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Adelaide Festival Centre Inaugural Adelaide Festival Centre GM Anthony Steel writes the AFC’s ruby anniversary marks a time to spearhead a new artistic vision

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Bundaleer The Bundaleer Festival was almost snuffed out due to fire but luckily the flames avoided the grounds of SA's largest regional arts event

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The Depot From Red Square to The Depot, architect Steve Grieve talks Festival and Fringe venues

A Barossa feast Saskia Beer cooks an autumn spread that celebrates the Barossa’s unique food and culture

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“Profoundly beautiful.”

(The Observer)

“An unusual and brilliant show.”

(Cleveland Classical)

6000 Miles away

calder QuarTeT a n d i va B i T T ova

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s y lv i e g u i lle M One of the greatest ballerinas of our time, Sylvie Guillem stars in a mesmerising program by three of today’s most important choreographers – Mats Ek, William Forsythe and Jiří Kylián.

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Pairing Hungarian folk songs with Fred Frith’s gripping composition Lelekovice, the Calder Quartet and Iva Bittova present an eclectic and electrifying evening of chamber music.

Elder Hall (Thu 14 Mar)

Festival Theatre (Fri 1 Mar — Mon 4 Mar)

wa r sTories … k e v i n P ow e r s, TaTja n a s o li a n d M a d e le i n e Th i e n Three very different novelists discuss their very powerful stories of modern warfare.

laide An Ade ’ Wr i t e r s p e cial We e k s event

Elder Hall (Mon 4 Mar 6.30pm)

“A vampiric symphony of terror.”

(Rzeczpospolita)

n o s f e r aT u

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Tr wa r sz awa Acclaimed director Grzegorz Jarzyna confronts pop culture’s favourite blood-sucking hero - if there’s one psychological and metaphysical vampirical thriller to see this festival, this is it.

Dunstan Playhouse (Thu 14 Mar - Sun 17 Mar)

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OFF TOPIC Simon Bryant

for our impulse purchases and actions. For me, pet ownership is a huge issue; it’s not just a token thing. You need to really look at your life and say, ‘Wow, I need to change a lot of the ways I live in order to provide for this animal’.”

Bryant was approached by Animals Asia around seven years ago in respect to the issue

Off Topic and on the record, as we let South Australian identities talk about whatever they want... as long as it’s not their day job. Celebrity chef Simon Bryant is a wellknown animal and dog lover and is an Animals Asia ambassador. This role has taken him to China where he witnessed events that would compel him to act.

of moon bears and bile farming. But Animals Asia’s Jill Robinson and Anne Lloyd-Jones mentioned dog farming when he travelled to China with them four years ago.

“I was a bit scared of the cultural and moral relativism and a bit confused by it all. They said, ‘Why don’t you come to China and have a look?’

Simon Bryant and Sid Photo: Sally Harding

So I went. I had no idea of what I was in for and they are very clever ladies, because they took me to see things and once you’ve seen these things you’re compelled to act. It cleared up any uncertainty in

dog eating yet here in Australia we’ve got some

backstory’s sound with the meat I buy. I know it

my mind about the moral implications of whether

despicable farming practices that I do not support

got a knife chucked into it or a bolt gun. I accept

it should or should not carry on.

and I’m very vocal about those.”

that it was brutal but it had a good life.

“When we got there they said, ‘We aren’t going to hold back, you’ve come all this way you might as

Bryant says there is a groundswell of activity in China to stop the dog trade.

“I’d rather be a complete vegetarian chef if you want the truth. I’ve got to be honest, the commercial

well see what we are fighting and frankly it will be

“Especially with younger people. They’re

reality for me is that if people liked my menu last

a little shop of horrors’. I saw a white tiger used for

stopping trucks on highways and demanding to

night and then I explain to them about the meat,

tiger balm; I saw so many circuses that I lost count.

see papers, because you need papers to transport

where it came from and how you get it, if they

Circuses featuring everything: bears, elephants and

them. They’re confronting people in abattoirs

change their purchasing habits then I’m happy.

dogs, you name it. But what really got me were

and markets, which may be illegal. We found

If I make them all eat vegetarian and they don’t

the dog farms, dog abattoirs and dog markets. I

an illegal abattoir on our own and by we I mean

really want to and they walk away and buy another

have a vivid memory of standing in an abattoir

I was with Chinese people, mainly the Chinese

factory farm pig the next night, I haven’t affected any

s an owner of a two-and-half-year-

in a dog market and being undecided about the

urban youth and the organisation Animals

change. I know to most people that’s like sleeping

old doberman, Sid, Bryant grew up

moral implications. I mean, I’m a bloody chef; we’re

Asia, which is a Hong Kong-based foundation

with the enemy or being a hypocrite. The whole

with many different breeds of dogs. As

responsible for mass destruction on a daily basis

to end bear farming and dog and cat eating. It

world isn’t going to turn vegetarian overnight. Let’s

the Hilton’s Executive Chef he was often seen

by the choices we make when we write menus.

supports Chinese people who want to oppose

look at our existing situations. Let’s demand better

walking around Gouger and Grote Streets with

As far back as I remember I’ve tried to support

these practices with legal resources and funds.”

treatment within those farms and let’s improve the

his former doberman, Iggy. Locally, Bryant is

ethical food production. And my line was maybe

As a former vegetarian Bryant had to eat

lives of the existing animals. Sure in 50 years if we’re

an ambassador for the Animal Welfare League.

they can farm dogs a bit better but there are two

meat when he moved from Asian cooking to

all wearing white jumpsuits like Logan’s Run and

“That’s about responsible pet ownership. I

fundamental problems and one of them is we do not

classic French cuisine and he admits he is a

eating vegan diets and there’s no war, that’s fine,

always say the second biggest responsibility

farm carnivorous pack animals, we never have, we

“mass of inconsistencies”.

but that’s not going to happen tomorrow.”

you will ever have is raising a child but a dog

farm herd animals, usually vegetarian herd animals.

“I do not eat meat at home. But professionally

is the biggest because they never grow up and

“My stance has always been about relativism;

it’s my job. I’ve got mates who are vego, who

leave home. You’re stuck with it forever. You’re

there is no universal right or wrong. You can

have known me for years, and they just think I’m

responsible for its every emotional and physical

agree to disagree. Live or let live. That’s where

a hypocrite. I don’t have an answer for that. I am

animalsasia.org

need. It’s a huge issue – abandoned pets. It’s a

I had trouble with all of this, really, because

a hypocrite. I serve people meat. It’s my job. The

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symptom of our inability to take responsibility

here I am saying I don’t know how I feel about

most important thing for me is that I know the

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This is 40 With the Adelaide Festival Centre celebrating its 40year anniversary this year, inaugural General Manager and five-time Adelaide Festival Artistic Director Anthony Steel says the ruby anniversary marks a time to spearhead a bold Adelaide artistic vision.

Anthony Steel

of Donald Horne’s. This obsession with the

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bottom line can stifle creativity. In such a climate,

n a nice synergy, the Festival Centre’s ruby

where the ‘products’ of the ‘arts industry’ are

anniversary year calls to mind one of the

expected to play safe and appeal to the largest

centre’s first trustees, the inimitable Ruby

possible number of voters, the ability to take

Litchfield. She personified the spirit of the

risks, without which the arts become muffled

Dunstan years with excitement, enthusiasm and

and largely irrelevant, is severely limited.

risk-taking – that bugbear of the contemporary

In the 1970s there was probably a certain naiveté

corporate world, a slightly rash headiness

in our programming of the centre, but I think we

brought about by the apparently limitless

understood two vital principles: that we had a duty

possibilities that we were all challenged to seek

to attempt to appeal to a very broad cross-section of

out and fulfill. It was gutsy stuff; the decision

the South Australian community (though certainly

to build the first capital city arts centre in the

not to all of the people all of the time – the lowest

country was itself audacious, yet it had bipartisan

common denominator policy) but that we should

political support. There was much less emphasis

always aim for the highest possible standards in

on the sort of risk management that is demanded

whatever we undertook. After several subsequent

of arts bodies now, in these lily-livered days of

decades in which the emphasis was either on the

the ‘economisation of culture’, to coin a phrase

production of musicals, often highly successful

Adelaide Festival Centre

ones, or – when that ambition was overreached and

function usefully for the next 40 years. But there

financial disaster struck – on the drastic curtailment

is an overall dearth of reasonably serviceable

of any activity at all and the resultant depressing

theatres in the city, so that if this year’s birthday

succession of dark nights, the centre is firmly back

celebration results in no more than the proposed

in business. The arrival of Douglas Gautier to run

major renovation of Her Majesty’s, which reaches

the place, with an unapologetic policy of restoring

its centenary in 2013, it will have been worth it.

programming to its preeminent position in the

A new hall for all kinds of music is desperately

scheme of things, has thereby also restored the

needed, designed in the first instance to suit the

centre to its rightful position of playing a pivotal

requirements of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra,

role in the arts in South Australia. Both practically

the only principal orchestra in any state capital

and emotionally, Gautier and his trust were greatly

without a home of its own. Such a hall would meet

helped by the decision of the Rann Government

all kinds of other music needs as well, not least

to forgive the debt with which the centre had

as a centre for learning about music, and would

been saddled since it opened, for its construction

most sensibly be sited on Festival Centre land and

was paid for with government loans, a pragmatic

managed by the trust. The riverbank development

decision at the time. The debt was a combination of

looks set to be a public-private partnership so

the building debt and some bad business decisions

here is a perfect opportunity for a dynamic and

relating to musicals.

far-sighted collaboration. Such schemes are to be

What next? Adelaide needs a bold vision again.

found all over the world – why not here?

We yearn for the next Don Dunstan to stand

Adelaide is about to get a spanking new

up. We look forward to celebrating the Festival

hospital, not to mention a state of the art sports

Centre’s significant birthday and rejoicing in

field, both no doubt popular projects with large

the return of its soul. But what about its body?

sections of the community. Let us not forget

Buildings, just like people, deteriorate with age

though, if we are talking about satisfying the

and the centre’s infrastructure is crumbling. That

voters, that more people go to the Festival Centre

problem has to be fixed, but also the opportunity

than to the footy and the cricket combined and

of the whole grand riverbank development plan

go there nearly every day of the year to boot.

must be seized not only to improve but also to add to the facilities that the centre offers.

There seems at last to be a slight lessening of officialdom’s embarrassing habit of calling

When David Malouf was asked by a reporter a typical question about a state’s budgetary priorities – “do you want hospitals or opera?” he replied, “I want both”. Amen to that.

Adelaide ‘the cultural capital of Australia’, a claim at least 30 years out of date. Even in the basic matter of arts real estate we have long been overtaken by every single other mainland capital.

Anthony Steel is an arts consultant and past

The Festival Centre theatres are intrinsically

Festival Director

sound; they were very well designed and

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there is no reason why they can’t continue to

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LETTER FROM MALI Alexander Downer

the continuing threat of Al Qaeda.

Timbuktu would not only have left the local people

Even in Australia the prime minister proclaimed

distraught, it would have given Al Qaeda the

in January that the “9/11 decade is over”. Future

stable base it needs but no longer has. From that

threats were more likely to come from states rather

base they could plan, train and launch attacks

than “non-state actors” – meaning terrorists.

almost at will. Northern Mali – and perhaps in time

There are a couple of issues here. For a start, the good news: America and Australia have successfully

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met a French ambassador recently.

“Congratulations”, I gushed. “You have shown great courage and leadership in Mali.” He graciously thanked me and then tried to persuade me Australia should do more in Africa. “After the Asian boom,” he said rather improbably, “will come the African boom.”

all of Mali – would have become what Afghanistan was under the Taliban. That led to 9/11.

protected their homelands from a terrorist attack

The intervention by French troops has been

since 9/11. Huge additional resources have been

decisive. Al Qaeda has been driven out of the

poured into domestic security. Neither country

towns and cities it controlled, including Timbuktu.

should become complacent, though. The threat is

When the rather dour French president, Francois

still there and it will remain so for a long time yet.

Hollande, recently visited that historic city he was

Secondly, Jihadist terrorism, including Al Qaeda,

treated as a hero. The crowd was huge; they chanted

is still active. Al Qaeda and other like-minded

Francois Hollande

Vive la France! and Vive le President! with gusto.

Well, let’s take one thing at a time. The

terrorist organisations are much less organised

France is back as a force for good in world

French intervention in Mali reminds us that

and effective than they once were. They no longer

politics. What is interesting is the line-up of

the war against Al Qaeda is far from over. For

have the stable base granted to them in Afghanistan

countries prepared to help the French. Once,

Western politicians, Al Qaeda has become an

by the Taliban… but they are not dead.

Americans enthusiastically – you may say too

inconvenience. President Obama, in wanting to

Al Qaeda is still active in Iraq although they

enthusiastically – led the world in the war against

distance himself from President George W Bush,

have transferred much of their activity now

terror. This time, France’s major supporter was

their capabilities will only grow. Defeating them

has made a great and understandable virtue of the

across the border to Syria. Extremist Jihadists

its old friend Great Britain. British planes flew

will be a long and grinding task.

killing of Osama bin Laden by US troops. But he

are an important element of the forces opposed to

the French troops to Mali and the Brits have

Secondly, who is going to do this ugly and often

then wanted to persuade the war-weary American

President Assad and his regime. Al Qaeda is still

provided 400 troops in support of the French.

controversial work? The Obama administration

public that the death of bin Laden was pretty much

active in Yemen, as well. And importantly, they are

It’s a bit of a repeat of the NATO Libya operation.

has pulled back. In doing so, they’ve left a

the end of the road in the war on terror.

active and effectively so in the Maghreb (North

That was an Anglo-French led charge as well.

vacuum. It’s a vacuum which could quickly have

When late last year the American consulate in

West Africa) and further South in Mali.

There are two interesting conclusions to draw

been filled by Jihadists. Thankfully, the French and the British have come to the rescue.

If there was one lesson that came out of 9/11

from all is. First, Al Qaeda may have been seriously

a controversy erupted over whether this proved

it was that Al Qaeda should never be able to

degraded over the past dozen years and homelands

This doesn’t seem to affect us much in

that Jihadist terrorism was still alive and well or

sink their roots in a sovereign country, using its

such as America’s and ours may have been safe

Australia. Well, don’t be too complacent. If

whether the attack was related to a particular event.

territory for planning, training and as a base.

from AQ. But Islamic extremists prepared to kill

someone doesn’t do the dirty work of confronting

The administration seemed to suggest it related to

Al Qaeda had literally taken over northern

innocent civilians in support of their cause are still

the Jihadists, they will do their dirty work in the

an anti-Muslim film, perhaps trying to play down

Mali. To have left them entrenched in cities like

around. If they are not dealt with effectively, then

West. And that could mean right here.

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Elapid Tourism In this extract from his recently published Belomor, Adelaide Writers’ Week-bound Nicolas Rothwell describes his encounters with the unusual community of snake enthusiasts, from Sydney and Adelaide to the Australian deserts, to Kakadu and the Gulf Country, and finally to the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.

Reptiles, in that country, had to be searched for: they were precious rarities. Dawe escaped to regions of richer supply, and became a keeper – first at zoos, in Adelaide and in Melbourne, then at the Australian Reptile Park in Gosford – but despite this decade-long pattern of persistent snake handling, his charges never turned on him: the strange state of harmony that existed between the Pueblo dancers and their totemic rattlesnakes mantled him also; he tended and ministered to vipers, mambas and cobras; on one occasion a bushmaster wrapped its fangs around his index finger, paused, gazed up and withdrew tenderly, without injecting any of its venom into the puncture wounds left on his skin.

Such experiences, much discussed, ensured his fame in the serpent world, and it was only

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a matter of time before my enquiring colleague

nakes - their species and their

innocence. Abrupt enthusiasms would sweep

Kelvin Cantrill appeared to pay homage and seek

habits, their symbolic resonances

him up repeatedly: he developed a fierce

instruction at Dawe’s property on Darwin’s rural

and associations – have a hold on

obsession for the late-model Jeep Wrangler, and

edge. What were the possibilities of locating

a good number of the high-relief

subjected the vehicle in all its variants to extreme

obscure pythons in the savannah country of the

figures one meets on life’s winding course, and

field tests in the jungles and paperbark swamps

North? The consultation began: their friendship

the goal and logic of that journey seem at once

that stretch from the Mary River wetlands back

blossomed, in the odd, glassy way that snake

more mysterious and decidedly more serpentine

to Humpty Doo. He threw himself into the task

ties grow – they strengthen into a kind of

with each fresh twist and corrective turn. I

of breeding pig-nosed turtles in captivity; he

brotherhood of shared affections, much like the

see my friend John Dawe, the tall, sardonic

built a freshwater lake system on his property

feelings that Tolstoy pictures binding Karenin

park ranger who guided, for many years, the

so large its outline could be clearly seen on

and Vronsky beside Anna’s sickbed: a species of

wetland management systems in place across

satellite photographs – but none of these passing

love that vanquishes all rivalry and sense of self.

Kakadu. His bearing was much like that of a

crazes could rival his love of snakes, which was

Cantrill was a traveller in quest of pure

file snake at rest amid camouflaging branches:

already full-fledged during his childhood in the

emotions of this kind: he had pursued them; it

watchful, inward, yet benign, full of a primordial

sparse backblocks of Naracoorte.

was his life’s task to describe them. He was a fluent writer: his prose ran richly to metaphor, metaphor piled on metaphor, until it became hard to keep track of the thread of his initial intentions – and the theme of the work as well as its structure was often serpentine, so that a simpleseeming essay on volcanoes, or a treatment of the evolution of stringed instruments, would offer the unsuspecting reader an excursus that touched on various aspects of snake behaviour and taxonomy before returning to the main flow of the narrative. This focus was near constant, in person as much as in written word.

‘Elapid Tourism,’ Cantrill might well exclaim in greeting, when we met up in some remote roadhouse in the Gulf Country, or made a

‘Absolutely. What a wonderful idea! And

rendezvous on the straight, oppressive highways

that level of contact would lead inevitably to a

of the Barkly Tableland: ‘That’s the future for the

rise in incidents of snakebite, and antivenene

Northern Territory – a tourism based wholly on

sales, so it would improve our understanding

the lure of venomous snakes.’

of toxicology and increase our expertise

‘But aren’t they hard to see and find?’ ‘Of course - that’s the whole point!’ And then it

in emergency medicine as well: a perfect economic circle!’

would be the moment for him to sketch again

Such was Cantrill. His happiest hours were

his beatific vision of the Australian tropics and

spent at his dark home in Seaforth, on Sydney’s

the monsoonal country, flush with international

North Shore, peering into his elaborate

visitors on reptile safari convoys, travelling

terrarium, and whispering loving words to

deep into the snake-rich rangelands round the

his indifferent-seeming diamond pythons,

Simpson and Great Sandy deserts. Year in, year

whose elegance he would seek constantly to

out, they would come: ‘And every visitor would

recapture in word portraits – portraits that

have a special snake passport, with all the

became baroque, self-sustaining cathedrals

details of the most elusive species, and those

of wild imagery and speculative thought.

places where you would have a reasonable

Their tone and style were somehow familiar

chance of spotting them.’

to me, and for some months I puzzled over

‘And you could even have dedicated pages,’ I

this, as I made my way through the lengthy

would say, lifted up by his excitement: ‘Something

emails Cantrill liked to send off in the small

like the visa pages on a standard passport,

hours of the night, each file containing whole

divided up, and each rare snake would imprint

cascades of these majestic compositions, works

its fang marks on the right page in the passport

of beauty and allusive splendour so elaborate

as identifying proof of the encounter.’

they resembled nothing so much as the growth

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FEATURE of corals on some tranquil, sun-dappled reef.

theories to come to Díaz Bolio’s thoughts. Was

And then I remembered: I had come across

it not clear that the cosmos itself, as it was being

just such patterns of snake rhetoric before,

progressively disclosed by modern astrophysics,

long before, when I worked in the Americas,

had a snakelike quality? Had the gods of creation

and became caught up with the rattlesnake

not revealed this cryptic structure in the first

researches of José Díaz Bolio, the celebrated

hallucinatory visions that were vouchsafed to

historian and poet of the Yucatán Peninsula.

the rulers of the Mayan realm?

We corresponded for several months, and

‘It is crotalic thinking,’ exclaimed Díaz Bolio,

his letters, handwritten, in the most courtly

stroking a small statue of a serpent deity perched on

style, gained in intensity and flourish with each

a table by his side. ‘Crotalic?’ ‘From the classificatory

exchange. It seemed essential, in the end, to

name of the Mesoamerican rattlesnake,’ he

pay a visit. I took the flight down to Mérida,

said, looking a touch offended. ‘Crotalus. But of

and began a series of trips to the Mayan

course you, as an enquirer yourself, will see these

snake-cult sites of the inland, and immersed

connections immediately. I have begun to set them

myself in Díaz Bolio’s vast outpouring of

out. Here.’ He handed me a thick typescript: upon

books and pamphlets: they contained his

the cover there was a stylised tracery of snake scales

interpretations of the art and symbolism of

and feather plumes: Mi Descubrimiento del Culto

the temple complexes, his calendric studies,

Crotalico, announced the title. ‘My last work,’ he

his ideas about the snake as the axis of the

said: ‘My synthesis: I draw my thoughts together;

region’s enduring traditions - and these works,

and in so doing, I draw myself.’

printed on flimsy paper, available only in the

I began reading from the first chapter: he listened.

back rooms of obscure provincial bookshops,

Even by Díaz Bolio’s own standards, the prose was

seemed like hidden, fragmentary texts of

labyrinthine; it was lush in sound; it took delight in

revelation. In fact they were mere apéritifs.

its rhythmic unfurling of clause and paragraph. ‘It’s

Díaz Bolio was still working on the definitive

almost as if the beauty of the structure is what holds

statement of his philosophy when at last we

the key,’ I said. ‘You mean the meaning is there is

came face to face.

no meaning? It’s only the convolutions? How much

It was late in the afternoon of a stifling summer

I fear those ideas. Throughout my life they have

day. At the appointed hour, I rang the bell at the

tempted me. But all the ideas in the world are our

gate of his palazzo. Díaz Bolio received me in a

work: nothing more. We are vain interpreters. The

lovely tree-shaded garden. He was wearing a

thing remains. The longer I live, the more I succeed

linen suit of fine cut. He shook hands. For a few

in thinking like a serpent, and the more I realise that

seconds, he endeavoured to preserve a formality

the enemy of truth is man.’

of manner – then the front broke.

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FEATURE

Format closes its Peel Street doors Artist hub Format Collective will close the doors at its Peel Street, Adelaide home in March, after more than five years in the laneway.

