Adelaide-Born actress Muriel Matters made headlines in 1909 as 'that daring Australian girl' for her bold escapades in the struggle for women's rights in Britain.

On the verge of international recognition, 28-year-old Simon Stone is a director, writer and actor to watch. We capture his fearless energy while he's still working in Australia.

This intimate documentary follows leading Australian choreographer Lucy Guerin and her company as they embark on an ambitious new project.

Comic Book Heroes follows passionate mavericks Wolfgang and Skye and their talented team of artists and writers as they get set to take on the American comic book industry - Australian style.

A two-part documentary series that tells the inside story of two ambitious Australian comic book creators and their battle to penetrate the American market.

This week it's L-Z and begins with the concept of 'Liking' things, endemic in social media, and a first reaction to a lot of art, but we wonder, is that good enough? Then we take a look at Laughter, at being funny on purpose, and at being a joke. We have a quick quiz on Modernism - can you tell from our examples which ones are contemporary art works?

Don't know your biennale from a triennale? Can't tell your old media from your new? Are notions leaving you baffled? The A-Z of Contemporary Art is a bluffer's guide to the often-impenetrable world of contemporary art, from artists, art works and galleries to new media, forms and theories.

Of all the artistic mediums, 'performance art' is perhaps the most difficult to define. From violent interaction, to political expression and shocking self mutilation, performance artists engage their bodies as canvas. Shocking? Certainly. Political? Often. But performance art can also be beautiful, creating arresting images guaranteed to take your breath away.

Pia Interlandi is a unique kind of fashion designer - she makes beautiful shrouds; garments to be buried in. Soul tells the story of Pia's evolution from student and designer of 'Garments for the Grave' to practitioner, as she creates her first shroud for a client.

Stomach takes a look into the life of 26-year-old Melbourne sideshow artist and sword swallower Aerial Manx, exploring how he is pushing the art form to its absolute limits.

Anatomy is a multi-award winning series of documentaries which explore themes of identity and the human body in the creative process. Brain is an intimate and moving documentary that follows the inspiring story of artist and poet, Jamie Daddo and his relationship with his identical twin brother, TV presenter Andrew Daddo.

ABC1's compelling Australian documentary series Artscape returns in 2013 with APT7. The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7) marks the 20th anniversary of the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art's APT series. Featuring the work of 75 artists from 27 countries across the region, this extraordinary celebration of contemporary art from the Asia Pacific is unique in the world.

In May 2012, Richard Tognetti, Artistic Director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO), led a band of musicians, surfers and cinematographers to the rugged surf coast and tough desert landscape of Ningaloo Reef in northern Western Australia. Their task - to create a new performance piece for the ACO called The Reef.

As The Australian Ballet approaches the 50th anniversary of its first performance, Artscape looks back at its origins and goes behind the scenes during the company's latest take on the classical ballet, Swan Lake.

Jenny Sages' portraits have been exhibited 20 times in the Archibald Prize. This year her self-portrait 'After Jack', painted after the death of her husband, was both runner-up in the Archibald and winner of the People's Choice Award.

For 60 years, Australian photographer Jeff Carter traversed this country in search of stories. He wrote books and articles for the magazines of the time like People and Pix. And he never travelled without a camera. From the outset, Carter was drawn to document and celebrate the lives of working folk in the bush. From charcoal cutters and kangaroo shooters to dog trappers and drovers, his archive of wonderful images records a way of life that in many ways no longer exists.

By Spring 2010 at the newly created Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM) the renovations are in the final stages, the first international teachers - violinist William Harvey from the US and Afghan clarinettist Farid Shefta from the Ukraine have settled in, and the timetable issues are solved.

In the unlit rooms of the bullet-pocked Kabul Secondary School of Fine Arts, music students persist with broken instruments, no books, no syllabus and no specialist teachers. After 30 years of conflict and a loss of musical rights during the Taliban regime, the musical culture of Afghanistan has been devastated. Despite all the rebuilding in the country, little has been done for music. In the midst of this despair, Melbourne-based Afghan musicologist Dr Ahmad Sarmast returns to Kabul determined to create the first National Music Institute of Afghanistan.

The first Australian citizen to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, Patrick White endured a life where it seemed his work was criticised more than it was praised. At one point White was described as 'Australia's most unreadable novelist'. Today he is regarded by many as one of the leading Australian authors of the 20th century.

Roger Law was a creator of the highly-successful UK puppet show Spitting Image which ran for 13 years before he deported himself to Australia in 1996 to explore his remaining artistic talent. He underwent a journey of renewal in the bush that ultimately led him to China.

In September 2011, eight months after Australia's most devastating floods, the people of Brisbane came together for a performance by the Queensland Symphony Orchestra (QSO) conducted by Asher Fisch, accompanied by the Brisbane Chorale and Canticum Chamber Choir directed by Emily Cox.

Born in Colombia and now residing in Sydney, Maria Fernanda Cardoso is a Yale graduate and an internationally renowned artist with a reputation for unique installations. Artscape looks at this amazing woman's work as she prepares for an exhibition featuring photographs, footage and 3D models of insect genitalia entitled It's Not Size That Matters, It Is Shape. The exhibition is part of a PhD project titled 'Museum of Copulatory Organs' or MoCo for short.

