LIVEWORKS 2015
Performance Space PRESENTS
LIVEWORKS Festival oF Experimental Art 22 OCT – 7 NOV 2015
IMMERSE YOURSELF IN EXPERIMENTAL ART AT PERFORMANCE SPACE Performance Space unleashes the extraordinary Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art on Sydney. In 2015, Liveworks features acclaimed Australian and international artists in a diverse program that spans theatre, dance, digital media, and visual arts. A bold new festival for Sydney, Liveworks is championing the most provocative, risky, and ambitious new developments in experimental arts practice and connecting artists and audiences with dynamic and innovative new work across the Asia Pacific. Liveworks is presented as three distinct programs, which include the Major Works, a Free Performance Program, and a series of Public Programs. It is designed to immerse our guests in a rich festival experience that brings you closer to the art and provokes new discoveries.
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CONTENTS 4 Artistic Director’s Welcome 5 Performance Space Chair’s Welcome 6 Liveworks Opening Party
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MAJOR WORKS
8 Jonathan Jones 10 Robot Opera 12 Hissy Fit 14 Victoria Hunt 16 Muscle Mouth 18 Nicola Gunn 20 Vicki van Hout 22 Eisa Jocson
24 FREE PERFORMANCe PROGRAM
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PUBLIC PROGRAMS
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Week 1 Schedule Week 2 Schedule Week 3 Schedule
36 How to Book 37 Accessibility 38 Supporters 38 STAFF & BOARD
JEFF KHAN ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, PERFORMANCE SPACE
WELCOME TO LIVEWORKS Welcome to Performance Space’s Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art. I am delighted to share our first Liveworks program with you. Over seventeen days, Liveworks brings together a host of artists and works from across Australia and the Asia Pacific region that forge new ground in contemporary art and propose new ways of seeing the world, and ourselves. Blurring the boundaries between artforms and disciplines, the Liveworks artists expand the possibilities of what art can be and what it can do. We present Liveworks because we believe that experimentation, risk, and new perspectives are necessary not only to the forward momentum of art, but for a thriving and healthy culture more broadly. In the early decades of the 21st Century, our increasingly global outlook is challenged by critical questions about our relationship to the world and each other – the sustainability of our way of life and our relationship to our land and environment. We are tested by our immersion in rapidlyevolving new technologies and how they are transforming our social and cultural boundaries – and indeed, our sense of what it means to be human. The struggle to transcend narrow conceptions of gender, sexuality and selfhood continues to incite protest, critique, and social debate. And the pivotal role of Indigenous and non-Western cultures in shaping our past, present and future plays an ever more crucial role in our understanding of the world we know and inhabit. The artists involved in Liveworks offer us insights into how we can see differently – and how we might orient ourselves differently in the world. The Liveworks program is designed for you to take in multiple experiences in a single visit – from exhibitions to performances, discussions with artists, workshops, soundscapes and beyond. We encourage you to dive in, take a risk, and join us for the journey. See you at Carriageworks!
Jonathan CAsson chair, PERFORMANCE SPACE directorate
a message from the chair It is with great pleasure and excitement that I welcome you to our 2015 Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art. This is the first major festival for Performance Space, set to consolidate our position as a world leader in experimental arts. Performance Space is excited to take this next step in connecting artists and audiences with dynamic and innovative new works from around the world. I encourage you to fully immerse yourself in the Liveworks experience and engage in experimental art that will inspire and surprise you. Liveworks in 2015 presents a spectacular program of new works, brimming with artists that continue to push boundaries, challenge cultural assumptions and question social order. With an impressive line-up that includes over ninety artists in fourteen World Premieres and two Australian premieres, Liveworks cements Performance Space’s commitment to diversity, inclusion, and experimental work of the highest calibre. We are thrilled to co-present new works by Jonathan Jones and Wade Marynowsky with Carriageworks, our valued collaborator. Continued partnerships with Force Majeure and Performing Lines through Mobile States have enriched the programming for this year’s festival. We are on a journey to deepen our relationship across our region and ensure that our programming brings the best of experimental work to Sydney. This year we are delighted to present the powerful new work Triumphs and Other Alternatives from New Zealand’s Muscle Mouth and the provoking trilogy of work from The Philippines’ Eisa Jocson, an exciting step towards fulfilling our Liveworks vision. I invite you to check out this brochure and build your ideal Liveworks experience. Take advantage of the multipack ticketing options, get closer to our artists through the Public Program and enjoy great free entertainment from our Free Performance Program. This is the future of experimental arts, and I look forward to sharing it with you.