Alex Parry

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that small, volunteer, artist-run operations are slowly getting squeezed out of the city.”

he community of musicians, visual

Format Collective and its publishing arm

artists, dancers, writers and other

Format Press were born from the annual

creatives has an uncertain future

Format Festival, with the intention of opening

after March, when soaring rent will force the

up a free space for artists without traditional

collective out of its home.

bureaucratic and financial restrictions. The

Managing Director Stan Mahoney said there

Collective has been paying up to $35,000 a

were plans for a “long-overdue” renovation

year in rent on Peel Street, largely funded by

of Peel Street to align it with the boutique

parties, gigs, small grants and donations. Over

wine bar and coffee culture of Leigh Street.

the years, many established and emerging

“We’ve done our best to let people know about

artists have walked through the doors to join a

this street, where stuff happens, but the new

like-minded community and grow their talent.

vision, unfortunately, doesn’t figure in us because we can’t afford that kind of rent,” he said.

“Chloe Langford was a director of visual arts who was here in the early days. She’s

“There’s no ill will, we completely understand.

now a practicing artist in Berlin. Lots of really

We’ve had a good run here. But again, the problem

amazing bands have gone on to Melbourne

is the sheer value of CBD property and the fact

or Sydney, Bitch Prefect, Old Mate, Terrible

Format in Peel Street

Truths,” said Mahoney.

However, many artists are firm on staying in

“I think Format has opened that up and

them to co-operate with others to share resources

made it more about the music again. It’s people

and the venue, which features an upstairs lounge

making music purely because they enjoy and

and gallery and downstairs stage/studio.

find some release in that, doing interesting

band Swimming.

we can turn around in five, 10 years’ time and say yes, those guys are still interesting now.”

Swimming plays in the venue and at other

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to be popular. I think that’s something where

we came here to rehearse and we’ve been here weren’t for Format.”

Replace them while there’s still time.

Contact your electrician or call 1300 737 637 for more information.

Better to be safe than sorry.

things without worrying whether it’s going

“The week after we played our first show, ever since. We wouldn’t be where we are if it

By the time they are 10 years of age, all smoke alarms (mains powered and battery operated) are too old to be reliable.

an audience to tour’,” said Lockwood.

Adelaide. The Collective gives them a key and trusts

Angela Schilling is a musician with local

10 year old smoke alarms put your safety at risk.

in our home town, so that we can then build

Format’s directors are hoping for another city venue but are dubious about licensing restrictions and the cost of rent.

city gigs, and has enjoyed the affordable

“We are not the only artist collective but

services of sound mixer Pat Lockwood,

there should be at least five of us,” said

F o r m a t ’s L i v e M u s i c C o - o r d i n a t o r.

Mahoney, who also ran the former Urtext

“There is a total sense of community,

collective on Grenfell Street. “People quite

everyone’s in the same boat. We’re artists

rightfully do not trust scruffy young artists

trying to create on a low budget while we

with money. The trouble is that we are not

study and work. We’ve met so many amazing

a front for drug dealing; we just want to

touring artists. It’s given us a central place to

make good work. If public servants and

rehearse, keep our gear. We couldn’t afford to

policymakers were attending our events, they

do that, we don’t have the money,” she said.

would understand us.”

Many eccentric characters contribute to the

“We don’t want to be a bar,” said Lockwood.

ramshackle charm of the place. Peel Street’s

“We want something flexible that allows us

foot traffic has also meant enough passersbys

to sell responsibly and make our rent. The

are attracted to the sounds of a good show to

building coding – it seems counter-productive

build audiences for otherwise struggling local

that we need people to be handling that when

musicians. The growth of the Format Collective

they need to be focusing on their art.”

could be evidence that successful music and

Despite the struggles, the Format Collective

art venues in Adelaide do not require perfect

is grateful for small grants and more readily-

spaces, bars and sound systems. Rather, an

available temporary liquor licenses. The

emotional attachment to the space and the

artists accept they will probably never make

people in it, and the freedom to create.

a livelihood from such a collective; however,

“You look at a lot of bands that try to find

they hope to sustain the opportunity for young,

success through that kind of preset pattern

talented people to combine, support, share and

in Australia: ‘We need a single that can be

nurture each other – and build a more solid and

played on triple j so that we get an audience

professional arts scene in Adelaide.

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opinion

THIRD AGE Examined Lives Shirley Stott Despoja

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has rung him and told him he’s a lucky dog? The

lend it to anyone. This is Apple method; not really

tabloids have hinted for ages that she should hand

conducive to Socratic method of discussion… but

over to Prince Charles, but she, unlike the Pope,

cheap. The stories are case histories: sad, earthy,

has family to consider. He is free to enjoy the sport

cautionary, shocking. A married man, father of

of watching the cardinalate-set do each other

grown up children, suddenly discovers at age 70

in scrambling for the throne. Perhaps scrambling

that he is gay; Grosz is spat at for a year by a nine-

is not the word. Praying awfully hard then.

year-old-boy whose anger keeps him from sadness;

hat a fuss about the Pope

Pope Benedict the Ex will now have time to

a patient calls her husband “sweetie” when she no

retiring. At the age of 85, why

live the life. And in third age, the life to live is the

longer desires him and Grosz calls it “sugar-coated

wouldn’t he choose to put up

examined life, just like Socrates said.

hate”. The book begins: “I want to tell you … about a

his pretty red shoes and sit

Socrates actually said that the unexamined life

patient who shocked me.” (Just about all his patients

was not worth living, probably one of the most

shocked me.) Grosz gets a letter from the fiancée

What an option it must be, after blessing all

pull-yourself-up-short statements we encounter, if

of his young male suicidal patient notifying him of

those medals and sorting out thorny issues,

we are lucky, as we muddle through our daily lives.

his death. Much anguish among those who treated

to retire to a monastery and have star-struck

As an aside here, I must offer the observation that

him. Six months later he gets a phone message from

nuns bring him pizza and chocolate biscuits

the internet is a brash and often crass place. In a

the patient confessing that he had faked his death

and a little non-sacramental wine. If not now,

quite serious discussion of Socrates’ keenness on

and the letter. What an attention-getter. It takes

when, he might ask? It does rather depend on

the examined life I found advice that this was the

avoidance to a new level. Grosz encounters him at

expectations of an afterlife, but I don’t remember

aphorism best suited to T-shirts and lapel buttons.

the cinema some years later with his wife.

being promised anything more blissful than that.

I am not sure that printing slogans on T-shirts

How lucky are the psychoanalysts to get abundant

So no more uncomfortable pope mobile,

is exactly Socratic method. But who knows what

riveting stories while being paid to listen. But I have

being blamed for the appalling activities of his

Socrates would be wearing on his toga if he

underlings, having to think about birth control at

lived in our times?

dozing in the sun with his cat and his dogma?

a spasm of squirm. Grosz says he’s “changed names

Pope Benedict XVI

and altered all identifying details”. Hang on. Surely

85, and day after day forbidding, forbidding… This

I first learnt of Socrates’ views when I was a

is so contrary to the inclinations of most people

Philos1 student aged 17 at the feet of the great

I was actually doing while looking up “Examined

with changes. Who would risk blurting to Grosz if

his age. For one thing, few of us in the third age

and greatly feared Professor John Anderson. He

Life” was searching for a book by a psychoanalyst,

they thought it would be in his next book?

have the power to forbid anything, and as we are

walked up and down, mostly looking at his own

Stephen Grosz, which I had been told was full of

Maybe Grosz, like the Pope, is thinking of

confronted with life’s brevity, we want everyone to

feet, no doubt to avoid the sight of the silly young

great stories about understanding ourselves with

retirement and thought it worth the risk. But we

have a good time short of anything illegal.

people would recognise their own stories here, even

things in his lecture room. Anderson also went

the help of a clever, sympathetic analyst like him.

can be sure that the book that is not coming is

Retirement is a beautiful thing. Isobel Redmond’s

on quite a bit to us about whether Socrates’ wife

The Examined Life is published by Vintage

“The Examined Life: Tales from the Confessional,”

daughter messaged her mum that the Pope had

Xanthippe was a shrew. I am not too sad that I

Books, London. Book stores have it, but I read it

by ex-Pope Benedict. It would knock Grosz’s book

pinched her idea. Do you suppose Elizabeth II

have forgotten what his conclusion was. But what

on my iPad, the drawback of which is that I can’t

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opinion

Wild chocolate Stephen Forbes

resonant with the cultural narratives of cacao

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for the central American Olmec and Mayan

aster is celebrated on the first

people whose use of cacao extends back to at

Sunday after the Paschal full moon

least 1500 BC. The Maya celebrated an annual

following the northern hemisphere’s

festival in Muán (April) to honour Ek Chuah, the

spring equinox. For non-Christians

god of cocoa (along with other portfolios) – the

the celebration is mostly about holidays and

celebrations included, amongst other rituals,

chocolate – for Christians the celebration of the

the sacrifice of a dog and an exchange of gifts.

Resurrection is the cornerstone of faith.

Determining the original distribution of

As a botanist I considered exploring Jesus’

Theobroma cacao in the wild is challenging as

crown of thorns, or the wood of the Cross. Our

cultivation dates back thousands of years and

editor suggested chocolate might have a broader

cultivated trees may persist in tropical forest

appeal. Historically there have been other

understoreys. Current DNA evidence suggests

views. The Aztecs considered that cacao was

the origin of cacao on the Brazilian border of

stimulating and intoxicating and accordingly

Columbia and Peru. Botanically Theobroma

was unsuitable for women and children. Indeed,

is part of the Sterculiaceae or Malvaceae

cacao as a beverage was only served to priests,

depending on whose classification you choose

military officers and distinguished warriors

to accept. Cacao grows from about four to

(including enemy warriors prior to execution)

eight metres high as an understorey tree. The

and of course government officials.

flowers are small and attached directly to the

The name cacao derives from the Nahuatl

trunk and older branches (a habit known as

(or Aztec) word cacahuatl. Theobroma cacao is

cauliflory) and are pollinated by biting midges

the understorey tree that provides the source

(Forcipomyia) that breed in the decaying fruits.

of cacao (cocoa) beans. Linnaeus’ binomial is

The fruits are 15 to 30cm long and less than

instructive – Theobroma translates from the

half as wide, weigh around 500 gm and hold

ancient Greek as ‘food of the Gods’, certainly

20 to 60 seeds most commonly referred to as

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implications for learning and memory.

Cacao reached Europe as part of the Columbian exchange that readers of this

The 1552 Badianus manuscript, the famed

column have explored previously. Cacao was

Aztec herbal, includes cacao in a section

fashionable in Britain before coffee – which

covering, The trees and flowers for relieving the

might seem surprising given that Coffea is native

fatigue of those administering the government

to Africa in the Old World. The Queen’s Lane

and discharging public offices. The manuscript

Coffee House on High Street in Oxford dating

describes how cacao flowers were strewn in

from 1654 continues to serve both chocolate

perfumed baths to reduce the fatigue experienced

and coffee. The addition of sugar and milk

by Aztec government officials (there doesn’t

is a later affectation. The Manner of Making

seem to have been a clear policy in relation to

of Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate, published by

the use of such supplements by administrators).

Sylvestre Dufour in 1685 describes an early

In addition to these benefits for public officials

recipe including white sugar with cacao beans,

a range of other benefits are claimed for cacao.

as well as cinnamon, pimiento, cloves, vanilla

In 1519 Cortes records Moctezuma drinking

and achiote. The invention of milk chocolate is

chocolate before visiting his wives – subsequent

most often accorded to the Swiss Daniel Peter

interpretations suggest the value of chocolate as

and Henri Nestlé in the late 19th century.

an aphrodisiac although perhaps Moctezuma

Haigh’s chocolates in Adelaide are the

was simply addressing the fatigue characteristic

only chocolate manufacturer in Australia

of those holding public office.

(and one of a few in the world) that import

Linnaeus explored the medicinal uses of cacao

and roast cocoa beans as the basis for their

in his 1741 monograph Om Chokladdryken.

premium chocolate products (rather than

Linnaeus observes cacao’s medicinal and dietary

simply purchasing prepared cocoa butter and

value and deemed cacao an effective aphrodisiac

powder). So for Easter you might consider

(although Linnaeus seemed to have an especially

Haigh’s chocolate eggs redolent with their

prurient interest in botany). More recently the

Christian imagery of the Resurrection as the

prolonged intake of flavanol-rich cocoa has been

basis for celebration and gift giving. If you’re

linked to benefits for cardiovascular function.

averse to this tradition never mind – Haigh’s

The research relates to raw cocoa and to a lesser

Easter bilbies are just as delicious and the

extent, dark chocolate, as the flavonoids degrade

message for environmental reconciliation is

during cooking and alkalizing processes. Studies

a worthwhile one given the historical and

include research with Kuna Amerindian people

current rabbit menace in Australia.

living on offshore islands in Panama who have significantly lower rates of cardiovascular disease compared to those on the mainland whose cocoa

Stephen Forbes is the Director of the Botanic

consumption is limited. In particular, the benefits

Gardens of Adelaide

may extend to the brain and have important

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business / finance

Smart growth – the Jobs Plan Federal Labor is certainly not policy shy. Hardly a week passes by without a major policy announcement. The $1 billion Jobs Plan now joins the Minerals Resource Rent Tax, the National Disability Insurance Scheme and the Clean Energy Future package.

John Spoehr

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he Jobs Plan brings together some important

strengthen research and development partnerships

Tony Abbott is likely to resist this pressure he

with universities. This has the potential to significantly

won’t be able to for much longer. A small target

advance the industry cluster and networking

strategy is risky. In particular it draws attention

agenda in Australia, an agenda that has strong

to the Coalition’s past policy track record and

support from both the business community and

the deeply unpopular WorkChoices legislation.

unions. South Australia will be a major player in the

There is no hiding the reality that most Coalition

proposed manufacturing precinct according to the

MPs are keen to reinvent rather than abandon

announcement. This is very welcome and timely given

the WorkChoices industrial relations agenda.

the release of the South Australian Government’s

WorkChoices is not so much dead and buried as

‘Manufacturing Works’ strategy late last year.

Tony Abbott claims, but living on in the hearts and

Notwithstanding major disappointments like the

minds of most of his colleagues. While Labor and

failure of the Mineral Resource Rent Tax to raise

the union movement will campaign hard on this

respectable revenue for the Government, there is

over coming months it won’t generate the political

much to admire about Labor’s policy agenda and

swing that it needs to retain government unless

stewardship of the Australian economy during

there is a major blunder by the Coalition on how it

one of the post difficult economic periods since the

funds its election promises or a damaging scandal.

Great Depression. Its stimulus package has been

Strange days are these. That famous political

vindicated – the austerity policies implemented

adage, ‘The economy, stupid’ coined by the larger than

in Britain, Ireland, Spain and Greece have led to

life US presidential political advisor to Bill Clinton,

stagnation and fuelled unemployment.

James Carville, doesn’t seem to apply in Australia.

The problem for Federal Labor is that its

Political orthodoxy suggests that electoral fortunes

policies are being drowned out by political noise –

rise and fall in tandem with booms and slumps and

a combination of acts of leadership destabilisation

perceptions about how effective a government

and corruption playing out in the New South

is in managing the economy. By these measures

Wales branch. While the latest polls suggest that

Labor should be doing better in the polls than it is.

the Coalition in a commanding position there is a

It did a commendable job reducing the impact of

lot of political water to go under the bridge before

the Global Financial Crisis on Australia. Economic

the September 14 election.

growth has been sustained and unemployment low

ingredients of successful industry policy.

The Coalition is under pressure to do more

by international standards. The Stimulus Package

It recognises the need to substantially

than criticise and oppose now. It has to present

worked and recession was avoided. None of this

increase Australia’s investment in building

as a credible and trustworthy alternative

seems to matter a great deal now.

successful collaborations between industry and

government. That means it will have to start

Labor’s electoral fortunes will be shaped in

researchers to help foster innovation and boost

releasing some policy detail sooner rather than

great part by the performance of the Coalition.

productivity growth. It acknowledges that

later. While a more disciplined and determined

If Tony Abbott remains relatively disciplined, and

Australian manufacturing firms are under enormous pressure and need support to restructure, diversify and compete on value rather than cost.

An important plank of the Jobs Plan is its strategy to extract a higher industry and workforce development dividend from major resource projects.

The Government has announced that it will legislate to try and boost Australian industry participation in projects over $500m. It has fallen short of mandating local content provisions but will require major projects to ‘embed Australian industry opportunity officers’ in their global supply offices. It will also strengthen anti dumping provisions to prevent unfair competition from overseas companies.

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he and his team avoid any major election costing

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gaffes, we will almost certainly see a change of

Strange days are these. That famous political adage, ‘The economy, stupid’ coined by the larger than life US Presidential political advisor to Bill Clinton, James Carville, doesn’t seem to apply in Australia."

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business / finance Tony Abbott

The little blue book

Which brings us back to the early days and weeks of the likely Abbott Government.

Mr Abbott’s policy announcements to date involve commitment to reduce government revenue and add to government expenditure.

Stephen Koukoulas

lead up to the election and touches on a checklist

This means a larger deficit unless savings are

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of big picture themes that Treasury judges to be

identified in the seven months until polling day.

hile nothing is certain,

important short and medium-term issues that

Abolishing the carbon price and the mining

it would take a massive

the new government will need to consider as it

tax are two high profile and revenue-sapping

change in fortune, polling

starts the job of running the country.

promises offset in part by cutting the school

and betting market pricing

It is probably one of the documents most

kids bonus, hiking income tax (reducing the

for there to be any thing other than a Coalition

subject to Freedom of Information requests

tax-free threshold) and cutting other payments.

victory at the September 14 election.

given its sensitive analysis of Opposition

Mr Abbott is also committed to increase

This of course means that on September 15,

economic policies. It has never been released

spending on infrastructure, increase defence

Mr Abbott will probably be Prime Minister, Mr

under FOI laws, because, according to

spending to three percent of GDP, buy new

Hockey, Treasurer and Mr Robb, Finance Minister.

Treasury, it sees the information contained

boats to protect Australia’s borders, index the

It will be the first time in six years that there

therein as “an incomplete draft” of its advice

superannuation of defence personnel, give

and analysis of Opposition policies.

government funded concessional loans for small

might be a Coalition government and Mr Abbott will become only the third Liberal Party leader

Treasury continues, “consistent with the

business indirectly impacted by natural disasters,

Treasury’s long standing policy to protect

increase the education tax rebate, establish a “green

On taking office, Mr Abbott and senior

the confidentiality of advice prepared for a

army” and spend more on roads, to name a few.

Ministers will be given the so-called Blue Book

government that is not formed, and consistent

In addition, the Direct Action Plan to

from Treasury. The Blue Book is a document

with the Treasury’s normal administrative

cut carbon emissions will have significant

prepared in the lead up to each election by

practice, the Blue Book was not finalised,” and

budgetary implications, all of which points to

Treasury for the Opposition of the day in the

after the 2010 election, it noted the strong views

the need for some policy changes elsewhere

event of a change in government.

of the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Abbott, “that

in spending or higher taxes to pay for all

the release of oncoming government briefs would

the commitments. The fiscal outlook for Mr.

contravene the Westminster conventions”.

Abbott is even more challenging given the

to be Prime Minister in the last 40 years.

The Blue Book gives the newly elected government an up-to-date assessment of economic conditions and the outlook for the

Such is the political dynamite in these documents.

Coalition is also committed to having a budget

economy; it includes analysis of the various policy

That aside, the importance of the Blue Book

surplus of one percent of GDP.

announcements made by the Opposition in the

has been diluted a little in recent elections

It is likely that Treasury and Finance are

because of the requirement for the Secretaries

already working hard on the background

of Treasury and Finance to publish a Pre-Election

for the Blue Book given the range of policy

Economic and Fiscal Outlook (PEFO) within 10

changes that have already been outlined by

days of the writs for the election being issued.

Mr Abbott and his economic team.

“

On taking office, Mr Abbott and senior Ministers will be given the so-called Blue Book from Treasury. The Blue Book is a document prepared in the lead up to each election by Treasury for the Opposition of the day in the event of a change in government."

This means that in the upcoming election, the

There is no doubt that for there to be policy

latest economic forecasts, budget projections and

credibility and consistency and no broken promises,

estimates of tax and revenue will be available for

Mr Abbott will need to have the Coalition’s policy

all to see on or before August 22. They will, of

proposals articulated and costed so that when he

course, be based on the existing policy settings

walks into the Treasury building with Mr Hockey

and will take no account of hypothetical scenarios

and Mr Robb a few days after the election, he is

such as a change of government.

not confronted with a Blue Book that shows that

The PEFO is a good initiative, introduced by

his policy agenda cannot be delivered.

Mr Costello when he was Treasurer as part of the Charter of Budget Honesty. The PEFO effectively prevents the government of the day fudging budget or economic figures just before the election and it stops a newly elected government from

Stephen Koukoulas is Managing Director of

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business / finance access to capital is often constrained, as it

business with a range of different experiences,

is generally limited to family and the bank.

only time will tell. Circumstances such as these

That said conversations with family business owners also make it clear that they face many

It is across the issue of succession, family

This was really borne out in our recent Global

dispute and divorce where family business tends

Family Business Survey, which for the first

to have its most difficult moments. In dealing

time, included a comparison with Australian

with these issues the lustre and romance of the

business. Not surprisingly, the majority of

family business sometimes dulls. Getting the

family businesses in Australia and globally

family to attempt to build-in safeguards around

saw the key challenge for the next 12 months

succession, family disputes, and divorce is

as market conditions.

important and requires a high level of objectivity

stable and not faced with the challenges of

These are often difficult conversations as no one likes to face the prospect of a major

Government policy and regulation. Maybe the

family dispute but it is far better to put the

latter will be less of an issue post September

guidelines in place ahead of time rather than

when we will hopefully have a majority

face these challenges unprepared

government of one persuasion or the other and

With baby boomers now in their 50s and

the perceived instability and influences, which

60s, facing up to succession is a major issue for

come with a minority government, are gone.

family business particularly as estimates put

From a five-year perspective, the challenges

the size of the sector as $4 trillion! I suspect

of the general economy play a big part but

the family business sector has both interesting

Australian survey participants rated the need

and challenging times ahead.

for family business to continually innovate, significant place in our economy, however our

attract and keep the right talent as almost as

firm’s recent Global Family Business Survey

important. This suggests that Australian family

indicated that this sector felt that they were

business wants to build and grow and face

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and significant employment whilst receiving

I see through my meetings and discussions

minimal support.

with family businesses a real move to have non-family members in key management roles and on boards or input from consultants or

business and the large corporate environment.

advisors thereby building capacity beyond the

Those differences can create both great

family group. There is the realisation that in

ne of the things I like most about my

opportunities and also significant challenges.

today’s world, business needs a broad range of

role as a business advisor is working

Owners are not driven by the need to increase

skills and the family may simply not possess all

with family owned businesses,

the share price generally aiming to build family

of these. Our family business survey certainly

something I have done for the last 30 years.

wealth and have low levels of gearing, which

confirmed this trend.

There is the opportunity within family

may sometimes place personal assets at risk.

