PERFORMANCE SPACE PRESENTS
24 MAY – 16 JUNE
2 0 J U N E – 1 7 J U LY
ABOUT PERFORMANCE SPACE
PUBLIC PROGRAMS: CLUBHOUSE
Performance Space is Australia’s leading agency for interdisciplinary arts, producing and presenting new artistic experiences across multiple sites, locations and venues. Performance Space forges exciting futures for contemporary art in Australia. Our Program focuses on innovative works that captivate and inspire audiences.
Clubhouse is a forum for discussing and expanding the themes and ideas of the Show Off season and a chance to meet the artists through a series of curated public programs. Spanning performance lectures, film nights, workshops and discussion events; Clubhouse aims to form a critical dialogue around the main performance season.
Performance Space is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its principal arts funding body; the New South Wales Government through Arts NSW; and by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments. Performance Space is supported by Carriageworks.
Our Show Off program focuses on the strange truths of celebrity, teen idols and the Gen Y media landscape. Come join us for a co-ed film night with Kate Jinx on Teen Witches and Wilfred Brandt talking about jean-jackets and juvenile delinquents; Seb Goldspink’s take on former child stardom; Sam Twyford-Moore putting Twitter on trial as a creative medium; and a massive Performance Space four-in-one book fair! All Clubhouse tickets $10 Carriageworks 245 Wilson St Eveleigh 2015
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$60 Switched On Day Pass Gets you in Breathing Monster and Deviator $80 Show Off Season Pass — gets you in BINGO Unit, I’m Your Man, The River Eats and one Clubhouse event of your choice between 10-13 July $5 off Show Off – book any two shows and get a $5 discount on your second ticket Clubhouse Special Offer – book any Clubhouse event and get $5 off a main bill show Book Online www.performancespace.com.au Call us 02 8571 9111
Breathing Monster and Deviator are on at National Arts School Forbes St Darlinghurst 2010 Opal Vapour is on at Blacktown Arts Centre 78 Flushcombe Rd Blacktown 2148 Website www.performancespace.com.au Twitter @pspace #pspace Facebook /performancespaceau
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SWITCHED ON / SHOW OFF
Get ready for two hot months of performance and participation in our back-to-back seasons of interdisciplinary art, Switched On and Show Off. Between 24 May and 16 June, Switched On, part of Sydney’s ISEA program, will take place between Carriageworks and the National Art School presenting four projects that explore our physical and personal relationship to technology. You can deviate from the norm by playing interactive games along the streets of Darlinghurst with pvi collective; meditate within John A Douglas’ contemplative video installation and durational performances; discover how Myriam Gourfink’s micro-choreography uses digital technology to shape music in Breathing Monster; and participate in the unveiling ceremony of Forever Now, a project that sets its sights on launching a golden record into space! Between 20 June and 17 July, we present Show Off – an electrifying season of all Australian-made performance at Carriageworks. Starting with the much-anticipated return of the Sydney Festival/ Belvoir boxing hit I’m Your Man by Roslyn Oades, we follow with the interactive live cop show BINGO Unit by Team MESS, and Justin Shoulder’s visually stunning The River Eats. As part of Mobile States touring, we also co-present the powerful contemporary Indonesian music and dance of Opal Vapour by Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal at Blacktown Arts Centre. Bec Dean and Jeff Khan, Performance Space Co-Directors
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John A Douglas, The Visceral Garden video still (2013). Courtesy of Chalk Horse, Sydney.
INSTALLATION / PERFORMANCE
BODY FLUID II (REDUX) John A Douglas
Body Fluid II (redux) is a performance and video installation in which the artist presents the monotony of his daily dialysis treatment as a sublime act of self transformation.
MOVEMENT COACH: Sue Healey ADDITIONAL SOUNDSCAPES: Naomi Oliver and Heath Franco COLLABORATIVE PERFORMER: Naomi Oliver
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. John A Douglas has been supported by a residency at the Creative Practice Lab, School of the Arts and Media, UNSW through partnership with Performance Space, and residency at the School of Human Disease UNSW. John A Douglas is represented by Chalk Horse, Sydney.