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Performance Space invites you to the
LIVEWORKS OPENING PARTY 22 OCT
6:30 – 11PM
Glam up, frock up and rock up to the official opening of the 2015 Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art! Presenting a night of curated performances, drinks, eats, and good times, Performance Space is opening the doors to Carriageworks for an exclusive Liveworks Opening Party. An opportunity to experience a taste of Liveworks in great company, the Opening Party will feature special performances by Liveworks artists, including Punake performance artist Latai Taumoepeau, new media artists Starrs & Cmielewski with dancer Alison Plevey and a drone, and Sydney performance collective zin. DJ Sveta will provide the tunes that will keep you dancing until the very end. Grab a drink, have a dance, and celebrate with Performance Space! Bring your friends or make new ones because the Liveworks Opening Party promises to be the hottest ticket in town.
A GLIMPSE AT YOUR EVENING 6PM 7PM
Tickets, drinks & friendly vibes Jonathan Jones (exhibition) Latai Taumoepeau (performance) zin (performance)
Welcome to Country with Aunty Donna Ingram
8:30PM
Starrs & Cmielewski (performance)
9PM
Party like it’s 2099!
Please note that the Opening Party is 18+ Alcohol and food will be included in the ticket price.
Image: Day for Night (Party), 2015 Photo: Alex Davies
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Performance Space & Carriageworks present World Premiere
guguma guriin | black stump Jonathan Jones 10 OCT - 7 NOV SAT 24 OCT 11AM Audio Described Performance & Tactile Tour The guguma guriin exhibition is open throughout Liveworks, as per times listed at performancespace.com.au FREE “Jonathan Jones claims the whole thing – the audience, the work, and the process – as his art” – Andrew Frost, Australian Art Collector Sydney-based Indigenous artist Jonathan Jones’ work illuminates histories and knowledge systems that permeate and connect our landscapes, inscribing them in our contemporary consciousness. Jones has been commissioned by Performance Space to create a major new exhibition for Liveworks. A member of the Wiradjuri and Kamilaroi nations of southeast Australia, Jones employs an array of materials and techniques in his work to explore Indigenous cultural forms and their continuity through history into the present moment. In guguma guriin, Jones explores de-colonisation through the reclamation of the artist’s own country. From repurposing found objects that bear the marks of white settlement to reviving Wiradjuri language, Jones re-examines the current place of Indigenous culture within Australian society.
PUBLIC PROGRAM IN CONVERSATION: Jonathan Jones & Vicki van Hout SAT 24 OCT 1:30PM Liveworks artists Jonathan Jones and Vicki Van Hout delve into a discussion of their shared Wiradjuri culture to create contemporary artworks. Joined by Wiradjuri lawyer and advocate Robynne Quiggin, Jones and Van Hout will discuss the protocols and challenges of sharing cultural content.
Image courtesy of Jonathan Jones
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Indigenous artist Jonathan Jones explores the stark beauty and savage history of Wiradjuri country #psgugumaguriin
A NEW commission by performance space
Performance Space & Carriageworks present World Premiere
ROBOT OPERA Wade Marynowsky 22 – 24 OCT 25 OCT 28 – 31 OCT 1 NOV
7:30PM 5PM 7:30PM 5PM
Wade Marynowsky returns to Performance Space with the world premiere of his most ambitious project to date. Performed entirely by eight custombuilt automatons, Robot Opera highlights our relationship to technology in an entertaining, unsettling, and unexpected new light. Joined by lighting and choreographic collaborators Branch Nebula, the work is set to a throbbing live electronic score composed by experimental musician Julian Knowles, featuring robots, ambient drones, sub bass and glitchy electronica. Marynowsky brings together robotics, light installation, and experimental sound to create an immersive participatory experience, inviting the audience to step onto the dance-floor and let the robots lead.
Artist Wade Marynowsky Music & Sound Design Julian Knowles Lighting Design Mirabelle Wouters Dramaturgy Lee Wilson Electrical Design Ben Nash Production Coordinator Annie Winter (Macquarie University) Programmer Imran Khan
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Programmer Adam Hinshaw
IN CONVERSATION: Wade Marynowsky & Dr Ed Scheer
LIVEWORKS X GOLDEN AGE CINEMA
SAT 31 OCT 1PM
SAT 31 OCT 4.30PM
Working on the experimental edge of creative robotics, Wade Marynowsky pushes the boundaries of performance practice by exploring notions of ‘robotic performance agency’ through ‘Human-Robot Interaction’. Marynowsky will be joined by Dr Ed Scheer to unpack questions around digital technology in performance and the concept of new media dramaturgy.
Golden Age’s Kate Jinx curates a cinephilic feast inspired by Wade Marynowsky’s dystopic automatons.
Image courtesy of Wade Marynowsky.