Family business owners invest their own

more choices available to them than ever

both life and business experiences as it’s not

money. They are often not governed by a

before, which in many instances is a function

unusual to have a whole career working with

predetermined budget and usually focus on the

of the hard work put in by the family. I have

the one business owner. I have a client who

long term rather than facing the ever-present

a staff member, who is from a family-owned

I have worked with over three generational

obligations that continuous disclosure places

business, who said recently that she would

changes and who has supplied me with the

upon Public Companies. Their structure often

be forever grateful for her family’s hard work

nappies for each of my three children, the

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in providing her the opportunity to go onto

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feature

Edinburgh Vs Adelaide The Edinburgh Fringe and Adelaide Fringe are the two biggest festivals of their kind in the world.

At a third of Edinburgh’s size you wouldn’t really call the Adelaide Fringe a close second but the Fringes do have a close bond.

Jane Llewellyn

Fringe. “There are people my age who never go

I

to the opera or the ballet, they go and see shows

Burdett-Coutts, Director of Edinburgh’s Assembly

There are some obvious differences between

(one of the four major venues at the Edinburgh

the two cities – the weather for instance – but

Fringe) says the “two way traffic of work between

there are also many similarities. “They are both

Edinburgh and Australia seems to grow every year

festivals which take over the city. They are big

and the Adelaide Fringe has played a key role in

events in quite small cities and they are both

this”. Burdett-Coutts, who has travelled to the

much loved by the people of both cities – well

big four Edinburgh venues) comes to Australia

While Assembly’s George Square Gardens is

Adelaide Fringe seven times during his 30-year

I think the Scots like it,” Clarke says. Burdett-

and awards an Adelaide Fringe act 7,000 pounds

reminiscent of the Garden of Unearthly Delights,

stint with Assembly, remembers when there wasn’t

Coutts agrees, “I think festivals often work best

to help them get to Edinburgh. There is a similar

Burdetts-Coutts concedes, “Sadly we don’t have

much traffic between the two cities. Things started

in a close environment where you can walk

program operating in the other direction with

the amount of room that the Garden of Unearthly

to change in the 80s, when aided by the Australia

from one event to the next. Equally, they usually

Holden Street Theatre giving an award at the

Delights enjoys, nor the weather”. The two venues

Council, Burdett-Coutts and John Pinder (founder

burgeon in a place where there is not a massive

Edinburgh Fringe to the best show they see and

do however share a “sense of environment where

of the Melbourne Comedy Festival) presented

display of performance the rest of the year.”

then helping them come out to Adelaide.

people can enjoy being outside at the same time

t’s not unusual for Australian performers,

that are under an hour and they can see a few in

promoters, office staff, bar staff and directors

a night and they are in a make-shift venue. That’s

to make the journey to the other side of the

a kind of aesthetic and experience we love and

world and work the “other” Fringe. William

the Scots love it too,” Clarke says.

Oznost, a selection of Australian comedians, at

George Square Gardens, Edinburgh

A Fringe circuit has developed where Australian

While the two festivals possess similarities and

as being surrounded by performance work”.

artists start at the Adelaide Fringe in February

influence and inspire each other, as artists and

Clarke points out, “I think the Garden of Unearthly

At the heart of both Fringe festivals is the ‘get

and then head to Edinburgh in August. Overseas

arts workers dart back and forth across the globe,

Delights is better than any venue in Edinburgh.

up and have a go’ mentality. “If you want to put

performers go the other way and start in Edinburgh

each Fringe also has its own identity. Edinburgh

I think it’s so magical and so beautiful under the

on a show you can. You just have to have the

before heading to Australia. “There are a lot of

is a university city, and with students on holidays

trees and the tents and you enter a whole magical

gumption to get out there and do it,” Burdett-

producers and promoters that pick up shows at both

during August, empty university buildings are

world. But then Edinburgh has the beautiful old

Coutts says. Adelaide Fringe Director Greg Clarke

festivals and take them to the other festival,” Clarke

converted into venues and vacated students’ digs

buildings, it’s incredible walking around.”

adds: “We have three generations in Edinburgh

says. “Every year there is usually someone from

hired out to performers and visitors.

and Adelaide who have grown up going to the

Underbelly, Assembly, Gilded Balloon [Edinburgh

The Edinburgh Festival brings in a large

look to each other for ideas and inspiration, and the

Fringe. We understand what Fringe shows are.”

Fringe venues], all here looking for shows. So many

number of tourists because of its location. “You

relationship between the two festivals looks set to

Clarke also believes that the “Scots and the

shows premier here and the next year I’ll go to

have London down the road and Europe around

continue to prosper, it’s important they maintain

Edinburgh and they’ll be there.”

the corner so you get a lot more of an international

their own identity. Burdett-Coutts says, “Long

the Edinburgh Fringe.

Australians have a similar sense of humour and a

While the Adelaide Fringe and Edinburgh Fringe

similar sense of aesthetic”. The Fringe “aesthetic”

The two Fringes are also connected through

audience. On the other hand, 92 percent of the

may they be different. I’d hate everything to be the

has developed from growing up going to the

more formal relationships. Underbelly (one of the

Adelaide audience is from Adelaide,” Clarke says.

same. It would lead to the death of imagination.”

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opinion influence regional affairs. Bill Hayden and Gareth

help bring about “diplomatic sanity in the Pacific”.

Evans achieved a settlement in Cambodia in

Gradual steps towards the normalisation of

spite of a complicated regional and international

relations with North Korea could also help restore

context and resistance on the part of several key

a rational, considered and diplomatic approach

participants in the process, including countries

to international relations in Asia.

Australia enjoyed strong ties with. Hayden imbued

The current Labor Government has committed

a sense of urgency into the process whilst Evans

Australia to sanctions that are harsher than

helped cultivate a regional consensus over the

those put in place by almost any other Western

key aspects of the Cambodian settlement. There

power. An example of the sanctions the Labor

have been many other examples of effective,

Government has imposed in addition to those

independent Australian diplomacy.

supported by the United Nations, is the blanket

Unfortunately, the light of creative, independent,

ban on granting visas to North Koreans. This

middle-power diplomacy evident in the past has

negates all possibility of educational or cultural

faded in recent years. By encouraging the European

exchange between the citizens of Australia and

Union to lift its sanctions against Myanmar,

the DPRK, and closes yet another window that

however, Foreign Minister Carr seems to have

Pyongyang had on the outside world.

signalled a change in Australian foreign policy

There is great potential for Australia to resume

towards authoritarian regimes. Does this have

its role as an independent middle power. We have

implications for our stance towards North Korea?

several advantages that could be diplomatically

The story of the North Wind and the Sun, one

leveraged. Australia is resource rich and food secure.

of the many fables of the ancient Greek slave and

It is the only country in Asia that produces more

Diplomacy does not sit comfortably with

storyteller, Aesop, is often raised in discussions

food than it consumes. We also have a superior level

some of the characteristics of modern society.

about North Korea but is also more generally

of technical knowledge that could be used to build

Governments in many modern states represent

useful to explain the merits of diplomacy as

capacity in countries such as North Korea, where a

a citizenry that is often anxious, demanding and

an instrument of foreign policy. In the fable,

reported 10,000 people died of starvation last year.

impatient. Successful diplomacy requires national

the glacial north wind attempted to remove a

A famine in the mid-1990s is said to have claimed

self-confidence, calm and persistence. Critically,

man’s coat by blowing strongly, but the man

the lives of over one million. Many of the developing

it also requires a clear understanding of realistic

simply clutched his coat more tightly. When sun

nations of Asia are also resource insecure. Australia

objectives that reflect true national interests.

shone, however, the man voluntarily took off

can take advantage of its enviable position to exert

In a piece entitled ‘Diplomacy is Dead’, award-

his coat to enjoy the warmth. Although South

a positive influence on Asia.

eeping the art of diplomacy alive could

winning International Herald Tribune journalist

Korea’s ‘Sunshine Policy’ towards North Korea

Whitlam favoured a realignment of

be Australia’s substantive contribution

Roger Cohen recently lamented that ‘diplomacy’ has

was ultimately unsuccessful, in part due to the

Australia’s foreign policy, away from

to Asia’s geo-strategic landscape.

become an unfashionable instrument in American

impact of abrupt policy changes in Washington,

unconditional reliance on “great and powerful

politics. This attitude is not unique to America.

significant steps were taken during the period.

friends” towards a more internationalist

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Growing economic interdependence is not enough to guarantee stability in Asia. A range

I recently compared Whitlam’s decision to

The wind has blown unceasingly ever since,

approach that favoured closer relations with

of dangerous social and political tendencies,

normalise relations with China in 1972 with

and the belt around the DPRK’s coat has been

the nations of Asia. To act upon this conviction

from resurgent nationalism to soaring income

Australia’s extremely cautious, conservative

further tightened as a result. Maintaining a sound

when paranoia about the Chinese threat was

inequality, threaten to destabilise the domestic

approach to the complex regional situation that

military balance in Northeast Asia while diplomacy

at its height required enormous political skill

and international political contexts in the region.

exists on the Korean Peninsula. The DPRK is

is allowed to work is essential. However, there is

and courage. As a middle power, Australia has

Now more than ever, the elegance of diplomacy

a totalitarian, Stalinist, single-party state, but

no evidence that the coordinated international

more flexibility than most in its international

should take its rightful place at the front line of

as Cohen noted in his article, “breakthrough

sanctions regime, political and cultural exclusion,

relations. It is surely time for Australia to

international relations, not carry the stretcher for

diplomacy is not conducted with friends”.

and scarcely veiled threats of military action against

resurrect a vision splendid for its role in Asia.

Is independent, creative diplomacy no longer

the consequences of failed deterrence, military

Whitlam was not the only Australian author of

North Korea have had anything but negative results.

belligerence and misguided economic sanctions.

successful middle-power diplomacy to positively

Whitlam claimed that his China visit would

something to which Australia aspires?

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science

Science and politics

discussions, the science is distorted or even

research that is generous and secure and not

ignored completely when the findings are

too onerous in reporting. The current Australian

at odds to some perceived popular position.

Research Council and National Health and

While a politician needs to keep a close eye

Medical Research Council schemes (the major

on the concerns of their electorate for the

granting bodies in the country) are none of these

pragmatic reasons of garnering their support

things. This needs to be fixed.

and votes, it is a foolish path to ignore or

Linked, but separate from research funding,

discard the science just because it is unpopular

should be a clear incentive for innovation

or contrary to a preconceived idea.

including funds that build that link between pure

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is not a bolt-on to the end of a research project but

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instead of trying to educate the electorate.

needs to be seen as an economy-wide endeavour

Until Friday, April 12, 10am-5pm weekdays

Some recent articles in the media point out

in which we will all have a share. The world’s

(and during Fringe shows)

that, while political interference in science is

most productive and stable economies have taken

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start in politics with the announcement of

So while there have been some prominent attacks

innovation and education so that we also have

These unsung heroes, who work for our

a Federal election eight months ahead of

on science such as climate change denial and

a strong economy in the future when all those

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the teaching of creationism, that are generally

minerals have been dug up and sold off. The

depictions of their work.

campaigning can wait until some predetermined

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transition from ‘the lucky country’ to a smart

time before the election, the on-going interrogation

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I started my job as Creative Director at the

It is true to say that the Adelaide College

It’s refreshing to know that a huge commitment

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of the Arts is a making place. It has the best

has already been made to arts training in South

fresh of a four-year gig as Director of the

facilities in the country and delivers hands-

Australia, through the building of this flagship

Adelaide Fringe. Having worked at the Fringe,

on, studio-based training. In other words,

institution. As The Adelaide College of the Arts

I had become accustomed to the raw energy

the courses are all about getting your hands

settles into its second decade, the stark newness

of artists creating new work. What fascinates

dirty. The training that happens day in day

is now considerably more ‘homely’ enabling

me at the College is the unbridled energy of

out at the College, makes a huge contribution

the perfect environment for the physical and

new artists embarking on a commitment to

to important role of creativity in our State.

academic training of our future creative minds.

This creative exploration is essential. Not just

So as the first year students now roll up their

It all unfolds behind the doors of one of

for the sanity of the creative minds, but for the

sleeves and begin to realise their ambition, I

ust last month, I welcomed hundreds

the most iconic and mysterious buildings in

survival of human kind. Creativity is the key to our

congratulate them on a decision to commit to

of new students to their first day at the

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existence. The need to explore is deeply embedded

this state’s creative edge.

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Arts, in Light Square, is a purpose built, state

in our genetic material. Our scientific explorations

an experience I will not soon forget. The

of the art facility for specialist arts training. The

are well recognised and accepted, but our creative

untapped potential of their ambition and the

College combines over 20 studios, three theatres

explorations are at least of similar importance

determination to channel their creative minds

and dozens of workshops that trains artists in

as they take our culture into new territory and

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evoked an indescribable excitement – a feeling

every art form, except music. In fact, it is the

enable us to connect more deeply with the world.

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health

Supergood superfoods for optimal health

Providing protection against (or reducing) inflammation in the body Detoxifying organs and reducing free radicals in the body through antioxidant action Regulating metabolism, blood sugar levels and the fat burning process in the body Enhancing longevity (anti-ageing) and improving mood Good gut bacteria is increasingly understood to be of critical importance to health, with research proving links, for example, between poor gut health and some cancers and even obesity. Some foods, such as raw honey, brown rice, chocolate, kiwi fruit

Professor Avni Sali

grains and cocoa, are also classified as superfoods.

and banana are prebiotic providing the necessary

What makes a food super? For the most part

‘food’ for bacteria to develop, and some superfoods

id you know that only about 12

superfoods are also natural foods, that is, they

are probiotic with good bacteria already active in

percent of household food and

are handmade by nature not machines, and

their constitution. Although there are trillions of

beverage expenditure is spent on

typically exist as wholefoods in their natural

bacteria in the gut, the use of antibiotics, stress and

the purchase of fruit and vegetables?

form. Superfoods are readily available (based

poor eating habits means that most people have

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics

on seasonal and regional variations) and do not

less than optimal healthy bacteria levels.

(2009-10), household expenditure on fast food for

tend to be highly packaged foods. (In recent

the same period was 31 percent!

years, commercial food promotion has annexed

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Eat more:

The lack of fresh fruit and vegetables in our

the words ‘super’ and ‘natural’ so it pays to be

Fermented foods such as yoghurt, kefir (a

diet is directly related to many modern diseases –

savvy when assessing the label and the real merit

cultured milk product), fermented soy products

research clearly shows an unmistakable connection

of any food that is being marketed in this way.)

such as miso and natto (made from soybeans),

between, for example, cardiovascular disease,

The essential key to superfoods is that they

cultured vegetables such as sauerkraut, kimchi

cancer and diabetes, and poor intake of quality

are micronutrient dense and calorie light. Many

and other forms of pickled vegetables (preferably

fruit and vegetables. In the fight against Australia’s

superfoods are classified as such because they

not commercially prepared as they are often high

steadily increasing rate of obesity (almost two-

contain nutrients the body needs but cannot

in sugar, salt and artificial colours).

thirds of all adults are considered obese or

manufacture. In addition to having unique or higher

Promoting cardiovascular health is of concern

overweight), eating more fruit and vegetables is

than typical nutrients (compared to most foods),

to many Australians. Cardiovascular disease is

one of the most effective dietary changes we can

many superfoods are also high in antioxidants.

the leading cause of death, responsible for over 30

make. Fruit and vegetables are ‘superfoods’ in their

They also earn their super reputation because they

percent of all mortalities. Many superfoods have

own right, offering healthful, nutrition-packed

create powerful biochemical responses in the body

been proven to help in symptom management,

sustenance that help our bodies function optimally.

and are backed by rigorous scientific testing that

and also have protective effects.

One of the essential components of the

supports their medicinal effectiveness.

People on statin drugs (cholesterol-lowering)

integrative approach to health is the goal of

There is no definitive list of superfoods.

are warned to avoid citrus fruits, especially

not just restoring health but actually promoting

Through ongoing research into the nutrients

grapefruit, as they may super-charge drug

optimal health – a vibrant life full of vitality. This is

and medicinal properties in common foods, we

potency. Research is now exploring how this

more than simply eliminating disease, or returning

are continually gaining new understandings

may be efficiently used to reduce dosage of

the body to ‘the absence of symptoms’ but instead

about the unique ways in which various foods can

some prescription medications by purposefully

focuses on the health potential of each individual

improve our health, typically without side effects.

combining them with specific superfoods.

present and in the long term. A ‘super’ life such

Including more superfoods in our

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as this is greatly supported by ‘super’ foods, and

diets may enhance our health by

in recent years there have been many foods that

(but is not limited to):

in Omega 3 fatty acids), and use olive oil (and

research has highlighted as having potent effects

Promoting good gut bacteria and improving

eliminate vegetables oils from the diet). Cocoa (or

in the human body. Many fruits and vegetables are

digestion

dark chocolate), garlic, pomegranate, avocado

now considered to have ‘super’ health properties

Lowering cholesterol, regulating blood

and green tea are all superfoods that can support

and many other foods, such as oily fish, nuts, some

pressure and supporting cardiovascular health

improved cardiovascular health.

seeking to ‘create’ the best possible health in the Oily fish such as sardines and salmon (rich

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health Inflammation is the process by which the

attempting to lose weight, but also for ongoing

immune system deals with infections or injury

weight maintenance. Type 2 diabetes is a major

due to pathogenic bacteria, viruses and other

worldwide health concern with the number of

pathogens. Pro-inflammatory states in the body

patients expected to rise to 300 million people

can contribute to many diseases and are created

by 2025. Dietary changes (and exercise) have

by foods high in saturated fats and trans fats,

been proven to be more effective at preventing

fructose and glucose, which includes most

and treating diabetes than drug therapies, so

fast foods. In contrast many superfoods have

superfoods can play a particularly effective role

a soothing and restorative effect on the body

in the management of this disease.

as they have anti-inflammatory and immuneenhancing properties.

Eat more:

Eat more:

blood sugar. Chia seeds also aid in regulating

Oats are low GI and can help regulate

“

What makes a food super? For the most part superfoods are also natural foods, that is, they are handmade by nature not machines, and typically exist as wholefoods in their natural form."

Cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli,

metabolism and have a host of beneficial

red cabbage and kale for their cancer fighting

nutrients. Green tea, a ‘super’ superfood has

enzymes and anti-inflammatory effect.

been shown in research to help control blood

Superfoods high in polyphenols such as red

sugar spikes and improve fat-burning processes

grape juice, red wine (in moderation) and cocoa/

in the body. Coconut oil is a unique fat that has

us with an understanding of why certain foods have

dark chocolate are highly beneficial. Cherries

many benefits including the ability to stimulate

such advantageous effects in the body. This means

are also beneficial as they contain anthocyanin,

metabolism. It is also antiviral and anti-bacterial.

that the list of superfoods will continue to grow and

a powerful anti-inflammatory that can provide

Cinnamon has an important role in helping to

we will be further empowered to choose foods for

relief for arthritis. Fish and fish oils have a very

normalise glucose (blood ‘sugar’).

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fashion

FASHION

RENDEZVOUS

Australian fashion: It begins with retail

03

/13

Jane Hayes

comments: “There is a lack of understanding

“

of a service culture in the fashion industry.”

I want to be a famous fashion

This is a scary thought as the fashion

designer,” I hear many young people

industry in Australia is already in a rather

say as they graduate with fashion and

precarious position. Training up our fashion

textile qualifications. However there

design hopefuls in retail skills would mean

are only a certain number of jobs available

a stronger and more pleasant bricks and

and so many students graduating each year.

mortar experience and would help support

Australian tertiary institutions produce

the businesses that struggle to find that elusive

talented, well trained individuals that leave

retail talent. My discussions with retailers on

Gilles Street Market

to work in the local and international arenas

the issue of retail training can be summed up

Sunday, March 3 and Sunday, March 17

with great success, but what about those

with the words of Lisa Barron, a long-standing

10am to 4pm

who can’t get a job as a designer when they

and highly regarded local designer and

91 Gilles Street, Adelaide

graduate? Where do they go? The introduction

retailer: “I need a skilled, trained individual

gillesstreetmarket.com.au

of fashion retail modules into tertiary courses

who has a knowledge of fabric, cut, design, fit

might assist in solving this dilemma.

and style; they need to be able to understand

For fab vintage and pre-loved fashion

Training our young fashion hopefuls in the

what a woman wants and be perceptive. Then

including the latest from local emerging

basics of fashion retail would add to their

in turn I will be seeking their design skills in

designers, check out the Gilles Street Market.

skill sets and help to strengthen an industry

helping to create exactly the collection the

DJs spin the tunes alongside delicious

currently threatened by consumers choosing

customers want. Our motto at Lisa Barron is –

food vendors and over 90 stalls of

to shop online, and in many cases from

as a team we strive to create and sell the best

fashion and accessories.

overseas businesses. “In Europe the retail

garments we can. Everyone in the company’s

profession is respected but Australia has not

input is valued.”

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caught up to this,” says local designer and

The reality is that the industry needs more

retailer Lisa Barron. If we were to provide

people like Barron who invest in their staff and

these aspiring fashionistas with a greater

listen to every voice as an equal, integral part

knowledge of the retail scene and training,

of the business operation. People sometimes

maybe they would feel happier about a career

forget the importance of retail in the greater

in retail. The perception of retail as a stopgap

scheme of things through the product/brand life

job rather than a possible career option needs

cycle. In many cases it can mean the difference

to change.

between a successful and unsuccessful business.

As a fashion consultant I have observed the

In Australia we need to get over our prejudices

retail environment from many different angles.

and realise that there is great skill involved in

I understand the challenges facing emerging

being a successful retail assistant. Many industry

designers as they embark on careers and I see

professionals share my sentiments and hope that

customers often nervous and uncertain of an

in future our fashion hopefuls can embrace retail

in-person retail encounter. We have all had the

so that our bricks and mortar experience can

‘in your face’ hovering and the ‘not interested

not only survive but flourish. What is the good

at all’ retail experience, and as a result have

of having so many stunning collections when

resorted to online in order to avoid personal

there are so few appropriately trained staff to

interaction. As Jo Kellock of the Textile

sell them? We need to change the situation now

and Fashion Industries of Australia (TFIA)

so that the future of physical retail is assured.

Leah Brown, of Albert Park boutique Fox Life Style, adds: “There really is no better place to gain knowledge and experience in fashion than on the retail floor. It is by engaging in conversation with the customer, in a warm friendly atmosphere, that we understand their wants and needs.”

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win / montefiore

MONTEFIORE

As the September Federal election looms, a $232 million Federal electorate of Adelaide park lands handout is set to railroad $211 million from state taxpayers.

Sir Montefiore Scuttlebutt

Barbara Palace Nova Eastend From Thursday, March 7 A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital. Directed by Christian Petzold.

Stars Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld and Rainer Bock.

Performance Palace Nova Eastend & Trak From Thursday, March 14 Set in contemporary New York, Performance tells the story of four musicians, bound together by their passion for music and a long, faithful collaboration.

Directed by Yaron Zilberman. Stars Philip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener.

