Audio-CD; produziert von Danius Kesminas & Dave Nelson (in celebration of Ricky Swallow's representation at the Australian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2005)
ISBN RCD 050610.0X
What the critics say about The Histrionics:
"I was laughing at myself and I was hating myself for laughing at myself – very little art makes me respond as strongly as that. Maybe it's good. It cuts pretension off at the knees."
Dr Rex Butler
"One's entire intellect, body and senses are entwined and not unpleasantly confused in the multiple acts of citation occurring simultaneously, delivering the audience into a kind of whorl of reference that is completely absorbing and which leaves one's critical disposition slightly flailing."
Stuart Koop
"We begin wondering whether the substituted references to contemporary identities in the local art world are reverential, sycophantic, affectionate or critical."
Alex Gawronski
"Tribute bands are cargo cultists, longing for the authority of the absent, international original. The Histrionics act out the art scene's provincialism, and, by playing in pubs, counteracts its privilege."
Dr Chris McAuliffe
"Less like the Party Boys than that part-time band that tennis players John McEnroe and Pat Cash formed to play at post-tournament piss-ups, The Histrionics take AM classics and rewrite them as send-ups of post-modern art-speak 101."
Clinton Walker
"It made me cringe a little – it's just a bit like 'Weird Al' Yankovic really."
Vicki Kerrigan