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An avant-garde spectacle for the digital age - Robot Opera is an interactive experience that explores the relationship between robots and humans. #psrobotopera
Performance SpacE present World Premiere
I MIGHT BLOW UP SOMEDAY Hissy Fit 22 – 24 OCT 9PM + 24 OCT 3PM + 25 OCT 7PM
I might blow up someday is the premiere full-length performance work by fearless all-girl art collective, Hissy Fit. The collective will reclaim the ‘hysterical woman’ through the energy, intensity and politics of the all-female punk and metal music culture of the 1980’s and 90’s. Traversing choreography, sound, and live video, Hissy Fit will seduce the audience into a collective episode of mass hysteria – a live-art experience that will blow minds and shake bodies.
Artists Jade Muratore, Emily O’Connor, & Nat Randall Lighting Design Toby Knyvett Sound Artist Nina Buchanan Choreography Lizzie Thompson Dramaturgy Emma Price
public programs LIVEWORKS X GOLDEN AGE CINEMA
LIVEWORKS LOUNGE
SAT 24 OCT 4:30PM
SUN 25 OCT 3PM
Golden Age’s Kate Jinx curates a show-stopping screening inspired by Hissy Fit’s riot grrrl power! Strap yourself in for a wild afternoon of film and music videos.
Join Hissy Fit as they kick off the first Liveworks Lounge with a curated afternoon of live performance, great music, and good times to bring the first week of Liveworks to an electric close.
Image: Hissy Fit, Episode, Day for Night 2014 Photo: Lucy Parakhina
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A surging multimedia performance harnessing the generative and contagious qualities of hysteria as a form of political defiance and subversion. #psIMBUS
Performance Space presents World Premiere
Tangi Wai... the cry of water VICTORIA HUNT 28 – 31 OCT 9PM 1 NOV 6:30PM
“Hunt’s dance is at once organic, suggestive of primordial times, and electrifying.” – Julia Cotton, Sydney Morning Herald An exciting new commission by Performance Space, Tangi Wai... the cry of water merges installation, theatre, and dance - guided by Maori protocols and cosmology. Victoria Hunt has drawn together an impressive creative team to investigate the transformative qualities of light, water, incantations and embodiment. Hunt has choreographed an ensemble of eleven women in a striking work that explores the concept of Te Arai, a place of remembrances - bodies abandoned by spirit, urged by unknown forces. public programs
Concept/ Direction/ Choreography/ Performer Victoria Hunt Dancer-Choreographer Kristina Chan Light & Mist Design/ Production Manager Fausto Brusamolino Video & Light Design Boris Bagattini Sound Design James Brown Object Design Clare Britton Kia Whakamanawa Charles Koroneho Wahine Mana Mentor Aroha Yates-Smith Bodyweather Mentor Tess De Quincey
Choreographic WORKSHOP: Victoria Hunt
LIVEWORKS MEDITATION: Keren Ruki
WED 4 NOV 5PM
FRI 30 OCT 8PM
Join choreographer Victoria Hunt to explore the physical processes developed for her breathtaking new work Tangi Wai... the cry of water. Open to movers of all kinds, Hunt will use techniques informed by her BodyWeather practice to contemplate the connections between mind, body, creativity and culture in each individual.
Keren is an artist/curator and Creative Producer with the Australian Museum. Her tribal affiliations are to Nga¯ti Maniapoto, Tuwharetoa and Nga¯ti Mahanga. In conversation with Maori elder Graham Anderson, Keren will discuss the cultural richness of the terms Tangi and Wai and their significance to Maori people.
Rehearsal Assistant Linda Luke Production Assistant Gideon Payten-Griffiths Producer Rosalind Richards Artful Management Tangi Wai Company Kristina Chan Imogen Cranna Angela French Victoria Hunt Linda Luke Amy Mauvan Catherine McNamara Sophia Ndaba Katina Olsen Kirsten Packham Taree Sansbury Melinda Tyquin
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Victoria Hunt’s stunning new multi-disciplinary work about female authority, inheritance and rituals of belonging. #psTANGIwai
Image: Victoria Hunt, Tangi Wai... the cry of water, 2015 Photo: Heidrun Lohr
A NEW commission by performance space
Performance Space & Muscle Mouth present Australian Premiere
TRIUMPHS AND OTHER ALTERNATIVES Muscle Mouth 28 - 31 OCT 7:30PM + 31 OCT 2PM
“It is a triumph [...] a work of visceral power, at once disturbing and weird, yet possessing a strange beauty that compels our attention” — Ann Hunt, Dominion Post Sculpture collides with live performance in Triumphs and Other Alternatives, the latest offering by multidisciplinary New Zealand company Muscle Mouth, directed by choreographer and Les Ballets C de la B performer, Ross McCormack. A grand parable, Triumphs and Other Alternatives explores the inherent obsession and traps that exist at the core of the creative process. Muscle Mouth’s second full-length work, Triumphs and Other Alternatives fuses the tactility and visceral nature of sculpture with the choreography of physical theatre to create a movement style unique to this exciting new company.