TOSA – Some Enchanted Era Capri Theatre, 141 Goodwood Road, Goodwood Sunday, March 17, 2pm

and Town Hall ratepayers ought to know in a truly transparent democracy. The brochure says almost nothing about a huge $15 million pedestrian bridge to be built across Park Terrace to get apartment dwellers to the grass, as well as the digging of a very large hole in the park lands to allow for undergrounding of the Outer Harbor railway line, without which the vision

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boost earnings by capitalising on the equity of

the rail line and make feasible the concept would

the old Adelaide pounds they kept folded in

cost $443 million of Australian taxpayers’ funds,

Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali’s bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident. Directed by Jacques Audiard. Stars Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts and Armand Verdure.

their kidskin purses. But today’s consultants

pending a contribution of $211 million of that (almost

dream of following the trail of New Adelaide

50 percent) from state taxpayers (you and me). There’s

Money. It’s much more lucrative.

no mention of the conflict of interest that applies

s readers know, Monty received

tennis courts as presented in the brochure. And the

his knighthood for services to Old

money? No mention at all. So here it is. The bridge

Adelaide Money, advising eastern

($15 million) will be paid for by the state government

suburbs dowagers on schemes to

(that’s you and me). The tunnel, to underground

Palace Nova Eastend From Thursday, March 28

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to detail the crucial bits that Adelaide taxpayers

cannot be realised as a series of grassed fields and

Rust and Bone

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PR matters giving off a political aroma, it neglects

Rust and Bone

Monty’s observation was triggered after following a trail in the western park lands beside

when a developer is also the state authority in charge of the state taxpayers’ piggybank.

the Outer Harbor rail line that curves from the

Critically, the entire park land concept depends on

city towards the western suburbs, clattering past

a commitment of those tunnel funds now – simply

the first stop, Bowden Station. His curiosity was

because election of a Federal administration of a

Barossa Chateau Classics ‘Brahms & Beethoven’

piqued at a large number of trees in the park lands

different political colour on September 14 risks

just across the road, tagged with coloured paint,

cancellation of the playing fields plan and putting at

Barossa Chateau, 1 Hermann Thumm Drive, Lyndoch Saturday, April 6, 12pm

without explanation. Things became clearer when

risk apartment sales across the road. This is especially

he learned that the state government seeks to adopt

so if the current Labor Federal member for Adelaide,

and rebadge this lonely five-hectare triangle of

who has a reasonably safe seven percent margin,

As part of the Barossa Vintage Festival celebrations (Saturday, March 30 to Sunday, April 7) Barossa Chateau presents four stunning events featuring Australia’s leading classical musicians, curated by violinist, Niki Vasilakis. Win a double ticket for the Saturday, April 6 recital of Brahms and Beethoven to be performed in the magnificent ballroom, followed by a high tea in the barrel room of this gloriously restored Chateau.

bush. It aims to force-shift the long-established

survives, but her government doesn’t. The Federal

West Adelaide Blues soccer club and its oval, shut

Liberals are not exactly bed partners with State Labor.

down a long-established equestrian club’s program

One more thing. In Renewal SA’s brochure, while

of dressage events, cut down 75 trees (plus another

the idea of a community garden is briefly mentioned,

16 formerly tagged as large and significant) and

there’s a dearth of crucial detail that illustrates how

plant 120 sapling replacements in a remodelling of

exclusive some of this public land will become to

grassy areas for the principal use of thousands of

property owners across the road. For example, 8000

people who don’t collectively exist just yet. These are

sq m of urban orchard, 2000 sq m of community

the singles and couples who might one day take out

garden based around share plots, and 1000 sq m of

a mortgage on a cupboard-size pocket of new, high

community market garden. While these fenced, green

density government real estate a short walk away.

rows of produce would be publicly accessible during

The Bowden Urban Village is a $1 billion

the day – for a fee – it’s unlikely that families west in

government vision to house 3500 people in 2400

Hindmarsh or Brompton, or north in Ovingham,

Elder Hall, North Terrace Saturday, April 6, 6.30pm

units and apartments, some as high as 12 storeys,

Fitzroy or Prospect, would be very interested. Even

across 16.3 hectares of land at the former Clipsal

though their hard-won taxes are to be poured into

Hear the Adelaide Youth Orchestras as they celebrate the music of the Americas by Gillis, Copland and Ginastera. Trombonist Amanda Tillett will perform David’s Concertino for Trombone.

factory site, facing Park Terrace. It sits opposite

the concept, their homes already have gardens.

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Adelaide’s west park lands. North Adelaide railway

In a media show late last year, city Lord Mayor

station faces it. Years in the design stage, so far only

Stephen Yarwood told ABC TV that the concept

16 tiny apartments have been built and sold on the

would be “good for the city of Adelaide”. But there

edge of a wasteland of red dirt. But government

was no mention in the brochure of the cost to city

planners are acutely aware that the big sales

ratepayers – $200,000 in new funding every year

challenge is that new homebuyers want lawns and

for fields and gardens maintenance because, as

gardens and space to play, but this high-density

documentation reveals, the state government’s

Art Gallery of South Australia, North Terrace Continues until Sunday, May 19

concept will have very little. So pronounced was this

development arm Renewal SA simply refuses to

feedback that in November 2011 state cabinet found

pay. It also refuses to pay for site remediation for

$4.9 million to get park land adaptation concept

known contamination under the land tagged for the

Win two exhibition tickets for Turner from the Tate and a beautiful exhibition catalogue.

plans drawn up. Local public park lands opposite

garden. Meanwhile, as everyone nervously awaits a

are to thus set to become gardens and playing fields,

spring election, there’s quiet but firm lobbying to have

tagged to complement private property interests.

$232 million committed and buried in Federal budget

The speed with which the PR machine has now

forward estimates now so that, by 2016, SA’s state

Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas Tuesday, March 19 to Sunday, April 7

begun running highlights how crucial to apartment

planners can point out to Canberra administrators

sales will be the viability of this concept. Last month

that the funds are locked in on the grounds of

Win a double pass to the film of your choice amongst the 43 films of the Alliance Française French Film Festival.

a colourful multi-fold Renewal SA (the rebadged

‘previous budget commitments and work already

Land Management Corporation) brochure emerged

progressed’. The state monies would inexorably

to spearhead the campaign. However, like so many

follow. It’s an old tactic, but a good one.

Some Enchanted Era is a retrospective on love and romance in 1950s Adelaide featuring anecdotes based on real life experiences and the songs that wooed a generation in the days when love could be found across a crowded room... not on a chat site! An uplifting musical experience featuring Claire Baker on The Mighty Capri Wurlitzer Organ, vocalist and narrator Jack McGuire and The David Brookes Collective.

Alliance Française French Film Festival

Turner from the Tate: The Making of a Master

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This month The Adelaide Review’s guide to March’s highlight performing arts events

Graham Strahle

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tourist potential while retaining its feel as a community-focused event can be difficult.

Tuesday, March 19 to Sunday, April 7 Palace Nova affrenchfilmfestival.org

With acclaimed director Benoit Jacquot (Farewell, My Queen) as a special guest, the 2013 Alliance French Film Festival will screen a tasty selection of French films. Last year more than 126,000 people attended the festival around Australia and 2013 promises a lot more from one of the globe’s greatest producers of quality film.

Glory Dazed

ast January’s fire near Jamestown in the

“But basically you aim to create something that

state’s Mid North came perilously close

will please most people while allowing them

Continues until Thursday, March 17

to snuffing out this year’s Bundaleer

to try something new, so they go away with

Holden Street Theatres

Festival. More than 2300 hectares of scrub and

experiences they’ve not encountered before.”

holdenstreettheatres.com

forest were burned out before it was brought

This year a world music theme runs through

under control by fire fighters.

the event’s three days, says Frost. “It’s a bit of a

The blaze nearly destroyed the picnic

mini WOMAD. There’s Seneoz, a West African

grounds and walks in Bundaleer Forest

percussion band who will site themselves on

where the festival takes place, says the event’s

top of the hill overlooking Bundaleer and

Artistic Director, Jenni Frost. “It got to about

will perform a traditional Senegalese call to

a kilometre away. You will see some of the

neighbouring villages to begin festivities.

effects of it as you drive up,” she says. “Most

It’s the first time we’re doing this. Then

of the fire was centred in the gullies and ridges

there is Russian balalaika playing from

behind, but you can clearly see how close it

Dieter Hauptmann, who is one of Australia’s

came to the grounds. We were lucky.”

foremost balalaika exponents, Ukulele Circus,

Frost says the same community effort that

Australian flamenco and classical guitarist

went into fighting the fire is going into staging

Aloysius Leeson, Akoustic Odyssey, and story-

the seventh Bundaleer Festival, which is South

telling with didjeridu in the forest walks.”

Australia’s largest regional arts event.

Farewell, My Queen

Fire spared the Bundaleer Festival

Alliance French Film Festival

Winner of the 2012 Holden Street Theatre Edinburgh Fringe Award, Glory Dazed is a dark comedy, which explores the impact of war on returning soldiers. Developed with ex-servicemen in prison, Glory Dazed won the 2011 BBC Alfred Bradley Award.

Glory Dazed

Bundaleer Festival

EldEr ConsErVaTorium of musiC PrEsEnTs

Festivities start in Jamestown on the

“Everybody is behind it,” says Frost, who is

Friday with evening meals and music from

also director at Port Pirie Regional Art Gallery.

local performers. Then action swings to

“The whole community wants to make it work.”

the forest. Pre-concert entertainment will

2013 SERIES Of INTIMATE CONCERTS

She was handed the job of directing the

start on the Friday at around 3pm with the

festival when clarinettist David Shephard,

award-winning Barbershop quartet Fish

a much admired musical figure who helped

Bowl Boys, Ukulele Circus, Seneoz and

CONCERT 1 | ELDER hALL

guide the event over its 14 years, recently

Akoustic Odyssey. Then comes the twilight

moved to Ulladulla, NSW. “I prefer to call

concert with guest artists Greta Bradman,

wEdnEsday 13 marCh 7.00Pm

myself artistic programming co-ordinator or

soprano, and Rosario La Spina, tenor, with

something like that, because David put much

Tim Sexton leading the Adelaide Art Orchestra

of the festival’s program in place, so the credit

and State Opera Chorus. Sydney jazz singer

really goes to him.”

Emma Pask and the Bruce Hancock Septet

She says that devising a program that

continue proceedings until late. The Sunday

simultaneously develops the festival’s

offers staged entertainment for families, more food and wine, and forest walks with myriad of

“

Most of the fire was centred in the gullies and ridges behind, but you can clearly see how close it came to the grounds.

We were lucky."

musicians, poets and actors dotting the paths.

“It will be magical,” says Frost. “We just want people to come. The whole experience is unique and special. I don’t think there is anything like it anywhere.”

AT ELDER hALL

EnsEmblE liaison and friends

EnsEmblE liaison David Griffiths clarinet Svetlana Bogosavljevic cello Timothy Young piano and friends Natsuko Yoshimoto violin Wilma Smith violin Imants Larsens viola sublimE brahms Piano Quartet No.1 in G Minor Op.25 Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B Minor Op.115

Bundaleer Festival Friday, March 22 to Sunday, March 24 bundaleerfestival.com.au

The first ELDER PErsPECTiVEs concert is a tour-de-force!

Ensemble Liaison from Melbourne is joined by concertmasters Natsuko Yoshimoto and Wilma Smith (Adelaide and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras) and violist, Imants Larsens, in this stunning all-brahms concert.

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She’ll take you there

did by meeting him in a Chicago restaurant.

“I tell you when we left that restaurant, I felt like I knew Jeff Tweedy and it seemed like I had known him for years. I knew in my heart that we could make good music together because we had so much in common. I let him into my life. He let me into his life.

He let me know that from a teenager he worked in a record shop. He had access to all of The Staples

Seventy-three-year-old Mavis Staples returns to Australia with a new album on its way, her second in collaboration with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, as the soul and gospel legend continues to not only remain relevant but record some of her best solo material.

Singers’ music from the 50s and 60s. He knew us.

He was crazy about Pops. When he started talking about family I just melted in my seat. I said, ‘Okay, this is good’. Pops would always tell us that family was the strongest unit in the world. Always stick with your family. Stick with your brothers and sisters. No Mavis Staples

one can break you. Nobody can break through that.”

When this interview was conducted, the as-yet-untitled album wasn’t completed but

David Knight

After Stax went bankrupt in 1975, the band signed

that to me I realised that I had heard his music’.”

Staples said the album would be different to

I

to Curtis Mayfield’s Curtom Records, releasing hits

Mavis is not immune to musical geniuses

You are not Alone but that it would contain

n a career that continues well into its

including Let’s do it Again. Aside from Pops and

wanting to not only work with her but also be

seventh decade Staples’ famous throaty

Tweedy, Mavis has collaborated with some of the

enamoured with the singer. Prince was so shy

“You know the kinda songs I sing. You’re

voice has preached some of soul music’s

best in the business including Prince, Bob Dylan

around her that he had to speak to Mavis through

gonna hear some gospel and you’re gonna hear

the classic Mavis Staples ingredients.

most passionate and illustrious anthems.

and Ry Cooder. She says her latest collaborator

her sister Yvonne while Bob Dylan wanted to marry

some soul. Some of the songs are older than me,

Her family band The Staple Singers (led by her

Jeff Tweedy is right in the mix when compared to

her. In fact, Mavis is so revered that she really

I tell Tweedy, ‘Tweedy you are a young man with

father Roebuck ‘Pops’ Staples with Mavis’ siblings

the aforementioned list of illustrious musicians.

should share the queen of soul title with Aretha

an old soul’. He loves the old songs and I’m glad

Cleotha, Pervis, and Yvonne), were a 50s and

“All of these people ask to work for me and

Franklin. But unlike Aretha, Mavis is still relevant.

he does because it’s my life. These are songs

60s gospel outfit that turned to protest and soul

that’s what makes me feel so good,” Staples

Her last album You are not Alone won a Grammy

that I grew up on. A couple of them I remember

songs in the mid 60s when the band signed to the

explains. “Cause I didn’t know Jeff Tweedy. He

(not always the best indicator) while the album

singing in my grandmother’s church.”

legendary Stax imprint. The Rock and Roll Hall of

asked his manager that he wanted to produce

received an average score of 81 percent on the critic

Fame inductees released their best known material

me. And his manager told my manager. I told him

aggregator site Metacritic (a more appropriate

through Stax including I’ll Take you There, Respect

that I didn’t know this Jeff Tweedy. He said, ‘oh

indicator) with AV Club saying the soul gospel

Bonnie Raitt and Mavis Staples

Yourself and If You’re Ready (Come go with me).

Mavis, he’s with Wilco’ and when he explained

album was “timeless rather than retro”.

Thebarton Theatre

TA N G O

Before deciding to work with Tweedy,

Tuesday, March 26

Mavis had to get to know the fellow Windy

mavisstaples.com

City resident and Wilco bandleader, which she

A fresh perspective

Ensemble Liasion

Christopher Sanders

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lder Hall’s new series of concerts Elder Perspectives features 10 performances this year that are aimed

at a more intimate audience. Usually seating

Buenos Aires in the Vales Tango Festival 19–21 April 2013 McLaren Vale Stunning Tango shows & workshops Tango artists from Argentina & Australia Live music – Social dancing – Free community events Festival bookings now open!

more than 600 people, Elder Hall’s new series will accommodate between 80 and 150 patrons thanks to commissioned wooden screens that allow Elder Hall to have a room within the room.

Oremland says without a set audience or feel

“We had beautiful seven-foot high wooden

the new program creates a different perspective.

screens built for us,” Elder Hall Concert Manager

“Apart from ensuring artistic quality of

Claire Oremland said. “These were funded

the presenting groups/musicians, there is no

anonymously and cost close to $10,000. Their

curating - each group is free in being able to

design is in keeping with the hall itself with finials

present what and how they want to. This opens

and rich warm staining to the hardwoods that

the door to new ventures in music making.”

have been used in the making of them.”

The screens create an intimate recital space, which allows for a new type of programming, which is presented with Elder Perspectives.

Ph: 0419 309 439 sctango@bigpond.com www.southerncrosstango.com.au

The inaugural performance is Sublime Brahms

Elder Perspectives

performed by Ensemble Liaison and Friends

Ensemble Liaison and Friends - Sublime Brahms

on Wednesday, March 13 with Adelaide

Elder Hall

Southern Cross Tango

Baroque, The Firm, Adelaide Chamber Singers

Wednesday, March 13

and more also appearing at Elder Perspectives

music.adelaide.edu.au/elderhall

events during the year.

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A Byron symphony New Adelaide Fringe venture The Depot, situated between Grote Street and Franklin Street, will host the festival’s first closing night concert on Saturday, March 16. It will feature Byron Bay singer songwriter Pete Murray and Sydney group The Whitlams performing in an outdoor setting with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.

Pete Murray

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.

“I fly in in the morning and we’ll have a quick rehearsal and will be all set to go that night,” Murray suggests. “We’ll make it all happen and

Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin

Ultraviolet harmonies William Charles

Robert Dunstan

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to promote the release of Blue Sky Blue – The Byron Sessions, an album

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra

which takes the 10 songs from that album and

The Depot

places them in a more laidback setting.

Saturday, March 16

of abstract painting where you might start out

musical friends as Katie Noonan, Scott Owen (of The

or the uninitiated, coming across the

with a few bold colours, things get added, then

Living End), Natalie Pa’apa’a (Blue King Brown),

work of Tim Hecker can be like taking a

a knife comes out and stuff gets taken away,

Ash Grunwald, Bernard Fanning (Powderfinger),

90-degree turn away from anything they

then things get put back, moved to the other

Busby Marou and Fantine, a Russian-born

have ever known as ‘music’. First there are the

side… I start out with little motifs and expand

Australian multilingual singer songwriter, along

simple, haunting melodies upon which layers of

around them, make flourishes, I weave fabric,

with Powderfinger guitarist Darren Middleton.

white noise and distortion build; then a sense of

and at some point I cut out holes in that fabric,

“They’re all just good mates really,” Murray

both development and collapse, with splinters

and make some crazy Grandma patch, and then

says of the album’s guest artists. “So it’s just a

of disintegrating sound, crackles, hiss and deep

maybe photocopy that, chop it up, then re-glue

case of putting the word out and seeing if they

reverberations pulsing across utterly new and

it with paper mache…

were available to add a bit more flavour to the

“That’s the hope of my process, a slightly

blending and inversion, the stutter and start of

educated kind of thrashing, of turning

ideas becoming noise and new melody, taking

pieces over and into themselves.”

songs I’d already recorded for Blue Sky Blue.

“And in the case of Bernard [Fanning], he came in to do some harmonies on Led just before he went

shape before suddenly metamorphosing into

Random processes may abound, but

something more menacing or more beautiful –

as with the finest of abstract artists –

Murray, whose first three major label albums

or both. Hecker’s technical and emotional control

and Hecker cites Gerhard Richter as an

each topped the Australian charts and also

of this sonic palette is astonishing.

inspiration – there’s a very strong sense of

racked up impressive overseas sales, once

control, of knowing when enough is enough;

produced an EP for Adelaide’s Mary Webb.

On his third visit to Australia but his first appearance in Adelaide, Hecker will perform as part of the Unsound Festival, within the program of the Adelaide Festival itself.

knowing what works, and what does not.

over to the US to record his next album.”

“I was in Adelaide and had gone to my favourite

“There is no set of rules; there are mini-

pub, the Grace Emily, and Mary happened to be

judgments that you are continually making

playing,” he says. “I was impressed because Mary’s

It may seem Hecker is creating work quite

about the direction the work is going, the palette

got such a unique flavour and I said to her that

unlike anyone else – indeed he is – but he does

it is forming. I’m involved in every process of

anytime she wanted to use my studio in Byron, she

emerge from a tradition. Chatting from his studio in

sound creation: traditional mixing, editing,

could. So a while later she came up and we did her

Montreal, Canada, last week, he insists rightly that

composition – it’s all a sculptural process for me.

first EP. It was the first time she’d been in a studio.”

“my work doesn’t come out of a Petri dish,” when

But the starting point is invariably the melody,

Roots duo Busby Marou (Tom Busby and Jeremy

asked about a work such as 2006’s remarkable

which gets me emotionally invested in the

Marou) have also used Murray’s studio in the past.

Harmony in Ultraviolet. “It’s closely affiliated with

work, more so than the abstract, textural sonic

“I’ve known Tom since he was about seven

different artists, with ‘regimes of work’ or ‘musical

qualities. It’s usually a harmonic relationship.”

because I used to go to school in Rockhampton with

sub-genres’ or whatever you want to call them. It’s

his older brother,” Murray reveals. “But when Tom

hopefully a good execution of a hybrid of a bunch

finished his law degree he said, ‘What I’d actually

of things that interest me, the aesthetic palette that

Tim Hecker

like to do is make music’. So we sat down and had

I’ve been working on at that point… (Harmony in

Adelaide Festival (Unsound)

a chat and it’s been exciting to see how well they’ve

Ultraviolet) was the culmination of seven years’

Tim Hecker performs with Daniel Lopatin

done. And they’ve got such great harmonies.”

work to get to that tonal development.”

on Thursday, March 14 and a solo show on

Abstract painting, Hecker finds, provides the best

Many of the engagements on Murray’s

Friday, March 15

extensive national tour will have the singer

metaphor for how he works, combining techniques

Queen’s Theatre

songwriter presenting his songs in intimate

of building layer upon layer, from original melody,

sunblind.net

mode. He’s not fazed, however, by the fact that

with that of deconstructing, towards a kind of

Pete Murray, The Whitlams and

that follows his 2011 release Blue Sky Blue and

The new offering also sees Murray joined by such

foreboding landscapes in sound. There is bending,

it should be a great gig.”

urray is on an extensive national tour

oblivion. “It’s like paint scraping, or like a kind

F

I know Tim Freedman from The Whitlams, so

in Adelaide he’ll be performing them with the

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FEATURE

cinema Side Effects (MA) Nigel Randall It is possible the biggest twist to do with Steven Soderberg’s Side Effects is that its prolific director has announced it to be his last feature film. Whilst there are certainly one or two other big twists in this taut little thriller, there’s a good many more I’d consider ‘bends’ or ‘curves’.