From Thursday to Saturday, Douglas will perform a ten-hour movement score while undertaking peritoneal dialysis, offering visitors an opportunity to reflect on their mortality and to experience the exhibition space as a place for healing and quiet contemplation. The performance is flanked by figurative video landscapes, where his imaginary golden figure references the visual motifs of Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) and elements of Russian mysticism found in the cinema of Andrej Tarkovsky. In his new work, The Visceral Garden, Douglas uses macro photography of specimens at the Museum of Human Disease UNSW for an ontological investigation of his illness that takes us on a descent into the underworld.
24 MAY – 16 JUNE Installation SUN – WED 10AM – 6PM Performance Days THURS – SAT 10AM – 8PM CARRIAGEWORKS 245 WILSON ST EVELEIGH 2015 FREE
INSTALLATION / PERFORMANCE
BODY FLUID II (REDUX) John A Douglas
Image: John A Douglas, The Visceral Garden video still (2013). Courtesy of Chalk Horse, Sydney.
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INTERACTIVE GAME / PERFORMANCE
DEVIATOR pvi collective
Are you ready for some serious playtime? Prepare for citywide disruption as Australia’s notorious tactical media art group pvi collective take over the streets of Darlinghurst.
11 – 16 JUNE 6:30PM & 8:00PM DURATION: 40 MIN NATIONAL ART SCHOOL FORBES ST ENTRANCE DARLINGHURST 2010
During the twilight hours, immerse yourself in an outdoor game experience and become an urban ‘deviator’, temporarily transforming the city into a playground.
$35 FULL $25 CONC / MEMBERS $20 STUDENT RUSH (FRIDAY 14 JUNE)
Your mission is to seek out 15 audio instructions hidden in public spaces and play as many of the games as possible. From ‘guerrilla pole dancing’ and ‘ring-a-ring-aroses’, to ‘spin the bottle’ and ‘twister’, each instruction is an open invitation to exploring public spaces in a new way, and deviating from the norm. Activating philosophies around revolution, Deviator will alter your perception of life in the city as you know it.
DEVISED BY pvi collective PRODUCED BY Kate Neylon REMIXES BY Jason Sweeney DEVIATOR GAMES VOICE OVERS BY Kelli Mccluskey DESIGNED BY Sohan Ariel Hayes & Benjamin Forster DEVELOPMENT BY Steve Berrick & Chris Mccormick PROGRAMMING BY Chris Mccormick TECHNICAL CONSULTANCY BY Prof. Mark Billinghurst [hitlab nz]
Presented by Performance Space and National Art School for the International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA).
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Image: Deviator. Photo by Lucy Parakhina
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Image: Myriam Gourfink, Breathing Monster. Photo by Nicolas Chaussy.
MUSIC & DANCE
BREATHING MONSTER Myriam Gourfink and Kasper Toeplitz (France)
From one of Europe’s leading choreographers Myriam Gourfink and acclaimed Polish-French composer Kasper Toeplitz comes Breathing Monster, a synthesis of hypnotic sound and uncanny physical movement.
CREATED AND PERFORMED BY Myriam Gourfink (dance choreography) and Kasper Toeplitz (electric bass). LOLDANSE IS UNDERWRITTEN BY Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles, Ministry of Culture and Communication, and represented by Julie George & Damien Valette.
Presented by Performance Space and National Art School in partnership with Critical Path and Dancehouse.
A woman gently glides through a long, narrow and invisible maze creating a series of micro-movements in extreme slow motion. As her body propels forward with the stillness of time itself, it gathers incredible momentum, and her gestures become a gravity-defying feat. With prodigious precision, her bodily contortions alter the surrounding musical landscape, breathing new meaning to everything that we see, hear and feel. Blending live music, motion-sensing technology and extreme physicality, Gourfink and Toeplitz design a suspenseful journey through the void, where a Breathing Monster emerges in a wonderfully original narrative about abstraction, time and space.