Direction and Design Ross McCormack Sound Design Jason Wright Lighting Design Natasha James Dramaturg/Producer Melanie Hamilton With Emily Adams James Vu Anh Pham Ross McCormack
public programs CHOREOGRAPHIC WORKSHOP: Ross McCormack
LIVEWORKS MEDITATION: Erin Brannigan
FRI 30 OCT 2PM
THU 29 OCT 6:30PM
Ross McCormack will share tools for conceiving work and choreography, gained from his incredible ten-year performance history with Les Ballets C de la B, as well as his many independent choreographic works. Participants should prepare for physical improvisations, observing demonstrations, and be open to discussions throughout the workshop.
An introduction to Muscle Mouth guided by Australia’s foremost dance academic, Dr Erin Brannigan. Erin is Senior Lecturer in Dance at the University of New South Wales and works in the fields of dance and film as an academic and curator.
Note: This workshop is designed for professional dancers.
Image: Ross McCormack, Emily Adams & James Vu Anh Pham, Triumphs and Other Alternatives, 2014 Photo: Pippa Samaya
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Visionary choreographer, Ross McCormack’s Australian premiere – a gutsy expression of the obsession, elation, grit and grandeur behind the creative process. #pstriumphs
Performance Space AND Mobile States present World Premiere
PIECE FOR PERSON AND GHETTO BLASTER Nicola Gunn / SANS HOTEL 4 – 7 NOV Fri 6 Nov + 7 NOV
7:30PM 7:30PM Auslan Interpreted Performance 3PM
“Gunn possesses, to a profound degree, the ability to suspend contradictory thoughts seamlessly in the same space.” — Alison Croggon, ABC Arts What if in this room – here, now, with the audience – I created conflict? In Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster, Nicola Gunn seeks to question, probe and examine power relations and the very function of ‘art’ in a social context - with a hefty dose of activism, satire, and self-awareness. In Piece For Person and Ghetto Blaster, accompanied live by composer Kelly Ryall, Gunn sets up a space for dialogue with the audience in order to examine the possibility of personal liberation. The work considers conflict and friction as fundamental aspects of human interaction, revealing one woman’s attempt at navigating the moral complexities of becoming a better person.
Artist Nicola Gunn Choreographer Jo Lloyd Sound Artist Kelly Ryall Lighting Design Niklas Pajanti Dramaturgy Martyn Coutts Script Consultant Jon Haynes Production Manager Emily O’Brien Tour Producer Performing Lines
public programs LIVEWORKS MEDITATION: Sarah Rodigari THU 5 NOV 6:30PM Experience an introduction to Nicola Gunn’s practice, guided by Sarah Rodigari, a performance artist and academic currently completing her PhD. Rodigari recently participated in Kaldor Art Projects’ Marina Abramovic In Residence program with Nicola Gunn.
Image: Nicola Gunn Photo: Sarah Walker
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Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster is the story of a man, a woman and a duck – a solo work that examines the paradoxical realms of human behaviour. #pspieceforperson
A NEW commission by Mobile States
Performance Space presents World Premiere
LES FESTIVITES LUBRIFIER Vicki van Hout 4 – 7 NOV + 7 NOV
7:30PM 2PM
Vicki Van Hout’s Les Festivites Lubrifier places the artist in Paris on her 45th birthday. Prompting self-scrutiny and culminating in a hilarious physical test, featuring beer and choreography, Les Festivites Lubrifier stretches the artist’s personal limits in a display underpinned by adventure and frivolity.
Choreographer Vicki Van Hout With Vicki van Hout Thomas E S Kelly
Created and performed as a duologue with Indigenous dance-artist Thomas E S Kelly, Van Hout’s latest offering is bursting with humour, warmth, hilarious confessions, bad French, and even a little bit of slapstick.
public programs LIVEWORKS MEDITATION: Dr Julie-Anne Long FRI 6 NOV
6:30PM
Gain insight into Vicki Van Hout’s dance practice, guided by Dr Julie-Anne Long. Julie-Anne is a dance artist and Lecturer in Dance and Performance at Macquarie University, where she is Supervisor for Vicki’s Master of Research (MRes).