By that, I mean narrative trickery and

Performance (M)

misdirection designed to catch characters

D.M. Bradley

Effects is more than anything a skilfully

unaware, but not so the astute viewer. Side executed demonstration of the purposeful

Co-writer and director Yaron Zilberman’s first

withholding and releasing of information.

narrative film (after a background in documentaries

The best Neo-noirs generally adhere to a

and shorts) has a terrific cast, a wintrily melancholic

similarly well thought out strategy that

mood and some lovely musical scoring by David

positions their audience somewhere

Lynch’s favourite muso, Angelo Badalamenti.

precisely between innocent bystanding

Yet there’s something of a propensity here for

and complicity. It makes for talking about

melodrama of a somewhat turgid sort, and

the story a tricky proposition without

therefore, it must be said, a few bum notes.

issuing spoilers. We know from the start

Nevertheless, this does feature Christopher

someone dies in a fairly well to do New

Walken’s best, subtlest, least loopy performance

York apartment. We come to know it

(there’s that word again) in many years.

must have a lot to do with anti-depressant

A world-renowned, New York-based (but

drugs. And we know from the proceeding

of course) string quartet, rather fittingly called

narrative exactly what we’re meant to know

the Fugue, is entering its 25th year as a going

at any one time.

concern, but fate naturally intervenes: widower

The opening tracking shot is not the only

Peter Mitchell (Walken) has sought medical

Hitchcockian touch. It’s not giving too much

attention for recent issues with his playing and

away to say that a major character cops

been diagnosed as suffering from the early

it less than half way through à la Psycho.

stages of Parkinson’s Disease. This sad news is

Immediately following those precursory

broken to the group just as longtime marrieds

shots of the bloodied footsteps on shiny

Robert (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Juliette

white tiles that allude to the shocking kill off,

Gelbart (Catherine Keener) start arguing and

we jump back three months to seemingly

overly proud Daniel Lerner (Mark Ivanir) shows

fragile Emily (commanding Rooney Mara)

his artistically conservative and supposedly

anxiously awaiting the prison release of

control-freaky colours. When the Gelbarts’

her insider trading hunky hubby Martin

semi-alienated, would-be violin prodigy daughter

(Channing Tatum). There are signs she’s

Alexandra (Imogen Poots) gets considerably

not coping with his re-integration back

closer to Daniel, her fairly strict teacher, the stage is set for violent clashes (well, as violent as a bunch of coddled, getting-on musicians can be), some of which prove biting and sweetly affecting - and some of which come across as slightly forced and even a touch ridiculous.

Originally titled A Late Quartet (which was changed to avoid confusion with another musicdriven pic of late, Quartet, although there’s at least one infamous, vaguely musical cult movie out there called Performance too), this will be a bit of a mustsee for groupies of the classical form, although even they might have problems with Zilberman’s notion (a popular one indeed) that high human drama is all about people yelling at each other. And there’s that cast too (‘ensemble’ might be a better word here, of course), with Ivanir and Hoffman’s glowering agro offset by a charming turn from Poots, nice

Barbara (M) Christopher Sanders

underplaying from Keener (whose traditionally sarcastic style has vanished in recent years) and

The seemingly cold, distant and very serious

simply beautiful work from Walken, who dispenses

Berlin doctor Barbara Wolff (Nina Hoss) is exiled

with almost all of his trademark tics, eye-rollings

to an East German village as punishment for

and weirdo vocal deliveries and presents us

applying for an exit visa to escape the communist

with a vivid portrait of a man whose whole life

GDR (East Germany). With escape on her mind,

has been about music, and who, now he can no

Wolff avoids relationships with fellow hospital

longer tackle his beloved Beethoven, feels he

staff as Stasi agents watch and interrogate.

might as well be dead already.

With 1980s East Germany looking cold, grey

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performing arts An accident changes everything. One of the orcas pulls a Siegfried & Roy white tiger move and sends Stephanie to the emergency room. She wakes up minus her legs. While she recovers, Ali switches jobs to security. Still a bad father, he has quickie sex with random girls while thinking about returning to kickboxing, well, illegal backyard fights in the ghetto. A few months down the road Stephanie calls Ali out of the blue, distracting him from his negligible parenting duties. What begins as an unlikely friendship turns into something more and even though the unlikely friendship theme could almost be a cinematic genre of its own, their connection and partnership is nonetheless moving and surprising.

The two leads, Cotillard and Schoenaerts, are spectacular. Their relationship is one of the most interesting I’ve seen on screen in many

Rust and Bone (M) into their life when she deliberately slams

Christopher Sanders

her car into a wall. She’s entrusted into

years. Academy Award winner, and regular club bouncer to perfection) he rescues Stephanie

Christopher Nolan star, Cotillard has garnered

(Marion Cotillard) from a fight and drives her

all the plaudits for her role as the former orca

home in a seemingly courteous display. But Ali

trainer who has to cope with life minus her legs

the care of psychiatrist Jonathan Banks

When deadbeat dad (Ali) and his son (Sam)

isn’t charming. On the drive he observes that his

but equally as impressive is Schoenaers as Ali,

(Jude Law) who instantly prescribes new

hitchhike to live with Ali’s sister in Antibes

damsel in distress dresses like a whore. Later we

a perceived knucklehead whose stubborn ways

wonder drug Ablixa. Enter her former

(France), you’re thinking this father and son

discover Stephanie is a killer whale trainer for a

helps Stephanie more than she could imagine.

doctor Victoria Siebert (Catherine Zeta-

relationship has no hope and you’ve got two

cheesy Sea World type show after the two end up

Each character is far from perfect. When not

Jones) and things start getting very murky

hours to watch a relationship disintegrate with

at her place. Nothing happens between the two.

together, both can be pretty damn awful but

in the best noir-ish way.

tragic consequences. Joy. But Jacques Audiard’s

They aren’t really interested in each other. Despite

there is something surprisingly sweet about

Soderberg knows this terrain well and

(A Prophet, The Beat that my Heart Skipped) latest

both being tough, selfish, arrogant and prone to

this couple that connect at illegal street fights.

yet again shows his aplomb in genre

takes a different, but no less emotional, journey.

getting themselves into dangerous situations,

With the right balance of sentimentality and

filmmaking. Side Effects may represent

After Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts) takes a job as a

they don’t match, even though he is a shallow

rawness, Rust and Bone is a feel good film for

a more conventional effort than some of

nightclub bouncer (and Schoenaerts personifies a

Neanderthal while she is looking for trouble.

people who despise feel good movies.

the director’s more experimental projects (Solaris, The Good German, Schizopolis) and plays out on a smaller canvas than the hits (Erin Brockovich, Traffic, Oceans), but is no less intelligent or entertaining. Some might find the stretches of plausibility within Scott Z Burns’ (Contagion, The Informant!) script a detraction, but the talents of Soderberg and his well-picked cast offset those minor hindrances to produce one smartly crafted and engrossing pic.

and drab like northern England through Ken Loach’s lens, Wolff’s mood is perfectly suited to her surroundings. But her demeanor changes as she begins to care for her patients (including a 16-year-old constant juvenile camp runaway, Stella) and fellow doctor Andre, who could be deeply entrenched within the Stasi.

While a film like this could easily provide cheap thriller thrills, it avoids them at all costs, as we witness the effects of the secret police (Stasi) and communism on the real folk. With the omnipresent Stasi lurking you can’t trust anyone in 1980s East Germany. This lack of freedom, as witnessed in Barbara, is truly horrific. Written and directed by Christian Petzold (Yella, The State that I am in) his regular lead actress Nina Hoss is brilliant as the stiff and aloof Barbara. We know as much about her as her acquaintances do, as she is a cold and impossible puzzle. Her labrador of a potential love interest, Andre (Ronald Zehrfeld) is just as mysterious. Is he a Stasi wolf behind his labrador, nice guy facade?

A realist communist drama that provides thrills by avoiding thriller clichés; Barbara is a chilling triumph for Petzold and Hoss in the title role.

Unforgettable. The best kind of cinematic ride:

surprising, spectacular...

One of the most romantic movies of the year.

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The experience of immersive listening Graham Strahle

‘Beethoven Experience’ or ‘Total Immersion’,” he

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says. “It takes the listener on a journey.”

ight years ago, the BBC aired a

Lord, who was a producer at BBC Radio 3

‘Beethoven Experience’ program

before coming to the ASO in 2010, says this new

on Radio 3 that ran non-stop for six

programming model offers a “way of building

days, playing all of Beethoven’s more

and diversifying audience, and of making

than 650 works. It sparked tremendous listener

composers and orchestras more accessible”.

interest. As has the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s

During his days at the Beeb, he says talk often

‘Total Immersion’ concert series at London’s

centred on the need to create ‘entry points’

Barbican that takes one contemporary composer

for new listeners through novel approaches to

at a time and explores them in depth.

programming and thinking up ways of increasing

Natsuko Yoshimoto

This kind of programming seems to excite

audience interaction. Designed with the same

audiences through the more sustained, thematic

intent, he says these ASO’s ‘Composer in Focus’

listening experience it offers, and it is an idea the

concerts “will be full length and innovative in

one of the finest violinists in the country will

play Palléas and Mélisande. Prokofiev’s Violin

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra is trying out for the

format”, but always with an emphasis on audience

open many people’s ears”.

Concerto No. 1 with Sophie Rowell as soloist

first time in its ‘Composer in Focus’ concert series

accessibility. “They won’t scare the horses,” he says.

A focus on Debussy follows on August 14, in

sees a foray into neighbouring Russian music.

this year at Elder Hall. Three concerts will survey

The first, on Wednesday, March 27, consists

which Ian Munro plays a selection of this composer’s

Says Lord: “Sibelius is Arvo’s métier. Being

the music of Vivaldi, Debussy and Sibelius; and in

of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons interspersed with

piano preludes and Geoffrey Collins performs Syrinx

his final concert with the orchestra as chief

each, composer-compere Richard Chew will talk

movements from Estaciones Porteñas, a set

for solo flute. Then come two nature-inspired works,

conductor, it should be very special.”

to the performers on the platform between works.

of tangos by Piazzolla based around the cycle

Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll, in its original chamber

The ‘Composer in Focus’ series comes out of

of seasons in Buenos Aires. For this concert,

music scoring, and Debussy’s La mer for full

numerous discussions the ASO management and

ASO concertmaster Natsuko Yoshimoto directs

orchestra. “Debussy and Wagner are often linked;

Composer in Focus - Vivaldi

players have had over ways of growing audiences,

the ASO strings. “It was very much her idea,”

they inhabit comparable worlds,” says Lord.

Adelaide Town Hall

says Simon Lord, the ASO’s director of artistic

says Lord. “She’ll speak to Richard about why

The third concert, on November 13, explores

planning. “It grew out of wanting to come up

Vivaldi is so popular and holds such as iconic

the music of Sibelius by way of his Fifth

with a new format, like Composer of the Week,

place in the repertoire. Her perspectives as

Symphony and incidental music to Maeterlinck’s

The mindblender Ever since his first visit to Australia back in 1999, Ross Noble has become something of an honorary citizen.

Wednesday, March 27 aso.com.au

adventures of his life – and ended up with the key to the city of Port Pirie. He’s ready to do it all over again, too, he says, this time across his native UK. “It took us five months to make that, we never intended it to be a hit TV show or anything, it was just going to be a DVD extra from that tour.

I’m a big motorbike enthusiast so I decided to do the tour that way, without any airplanes at all. We

picked on me’. When you come to one of my

actually ended up zigzagging all over the country

shows, there isn’t any kind of malice or aggression

because it was impossible to book venues in order

at all. It annoys me when I hear people say they

as we went – I ended up doing 26,000 kilometres

ot only has the English comedian toured

don’t want to be up front because I’m going to pick

all together. It’s amazing some of the people we

our nation 13 times, he reveals that his

on them. I don’t agree with that kind of comedy

bumped into on the way, and the situations. When

spouse is Australian too, as is his young

anyway. I really don’t like it when comedians try to

we stopped in Port Pirie, the mayor gave me the

daughter. Currently celebrating a 21-year-long

get a laugh at the audience’s expense. At the same

keys to the town. When I showed up to receive my

career in comedy, Noble is about to return to

time, I don’t see anything wrong with audience

ribbon it was like this old shed, so now I’ve got the

the place he calls literally his “second home”.

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Ross Noble

interaction – which is a whole other thing, if you

unofficial key to the shed of Port Pirie! Another

“I’ve called my new show Mindblender

ask me. At my show, I can ask someone a question

highlight was Kalgoorlie where someone lost

kids accidentally kill him by throwing a football

because it’s basically whatever has been

in the audience and then just spin off on that. It’s

control of their car and drove through the front

at his head which makes him fall backwards into

on my mind and different aspects of what’s

different. No one feels stupid or bad in the end.”

of a brothel and we got to interview the owner of

a dishwasher and a knife goes through his head.

going on in my head being blended up,” he

What’s more, audiences have continued to return

the brothel about it. You just get to see a lot more

Then this black magic weird clown cult brings

of the place when you’re on a bike, you can stop

him back to life and he seeks revenge on the kids

wherever you want, so we’re going to do another

who are now teenagers six years later. He kills

one around the UK starting next year.”

them all using his mad clown skills. For example,

says. “It doesn’t have a particular theme. It’s

year after year – 21 years straight now, in fact.

sort of split up into random ideas and spread

“When I first started, I just wanted to do a few

out randomly on a canvas, metaphorically

gigs, it was fun for me,” Noble recalls. “But then

speaking. It’s just not really about anything, to

people started paying me for it. I’ve never treated it

In the meantime, Noble is basking in the glory

he blows up someone’s head in the fashion that

be totally honest, it’s just me talking bollocks.”

like a job, I’ve never been the sort of person to go,

of his new horror flick, Stitches. Directed by Conor

you blow up a balloon and so on. Stuff like that.”

Don’t be afraid to sit up the front either, Noble

‘Oh god, what if I can’t make a living out of this’.

McMahon and also starring Tommy Knight and

says – he promises not to pick on you.... Well,

The ‘making a living’ part has just been an extra

Gemma-Leah Devereux, Noble says the movie is

not too much, anyway. While he admits he

bonus to doing what I love. It’s worth so much more

about a birthday clown returning from the dead

encourages audience interaction, he frowns upon

than just money anyway – the amount of people

to exact revenge on the children who killed him.

Ross Noble

comedians making people feel uncomfortable.

that I’ve met along the way, that’s been priceless.”

Marking a film debut for Noble, he enthuses that

Adelaide Entertainment Centre

“It’s a real shame that people have come to

When in 2007 Noble filmed his 96-day tour

it’s already earned itself an award for Best Death

Saturday, March 16

avoid front seats at comedy shows. They’ve said

of Australia for a Channel Ten television series,

Scene at a British horror movie festival.

rossnoble.co.uk

to me before, ‘Well, you know, comedians have

he claims he experienced one of the greatest

“This clown turns up at a kids’ party and the

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visual arts illuminations Andrew Baird’s exhibition: Illuminations at RiAus was officially opened by Prof Steve Wesselingh, Executive Director of SAHMRI and will continue until April 12.

Top to bottom: Colin Moglia and Doris Henderson; Janet Hart and Sarah Hart; Kay Gerard, Julie Rosser and Melissa Demetriou; John Hopwood, Steve Wesselingh, Andrew Baird, Paul Willis and David Day; Chris Jenner, Prof David Day, Diane Ranck and Nicholas Begakis

Hailey Lane, As the world fell asleep (detail), giclee print on photo rag

Helpmann Grad winners announced

S

outh Australian artistic talent is in

for Meadows, a large-scale vinyl cut on

safe hands judging by the winners

Hahnamuhle paper.

announced at Helpmann’s annual

Academy Graduate Exhibition.

Awards exceeding the value of $22,000 were

Jenna Pippet from the Adelaide Central

Tully won the SALA Festival Award.

The $500 Peoples’ Choice Award will be announced at the close of the exhibition.

School of Art won the $3000 City of Adelaide Award for her video projection work Together.

presented at the opening of the Helpmann

The $2000 Adelaide City Council acquisitive

Academy Graduate Exhibition on Thursday,

award went to photographer Hailey Lane from

February 14 with six graduates sharing the

the University of South Australia’s School of

The Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition

seven major prizes. The Art Gallery of South

Art, Architecture and Design while fellow

Continues until Sunday, March 10

Australia’s Lisa Slade opened the 18th graduate

UniSA graduate Olivia Kathigitis won the

Drill Hall, Torrens Parade Ground

exhibition, which showcases the work of 35

$500 Peter Walker Fine Art Encouragement

helpmannacademy.com.au

graduates from three art institutions (Adelaide

Award. Adelaide College of the Arts’ Westley

College of the Arts, Adelaide Central School of Art and the School of Art, Architecture and Design), at Drill Hall.

A new award, and the most valuable exhibition award to date, the $7500 San Remo Best New Talent Visual Arts Award went to Adelaide Central School of Art’s Mary Ann

T’Arts Collective Gays Arcade (off Adelaide Arcade)

Exciting artist run contemporary gallery / shop in the heart of Adelaide.

Handbag by

Vanessa Murphy, Missy

Santin for her painting I’m Not Perfect, a

9 – 23 March 2013 www.hillsmithgallery.com.au

mixed media piece created using found book pages and old drawings.

The Hill Smith Gallery/Helpmann Academy Friends Award was presented to Tom Borgas from the Adelaide College of the Arts. The $5000 award will allow Borgas to travel to any destination in the world and provides cash towards living expenses. Borgas also won the $250 Backer’s Prize.

The $3500 Raffen Award was presented to Adelaide College of the Arts’ Loique Allain

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CRAZY FOR CATS An exhibition of mixed media with a feline theme by 30 artists

runs until 22 March 2013

On Wednesday, March 17 Adelaide arts collective T’Arts will celebrate their 10th birthday, looking back on all the successes of the past decade and contemplating what the future will hold.

Marion Dawson, a felted wall hanging

as opposed to big chain stores, for example,” Hill Nina Bertok

A

and try to push and sell one another’s work.”

explains. “On top of that, the fact that the items are

It’s the motto that goes back to the founding

made locally appeals to local people. People love

members of T’Arts, such as Lynn Elzinga-Henry, who says that the concept behind the collective was

they are able to ask questions about the item, they

always based on interaction between members.

and local organisation, members

seem to enjoy speaking to the artist about the work,

“Artists using their collective talents and social

David Innocente and Kathryn Hill

to get information about how it works – that’s been

networks to showcase their work and to do so in

reflect on the tough times as well

a big selling point for us. It’s like handwriting in

a setting in the heart of Adelaide was always an

some ways. Handwritten letters are becoming such

impossible dream for each individual member

“We have survived through some hard times,

a rare thing, even people of the older generation

but a sustainable reality for T’Arts. The concept

things like the Global Financial Crisis,” Innocente

would rarely write a letter these days. The actual art

was and is brilliant. There have been quite a few

Free Artist Talks

says, “but we’re still here 10 years on. I think it’s

of handwriting is in danger of becoming instinct.

collectives that have come and gone in Adelaide

Saturday 2 March Carolanne Wasley: Jewellery and Painting 2pm – 3pm Jane Alyce Humphreys: Ceramics 3pm – 4pm

a real achievement for a community organisation

There is something so much more personal about

primarily because they lacked the key elements

to run for a decade in general. We’ve seen the

a message that has been handwritten.”

that T’Arts has: the numbers, the breadth of talent,

Luna, Cheetah

buying directly from the artist, they like it when

n amazing feat for a relatively small

as the bright days ahead for T’Arts.

ups and downs and the fact that we’re still here

In the same fashion, there is something so much

the organisational skills and the prime location that

and we’ve kept going shows the strength of the

more personal about a handmade object. As Hill

is manned six days a week. Gays Arcade with its

collective. It’s a stable organisation that’s in it

puts it, in an ever-growing technical and global

three shopfronts was an absolute godsend and a

for the long-run and despite things like the GFC,

age where chain businesses dominate the market,

huge leap of faith for 37 fairly wealth challenged

we’re actually doing even better now than ever.

the rarer the item the more valuable it becomes.

individuals. The original fit out included ‘best

We have actually been growing over the last

Innocente adds that this is a quality T’Arts strives

pieces’ from just about everyone’s home. Our aim

couple of years, so we’re continuing to progress.”

to carry on into the next decade of the organisation.

was to be greater than the sum of our parts and

According to Hill, the key element of the

“We would like to keep that going and we’d like

we achieved that despite the original directors

collective’s strength and success is that the

to attract some younger artists into the collective to

being continuously pushed to the edge of their

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keep the tradition going instead of seeing it die out.”

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unique and one-off, lovingly crafted with a

Hill adds: “The big challenge is that it has to

in there as a group for 10 years T’Arts could well

personal touch. Clients are always keen to hear

be run by the members themselves and it needs

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the story behind each of their purchases too,

to be supported by the members. You’ve got to

often coming from interstate and, perhaps more

be able to subdue your personal interests for the

importantly, returning on their next visit.

sake of the collective. If you’re going to drive

Saturday 9 March Lorry Wedding-Marchioro: Glass 2pm –3pm

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“Our client base is usually the people who really

your own agenda and needs, then you’re not in

want to buy things which are made by other people,

the right place with this collective. We support

become even more of an Adelaide institution.”

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visual arts drawings is titled A tale from the Lower South East of South Australia. In these drawings forests drive the visual agenda. Pine forests with their regulated rows and snap to grid clearings are the staple for any artist musing on humanity’s dream of total subjugation of nature.

In Iacobelli’s images diminutive figures and dogs wander in nervous anticipation of what’s to come.

Fearfulness. That’s it. It permeates this exhibition like a gnawing anxiety about centres not holding and base behavior (like the issues with cultural difference burnt with inquisitorial intensity into the crudest of wooden flasks) and I’m sorry, no good will come of it. Except art. Not art that’s cute or clever or polemical. Iacobelli is above all that.

What you are given, if you have a mind to accept it, is the gift of letting go. Of displacing one’s sense of the normal and the customary tricks that enable clever artists to serve up something palatable.

Catalogue essay writer Nikos Papastergiadis has this as a ‘grim focus and pensive distillation’.

Nowhere is this better expressed than in a work, Potato Eaters, which resemble a late 1990s series by the artist called Pornographic Drawings. This series was based on lacework items such as tablecloths that the artist had sourced locally while living in Valencia.

Food, 2013 Photograph, Toby Richardson

Similar lacework configurations drive the design, articulated in trademark painterly brushwork. But the ‘object’ (the lace) looks stressed and is distorted

Sleep of reason

over the earliest of his massive drawings, is still here.

This is a dark show. But it is a darkness tempered by the curiosity of a traveller in strange place, with night falling and the way ahead uncertain. The large wall installation, My days, consisting of dozens of oddly matched framed drawings, holds the exhibition together by acting as a kind of open diary – not of daily events but the sleep of reason which, as Goya

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fans will know, produces monsters.

This is a domain that Iacobelli watchers will find

ldo Iacobelli’s long day’s journey into

very interesting indeed because it takes everyone

night continues to beat the boundaries

into that room in the house where the shadows

of conscious control. The artist needs

rule. Here the imagination is fuelled by strange

little introduction to a critical audience, which has

conjunctions of events and disturbing hybridities

stayed the course with the artist over a 30-year

like a headless ghost, fingers sprouting trees, a

period. This audience will be rewarded for its

wheel chair falling off a cliff, people dragging

loyalty by numerous citations in this exhibition of

rocks on ropes and wind turbines rising like

motifs and ideas, which have defined Iacobelli as

doomsday machines above a forest.

an artist of outstanding originality and integrity.