Virginia Trioli talks with milliner to the stars and fashion icon Philip Treacy OBE. Having designed stand out looks for Lady Gaga, Grace Jones, Sarah Jessica Parker and members of the royal family as well as creating hats for collections by Chanel, Valentino and Ralph Lauren - Treacy has become famous for his 'other worldly' haute couture.

Virginia Trioli talks with cult icon John Waters - a filmmaker, writer, stand-up comedian, visual artist and art collector responsible for such trash cinema classics as Pink Flamingos, Cry-Baby and the film that he's best known for, 1988's Hairspray. Waters's films, which rarely shy from controversy, depict the freakier side of society in a very camp style with the aim of celebrating the underdog.

NERVE is a film about London-based Australian photographer, Paul Knight, and his ambitious project, Proposition. Knight has built his artistic career on pushing the boundaries of sexual representation.

Our friends set out to meet their idols, but when their carefully laid plans begin to unravel, they realise the importance of patience and recognising the idols in your everyday life.

Ty signs up to a social media app without his mum's consent, Christian surprises himself with a science project with hopes it may bring him a windfall, and Damon finds business profits much easier than his classroom maths. Title also stylised as My Year Seven Life.

The kids are ready to redeem their rewards for school achievement for a trip to the water park. Their Pootybucks go missing, sending the entire seventh grade on a quest to save the trip.

In the 1980s, one of the most extraordinary discoveries of the 20th century was made - the personal diary of none other than Adolf Hitler. It caused a sensation. The German magazine De Stern picked up the serialisation rights for a cool $6 million in their own country; the Sunday Times grabbed them eagerly in the UK. A pity then that they turned out to be the work of notorious Konrad Kujua, a Stuttgart forger with an uncanny ability to copy the Fuhrer's handwriting. Cue copious amounts of egg on face. This is the whole story of the hoax, the people behind it and the way it was exposed. In addition, it provides a chilling insight into the burgeoning market for Nazi memorabilia at the time and how men like Kujua went to extraordinary lengths to satisfy the worldwide demand.

When CJ and her friends find themselves at home alone for the night, they discover the challenges of taking care of themselves and realise that having mum and dad around isn't so bad after all.

Inspired by the fact that it takes 10,000 hours to master something, the gang decides to master their own things. But when the reality of this lofty goal sinks in, they must learn the valuable lesson of never giving up.

It's time for the seventh grade elections and CJ and the boys decide to make their voices heard. But when the kids' friendly competition turns negative, can their friendship survive?

Determined to leave a mark on their middle school years CJ, Fen and Crispo try to find their own unique ways of creating lasting mementos of their time at Pootatuck.

Crispo has to serve as the eyes, ears, and legs for sick-at-home Fenwick, while CJ makes the most of her sick day by sneaking out of the house for a lab session with her school crush.

Alex Lee joins the waiting list for childcare, Mark Sutton loses sleep trying to buy a mattress and in FUTube, Julian Morrow questions international transaction fees for online shopping.

Marty has Fragile X and wants workplaces to see that he is an employable man. Cain's insight about his autism and its impact on his life is stirring and Jessica offers up her IT skills to companies targeting neurodiversity.

As Ben's lucrative revenue stream through footy umpiring and a side business at school dries up, he wonders how he'll be able to afford to maintain his expensive wardrobe. Title also stylised as My Year Seven Life.

The delicate order of the school's lunch table system is thrown into chaos when CJ and the boys decide to sit different tables for one day.

The sharpest tools in the comedy shed will once again take to the stage for the ultimate competition of minds and mirth. Two teams battle it out using laughs and logic to prove their team supreme. Moderated by Magda Szubanski.

This documentary is about the underbelly of the American dream, the hidden backyard of our society. Mark's life stands as a metaphor for the struggle of the vanishing middle class in America. But it's also a film about the relationship between New York City and one of its residents. New York is not simply a beautiful backdrop for this story. She's the antagonist that dictates the direction Mark's life is going in. The joy and pain, the love and hate, the success and denial New York is teasing him with, the hardship he is going through in order to stay in her grace and the inventiveness he comes up with to be with her are all unique.

When Crispo joins the school's most popular club and Fen joins the genius group, CJ is left without her pals. Realising it's more fun when they are together, she works to create a club that will reunite the group.

After Ronbie is dumped by his girlfriend, CJ and the boys decide to take matters into their own hands and get their hearts broken now before facing the heartbreaks of high school.

This Logie Award-winning television show takes the audience into the lounge rooms of some of Australia's most opinionated, outspoken and avid TV viewers.

When a Frontline cameraman tapes a savage bashing, the story is aired - with disastrous results.

CJ and the boys decide to expand their group, but making new friends throws each of them into unexpected situations.

Mike is bored, but when Frontline suspect that someone is leaking their stories to another station, he springs into action.

Australia's very own Goggleboxers reveal what they think of the week's best TV.

When Crispo can't afford to join his friends at a concert, CJ and Fen devise a plan to get him a ticket without him knowing it's from them.

Craig Reucassel shines a light on solar power, Zoe Norton Lodge on what to reject when you're expecting, breastfeeding, Mark Sutton loses sleep trying to buy a mattress and, in FUTube, Europcar takes Alex Lee for a ride.

Ben taps into the positive aspects of his OCD while job hunting. Krystyna is geography personified but her Peter Pan attitude is a barrier to work. Jonathan throws his hat in the ring with neurotypical accounting candidates.