Image: Vicki Van Hout & Thomas E S Kelly, 30 Ways with Time and Space, Performance Space 2013 Photo: Lucy Parakhina
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Celebrated Indigenous choreographer Vicki van Hout’s light hearted commentary on social difference an existential romp through one woman’s mind. #pslesfestivities
Performance Space presents World Premiere
DEATH OF THE POLE DANCER MACHO DANCER HOST Eisa Jocson Death of THE Pole Dancer + Macho Dancer 4 & 5 NOV 9PM Host 6 & 7 NOV 9PM
“As a woman portraying a seductive male dancer, she is hauntingly accurate.” – New York Times
Choreographer Eisa Jocson
In three meticulous incarnations of the commodified female body, Jocson abstracts gender and dissects the tropes of the ‘exotic’ body, which is both sexualised and subservient in equal measure.
Coach/Dramaturg Rasa Alksnyte
Technical Manager Yap Seok Hui
Death of the Pole Dancer interrogates the gaze, provoking the audience to reflect on what they are observing, a woman in the throes of a pole-dancing routine. In Macho Dancer, Jocson embodies the “macho dance”, which investigates the domain of young men performing in nightclubs throughout the Philippines. Host uncovers the world of “Japayuki” – foreign entertainers hired from the Philippines to perform for the pleasure of ‘salary-men’ in clubs throughout Japan.
public programs Choreographic WORKSHOP: Eisa Jocson
IN CONVERSATION: Eisa Jocson with Fenella Kernebone
MON 2 NOV 6PM
SAT 7 NOV
In a masterclass led by Jocson, participants will learn the sensual yet physically demanding vocabulary of macho dance. Jocson will also address the social phenomena, specific to the Philippines, out of which macho dance is born. Bold movers of all skill levels welcome!
Eisa Jocson discusses her celebrated and challenging trilogy of works with Australian radio and television presenter Fenella Kernebone, who will delve into the politics and economics that drive the exploitation of male and female bodies globally.
12:30PM
Image: Eisa Jocson, Host, 2015 Photo: Andreas Endermann
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Eisa Jocson places the laboring body at the centre of a trilogy of works, in a stunning collision of 21st Century Filipino culture and contemporary dance. #PSEISAJOCSON
Performance Space presents
LIVEWORKS FREE PERFORMANCE PROGRAM Sited-works are brought to the fore in the Liveworks Free Performances Program with a bevy of short-form and durational works by local artists, taking place in the Carriageworks public space and corridors.
Dancing with Drones Starrs & Cmielewski 22 – 25 OCT The premiere of Starrs & Cmielewski’s Dancing With Drones will pit woman against drone in collaboration with dancer Alison Plevey, exploring the paradoxical intimacies of scale and speed, movement and size, enabled by drone technology through both filmed and live performance.
Nemeton Garth Knight 28 OCT – 1 NOV Visual artist Garth Knight’s Nemeton is a durational performance installation where ropes, rocks and human bodies interweave to form an evolving tableau in the Carriageworks public space. Working over a seven day period, Knight will construct the web-like sculpture in public throughout the day, employing live bodies to become ensnared in the installation at the culmination of his work each evening in a meditation on the connections between humans, nature, the built environment and desire.
25 MURA BUAI (Everyone, Everyone) Ghenoa Gela 4 – 7 NOV In partnership with Force Majeure, Performance Space presents dancer and choreographer Ghenoa Gela’s re-interpretation of the widely recognised Viewpoints structure for composition through the lens of her Torres Strait Islander culture and dance practice. Gela will lead an ensemble of dancers in a performance installation that invites the audience to engage with improvised movement vocabulary in a choreographed yet playful environment.
EMMA RAMSAY Liveworks Soundtrack 22 OCT – 7 NOV Emma Ramsay has long been intertwined in experimental arts and music in Sydney, and is a member of wayward dance band Holy Balm (Not Not Fun) and art band The Rangoons (Paradise Daily). Her soundtrack for the Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art will provide threads of Australian post punk, uplifting bohemia, eccentric disco and oddball percussive boogie to illustrate the diverse thoughts, textures and timbres of the festival program.
Repatriate Latai Taumoepeau 22 – 24 OCT A woman dances the inherited collective vocabulary of the Pacific Island Nations in a perspex tank. Swathed in flotation devices, the body is protected, as the tank fills with water and submerges the artist. In an embodied response to climate change, Repatriate highlights the ever-nearing possibility of dispossession for island communities. With her own body as the central focus, Taumoepeau probes existing power structures that perpetuate violence and lead to the devastating loss of cultural heritage.
Each Other ZIN 22 & 25 OCT & 30 – 31 OCT Each Other is an interactive, durational performance work by emerging Sydney based artists, zin. A single pop song plays on loop into noise cancelling headphones. zin begin to mirror each other’s movements, generating an intimate choreographic language that invites the audience to join in on the action. Equal parts seduction and celebration, Each Other explores the transformative power of pop music and our secret love for tunes that make you want to throw down on the d-floor.
