: 7pm Tuesday - Saturday, plus 2pm matinee Sat 17 Apr
Cost: Full $25 / Conc. $20 Blue Room Theatre Members: $20 / $15
More Info: www.blueroom.org.au

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The producers of the award-winning Motortown (Blue Room Theatre, 2008) join with multi-award winning Perth playwright Ian Wilding for a humorous vivisection of the mighty modern condition.

Meet Tim and Angela. Successful, bright young things - living in a beautiful, happy home with all the comforts one could beg.

Until a stranger punctures the pretty complacency of their lives. The miasmic seeds sewn into their love by his soft suggestions are explosive, undermining all they hold dear. Once the fuse is lit, question turns to doubt; doubt to suspicion; and suspicion to hateful conviction.

As desperation mounts and self-preservation kicks in, fear sets them on a slippery road of moral compromise and we learn just how far a couple will go to reclaim their piece of peace.

This is social-domestic terrorism at its best.

“There is an uncomfortable edge to the laughter in this work...a dark parody of domestic familiarity turned sinister” – Sydney Morning Herald

Written by Ian Wilding
Produced and directed by Renato Fabretti
Featuring Samantha Murray, Steve Turner, Matt Penny and Ben Sutton
Lighting design by Karen Cook

WA Premiere

Hours: Opening Night 7pm, April 1st at Piazza
Cost: 0
More Info: www.kineticcarnival.com

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TEXT BODY: We kick it all off with a free short film spectacular including a sneak peak at the world’s largest and most innovative short film festival Future Shorts and the worlds first online movie studio HitRECord then be dazzled at some local and international short films on the giant TV screen, some direct from SUNDANCE. Dress up carnival style then join us at the carny after party at City Farm, East Perth for an introduction to our main events space and a spectacle of sound and vision and the sounds of local dubstep crew Snow Bros.

Hours: Tues - Fri : 11am - 7pm
Saturday : 11am - 6pm
Cost: 0
More Info: www.bravenewworldclothing.com

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The Going Away and the Coming Back : Karen Djordjevic

This exhibition features a collection of black and white scapes from Karen Djordjevic's journeys around the globe. Using a 35mm SLR camera and shooting with black and white film, these resonant images are in the tradition of Magnum Photography. Karen's style of photography is about taking the time to look and then re-look, as she finds quite often you see things differently, whilst also allowing for amazing moments to naturally unfold before her eyes.

Cost: 0
More Info: www.propel.org.au/projects/yculture

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YCulture Metro is a funding program that provides arts grants of up to $3,000 for young people aged between 12-26. YCulture Metro targets young metropolitan artists who are at an entry level in their arts practice and have had limited experience in grant application writing as well as initiating and coordinating projects.

YCulture can provide funds for projects (such as all-ages gigs) and skills development initiatives (such as workshops and creative developments).

Applications are open all year with a guaranteed 10 day turn around.

Contact Propel Youth Arts WA (08) 9328 5855 suzy@propel.org.au or Visit: www.propel.org.au/projects/yculture

YCulture is proudly supported by Healthway to promote the Drug Aware message.

Hours: Various
Cost: FREE!
More Info: www.propel.org.au/projects/twentyten

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Check out our amazing list of FREE hands-on arts workshops especially designed for you! Choose form awesome workshops like fashion, comedy and tattoo illustration. Register today, spots are filling up FAST!

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

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PICA collaborates with the Perth International Arts Festival to present the first solo exhibition in Australia of highly acclaimed Danish Artist, Jeppe Hein. An exciting survey of major works by the artist will be brought together and presented both inside the vast galleries of PICA, and outside in the busy Cultural Centre square.

The artist's much celebrated water fountain, Appearing Rooms, will be shown outdoors in front of PICA and will be complemented indoors with a selection of his significant works which illustrate further the breadth of ground-breaking ideas include the mirrored maze, Spiral Labyrinth 1 and Smoking Bench and his neon light installations. For the first time Australian audiences will be able to experience Hein's interactive, playful and critical works that have placed him at the forefront of the contemporary international art scene.

Jeppe Hein was born in 1974 in Copenhagen Denmark. He lives and works in both Copenhagen and Berlin. The artist comes to Perth following an important solo exhibition in ARoS Museum, Denmark. His works have been shown at the Tate Modern and Hayward Gallery, London; The Pompidou Centre, Paris; PS1, New York; and the Mori Museum, Tokyo. Last year Jeppe Hein collaborated on a new project with the artist Dan Graham in Germany.

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

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Previous recipient of the prestigious Samstag scholarship and MFA graduate from the Chelsea College of Art in London, Perth artist Sarah Elson has conceived her most expansive body of work yet for a solo exhibition in PICA's Westend Gallery.

Sarah Elson's practice involves making painstakingly intricate castings of small plant and insects; flower bulbs, leaves, burrs, cicadas and beetles. Her sculptures are often mounted on pins studded directly into the gallery walls like displaced specimens. Her interest in the politics of artifacts and materials and how value is perceived is developed in Elson's laboratory-like use of PICA's gallery by amassing together different metals, delicate casts and organic forms.

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

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PICA presents a trilogy of new video works by Brisbane artist Grant Stevens, in response to his time in Los Angeles. Screened together for the first time, If Things Were Different (2009), Crushing (2009), and Really Really (2007) are three videos in which Stevens exposes the deep ambivalence of the human condition.

The works oscillate between the fanciful and romantic to the abrasively cynical by drawing on tropes of Hollywood film, advertising or bad day-time TV and purposefully mishandle media devices of editing, framing, cropping,and incorporating text or muzak.

The artist, who now lives and works between Queensland and California explains that '...unpacking and testing out those ambiguities and ambivalences are what drive me to make art - to try to make works that draw you in while making you feel uncomfortable or unsure about what you are looking at' (Eyeline, 2008).