Elsewhere in this exhibition odd scenarios, a

So is this a reheat of the ‘old’ Iacobelli? Hardly. The

number of them involving forests, perpetuate

darkness, both retinal and expressive, which loured

this sense of mischief unhinged. Another set of

“

So is this a reheat of the ‘old’ Iacobelli?

Hardly. The darkness, both retinal and expressive, which loured over the earliest of his massive drawings, is still here."

as if acted upon by internal forces. This kind of ambivalence infects the entire exhibition and erupts in a mordant allegory on self-serving materialism, Birdbath deluxe, in which ablution effigies conspire to provide an absolute shower.

Aldo Iacobelli In the Shadow of Forgetting SASA Gallery Continues until Friday, March 22

TODD HUNTER & JASPER KNIGHT 22 February to 17 March 2013 31 - 33 North Street | West End Adelaide | South Australia 5000 | T +61 8231 4440 | M 0421 311 680 art @bmgart.com.au | www.bmgart.com.au

Festival Gallery Hours Tuesday to Friday 11am to 5pm Saturday and Sunday 2pm to 5pm TODD HUNTER, My Heart is a Place called Swampland 2012, Oil on canvas, 163 x 183cms

JASPER KNIGHT, Game of two Halves 2012, Enamel and acrylic on aluminium, 150 x 150cms

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Image: Robyn Zerner-Russell, Slow But Steady (detail)

visual arts

10 X Ten T’Arts Collective 3 – 24 March 2013 1 Thomas Street (cnr Main North Road) Nailsworth Tel 8342 8175 prospect.sa.gov.au

Profile: Tim Sterling Jane Llewellyn

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aperclips, cable ties, extension cords,

exhibitions gallery shop

pencils and laminate labels are just some of the materials Tim Sterling

8 March - 7 April

open space : spirit within

uses to create his installation works.

He takes these everyday objects, which have a practical function, and weaves, threads and ties them together, rewriting their purpose.

In his latest body of work he experiments with plywood, chosen because of its direct association with architectural models.

“Most of the works have an architectural feeling. I have been fascinated by it from early childhood,” Sterling says. “A fascination with

paintings and drawings by Anne Best, Margie Hooper & Peter McLachlan Meet the Artists Sunday 17 March from 2pm

free entry, all welcome images (from top) ‘Marnbi, Mineral Maker’

by Anne Best ‘Austrocochlea Femina’

by Margie Hooper ‘Laid to Rest’

by Peter McLachlan

spaces and buildings.” His work also revolves this exhibition Platzangst is the German term for claustrophobia or agoraphobia. The essential

Door is also featured in the exhibition. Made of

has inspired him to travel which inturn has

feature of agoraphobia is anxiety about being

plywood and shoelaces it consists of strips of little

influenced his work. He was fortunate enough to

in places or situations from which escape might

squares which rotate so you can have closed or

study his Masters in Amsterdam (after receiving

be difficult or embarrassing. Since buildings

open holes in the door – it operates in two states

the 2004 Samstag Scholarship) and then went on

enclose people, architecture may play a part in

at the same time. Also included are Sterling’s

to complete a residency in Milan in 2008 and one in

exacerbating or relieving this anxiety.

brick drawings, page 3,4, which are repeated

Japan in 2010. Next on the travel agenda is Paris at

“In my work representations of architectural

strokes of a marker pen layered upon each other

the end of the year to research Haussmann and his

forms are used as analogies for symptoms of

to eventually create a brick wall, which looks quite

reconstruction of Paris and how it led to controlling

agoraphobia,” he explains. There is also a hint of

precarious. “The marker was used to signify the

the public. He plans to “research how psychological

vertigo, “most of the work is quite detailed creating

way certain information is censored or blacked

symptoms are manifested by authoritarian design

an overwhelming feeling that it might collapse,

out in important documents,” explains Stirling.

of city spaces and how people react to authoritarian

that it’s hanging by a precarious balance”.

Gallery M, Marion Cultural Centre 287 Diagonal Rd, Oaklands Pk SA P:8377 2904 info@gallerym.net.au

www.gallerym.net.au

Along with an interest in architecture Sterling

control with improvised architectural structures

Individuals who experience agoraphobia have

is fascinated with contemporary jewellery and

the “feeling of being fixed to the ground whilst

in particular the “awareness of material and the

being pulled away”, the feeling that they want to

critical thinking that goes into it”. This interest

escape but can’t. This dichotomy is reflected in the

perhaps inspired the installation piece, Necklace

plywood structure, B.E.L.T., which Sterling says is

about which Sterling says: “I have created a

Tim Sterling

like a belt dissecting the lower body from the upper

kind of binary between two different kinds

Platzangst

body. While the size of the work would usually

of architectural representations, three-point

Hugo Michell Gallery

indicate something strong, “it’s more cumbersome

perspective and zero point perspective.”

Thursday, March 21 to Saturday, April 27

and uncomfortable rather than something solid”.

Neville Assad-Salha Between Two Spaces Ground Floor Gallery 15 Feb- 21 April 2013

Bay Discover y Centre Glenelg Town Hall, 1 Moseley Square, Glenelg Ph 8179 9508 holdfast.sa.gov.au

Tim Sterling, Vanishing Point

around feelings of agoraphobia, and the title of

Sterling’s fascination with space and buildings

such as barricades”.

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visual arts wood: art design architecture Curated by JamFactory and Adelaide Botanic Gardens, the exhibition opening was held at Santos Museum of Economic Botany on Friday, February 15.

Clockwise from top: Mark Reynolds, Nicole Reynolds and Fiona Crowe; Brian Parkes; Dr Jane LomaxSmith and Tarnya Van Driel; Jessica Ashford and Dana Ashford; Khai Liew; Brian Parkes and Prof Kay Lawrence.

DANIEL GIBBINGS-JOHNS

Sheltering from the Storm by Daniel Gibbings-Johns

JOHN TIPLADY

A Day at the Beach (detail) by John Tiplady

Photos: Jessica Clark othersuchthings.com

Established & Emerging New works from two Adelaide oil painters, John Tiplady and Daniel Gibbings-Johns to be opened by Jeremy Cordeaux on 17th March at 11:30 until 6th April.

DAVID SUMNER GALLERY 359 Greenhill Road Toorak Gardens Ph: 8332 7900

Tues to Fri 11-5 | Sat to Sun 2-5 www.david-sumner-gallery.com

stephen nova NEW Works 9 – 23 March 2013 www.hillsmithgallery.com.au

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Shifting Sands: Palestine John Neylon

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or an older generation of Australians the word ‘Palestine’ was and remains synonymous with the WW1 campaign in which Australian soldiers were prominently involved. The charge of the 4th Light Horse Brigade at Beersheba in 1917 became enshrined in public memory as a symbol of a ‘young’ Australia, bloodied (and blooded) by Gallipoli but not beaten. This event, under Australian command, was the last mounted charge ever conducted in the history of warfare.

Nation Estate – Olive Tree, C-print, 75x150cm, Larissa Sansour, 2012.

Horse in Palestine, in the National Gallery of

remembering the fallen, war memorials grew

strategies associated with European counter-

Victoria’s collection, is an enduring reminder

up across metropolitan and rural Australia. A

culture movements.

of the regard in which the Light Horsemen

number prominently bear to this day the place

Palestine, the exhibition, incorporates

WW1 Official War Artist George Lambert’s

were held. It embodies values of courage,

name ‘Palestine’. In the wake of the current

installation and video works by Tom Nicholson

1920 reconstruction of the event, The charge

inner strength and a disregard for valorisation

day ‘Arab Spring’ Australians have been

(Australia), Cornelia Parker (UK), Michael

of the Australian Light Horse at Beersheba,

of war.

occasionally reminder of their nation’s military

Rakowitz (USA), Khaled Hourani (Palestine)

31 October 1917 is held in the National

After this conflict the men of the Light

involvement across the Arab world. Last year’s

and Larissa Sansour (Palestine). Curator Alan

Gallery of Australia’s collection. Another

Horse went back to life on the land. But

desecration by militants of Commonwealth

Cruikshank offers the perspective that this

of Lambert’s paintings, A Sergeant of Light

progressively, as communities set about

War Graves in Libya may have brought this

project is less about a ‘Spring’ thematic and

involvement to the attention of a younger

more a focus on ‘power points’ which can be

generation with little knowledge of Australia’s

associated with a number of factors including

long involvement in the region.

fading dreams of peoples united under a

The Contemporary Art Centre’s current

banner of Pan-Arabism. Tom Nicholson’s

exhibition Palestine is the second exhibition to

Comparative monument (Palestine), which

be presented within the Shifting Sands series

references monuments bearing the name

(previous exhibition November – December

‘Palestine’ around Melbourne, embodies

2012). The ‘shifting sands’ metaphor has

the ambivalence demanded of art which has

been employed to convey some sense of the

a mind to ‘say something’ when sensible

fluidity of events and perspectives associated

utterance and clear solutions look impossible.

with what the world now routinely knows as the ‘Arab Spring’. The unprecedented changes affecting societies across the Middle East are mirrored in the visual arts which commentators describe these days as ‘edgy’ and ‘provocative’. With this has come a

Shifting Sands: Palestine

division of opinion, within the Arab world,

Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia

about the legitimacy of this ‘opening up’

Continues until Sunday, March 31

to a perceived outside world, using artistic

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visual arts

Janicke Johansen

This month

WASTE-land Tin Cat Cafe

The Language of the Future: Selected works 1971 – 2013 Samstag Museum of Art

Duets on Ice

Friday, March 1 to Friday, April 19

Turner from the Tate

unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum

Art Gallery of South Australia

The Samstag Museum partners with the Adelaide Festival to present an Australian exclusive collection of new and original works from multimedia artist and performer Laurie Anderson. Anderson’s work includes video, sound installations, works on paper, artist works and a live performance work.

Continues until Sunday, May 19

Jasper Knight & Todd Hunter BMGART Friday, February 22 to Sunday, March 17

Newcastle (detail)

Janicke Johansen follows last year’s solo exhibition at Tincat Café, Mind Maps, a journey within, with WASTE-land. With a focus on waste reduction, Johansen’s paintings, collages and sculptures use materials that have been reused or highlight what can happen if we continue to be a wasteful society.

Venice the Bridge of Sighs (detail)

Laurie Anderson

janickejohansen.com

artgallery.sa.gov.au

It’s the biggest exhibition of the year and if you haven’t checked JMW Turner’s work at the Art Gallery of SA then you best mosey along soon.

Turner from the Tate explores the evolution of the master painter and is the first major Australian exhibition of Turner’s work in 20 years.

John Tiplady & Daniel Gibbings-Johns

bmgart.com.au

David Sumner Gallery

Jasper Knight and Todd Hunter are together once again to present new works at BMG Art. Knight’s latest collection is his most abstract to date. He used Perspex, plywood, Masonite, pressed metal and aluminum to create his latest collection.

Hunter’s work, on the other hand, was influenced by his children’s drawings, which embodied the unexpected and had a naive honesty to them.

Sunday, March 17 to Saturday, April 6

Boulevard, Paris (detail)

The Adelaide Review’s guide to March’s hightlight visual arts events

There were more of us (detail)

Tuesday, March 5 to Tuesday, April 2

david-sumner-gallery.com

The established oil painter (John Tiplady) joins with the emerging (Daniel GibbingsJohns) for this David Sumner exhibition of new paintings from the two artists, which showcase their response to their perception of the environment.

PAL E S T I N E

Hilary Gaston

Tom NICHOLSON Michael RAKOWITZ Larissa SANSOUR Khaled HOURANI Cornelia PARKER

“It” Girls 6 – 30 March 2013

28 February–7 April Contemporary Art Centre SA 14 Porter Street Parkside

artimagesgallery

www.cacsa.org.au

Audrey, acrylic on printed canvas, 120cm x 120cm

Moments in Time (detail), watercolour by Coralie Armstrong

Not frayed (detail), photographic image on h/made paper, by Bev Bills

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22/02/13 11:39 AM

ROYAL SOUTH AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY OF ARTS INC. Tassels & Tales 24 February – 24 March

Members Autumn/Fringe Exhibition In the RSASA Gallery there are tales to be told, or is it tails, or has it been tasselled? Mediums of painting, books, textiles, photography, sculpture, mixed media, printmaking from RSASA Members

31 March – 21 April 4th Solar Art Prize – with $23,000 of Solar vouchers to be awarded

Royal South Australian Society of Arts Inc. Level 1 Institute Building, Cnr North Terrace & Kintore Ave Adelaide, Ph/Fax: 8232 0450 www.rsasarts.com.au rsasarts@bigpond.net.au Mon- Fri 10.30-4.30pm Sat & Sun 1- 4pm Pub Hol. Closed.

david frazer NEW Works 9 – 23 March 2013 www.hillsmithgallery.com.au

32 The Parade Norwood Mon-Fri 9-5.30 Sat 10-5 Sun 2-5 t. 8363 0806 www.artimagesgallery.com.au

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books the gun, a masterpiece of investigative technique.

her romantic entanglement with two brothers,

daughters are bringing degrees of shame on the

A remark from Anneke’s brother that she was

destined from the outset to go horribly awry.

family. The worst of the two, at least in the eyes

not, as earlier supposed, on holiday in the United

Ketchup Clouds is an awkward mix of absorbing

of the paterfamilias, Dr Choudhury, is Rohimun,

States turns the case on its end for Harry. What hot

storytelling and frustrating contrivance. Torment and

a well-regarded artist who lives unhappily with

story had this secretive freelance been pursuing

suspense sit melodramatically alongside a plot which

her possessive and drug-addled gora boyfriend,

across America before the Riots erupted? Harry’s

revolves, creakily at times, around text messages, lies

a London City trader. Keeping up appearances is

meticulous study of the old files reveals that the

to overbearing parents about homework, and new

fashion-slave Shunduri who, under the pretence of

body had not been robbed – except of her cameras

love’s banal mistakes. There’s some unexamined

study and a good job in a bank, is living out of home,

and her hotel key. Her hotel room contained not a

gender stuff here too, around motherhood and guilt

also in London, waiting endlessly on a proposal

scrap of paper relating to her quest for a story. Harry

and around social currency at school. Nor does Zoe’s

from Desi wide boy Kareem. Mrs Begum and Dr

builds and builds, undeterred that his boss wants

confessor ever get right of reply. While Pitcher’s

Choudhury’s cottage lies in the friendly near-orbit

him off the case - better still, off the force! Harry is

point is that only Zoe can give herself absolution,

of Bourne Abbey where Dr Choudhury has been

as rebellious as ever because of his firm belief that

its unfortunate side-effect is to accentuate her self-

advising its owners, Henry and Thea Bourne, about

in order of importance comes the victim, then the

absorption, despite her compassion for his plight.

the restoration of the building. As the project nears

grieving relatives, and then the duty to ‘serve and

Much as our sympathies for Zoe might waver,

completion the Bournes’ marriage shows signs

protect’ the public. The Police Department’s interests

Pitcher’s remarkable skill is her friendly and

of strain and Henry’s brother, Richard, who has

are a very poor fifth and police department politics

insightful voice, and her nuanced, very credible

abdicated his inheritance of the burdensome country

don’t rate at all. Way to go, Harry!

portrayal of contemporary adolescence.

estate, finds himself drawn ever closer to the house which holds more than just one fascinating secret.

The Black Box

Lesley Jørgensen’s debut novel Cat & Fiddle benefits from easy comparison. The most obvious

Michael Connelly

of course is with Pride and Prejudice which,

Allen & Unwin

probably not coincidentally, is this year in its bicentenary. Jørgensen’s characters are fairly easy to line up with Austen’s. Mrs Begum is a

Roger Hainsworth

contemporary marriage-plotting Mrs Bennett and Harry Bosch is back in business with a crime that

her manoeuvrable husband Dr Choudhury stands

took place 20 years earlier. During the notorious

in nicely for Mr Bennett. In its multicultural east-

Los Angeles Riots, he and his former partner

meets-west milieu there’s also a fair bit of Zadie

Edgar were called to a homicide in an alley deep

Smith’s White Teeth and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane.

in the gangland war zone. Buildings were on fire,

Like Pride and Prejudice, one of the central conflicts

snipers active, looting endemic, the National Guard

Cat & Fiddle plays out pits individual romantic desire

struggling to take back the streets. Unusually the

against the compromised pragmatics of tradition.

corpse was female, white, and foreign: Anneke

How does this play out when characters don’t want to

Jespersen, a Danish investigative journalist who

follow tradition, or have lost tradition altogether? It’s

fearlessly covered the world’s hotspots. Harry had

a problem in Cat & Fiddle that is reserved mostly for

been allowed only 15 minutes to devote to the crime

its Bangladeshi characters. Despite their problems,

scene before he was rushed off, vainly protesting, to another homicide. Later investigators came up with nothing. Now her case is on Harry’s desk at the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit (that’s ‘cold case’ to TV buffs) and he is determined to do Anneke justice and

Ketchup Clouds

Cat & Fiddle

Annabel Pitcher

Lesley Jørgensen

Indigo

Scribe

track down her killer. Brave words but Harry’s only clue is a Beretta shell casing he had found during his

individuality all that much. The thesis, presumably, is that there is no such thing as traditional Englishness to hide behind any longer, only the sometimes hedonistic excess of individualism, a source of sometimes self-destructive ennui.

Helen Dinmore

David Sornig

15 minutes and the meagre documentation surviving from the original investigation.

Anglos don’t seem to have the need to repress that

While there are a lot of characters to keep track of, as the families and their problems spiral ever

In this hotly anticipated follow-up to Pitcher’s

Mrs Begum, a traditional, but not altogether

closer toward one another Jørgensen moves their

Readers will be fascinated as they watch Harry

2011 YA success, My Sister Lives on the

conservative Bangladeshi mother in rural Wiltshire,

stories forward in smart, entertaining episodes

do what he does best: sew a jacket onto a button.

Mantelpiece, ‘Zoe’ (an assumed identity) writes

is concerned to properly marry off her three adult

that, in shifting third person focalisation, step easily

Dogged, painstaking, yet always alert to the big

a series of confessional letters to a Death Row

children. But son Tariq, who has seriously flirted with

between them. The prose style and narrative pace

picture, Harry discovers the trail that leads from

inmate. They’re a last-ditch attempt to deal with

jihadism, seems, despite his return to moderation, to

are both brisk, and always end up on the right

that shell casing to the killer. He even tracks down

a guilt that’s destroying her, and tell the story of

be wholly uninterested, and her two very different

side of functional.

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During World War II Lyon was a centre for the occupying German forces and in 1944

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food, wine & coffee

Photo: Tony Lewis

Review: East Taste Café

was completed by the mind-reading waitress.

Salty fish fried rice? This must be the new ‘special fried rice’ for us unsophisticated dills who can’t take our rice neat. If you hit Gouger Street regularly you will know Fai. Fai hasn’t been seen for a while. I feared a

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your place memorable and inspires loyalty both

sticky end. On cue, Fai did a Fai on me. After a

T

in customers and in staff.

torrid day battling the bookies I started with a

he restaurant biz is rough. The last list

Humph. You might as well stay in bed. I know

double vodka. “You drink too much. Make you

of dead restaurants rattled me. Rarely

of quite a few yeast starters (worts) that produce

sick.” There are waiting staff who can sprawl

but reassuringly there are restaurants

stunning sourdough bread that have been nurtured,

at your table. Some, okay, only Fai, can criticise

that survive for years and continue to

passed on, given names and pedigrees, jealously

your drinking habits at your first drink. To do

blossom. East Taste Café, in Gouger Street, has

guarded, fussed over, for 60 years and more. Only a

these things, and pull them off, takes chutzpah

been shining for 10 years. The dishes here possess

few are now in regular use in Adelaide. There goes

and good judgment. Know the rules. Then break

a quality that is rare in Gouger Street, where chef-

breakfast toast. Go to the Barossa or Hahndorf and

them. If you are one of the gifted few you won’t

roulette is a popular pastime. They are consistent.

many more are hiding in home kitchens. Did you

get the sack. The suave doyen of doyens, the

Michael, the chef and partner, went bung.

guess that Ann Oliver would be standing guard

Emperor of Chesser Cellars, Primo Caon, cuffed

over her wort? Tick. Advance to the next level.

me over the back of the head in the middle of

This happens often to chefs. Cheffing is very physical; something that is glossed over on

Michael learns his customers’ tastes quickly.

endless television shows glorifying the trade.

If you have been to East Taste a few times leave

lunch service. Did I rush off to find a policeman?

From a not ordinary Chinese wine list try

Luckily Michael morphed into a waiter, with,

the ordering to him. A midget crayfish won’t

Redbank 2012 ‘Sunday Morning’ Pinot Gris from

naturally, impeccable food knowledge.

appear with a tab for $230.

King Valley, Victoria ($32) and Pirie 2011 ‘South’

Why does Marco Pierre White put up with

Your trust might be tested by a recommendation

Pinot Noir from Tasmania ($32). Both these wines

being photographed glaring like a serial killer

of a cold starter of jellyfish, shredded chicken,

suit summer and many of the chilli hot dishes. The

clutching his weapon of choice, a cleaver? Does

cucumber, lettuce, carrot, tomato and, wait for it,

‘South’ Pinot Noir tastes like a lot more than $32.

he really truly believe in Coles? Or has he gone

Thousand Island dressing. Do it, if you think you

A properly dominant cherry flavour finishes with

bung? We should be told.

can overcome your fear of the deathless words

strawberries and even rose petals. Extraordinary.

There are many lurks that lead to restaurant

‘Thousand Island dressing’. No-duck-this-time-

Pinots are supposed to taste like that.

success. ‘Employ’ your close family of 27. Have

either Duck-Woman was drumming her fingers in

an extremely high turnover. Sell ‘covers’ maybe

a tattoo that told of the sorrow only the duckless

twice or even three times, during a service period.

know. The salad was much, much better than

All fabulous tips for which you should pay me

that combination of ingredients had any right to

immense sums of money. Doing them is the trick.

be. Ducklessness was forgotten for a moment.

If East Taste Café has slipped off your radar – put it back on.

East Taste Café

Breakfast? Almost impossible as an earner.

Tension, fear, relief, joy, even a splinter of

If you want bacon and eggs with a couple of

crazed laughter. All for eight dollars. What a

119 Gouger Street

memorable touches – beautiful bread, service

salad. Honey black pepper chicken wings had

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(any sort will do), decent eggs, bacon that can be

skin that bubbles, like roast pork. Mussels with

Hours

crisped without going black because of the amount

chilli black bean are $18. About as much as you

Friday lunch: 12pm-3pm

of sugar in its making. Pleasant surroundings.

can spend. A large serve of tender mussels is

Monday to Thursday dinner: 5pm-1am

Great, not just good, coffee. You, the restaurateur,

matched perfectly by the bold flavours of the

Friday to Saturday dinner: 5pm-2am

provide that singular brekkie. You make, say, three

well tried combo of chillies and black beans.