Wall Of Sound Bree van Reyk 23 & 28 – 29 OCT Percussionist Bree van Reyk sits in front of a gong and invites an audience member to join her on the other side of the bronze structure. Wall of Sound is an experiential sound work that places the instrument between two bodies, as divider and conduit – the artist’s hands moving the gong, moving the air, moving into the audience member’s chest and through their bones. Through an immersive and intimate experience, van Reyk gifts each participant a rich tapestry of felt sound.
No Performance Today Lauren Brincat & Bree van Reyk 6 – 7 NOV Brincat and van Reyk will present the next iteration of the acclaimed work No Performance Today, which sees the pair collaborating with the New South Wales Police Band to stage a choreographed sound portrait, moving between the bustling Eveleigh Markets into the cavernous Carriageworks public space. No Performance Today gently unravels the sonic and movement cohesion of the marching band – a regimented, rigid entity – to draw attention to the idiosyncrasies that lie within this collective of individuals.
27 Sean Reid’s OptimaL Trajectory Colin Kinchela 30 OCT – 1 NOV Performer and theatre-maker Colin Kinchela will activate the Carriageworks public space with a time-based performance installation. Audience will be invited onto a fabricated basketball court and encouraged to join Kinchela in shootin’ some hoops with basketballs that carry provocative, political statements. As subversive as it is playful, Kinchela’s work draws on the artist’s own experience as an Indigenous man in a contemporary, urban environment.
Behind your eyes, between your ears – a neurofeedback portrait studio George (Poonkhin) Khut 4 – 7 NOV Explore the dynamics of your attention and create an intimate, luminous video portrait of your brainwaves in acclaimed new media artist, George (Poonkhin) Khut’s latest work. One at a time, audiences step into an interactive studio. Wearing a wireless brainwave sensor, they will quieten their attention to unfold a delicate electronic soundscape, in which different layers of sound are revealed according to the intensity and duration of their alpha brainwave patterns. Behind your eyes, between your ears probes the changing nature of human relationships to biomedical imaging technologies, exploring notions of embodiment, and the role of contemplative practices in contemporary culture.
Please note that Wall of Sound and Behind your eyes, between your ears have a limited capacity and may require sign-up in advance of participation. See performacnespace.com.au for further info.
public program LIVEWORKS LOUNGE $10 SUN 1 NOV 3PM Join Ghenoa Gela as she presents a dynamic afternoon of curated live performance, music, and brilliant conversation to bring the second week of Liveworks to an inevitably boisterous and spectacular end.
The Free Performance Program will be open at various times throughout Liveworks, as per times listed in the Liveworks Schedule on pg 30 – 35 and at performancespace.com.au Images courtesy of artists. Mura Buai image courtesy of Zan Wemberly No Performance Today image courtesy of Lucy Parakhina
PERFORMANCE SPACE PRESENTS
LIVEWORKS PUBLIC PROGRAMs The Liveworks Public Programs present a unique opportunity to engage on a deeper level with the major works in the festival through a series of events designed to stimulate discussion. Kick up your heels each week at the Liveworks lounge and enjoy our partnerships with FBi and Golden Age Cinema that will see live broadcasts, curated music, and themed film screenings sweeten the Liveworks festival experience!
PERFORMANCE LECTURES $20
LIVEWORKS CONVERSATIONS FREE
Artists have always imagined the future and for Liveworks we ask them to apply this foresight to the slippery medium of Performance. Three generations of artists will respond to the question, “What is the future of performance?” in an attempt to gain insight into its ongoing evolution and consumption. Beacons of hope or portents of disaster, each Friday night of Liveworks offers an opportunity to hear what lies ahead.
Sat 24 Oct 1:30PM Discussion of Wiradjuri culture in contemporary art with Vicki Van Hout & Jonathan Jones
Fri 23 Oct 6:30PM Emma Price is an artist, curator, publican and member of influential performance collective The Kingpins whose practice re-examines gender through the lens of pop culture.
Liveworks Festival Forum with RealTime FREE
Fri 30 Oct 6:30PM Mike Parr is one of Australia’s greatest living artists whose epic endurance works have garnered international acclaim over an impressive 45 year career. FRI 6 NOV 6:30PM Giselle Stanborough is an intermedia artist whose practice addresses online user-generated media and the way these technologies encourage us to identify and perform notions of self.
Sat 31 Oct 1PM Wade Marynowsky & Ed Sheer discuss the potential of creative robotics. Sat 7 Nov 12:30PM Eisa Jocson & Fenella Kernebone will discuss the Filipino artist’s provocative and political performances
Sat 7 Nov 5PM Wrap up your Liveworks journey and add your voice to the conversation at the Festival Forum hosted by RealTime. Reflecting on three weeks of experimental practice and the current climate of creation, a cross-section of festival artists will discuss what has been, what is next and what could be…
FBI’S CANVAS AT LIVEWORKS SUN 25 OCT 11aM Kick off at Carriageworks where the wondrous Fran Barrett and Kate Blackmore will broadcast FBi’s Canvas program live from the Liveworks Lounge. Grab a morning coffee and join the party for this one-off exclusive event!
