On the radio today...

This week's SmartArts featured interviews with:

• Oriel Guthrie, the director/producer of the Australian hip-hop documentary Skip Hop Volume One, released last month on DVD through EMI.
• Young artists John Bartley and Royce Ng came in to talk about Death and Preservation, their debut exhibition examining the re-emergence of rituals and symbols of death, produced in collaboration with Holly and Rowam McNaught. It opens next Wednesday 27th October, 6-8pm at Viewing Space Gallery (Level 6, Room 16, the Nicholas Building, corner of Swanston Street & Flinders Lane) and runs til October 7th.
• Dianne Reid, the artistic director of Dancehouse, joined us to talk about their latest two-week season of new works, SpringDance: "Two programs of Australian and International work, dealing with the body in conflict. Featuring an all female cast, investigating darkly poetic images of physical and emotional states, of human behaviour in times of war or inner turmoil." The season runs from tonight, 21st September, until October 1st.
• Simon Yates from circus company Acrobat came in to chat about Smaller, Poorer, Cheaper (pictured above), their latest show, on at the Meat Market, North Melbourne from tonight until October 1st as part of The Age 2006 Melbourne Fringe Festival.
• In Cerise Howard's fortnightly screen culture segment A Fistful of Celluloid, we discussed the Palme d'Or winning The Wind That Shakes The Barley (powerful, occasionally awkward, and a little over-rated but a strong film al the same); two new Australian films, the excruciatingly bad Macbeth, doomed junkie drama Em 4 Jay (which adds little that's new to the familiar genre despite superb acting from its two leads); and Iranian soccer saga Offside (which Cerise praised highly; sadly I haven't seen it).
• And finally, in our visual art review segment Art Attack, Tai Snaith discussed the City of Melbourne's laneways installations, and recommended you investigate them all...