Takeaway available

dollars a customer. Then shave wages, rent, fresh

A fumble around the rice and noodle section

produce, and the mysterious ambiance that makes

trying to remember the off menu rice I wanted

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food, wine & coffee focuses purely on gastronomy while weaving in and out of traditional and recent culture in Brazil is brilliant. While it’s in it early stages, in fact not yet launched, the model is a great start for us here in Australia. Working with

gluttony opening Colourful Fringe venue Gluttony opened on Thursday, February 15.

Beto Ricardo, the anthropologist responsible for ISA, gave me an opportunity to talk about how we can move forward with the help of anthropologists here in Australia. Previously I have not been able to work with anthropologists

Top to bottom: Victoria Lealy, Angus Brown, Jess Brown and Xavier Toby, Tamzin Buchan, Troy Sincock and Gina Ankerson, She She Velour, Ginger Leah Rye and Mimi Le Mae, Famous Seamus and Sean-Tastic, Richard Browning and Abbie Wills.

here, however, after talking with Beto I may have been a little brash and abrasive in my initial approach... time to eat humble pie.

All sounds a bit official and complex doesn’t it? Begs the question from many around me - ‘Aren’t you supposed to be a cook?’ Indeed I am nothing more than a cook, however, my interest in gastronomy goes far deeper than cooking. The origins of gastronomy in

CHEWIN’ THE FAT

not only Alex but also the anthropologists and

Australia are missing and this is something

nutritionists was an amazing experience and one

I aim to change. Australia will have its own

that will make the path I’m travelling a little easier.

gastronomic identity, its own cuisine. The roots

Part of our trip was to visit a community and

of that cuisine will be based on the natural

open a purpose built kitchen in which the Baniwa

offering of this great country, meaning the

Amazonas

people can make dried Amazonas pimenta powder.

food, which has been here for thousands of

The Baniwa live on the borders of Brazil, Colombia

years, and more importantly, the culture that

and Venezuela in villages located on the banks of

has been here for more than 60,000 years. This

the Içana River and its tributaries the Cuiari, Aiari,

must then be the base, the roots of this new

Cubate and also in communities on the Upper Rio

cuisine, but we must entwine recent culture,

things

Negro/Guainía, the urban centres of São Gabriel

meaning settlers who arrived just over 200

on my travels but this was most certainly a

da Cachoeira, Santa Isabel and Barcelos. I’m sure

years ago, as essentially this new cuisine must

first. The Amazonas... quite incredible...

these names sound just as unfamiliar and odd to you

be a true representation of Australia, right?

One of the purposes of this trip was to

as they did to me before I left for South America,

This cuisine should be able to tell a story, give

observe and learn from Alex Atala (Chef Patron of

however, it didn’t take me long to familiarise myself

a real taste of the land and its people just as it

DOM Restaurant São Paulo, Brazil) and his team

with both the people and the land.

does in any other country. That story to me in

Jock Zonfrillo

I

’ve

seen

many

in order to assist my work here in Australia with

The Kuripako, who speak a dialect of the

today’s Australian gastronomy is most certainly

Aboriginal communities. I have been struggling

Baniwa language and are kin of the Baniwa,

missing. It’s time to do it, and in doing so heal

with the framework required to support a new

live in Colombia and on the upper Içana

the land through farming of these native crops

Australian cuisine, a true gastronomic identity

(Brazil). Both groups are highly skilled in

and heal the gigantic divide that still exists

for Australia. Certainly travelling in a party,

the manufacture of arumã (aririte) basketry,

between Aboriginal and recent Australians.

which included nutritionists and anthropologists,

an age-old art their creator heroes taught

What does it look like? Taste like? That’s up to

certainly helped me to refine the way such

to them and which is being commercialised

us cooks and chefs, those with a forward thinking

operations could be set up in Australia.

today in Brazilian markets. Recently, they

mind. For my part... stay tuned... it’s coming...

The work Alex has done in the Amazonas is

have also become outstanding for their active

inspiring to say the least. By his own admission

participation in the indigenous movement in

he has made many mistakes in the past 10 years

the region. This movement includes a cultural

while developing his version of Brazilian cuisine,

complex of 22 different indigenous groups who

however, he has now found harmony between

are articulated through a network of trade and

the native Indians of the Amazonas and the very

are very similar in their social organisation,

Jock Zonfrillo is Magill Estate’s Head Chef

different modern culture in São Paulo and the rest

material cultural and worldview.

twitter.com/zonfrillo

of Brazil. For me the opportunity to learn from

Alex’s work in founding an institute, which

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food, wine & coffee Torta di riso ingredients 6 cups full fat milk Zest of one lemon ½ cup of sugar 2 vanilla beans – seeds removed 1 cinnamon stick 2 cups vialone nano rice 2 tablespoons honey 4 eggs – separated 1 teaspoon salt 30g almond meal Butter for greasing

FOOD FOR THOUGHT An Easter feast

of the four day break, the smell of them heating in the oven and then the taste of melted butter warming the subtle spices, is a memory for me,

Candied lemons

that holds no other place than Easter. The hot cross bun was said to be officially named in 1733

ingredients

and a version sold hot in the streets of London

1 cup caster sugar

long before that. During the reign of Elizabeth

1 cup water

Annabelle Baker

I, the sale of sweet/spiced buns was banned in

Juice of one lemon

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London and instead reserved for celebrations

3 lemons sliced thinly

aster is the true definition of

such as Good Friday, Christmas and funerals

a movable feast. A four-day

hence the reason we now eat them at Easter.

method

celebration that moves though the

One of the world’s strongest images of Easter has

Bring the milk, lemon zest, sugar, cinnamon

calendar bringing with it celebration,

to be the gothic processions that line the streets

stick, vanilla seeds and pod to the boil.

traditions and the sharing of culture and

of Spain, a symbolic mark of respect to their

Add the vialone rice and leave to simmer

religion. Whether it has a religious significance

belief and a dramatic event that is celebrated

until all the milk as disappeared and the rice

for us or is just a time that family and friends

with an equally as dramatic feast for all. Italy, also

is just tender.

share a meal, Easter is a break that is steeped

just as rich in culture, celebrates with traditional

Leave too cool to room temperature; remove

in tradition for us all. Most of us purchase a hot

dishes that have symbolic meaning. The last day

the cinnamon stick and vanilla pods.

cross bun from our local bakery without even

of lent, Easter Saturday is met with all that has

Add the honey, egg yolks and salt.

removing and cooling on a wire rack.

a thought to its significance and many of us

been longed for eggs, lamb and bread! Eggs

In a separate bowl beat the eggs whites

For the candied lemons – bring the sugar,

shy away from meat on Good Friday without

represent life, fertility and rejuvenation, the

until a soft peak.

water and lemon juice to the boil and leave

too much thought of how many generations

death of Jesus is represented with the sacrifice

Gently fold through the rice mixture ensuring

to simmer for five minutes.

have done the same. It is truly fascinating

of the lamb and bread being the ‘bread of life’.

not to knock the air out of the whites.

Place the sliced lemons in a pot of cold water

how such symbolic acts and iconic foods

Maybe for some it’s an excuse for an extra long

Grease a 28cm round cake tin with butter

and bring to the boil slowly – this will remove

become part of our norm at this time of year.

weekend but for many it represents much more.

and dust with almond meal, gently pour

some of the bitterness from the lemons.

I always shudder as I walk into the supermarket

Others like myself are somewhere in between

the rice mixture into the tin.

Place the lemons in the sugar syrup and

in January and the Christmas stock is on sale

but still celebrate with family and friends alike.

Bake in 180 degree oven for 25 – 30 minutes

leave to steep for 30 minutes before placing

to your right and hot cross buns and chocolate

A weekend of reflection, celebration but most of

or until just set in the centre.

over the top of the torta.

bunnies are stacked to your left – consumerism

all indulge in few traditions no one can refuse

Leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes before

Serve at room temperature.

at its best! I refuse to eat a hot cross bun outside

– a hot cross bun!

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Grüner Veltliner

Lamb ragu ingredients 500g lamb neck – diced into 1cm chunks 1 onion – diced 1 carrot – diced 2 cloves garlic

1 sprig rosemary 1 bay leaf

Deviation Road and Longview, have planted.

So, what’s it taste like?

Hahndorf Hill Its climatic suitability and the ‘non-fruit sexiness’ of Grüner lead Larry to plant Grüner as a suitable alternative to Sauvignon Blanc. “There are

Matt Wallace

2 celery sticks – diced

4 sprigs thyme

12 other Adelaide Hills growers, including Henschke,

Easter spinach pies

1 punnet cherry tomatoes (halved) 250ml white wine

ingredients

125ml xxtra virgin olive Oil

2 large bunches of spinach

500ml chicken stock

3 tablespoons olive oil

10 fresh pasta lasagna sheets

1 white onion diced

1/2 cup pine nuts – toasted

1 garlic clove

1 cup parsley – chopped

250g fresh ricotta

1/2 zest lemon

150g artichoke hearts in brine – chopped finely 100g grated parmesan

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no berries; it’s all textural with white pepper, apple and pear, minerality, tobacco with celery, even

rüner Veltliner isn’t a variety I’ve had a lot to do with but a couple of recent tastings of Australian Grüners inspired me to dig a bit deeper. I reckon it is a very exciting prospect with the potential to become an Aussie mainstay. G rüner Veltliner is an ancient white grape grown mostly in Austria with significant plantings in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Its genetic parents are Traminer and the obscure St. Georgener-Rebe.

It’s only recently been celebrated widely as a truly premium variety. Here are a few key elements in its rise: naming, training and tasting.

parsnip.” For Larry this makes it a perfect point

While the variety may date back to Roman

wine to the Hahndorf Hill. Geoff Hardy also

of difference to Sauvignon Blanc. It’s a cracker, true to the leaner Austrian styles with fantastic texture and complexity. It should cellar very well.

It is also unlike any other Australian white I have had. The cellar door at Hahndorf Hill is well worth a visit and offers plenty of elegant wines.

Geoff Hardy Geoff Hardy’s Grüner shows less pepper and plenty of greenery on opening. As it opens, citrus pith and minerality emerge. It is a very different

method

A pich of grated mace or nutmeg

times it was only given its current name in the

offers plenty of other alternative varieties. His

Heat olive oil in a heavy based frying

2 eggs

1850s. It was not until the 1950s, with use of

Teroldego and Tannat are particularly stunning.

pan and brown the lamb on all sides,

Sourcream shortcrust pastry

Lenz Moser’s less labour intensive system of vine

Hesketh

remove from the pan.

management, that it began to flourish. Finally in

Jonathon Hesketh is an Australian winemaker

Pour off any excess oil and sauté onion,

method

2002 Jancis Robinson was invited to a blind

who also produces an Austrian Grüner from

carrot, celery, garlic and herbs until tender.

Blanch the spinach in a large pot of salty water.

tasting, featuring a selection of Grüners plus

Krems. He produces the wine with assistance

Add tomatoes, browned lamb and white

Refresh in a bowl of cold water with ice,

top end Chardonnays from Gaja, Eileen Hardy,

from Bert Salomon. Bert part owns Grüner

wine. Bring the wine to the boil and

remove and leave to drain in a colander.

Penfolds’ Yattarna, Louis Jadot, Domaine

producing Salomon Undhof winery in Austria,

reduce to half.

Chop into a small dice.

LeFlaive, Ramonet, Etienne Sauzet and more.

as well as owing Salomon Estate on the Fleurieu

Add the chicken stock and leave to

Heat the olive oil in a large pan and fry the

Grüner in Australia

Peninsula. I first tasted Hesketh’s Grüner a couple

simmer for one hour or until the lamb

onion and garlic until cooked. Remove from

is tender and the sauce is thick and

Recently some Aussies have begun experimenting

of years ago and thought it pretty tight and

the heat and leave to cool.

with the variety, notably Hahndorf Hill, Lark Hill,

unyielding. Now it is superb, beginning with an

reduced. Check to see if you need salt

In a large bowl mix the chopped spinach,

Geoff Hardy and Stoney Rise with some pretty

upfront burst of acidity, rolling into white pepper,

and or pepper!

ricotta, artichokes, parmesan, mace, eggs

flash results. Some scribes believe it will succeed

spice and celery, green apple crunch, complexity

Bring a large pot of water to the boil with

and the chopped spinach until well combined.

in the same climates that allow for top end Riesling

and length. Jonathon loves the complexity of

a generous pinch of sea salt.

Leave to rest in the fridge for 20 minutes.

production. Others, like Larry Jacobs from Hahndorf

Grüner, more complex than Sauv Blanc, a little

Cut the fresh lasagna sheets with a

Line the bottom of you desired baking

Hill, believe it is particularly suited to the Adelaide

softer than Riesling and with clearer varietal

crimped ravioli cutter into triangular

tray (you can use mini muffin tins or a

Hills. He says, “Grüner grows best in the lower

definition than Pinot Gris.

hanky shapes.

large traditional pie dish) with the pastry.

Austrian regions of Kremstal, Kamptal and Wachau

Grüner Veltliner is definitely a thing of beauty

Blanch in the boiling water for two

Spoon the spinach mixture evenly over

… good ripening days and cold nights allow an

and the Aussie examples I have tasted point to a

minutes or until just cooked depending

the base and cover with a lid of pastry.

extended growing season. The vignerons from these

bright future for the variety. I reckon consumers

on the thickness of your pasta.

Bake in a 180-degree oven for 20 minutes

regions say that this significant diurnal variation is

will eventually get on board too but it remains

Fold the cooked pasta through the ragu

or until golden the pastry is cooked

one of the key quality defining factors. Of Australia’s

to be seen if there are enough suitable sites for

straight from the cooking water. Use a

through. (Cooking time will depend on

premium regions the Adelaide Hills has one of the

significant plantings. In the meantime it’s worth

ladle of the pasta water to loosen the

the size of your pie dish).

highest diurnal variations in temperature.”

checking out what is already on the market.

sauce if desired.

Larry is bullish about the future of Grüner in

Serve on a large platter garnished with toasted pine buts, parsley and lemon zest.

Australia and has made cuttings from Hahndorf twitter.com/annabelleats

Hill’s vineyard available to the Adelaide Hills Vine Improvement Society. This has enabled other growers in the region access to the variety. To date

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coffee the big slapple opening Adelaide Convention Centre’s Fringe venue The Big Slapple launched with live music, food and good times.

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Some like it hot Derek Crozier

get sweetness from the natural sugars, full-bodied

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flavour from the fats and silky smooth texture from

water and a dash of milk. I think this is why a large

there’s an even colour of browns from the espresso’s

chunk of consumers think they need a boiling hot

crema and the blended milk but if there are large

cappuccino to get the same pleasure away from

patches of white frothed milk that’s separated from

home. Why does the temperature have to dictate

the espresso, I know it will be too hot. When I go to

whether or not you enjoyed your cafe experience?

the counter at a cafe, I look around the machine for

Do people feel obligated to leave a venue as soon

clean milk jugs and milk that’s being refrigerated.

as their drink is empty?

Icy cold milk and a cold milk jug means the barista

ustralians seem to like their beer cold

the proteins at the correct temperature.

and their coffee hot. My dad likes to

Heating the milk to the correct temperature also

sit out the back to read the paper

means it mixes properly with the espresso shot.

and take time to enjoy the moment

When I receive a latte or a flat white, I can tell that

with an instant cup of coffee made with boiling hot

it’s ready to drink by the top layer of foam. It’s fine if

If you ask any barista what the most common

has time to stretch and texture the milk properly,

question or criticism they’ve had to educate

as opposed to room temperature milk that’s been

customers on, it would most likely be in regards to

left out, which heats up quickly and doesn’t give

the milk and the temperature. With 90 percent of

the barista time to perfect the milk.

coffee orders containing milk, I can understand why.

Baristas refuse to heat the milk past 65 degrees

I hear some of you complain that your milk

upon request in some places. This isn’t the

is not hot enough, now before you tell me that

barista’s fault. Some cafes and franchises wants

coffee is meant to be served hot, close your eyes,

consistency attached to their shop or name and

put your fingers in your ears and sing ‘la la la’

they want the coffee to be served at its optimum

really loud. Let me explain why this is not true.

flavour and texture at all times, even if that means

Whether it’s a latte, cappuccino or a flat white,

losing a few customers along the way.

all espresso shots that enter your coffee are

Because there are so many coffee outlets to choose

around 30mls. It passes through water that is

from these days, there’ll always be a location that will

around 90 degrees and the rest is steamed milk,

take your request of extra hot and work with you to

which should be served between 60 to 65 degrees.

get your repeat business. Other places have baristas

The milk gets sourer the hotter it gets after 65

who use a few tricks to ensure everyone’s happy.

degrees until the milk boils between 80 and 85

When dining in, the cups are already preheated on

degrees. At this point the milk is destroyed. We

top of the machine but filling it with hot water, so it overflows, will ensure your hands and lips are

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I believe there’ll always be consumers out there who want a hot coffee and the customers are basically paying the barista’s wages, so they should probably make you whatever you want.

But if you send someone down to get you a coffee made extra hot, so it’s still hot by the time it gets to you, or you regularly request boiled milk that

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A yellow brick in the road to natural wine

Wines that stick out or don’t fit are, like an obnoxious guest, unlikely to get a return invitation, he says.

Shobbrook argues that the natural wine concept, rather than being new, actually hinges on the revival of older styles.

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“I’ve said it before: look at the past to create beauty for the future,” he said.

Charles Gent

for eight weeks, and then removes the solids before

“Technology got the better of us for a little

returning the wine to the barrel for nine months.

while – we’re looking behind that to where we

nless they’re told, most people who

In essence, his approach is borrowed from red

were before, and we’re finding ways of making

taste Tom Shobbrook’s Giallo don’t

winemaking, with the idea, he says, of “building

know they’re drinking Sauvignon

tannin and texture and structure on the palate”.

Shobbrook’s wines, made at his Barossa Valley

The wine has a slight haziness due to absence

base, include an Eden Valley Riesling, a Barossa

U

Blanc. And that’s just fine with Tom.

wine that had been forgotten.”

His white – which is actually more golden-yellow,

of filtration – indeed Shobbrook doesn’t even

Syrah and a range of Italian inspired wines, Giallo

hence its Italian moniker – breaks all the standard

own a pump, so none of his wines are filtered.

among them. He says the public response to his

rules for making Sauvignon Blanc, mainly because

“I find it takes things away from the wine and

wines is split about 50/50, but as long as people

Shobbrook is deliberately out to avoid what he calls

doesn’t give anything back,” he said.

try them and discuss them, he’s happy.

the taste of “cat wee and blueberries” so beloved by the numberless fans of New Zealand’s commercial plonk.

Giallo took third place in the top 10 of The Adelaide Review’s Hot 100 South Australian Wines, adding to

For people disconcerted by the wine’s appearance, Shobbrook suggests tasting it with eyes closed.

“Use your nose and palate, and forget about what it’s ‘supposed’ to look like. Just see if you like it.”

Shobbrook admits that natural wines are still finding their way in Australia, and he expects some bad examples – “shit wines” – to be produced by people who cynically pick up on the trend for its

a strong showing by so-called ‘natural’ winemakers.

Increasing numbers of wine drinkers do:

marketing cachet. And while he hopes the doctrine

While the term has no legal definition and some of

the 2012 Giallo, only the wine’s third vintage,

of natural winemaking will rapidly gain momentum,

its adherents prefer alternatives such as ‘low fi’, their

sold out in six weeks.

he has no antipathy towards conventionally made

basic philosophy is to shun any chemical additions

“I try to make wines that go with food, which is

to the grapes in either vineyard or winery. Natural

what was being done for years around the world.

“Whether it’s a wine made naturally or with

yeasts are (naturally) preferred for fermentation.

At some point we got sidetracked and started

organic fruit or using conventional methods

making wines into a meal, and they’re not – they’re

doesn’t matter really, as long as the wine is

supposed to go with a meal,” Shobbrook said.

enjoyable and fun, and good. If wines have huge

The fruit for Giallo is grown in an organically managed, cool-climate vineyard at Gumeracha, in

wines, so long as the results are pleasant to drink.

the northern reaches of the Adelaide Hills. Once

Ideally, he wants his wine to be part of a seamless

faults, whether they’re made conventionally or

the grapes reach his winery, Shobbrook sidesteps

blend of food, music and convivial company that

without any additions, it isn’t good winemaking;

convention by fermenting the grapes on their skins

makes for a memorable afternoon or evening.

it’s trying to pull the wool over people’s eyes.”

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Autumn: Barossa’s season of celebration Barossans know how to celebrate, and have been doing it longer than anyone else in the form of the Barossa Vintage Festival, Australia’s first wine festival dating back to 1947.

from friends in the region who joined her for the celebration: Jan Angas’ Hutton Vale lamb; Louise and Richard Langford’s venison; Victoria McLurg’s Barossa cheese; William and Claire Wood’s Carême Pastry; Michael Wohlstadt’s heritage pork; and yabbies and verjuice from winemaker and part-time poacher Wayne Ahrnes, whose Smallfry wines were served. Market gardeners Brenda and Al Oakey added colour to the conversation and menu with their Aldna Farms vegetables, fruits and herbs.

Grapes and vine leaves, which Barossa won’t see again until the end of the year, took pride of place at Saskia’s table and featured heavily on the menu.

A statuesque Berkshire ham, simply glazed with mustard and cloves, set the tone for the celebratory feast that included a dish her parents Maggie and Colin have made a modern Barossa classic, Grape Harvesters Pheasant.

This close link between Barossa’s food and wine community is never more prominent than during end of vintage celebrations. Many winemakers have interests in food, just like Richard Langford, whose venison is a side project outside his role as Chief Winemaker

Fiona Sainty

for Elderton; and Smallfry winemaker and

O

proprietor Wayne Ahrnes whose verjuice has

riginally an end of grape

been embraced by local foodies. Conversely,

harvest dinner for growers and

many food producers are also grape growers,

winemakers, the festival has grown

just like the Beer and Angas families.

Saskia’s Barossa Table Menu Sciaccatta with Shiraz grapes and rosemary

to embody Barossa life through

“Barossa’s food heritage is believed to be one

wine, music, art and food. At this year’s festival

of the longest-running food culture settlements in

Saskia’s salumi with vine wrapped Barossa Cheese Geo

(Saturday, March 30 to Sunday, April 7), local

Australia, with multiple generations of the families

Yabbies with thyme aoli

chef and producer Saskia Beer brings Barossa

who started it still involved today,” Saskia says.

food to the fore with a series of cooking classes

Such passion and success continue to attract

demonstrating ‘Autumnal Barossa’, and a taste of

new generations to the region, injecting energy and

sage, cumquat, pancetta and liver stuffing

the Beer family table with breakfasts at The Farm.

a modern focus that has opened up new audiences

Grape Harvesters pheasant with grapes,

Closer to home, she embraces the long-held

across the country to the wonder of Barossa food.

verjuice jus and crispy vine leaves

tradition of the autumnal feast with friends

Louise Langford is part of the new influx,

and fellow producers, relishing the region’s

having left a very urban life cooking in top

sage and thyme

abundant produce that comes to life in time

Sydney restaurants to make a home in Barossa.