29 LIVEWORKS MEDITATIONS $20
CHOREOGRAPHIC WORKSHOPS $25
Delve deeper into Liveworks with facilitated guided viewings of four major works. Participants will be led through a series of discussions by expert facilitators that will expand their understanding of the themes and ideas explored in the following works.
Fri 30 Oct 2PM Ross McCormack from Triumphs and Other Alternatives
Thu 29 Oct 6:30PM Muscle Mouth guided by Dr Erin Brannigan Fri 30 Oct 8PM Victoria Hunt guided by Keren Ruki Thu 5 Nov 6:30PM Nicola Gunn guided by Sarah Rodigari Fri 6 Nov 6:30PM Vicki Van Hout guided by Dr Julie-Anne Long
LIVEWORKS LOUNGE $10 Kickback on Sunday afternoons with live music, performances and interactive artworks in the specially curated Liveworks Lounge, produced in association with FBi. The Lounge is the place to wind down, gossip, and shake it off to end each epic week of Liveworks with a bang! Sun 25 Oct 3PM Hissy Fit & FBi DJ Sun 1 Nov 3PM Ghenoa Gela & FBi DJ
Mon 2 Nov 6PM Eisa Jocson from Death of the Pole Dancer, Macho Dancer, and Host Wed 4 Nov 5PM Victoria Hunt from Tangi Wai... the cry of water
LIVEWORKS X GOLDEN AGE CINEMA $10 While away your Saturday afternoons in front of the big screen with the purveyors of Sydney’s finest cult cinema. Kate Jinx curates a film inspired by Hissy Fit’s riot grrrl power and Wade Marynowsky’s dystopic automatons. Sat 24 Oct 4:30PM Times Square (1980) Dir. Allan Moyle for Hissy Fit Sat 31 Oct 4.30PM Metropolis (1927) Dir. Fritz Lang for Wade Marynowsky WORKSHOP on Analogue Film Processing $10 Wed 28 Oct 5PM A new artist-run initiative Workshop for Potential Cinema promotes a DIY approach to analogue filmmaking. In this workshop, participants will take part in hand processing Super 8 film and explore analogue development processes.
THe Schedule
week 1 Work
PG
VENUE
MON 19 OCT
10am - 6pm
Major Works Jonathan Jones - guguma guriin | black stump
8
Bay 19
Liveworks Opening Party
6
Public Space
Wade Marynowsky - Robot Opera
10
Bay 17
Hissy Fit - I might blow up someday
12
Track 8
FREE PERFORMANCE PROGRAM Starrs & Cmielewski - Dancing with Drones
24
Latai Taumoepeau - Repatriate
25
zin - Each Other
26
Bree van Reyk - Wall of Sound
26
Public Space
PUBLIC PROGRAMS PERFORMANCE LECTURES Emma Price
28
Track 12
28
Track 12
29
Track 12
LIVEWORKS CONVERSATIONS Vicki Van Hout & Jonathan Jones LIVEWORKS X GOLDEN AGE CINEMA Times Square (1980) Dir. Allan Moyle for Hissy Fit LIVEWORKS LOUNGE Fbi Canvas Broadcast
28
Hissy Fit & FBi DJ
29
Track 12
31
TUE 20 OCT
WED 21 OCT
THU 22 OCT
FRI 23 OCT
SAT 24 OCT
SUN 25 OCT
10am - 6pm
10am - 6pm
10am - 11pm
10am - 11pm
10am - 11pm
10am - 8.30pm
7.30 - 8.20pm
7.30 - 8.20pm
7.30 - 8.20pm
5 - 5.50pm
9 - 10pm
9 - 10pm
3 - 4pm 9 - 10pm
7 - 8pm
6.30 - 11pm
Video
6.30 - 11pm Performance
Video
6.30 - 11pm Performance
Video
Video
6.30 - 11pm
6.30 - 8.30pm
Performance
Performance
8.30 - 8.40pm
7.10 - 7.20pm 8.40 - 8.50pm
7.10 - 7.20pm 8.40 - 8.50pm
6 - 7.30pm
7 - 8.30pm
11am 12.30pm
6 - 9pm
8 - 8.10pm