14 – 16 JUNE FRI - SUN 8PM DURATION: 50 MIN NATIONAL ARTS SCHOOL CELL BLOCK THEATRE FORBES ST DARLINGHURST NSW 2010 $45 FULL $35 CONC / MEMBERS $30 STUDENT RUSH (FRIDAY 14 JUNE)
FOREVER NOW, PROJECT LAUNCH Brian Ritchie, Jeff Khan, Thea Baumann, Willoh S. Weiland
15 JUNE FOREVERNOW.ME GO TO WEBSITE FOR TIME AND LOCATION.
What should art say to infinity? Forever Now is a golden record for the 21st Century, compiled and designed by a cross-disciplinary team of artists and curators. This special event will officially launch the Forever Now project nationally and internationally. It will unleash a 6-month open call for submissions that will conclude with the commission of 44 original artworks and the launch of the digital and physical record into deep space. In the footsteps of the Voyager Golden Records, sent into space in 1977 by NASA as a record of culture and science at that time, Forever Now seeks to
investigate our current historical moment. It re-imagines this curatorial act as experimental, politically charged and for the first time places artists at the democratic centre of speaking on humanity’s behalf. Over the course of this event the Forever Now website will go live, the curators will unveil their first selections for the record, as well as the scientific processes that will launch the finished work.
Image: Forever Now. Photo by Lucy Parakhina.
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DIRECTOR:
COMMERCIAL INNOVATION CONSULTANT:
An Aphids project in association
Willoh S.Weiland
Tony Bonney, Podium
with Performance Space, MONAFOMA
PRODUCER:
APHIDS ASSOCIATE ARTISTS:
Erin Milne
Elizabeth Dunn, Martyn Coutts,
and Vitalstatistix
Lara Thoms, Thea Baumann, CURATORS:
Tristan Meecham
Brian Ritchie, Jeff Khan,
SOUND DESIGN AND COMPOSITION:
Thea Baumann,
Kelly Ryall
Willoh S. Weiland PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: RECORD DESIGN AND CREATION:
Mark Pritchard
Susan Cohn FUNDERS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: WEB DESIGN AND PROGRAMMING:
Australia Council,
Narinda Reeders and Max Wheeler
City of Melbourne, Arts Victoria
MUSIC & DANCE
OPAL VAPOUR Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal in collaboration with Ria Soemardjo and Paula van Beek
Against a shimmering terrain of shadow and sand a modern ritual is danced and sung of mountains, bones and ghostly rivers.
20 – 22 JUN THURS – SAT 8PM SAT MATINEE 2PM DURATION: 50 MIN BLACKTOWN ARTS CENTRE 78 FLUSHCOMBE RD BLACKTOWN 2148
Opal Vapour is a powerful music, light and dance performance exploring the Javanese mystical traditions of shadow puppet theatre, gamelan and trance possession ceremonies.
$30 FULL $20 CONC / MEMBERS
Ria Soemardjo’s mesmerising live music score and Paula van Beek’s sublime lighting landscapes provide the perfect backdrop for Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal’s sinuous exploration of belonging to a birthplace.
WED 19 JUNE 10AM - 1PM Artists workshop focusing on intercultural and interdisciplinary aspects of Opal Vapour
DIRECTION & CHOREOGRAPHY: Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal DANCE PERFORMANCE: Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal MUSIC COMPOSITION: & PERFORMANCE Ria Soemardjo TEXTILE & COSTUME DESIGN: Ria Soemardjo LIGHTING, AV & SET DESIGN: Paula van Beek
Drawing on influences from ballet, Javanese, Balinese and African dance, to Japanese martial arts, Opal Vapour is an exquisitely executed dialogue between the real and imagined physical spaces inhabited by spiritually fluid beings.