Hutton Vale lamb with rosemary and garlic

for end of vintage festivities.

“Ten years ago, my experience with venison was

Roast free range Barossa goose with onion,

Barossa Heritage pork loin with quince,

The Black Pig Berkshire ham glazed with

“Autumn is the time of the year when the

with silver service and white linen. Now, it is in the

valley is awash with produce we love to bring

paddock. It isn’t a path I ever imagined, but I wouldn’t

together on the plate, including game, lamb,

have it any other way. It is an appreciation that goes

Milk fed venison, rare roasted with red

quinces, grapes, figs, quinces, heritage fruits

far beyond what you learn in a restaurant kitchen.”

currant, preserved lemon and chocolate

and vegetables,” Saskia says. “Everything in

Aldna Farms’ tomato and shallots with

season around the time the grapes are ready for harvest is what the Barossa table is all about.”

Saskia’s harvest table this year featured her own Barossa Farm Produce and The Black Pig

mustard and cloves

red wine vinegar, an aubergine, parsley The 2013 Barossa Vintage Festival

and basil salad with vino cotto, and

Saturday, March 30 to Sunday, April 7

organic zucchini with mint and Barossa

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Cheese Peri Feta.

Berkshire pig range along with sustainable produce

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Photos: Dragan Radocaj

5 stalks flat leaf parsley

temperature, then season with salt and pepper.

1 shallot

5. Pre-heat oven to 250 degrees (fan forced)

1 witlof bulb

and place the pheasant in a roasting pan,

50g pancetta, rind removed, sliced into lardons

skin side up.

and fried off in advance

6. Cooking time: 10 minutes for 800g-1kg

Pheasant ingredients

½ cup of white grapes cut in half

bird. Twelve minutes for 1.1kg-plus bird.

1 free range, corn fed pheasant

½ cup red grapes cut in half

7. Remove from oven and rest for

1 orange – zest and squeeze for juice

20ml Maggie Beer vino cotto

approximately 25 minutes before carving.

¼ bunch thyme

30ml Maggie Beer verjuice

8. To prepare the salad, thinly slice shallots,

1 clove garlic, sliced

20ml extra virgin olive oil

strip two sprigs of thyme, slice the base of

10 juniper berries

1 lemon – zest and juice of half

the witlof bulbs and separate the leaves.

Grape Harvesters Roast Barossa Pheasant

50ml olive oil

Pluck the parsley and tarragon leaves then

30ml Maggie Beer verjuice

METHOD

mix all the ingredients together with the

Murray River salt

1. To prepare the pheasant, make an incision

pancetta, vino cotto, olive oil, juice of half a

Pepper

between the skin of the maryland and breast

lemon and a dash of the verjuice, seasoning

buffet (frame), then separate the legs from the

with a good pinch of salt and pepper.

The Pheasant can also be substituted with a

breast buffet, keeping the backbone on.

9. Pre heat a fry pan with a little olive oil

Barossa Chook

2. For the marinade, bruise the juniper berries,

a knob of butter and add any juices from

strip thyme leaves and mix together with orange

the resting pheasant and the remaining

zest and juice, sliced garlic, and olive oil, then

verjuice – reduce for a minute or two – add

rub into the bird.

the red and white grapes and cook for

3. Marinade for at least six hours, but preferably

another minute but make sure the grapes

grape and herb salad INGREDIENTS

one to two days ahead of time, turning the

hold their shape. Reserve to sauce.

pheasant at least once a day.

10. Lay the salad on a large platter, then place

1 sprig tarragon

4. Take pheasant from the fridge two to three

the carved pheasant on top, and finish by

4 sprigs thyme

hours in advance, allowing it to reach room

spooning over the grapes and juices.

Grape and herb salad

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breakfast / brunch feature

The Breakfast Clubs T o choose a classic staple such as eggs benedict or to go out on a limb and select something edgy

and different when ordering

breakfast, that is the question. A first world

problem, definitely, but a perfect breakfast or brunch sets you up for the rest of the day.

The Adelaide Review visited five different locations as they prepared their highlight breakfast/brunch dishes for autumn.

East Terrace Continental

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East Terrace Continental

Jones the Grocer

Milano Cucina

For six years King William Street’s Jones the Grocer As much as you love to try the new happening

has brought a touch of class to breakfast and lunch

The north Italian cuisine of Milano Cucina caters

places you can’t beat the old favourites. For

dining. Finalist for best cafe three years in a row at the

from casual breakfasts to fine dining. If you want

breakfast and brunch that Adelaide old favourite

Restaurant and Catering Awards, Jones the Grocer’s

a hearty breakfast look no further than Milano’s

is East Terrace Continental (better known as ETC).

fresh rotating menu offers modern Australian food

Big Breakfast. It makes other big breakfasts

We’ve all gone through scores of benedicts and flat

that mixes and matches world flavours. If you are

look like brunch canapés. With bacon, sausage,

whites from the East Terrace cafe, and it delivers

unsure of what to try from Jones the Grocer’s menu,

tomato, egg, hash brown, toast and spinach,

each and every time. The food is classic breakfast

hit up The Breakfast Club: Jones Club Sandwich: a

Milano’s Big Breakfast is big on flavour as well

with an Italian twist and that was served when we

triple-layered sandwich of bacon, smoked turkey,

as big on the plate.

tried the crumbed poached egg with napolitana

fried egg, avocado, brie, tomato, lettuce and aioli.

sauce (not on the menu), which was beautiful

Look out for owner Colin Baldock’s new CBD cafe

while their eggs Florentine (main picture) is as

Colin & Co, which is set to open soon.

memorable as the first time you tried it at ETC five, 10 or 15 years ago. etccafe.com.au

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milanocucina.com

Adelaide’s best gourmet grocer and café

Public

Cafe Troppo

New cafe/bar Public might be the new kid on

With its sustainable ethos Cafe Troppo brings a dash

the Franklin Street block but it has left a major

of Melbourne cool to Whitmore Square. Manager

impression in its short stay on the office district

Maddie Harris says Troppo’s breakfast menu is

of Franklin Street with its hip interior and classy

about good healthy whole food that is made fresh

menu. Head Chef Stewart Wesson, the 2012

to order. Troppo served us hand-made muesli with

Electrolux Australian Young Chef of the Year,

fresh and stewed seasonal fruit with biodynamic

says the breakfast menu is “simple using good

yoghurt, an item that changes with the season. “In

local produce”. With hand-made croissants,

winter, when we first opened, we served it with

danishes, scones and brioches, a taste of a

stewed quinces (delicious!) and then moved onto

European morning can be accompanied with

apples and pears. A couple of months ago when

a Public espresso. Wesson prepared a sneak

stone fruit started popping we would serve fresh

preview of Public’s autumn breakfast menu:

peach and nectarine with the muesli. Lately we’ve

blue swimmer crab omelette with Korean chilli

been inundated with homegrown plums from

paste, spring onion and cherry tomato caramel.

friends/customers, so have been making them

A perfect and delectable way to kickstart your

into yummy compotes.” Another popular Troppo

working day.

breakfast item is The Poachie: “It’s a couple of softpoached eggs on thick rye sourdough toast with fresh seasonal greens, house made Troppo pesto and shaved SA parmesan,” Maddie explains.

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food,wine & coffee recipes of stuffed vegetables and served with

CHEESE MATTERS

honey and breadcrumbs as a sweet dish. It makes a healthy accompaniment to dessert, and can be slightly sweetened to sit next to a seasonal fruit tart of either cherries, rhubarb,

Labneh

quince or figs.

Labneh is most commonly made of cow milk,

Kris Lloyd

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but can also be made from goat and sheep milk when in season. Labneh bil zayit (labneh in oil)

abneh is a Middle Eastern cheese made

is how I like to store my homemade labneh.

entirely from yoghurt, mainly found

It always looks spectacular particularly when

across the Levant in Lebanon, Syria,

the olive oil is a vibrant green, a contrast to

Jordan and Israel. It has a similar texture

the pure white balls. I recommend preserving

to lactic style cheeses such as chevre. It is

the labneh in this way, because it can be kept

sometimes referred to as yoghurt cheese.

for over a year in the fridge, as it ages it

Most commonly rolled into balls, labneh is

turns a little sourer. This is simply done by

served with extra virgin olive oil, or used as an accompaniment with cucumbers, tomatoes, and herbs. Labneh is creamy, tangy, and versatile as both a breakfast staple and a fabulous tapas style food.

Yoghurt in any form is an important component in Levantine cuisine, eaten for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. One famous Levantine dish is labneh mixed with crushed dry mint leaves, garlic, salt and a little sliced cucumber, similar to the popular Greek tzatziki, but considerably thicker. This can be served with pita bread as a tapas, the mint is a standout along with a fresh sweet milkiness.

Labneh can be eaten as a sweet or savoury

“

There are a whole host of seasonings and variations on a simple labneh recipe, the only constants being yoghurt, some cheesecloth, string and a sieve."

food. It is often included in Middle Eastern

rolling the labneh into little balls the size of

thermometers, cultures and rennet. Labneh

a walnut and carefully filling a clean jar with

is a rare example of a dish made with a

the labneh balls. Add some fresh herbs of

single ingredient and it is wonderfully easy

your choice, top with a good quality vintaged

to make. I use plain natural yoghurt, but for a

South Australian olive oil. Ensure the labneh

more robust, almost feta-like flavour, try sheep

is completely covered and seal the jar with a

or goat’s yoghurt. There are a whole host of

lid. Use as needed plain or rolled in herbs and

seasonings and variations on a simple labneh

spices. A favourite of mine is rolling in za’atar

recipe, the only constants being yoghurt, some

and serving with warm pita bread.

cheesecloth, string and a sieve.

Most cheese making requires heat,

Labneh recipe Ingredients 1 tbsp salt 4 cups plain yogurt Cheesecloth Herbs of your choice: e.g. mint, oregano, sumac, olives, chilli, coriander seeds and rosemary – your imagination is the limit South Australian olive oil

Method Stir the salt into the yoghurt, pour into a wet cheesecloth, secure the opening together with string and hang for 24 hours at room temperature or around 48 hours in the fridge.

I tie the bag on a wooden spoon handle, which

consistency by over stirring. Add sugar or

sits across the top of a deep saucepan. Allow

honey if you are looking for a sweet version.

enough room under the bag so it does not sit

No excuses, this is so simple to make and

in the whey. The collected whey can be used in

so delicious to eat. It is healthy alternative

cooking or added to smoothies, it has a very

to high fat dips and you can boast that you

high nutritional value so don’t throw it away!

have made it yourself. I hope I have inspired

The longer you leave it hanging the firmer the

you all to give this a try and if I have I’m sure

labneh will be. Remove the labneh from the

you will be hooked.

bag, roll it into small balls and put in a clean jar as I have described. Cover with olive oil, and herbs and spices of your choice.

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PLANNING

INNOVATION

The Depot, Photo: Sam Noonan Photographer

Australian Institute of Landscape Architects

the arts architect Steve Grieve talks major new Fringe hub The Depot and other arts projects

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behind the scenes Review of book, Behind the Scenes, about the politics of planning Adelaide

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The arts architect With new Fringe venue The Depot, architect Steve Grieve continues his three-decade career of combining two loves – the arts and architecture.

The Depot

David Knight

containers really effectively to define space. Not

“He’s [Vrynois] been able to bring in an array of

Grieve says completing jobs that combine the

only are you building walls and defining spaces but

different people. The graphic designers, fashion

ince moving to Adelaide from Sydney in

arts and architecture, such as Glenside’s recent

also you’ve got all these containers that you can use

industry people and all these different food stalls. He’s

1978, Steve Grieve, Director of Grieve-

Adelaide Studios for the South Australian Film

for storage. It makes sense. There were a number

got connections with those guys and brought them

Gillett, has been a major part of the arts

Corp and the new home for the Adelaide Central

of things we looked at but shipping containers

in and made them all work together, which is great.”

fabric of Adelaide. He has been involved

School of Art, which is in the same precinct, is

were readily available and a logical thing to use. It

The Depot has been able to tap into different

“enriching and important”.

certainly has a connection back to Red Square but

communities by hosting the food truck expo

it’s certainly not based on Red Square, as such.”

Fork on the Road as well as pop up stalls such

S

in major arts projects such as the Lions Art Centre,

You just develop an interest and get involved.”

The Depot

Tandanya, JamFactory and Adelaide Studios, as

“I happen to enjoy being involved with the

well as Fringe and Festival venues such as Adelaide

arts, so the projects we tend to do are involved

Grieve Gillett joined The Depot project after David

as Bar 9 and Cantina. Then there are the nightly

Festival’s infamous Red Square for the 96 Festival.

with that. But we, Grieve Gillett, do a lot of

O’Sullivan rang Grieve to say he was part of a group

local and national bands and events such as

Red Square influenced new major Fringe venue

infrastructure projects; railway stations, lots of

interested in developing the former Franklin St bus

Colourpalooza. This sense of bringing together

The Depot, an open-air hub located on the site of

stuff in the public realm, work in universities,

depot into a multi-purpose arts venue.

different communities is an important part of what

the old Franklin St bus depot.

I’m working on the new hospital, so they are

Grieve, who was recently named the AIA

typically in the public realm.”

“He knew of my involvement in earlier Fringe

makes arts venues work, according to Grieve.

and Festival projects over the years such as Red

“No matter if you are in the city, the country

Square and things like that. He sent me a brief

or wherever, to get arts venues to work, and I

and invited me to have a discussion about it.”

think The Depot fulfills this, it must have a multi-

President (SA Chapter), joined the Fringe board last

The Depot, an open-air Fringe venue that hosts

year. He was the Chair of Country Arts SA for six

entertainment facilities, bars, pop-up food stalls and

years and a Director of Regional Arts Australia, as

more, continues the Red Square tradition of using

Grieve invited two of his younger staff members,

faceted appeal. It must appeal to different groups

well as a participant on a host of other arts boards.

shipping containers to build walls and define space.

Dino Vrynois and Jessica MacDonald, to join him

in our community, so they all go to one place for

“It’s a sense of community responsibility,” Grieve

“There’s a connection in that we used shipping

for the discussion, as they had their “fingers on the

different reasons but then they intermingle and

explains about his arts affiliations. “Why do people

containers at Red Square and basically that’s

pulse”. Vrynois is now deeply embedded in the

cross-pollinate. Location is really important, as

stand for parliament? Why do people join councils?

because they were cheap. You can use shipping

project as The Depot’s Creative Manager.

well as the connection to different communities.”

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form Book Review: Adelaide city planning politics follow a fascinating historical trail

of the book is preoccupied with the changing cast of players on the city planning stage during that period, and their effect on the evolution of planning tools, technicalities, and the strategic and statutory complexities.

To add more colourful thread to the weave, in

John Bridgland

recent years (2007 to 08) the author undertook the

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“If we go back to the early 80s, it was

ere’s a new Adelaide resource that pulls together the technical and sometimes volatile political threads of town planning during a specific period and is a significant historical reference. This book would be useful for any South Australian curious to know how our inner city’s older as well as more contemporary fabric was shaped. Decisive political and bureaucratic tussles were played out, particularly between the period 1972 and 1993, and continue to shape government policy within the city’s boundaries today.

either the Fringe or the Festival where

In the case of this work, what was originally

appropriate, may have been more readable had it

it happened. It was one of the other. In

a 2010 University of Adelaide doctoral history

instead focused on a narrative based on themes.

some ways the Fringe started to be the

thesis has now been edited into a book by the

But to pay his due, the author does end chapters

focal point of that March period for quite

University of Adelaide Press.

Red Square

Grieve believes that Adelaide can host three major Fringe and Festival hubs (Barrio, the Garden of Unearthly Delights and now The Depot) over the Mad March period, not forgetting other venues such as Tuxedo Cat, Arcade Lane and Gluttony.

challenging task of interviewing 47 participants 20 years after that period, including ex-premiers and ministers, mayors and deputies, and key planning advisors and bureaucrats. Some provide fascinating insights; the ‘in-hindsight’ recollections add a deeper perspective.

The work is not without flaws. Hints of the academic tone remain, an unavoidable result when a thesis has been the original source. However, the interviews lighten it up.

The historical chronological approach, while

with brief summaries, and concludes the book

One final observation – still on the theme

a while from 84 to the mid-90s and really

The author, Dr Michael Llewellyn-Smith

with a distillation of key planning principles.

of cycles. A number of key Adelaide planning

Red Square gave the Festival its big focal

AM, brings exceptional credentials. UK born,

For any city observer who has been snared

decision-makers appear to have been employed

success, in my view. It appeared there

but Sydney-based when this personal story

in the sticky politics of the past two decades’

in cycles, and Dr Llewellyn-Smith, who worked

was only enough audience for one or the

begins, he moved to Adelaide in 1974 to become

iterations of city development plans, from

separately from council for about 18 years, is

other. From 96 onwards the audiences were

the city council’s first city planner, a new role

high-level investors, architects and developers

now back – this time as Deputy Lord Mayor

building and you could sustain two focal

that was to mould council and government

to city residents objecting to small and quirky

and, until late last year, a council member of

points and they could co-exist. After Red

planning policy and procedural development

developments just beyond their boundaries, one

the influential council-government Capital City

Square the Festival had the Squeeze Box

in Australia’s ‘Athens of the South’. Between

principle is perhaps the most sobering. “Planning

Committee. And the city council is pondering

then the Persian Garden and now Barrio

1977 and 1981 he also was a commissioner

is a political tool, not a technical process.”

whether to re-create an old role and employ

and they’ve all been really successful. The

of the powerful City of Adelaide Planning

At the December 2012 book release, launched

audiences are built, so Adelaide can sustain

Commission and between 1982 to 1993 he was

by Lord Mayor Stephen Yarwood – a former

a much larger arts festival audience. Now

the council’s town clerk (the equivalent of chief

professional planner who confessed he had

we’ve got the Garden, Barrio and The Depot

executive today). He was thus an insider par

not yet read it – he concluded: “I also want to

as three different focal points and they’ll be

excellence, and the book’s title is not overstated.

say that I’m sure we’ve been writing our own

Consistent with his original objective, there

chapters in the last few months and years and

is historical research on Adelaide’s early years

those stories will continue for ever and ever,

Behind the scenes – The politics of planning Adelaide

from about 1840 and the century that followed,

and ever.” Considering the profound changes

‘An insider’s account of the history of the City of

but the work then moves quickly to the 1960s and

made to the city plan by the state government

Adelaide and of City/State relations from 1972–1993’.

particularly to the period 1972 to 1992 when the

with the concurrence of his council in 2012, his

Dr Michael Llewellyn-Smith AM

council had its own planning and development

observation confirms another of the author’s

University of Adelaide Press.

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control policies and legislation. It was matter

key themes: “Planning is also a continuous

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Absolutely fab

an extended trial and error period, which although necessary was often considered a luxury curtailed by both time and cost.

The FDM technology utilised by Fab Lab Adelaide’s 3D printers may give the printed object’s

Leanne Amodeo

form relatively good definition, but the result is business goal. The provision of opportunities for

quite crude. Designers will still need to send their

delaide’s creative industries continue

local creative communities, however, has been in

prototypes elsewhere for final manufacturing, which

to thrive due in large part to the strong

place from day one.

often takes place offshore. Retaining at least part of

A

sense of kinship and collaboration that

Fab Lab Adelaide’s available resources include

exists in the city’s many creative hubs. From the

a laser cutter, milling machine, vinyl cutter and a

the manufacturing process onshore, however, will

long-established Gray Street Workshop to the

selection of 3D printers – the 3D Touch, UP! and

It may very well only be a matter of time before

newly formed artist-run-initiative Fontanelle,

three MakerBot Thing-O-Matics. These printers

3D printing technology evolves to include rapid

these studios and galleries are vibrant breeding

are extrusion types that use fused deposition

manufacturing, so that the final manufacture of

grounds for experimentation and innovation.

modelling (FDM) to create a three-dimensional

small-scale objects and small parts also rests with

That they are underscored by a strong sense of

object from a digital model, which involves plastic

the designer. Architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars of

community goes a long way in guaranteeing their

being melted via a motorised mechanism and then

Amsterdam-based architecture practice Universe

ongoing growth and the far-reaching success of

laid down in successive layers. The technology

Architecture recently announced plans to construct

many of their affiliated artists and designers. So

behind these 3D printers is impressive and is made

an entire house using a 3D printer. The D-Shape

when a new kid appears on the block that can

all the more expedient by their free and open

can produce sections measuring up to 6 x 9 metres

benefit both hubs and practitioners alike it’s well

source software (FOSS). “This means that their

in size and the house, with a proposed completion

worth standing up and paying attention.

source code is made open and freely available,”

date of 2014, is in the form of a Mobius strip. In this

This new kid goes by the name of Fab Lab Adelaide

says Marsh. “And therefore people from all

respect 3D printing may very well have implications

and it has been in operation since November 2012.

over the world can contribute to enhancing and

for the construction industry as well.

Funded by the South Australian Government’s

evolving the printers’ functionality.”

still prove to be cost effective.

Fab Lab Adelaide might not have the capacity

Department of Further Education, Employment,

Designers that use Fab Lab Adelaide’s 3D

for the scale of construction made possible by the

Science and Technology (DFEEST) and managed

printers are able to rapid prototype small-scale

D-Shape, but what remains its most valuable asset is

by ANAT, it is housed in a modest-sized space of

objects and parts at a much faster rate and with

its accessibility. Designers, artists, hobbyists, small

the Adelaide College of the Arts. In an exciting coup

much less expense. Whereas once upon a time

businesses and students alike can benefit from the

for Adelaide it is the first fabrication laboratory in

prototyping was handmade by a manufacturer

technologies on offer. And, in fact, what defines

Australia and as such belongs to an international

who charged accordingly, designers are now

the global Fab Lab network is an ethos of sharing

network of over 100 fab labs, first founded in

able to do it themselves using 3D printers that are

and collaboration. It lends any Fab Lab in the

the US by Professor Neil Gershenfeld from the

the size of desktop printers. For designers this

world creative strength at a grassroots level and

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

basically removes the often lengthy and costly

for Adelaide; this means the potential for further

As a free-access community workshop, Fab Lab

production process and allows them greater scope

experimentation and innovation amongst its many

Adelaide offers small businesses and individuals’

for experimentation. It’s an incredibly appealing

creative hubs and practitioners.

digital fabrication on a personal scale. “We’re still

proposition that not only has the potential to

a model in development because we started from

change the face of the manufacturing industry,

scratch,” explains ANAT and Fab Lab Adelaide

but that places more emphasis on the designer’s

manager Karen Marsh. “But it’s a model that can

actual creative process. With the possibility for

be replicated throughout Australia.” DFEEST’s

numerous iterations and countless revisions, the

initial funding is for six months only and so

romantic notion that there is increased freedom

achieving long term sustainability is the current

during the creative process translates practically into

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