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APHIDS is an artist-led experimental art organisation based in Melbourne, Australia. Collaborative and future-focused, APHIDS is led by Co-Directors Lara Thoms and Mish Grigor. The work of APHIDS is feminist, intersectional, angry and funny; bringing artists into meaningful exchange with audiences through performance, critical dialogue and unpredictable encounters in the public realm.

Past APHIDS works have been presented in major venues in every state and territory in Australia, and in more unexpected places: in ricefields and samurai hotels in Japan, churches in Finland, industrial zones in Bulgaria, and beamed into outer space. Our collaborators have included funeral directors, scientists, regional societies, motorcycle and senior citizens’ clubs. Our projects promote open, accessible yet complex and rigorous encounters between artists and public.

NOW IN DEVELOPMENT: NO DRAMAS

Aren't you sick of surprises?

Don't you crave a day, a week...a life where there is nothing to worry about, no problems, no dramas?

Is it possible? Is that what we want?

A new stage work by Mish Grigor / APHIDS makes an attempt at a life with NO DRAMAS.

In a series of games, tasks and social encounters, two women attempt to keep things aggressively chill. They smile with tears in their eyes and push their feelings down, down, down. Into the sock drawer. Never seen again.

See? Easier this way.