SOUND DESIGN CONSULTANT: Kelly Ryall PERFORMANCE REALISATION: Helen Herbertson
Presented by Performance Space, Blacktown Arts Centre and Mobile States
‘Exuding sensuality from every pore – her strong technique a mere vehicle for her expressive power’ Dance Australia Magazine
Toured by Performing Lines for Mobile States with the support of the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding
‘Ria Soemardjo sings. Her whole body becomes voice. There is a kind of simplicity to her physicality that makes space for the sound to emerge as pure affect‘ Real Time
and advisory body. Originally presented with Malthouse Theatre as part of Helium with assistance from the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria. Blacktown Arts Centre is a contemporary arts facility of Blacktown City Council.
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Image: Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal, Opal Vapour. Photo by Lucy Parakhina.
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Image: Justin Shoulder, The River Eats (2013). Photo by Jordan Graham.
THEATRE PERFORMANCE
THE RIVER EATS Justin Shoulder and Collaborators
Urban mythmaker Justin Shoulder and collaborators create a unique fusion of hand-made craft with live performance, in a spectacular theatrical ceremony.
DEVISED, PERFORMED, COSTUME & SET DESIGN: Justin Shoulder VIDEO AND LIGHTING DESIGN: Toby Knyvett COMPOSER AND SOUND DESIGN: Nick Wales
The River Eats charts the journey of Pinky – an over-caffeinated, attention-deficient demon whose identity is undergoing a fantastic metamorphosis. As Pinky’s haunted psyche unravels, we are dragged into a turbulent techno world of mirrors and estrangement.
CREATIVE PRODUCER AND DRAMATURG: Jeff Stein VIDEO AND SFX: Rebecca Stegh
The River Eats has been supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, the City of Melbourne through Arts House, Next
Based on the Taoist notion that every independent entity possesses an inherent opposite, this is an evolutionary tale of instinct navigating a world of material distraction. A standout of Melbourne’s 2012 Next Wave Festival, The River Eats is a visually stunning fable of transformation and desire.
Wave Festival, and Performance Space.
“A beautiful exploration of the estrangements of desire. Truly astonishing.” Theatre Notes
3 – 13 JULY WED-SAT 8:30PM SAT 6 JULY 2PM DURATION: 60 MIN CARRIAGEWORKS 245 WILSON ST EVELEIGH 2015 $35 FULL $25 CONC / E-SUBSCRIBERS $20 STUDENT RUSH (FRI 5 & 12 JULY) $20 PREVIEW (WED 3 JULY) FREE MEMBERS - ALL SHOWS FREE GREEN MATINEE SAT 6 JULY, 2PM PRE-BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL FRI 5 JULY Meet the artists Q & A after the show.
INTERACTIVE FILM & PERFORMANCE
BINGO UNIT Team MESS
Image: Team MESS, BINGO Unit. Photo by Lucy Parakhina.
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INTERACTIVE FILM & PERFORMANCE
BINGO UNIT Team MESS
Grab a police badge, holster and gun, and step into a TV crime drama. BINGO Unit is an interactive, multimedia police drama experience, inviting you to explore your inner good or bad cop.
10 - 13 JUL WED - SAT ENTRY AT 6:30PM, 7:15PM, 8:00PM, 8:45PM STAY AS LONG AS YOU LIKE (CLOSES 9:30PM) SAT 13 JULY ENTRY ALSO AT 11:00AM, 11:45AM, 12:30PM, 1:15PM STAY AS LONG AS YOU LIKE (CLOSES 2:00PM) CARRIAGEWORKS 245 WILSON ST EVELEIGH 2015 $35 FULL $25 CONCESSION / E-SUBSCRIBERS $20 STUDENT RUSH (FRI 12 JUN) FREE MEMBERS - ALL SHOWS FREE GREEN MATINEE SAT 13 JULY, 11AM PRE-BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL CALL OUT: BINGO UNIT PRE-PRODUCTION LOCATION SHOOTS To play a part in the location shoots 2-6 July, please email projects@performancespace.com.au for more details. FRI 12 JULY Meet the artists Q&A after the show.
