Maxim Boon, Journalist

"A lot of people have been saying to me, 'Oh isn't everything so surreal now?' I don't know what they mean,"

"I might be disowned by my mob and have to dodge my mum's thong when they hear some of my stories."

"They'd be singing this chirpy little song about, 'Anal rape. Anal rape! La-la-la-la.' And people would be clapping along and laughing."

"The way we understand these great artists is only ever through certain concepts of looking back at the past."

"I want to see more brown sex symbols, ya know. I want to be a brown sex symbol!"

"A bright, brilliant and bravely unbuttoned joyride, probing the nature of... what defines the difference between right and wrong?"

"TANGI WAI... the cry of water, is often swamped by a damaging excess of subtlety."

"Dance can be a magnifying glass for universal experiences - things that are happening with all of us."

"A rare opportunity to forge close relationships with artists in the process of commissioning and developing new work."

"My work comes from a desire to understand the relationship between the narrative and the abstract."