Play your part in the show, join Team MESS and special guest stars Chris Haywood (Sleeping Beauty, Top of the Lake, Jindabyne) and Wendy Blacklock (Number 96) on a studio backlot tour to complete the shooting of the pilot episode. You’ll be fuelled with donuts and coffee to explore the studios, and live all your favourite cop clichés and hard-hitting drama, with plenty of guns, forensic babble, line-ups, interrogations, twists, turns and a dramatic courtroom finale.
CREATED BY Dara Gill, Frank Mainoo, Malcolm Whittaker, Natalie Randall DRAMATURG John Baylis PRODUCED BY Intimate Spectacle. Supported by Information & Cultural Exchange
BINGO Unit was developed with the assistance the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, Next Wave, University of Sydney (Department of Performance Studies),
“One of the hits of the Next Wave Festival.” Herald Sun
Performance Space and Queen Street Studios.
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Image: Team MESS, BINGO Unit. Photo by Lucy Parakhina.
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Image: Billy McPherson, I’m Your Man. Photo by Lucy Parakhina.
THEATRE
I’M YOUR MAN Roslyn Oades
Enter the boxing gym… a place of dreams of glory, of a better life. Between skipping ropes and punching bags, you train hard, being sure of only one thing: you will eventually lose.
CREATOR & DIRECTOR: Roslyn Oades SOUND DESIGNER: Bob Scott LIGHTING DESIGNER: Neil Simpson MOVEMENT DIRECTOR: Lee Wilson (Branch Nebula) SCRIPT DRAMATURG: Raimondo Cortese
Your chance to catch a Sydney Festival 2012 sell out show. For months, theatre director Roslyn Oades followed a determined young boxer from Western Sydney through his preparations for a world title fight. Based on real-life interview recordings of those she met along his journey, I’m Your Man is the story of legends, up-and-comers and failed contenders who have been irreversibly changed by the fight game.
Starring: Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Billy McPherson, Katia Molino, Justin Rosniak & John Shrimpton
Presented by Performance Space and Mobile States. A Belvoir production created by Roslyn Oades. Toured by Performing Lines for Mobile States with the support of the Australian Government through
The no-holds-barred dialogue boils with the absolute immediacy of the ringsides, gyms and backstage dressing rooms before a fight; the words of Oades’ interviewees delivered verbatim, as heard through earpieces. Depicting no ordinary lives, this is real testosterone-fuelled, high-stakes theatre at its best. Bring your sweat towel.
the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body and Playing Australia. Originally produced by Belvoir and Sydney Festival in association with BYDS.
“ringside voices deliver a knockout punch... you will seldom see theatre as vivid and as warm as this” Sydney Morning Herald “9/10 “Don’t miss it.” Sun Herald “Oades has an extraordinary ability to take us into different worlds and introduce us to new people” John McCallum, The Australian
10 - 17 JULY MON-FRI 7PM SAT 2PM & 7PM DURATION: 70 MIN CARRIAGEWORKS 245 WILSON ST EVELEIGH 2015 $35 FULL $25 CONCESSION / E-SUBSCRIBERS $20 STUDENT RUSH (FRI 12 JUL) FREE MEMBERS - ALL SHOWS FREE GREEN MATINEE SAT 13 JUL, 2PM FRIDAY 12 JULY Meet the artists Q&A after the show.
SWITCHED ON PROGRAM BODY FLUID II (REDUX) John A Douglas 24 May – 16 June
DEVIATOR pvi collective 11 – 16 June
BREATHING MONSTER Myriam Gourfink and Kasper Toeplitz (France) 14 – 16 June
FOREVER NOW Brian Ritchie, Jeff Khan, Thea Baumann, Willoh S. Weiland 15 June
SHOW OFF PROGRAM OPAL VAPOUR Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal and collaborators 20 – 22 June
THE RIVER EATS Justin Shoulder and collaborators 3 – 13 JULY
BINGO UNIT Team MESS 10 – 13 July
I’M YOUR MAN Roslyn Oades 10 – 17 JULY
PUBLIC PROGRAMS: CLUBHOUSE Various 9 – 13 July