10.30am 1.30pm 6.30 - 7.30pm 8 - 9pm
6.30 - 7.20pm 1.30 - 2.50pm 4.30 - 6.30pm 11am - 12pm 3 - 7pm
THe Schedule
week 2 Work
PG
VENUE
MON 26 OCT
Jonathan Jones - guguma guriin | black stump
8
Bay 19
10am - 6pm
Wade Marynowsky - Robot Opera
10
Bay 17
Muscle Mouth - Triumphs and Other Alternatives
16
Track 8
Victoria Hunt - Tangi Wai... the cry of water
14
Bay 20
Major Works
FREE PERFORMANCE PROGRAM zin - Each Other
26
Bree van Reyk - Wall of Sound
26
Garth Knight - Nemeton
24
Colin Kinchela - Sean Reid’s Optimal Trajectory
27
Public Space
PUBLIC PROGRAMS WORKSHOPS Ross McCormack
29
Workshop for Potential Cinema
29
Track 12
LIVEWORKS MEDITATIONS Muscle Mouth guided by Dr Erin Brannigan
29
Victoria Hunt guided by Keren Ruki
29
Track 12
PERFORMANCE LECTURES Mike Parr
28
Track 12
28
Track 12
29
Track 12
29
Track 12
LIVEWORKS CONVERSATIONS Wade Marynowsky & Ed Sheer LIVEWORKS X GOLDEN AGE CINEMA Metropolis (1927) Dir. Fritz Lang for Wade Marynowsky LIVEWORKS LOUNGE Ghenoa Gela & DJ
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TUE 27 OCT
10am - 6pm
WED 28 OCT
THU 29 OCT
FRI 30 OCT
SAT 31 OCT
SUN 1 nov
10am - 11pm
10am - 11pm
10am - 11pm
10am - 11pm
10am - 8.30pm
7.30 - 8.20pm
7.30 - 8.20pm
7.30 - 8.20pm
7.30 - 8.20pm
5 - 5.50pm
7.30 - 8.40pm
7.30 - 8.40pm
7.30 - 8.40pm
2 - 3.10pm 7.30 - 8.40pm
9 - 10.10pm
9 - 10.10pm
9 - 10.10pm
9 - 10.10pm
7 - 10.30pm
7 - 10.30pm
6.30 - 7.30pm 8 - 9pm
6.30 - 7.30pm 8 - 9pm
5 - 10pm
5 - 10pm
5 - 10pm
10am - 2pm 7 - 10pm
3 - 7pm
7 - 10.30pm
11am - 2pm 7 - 10.30pm
3 - 6pm
6.30 - 7.40pm
2 - 4.30pm 5 - 7pm 6.30 - 9.15pm 8 - 10.40pm 6.30 - 7.20pm 1 - 2pm 4.30 - 7pm 3 - 7pm
THe Schedule
week 3 Work
PG
VENUE
MON 2 NOV
10am - 6pm
Major Works Jonathan Jones - guguma guriin | black stump
8
Bay 19
Nicola Gunn - Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster
18
Track 8
Vicki Van Hout - Les Festivites Lubrifier
20
Bay 20
Eisa Jocson - Death of a Pole Dancer / Macho Dancer
22
Bay 20 / 17
Eisa Jocson - Host
22
Bay 17
FREE PERFORMANCE PROGRAM Mura Buai [Everyone, Everyone]
25
George Khut - Behind your eyes, between your ears
27
Lauren Brincat & Bree van Reyk - No Performance Today
26
Public Space
PUBLIC PROGRAMS WORKSHOPS Eisa Jocson
29
Victoria Hunt
29
Track 12
LIVEWORKS MEDITATIONS Nicola Gunn guided by Sarah Rodigari
29
Vicki Van Hout guided by Dr Julie-Anne Long
29
Track 12
PERFORMANCE LECTURES Giselle Stanborough
28
Track 12
LIVEWORKS CONVERSATIONS Eisa Jocson & Fenella Kernebone
28
Liveworks Festival Forum with RealTime
28
Track 12
6 - 8pm
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TUE 3 NOV
10am - 6pm
WED 4 NOV
THU 5 NOV
FRI 6 NOV
SAT 7 NOV
10am - 11pm
10am - 11pm
10am - 11pm
10am - 11pm
7.30 - 8.40pm
7.30 - 8.40pm
7.30 - 8.40pm
3 - 4.10pm 7.30 - 8.40pm
7.30 - 8.10pm
7.30 - 8.10pm
7.30 - 8.10pm
2 - 2.40pm 7.30 - 8.10pm
9 - 10.35pm
9 - 10.35pm 9 - 10pm
9 - 10pm
6.30 - 9.30pm
6.30 - 9.30pm
6.30 - 9.30pm
10.30am 12.30pm 6.30 - 9pm
6.30 - 10pm
6.30 - 10pm
6.30 - 10pm
12 - 3pm 6.30 - 10pm
6.30 - 7.30pm 9.30 - 10.30am 11.30am 12.30pm
5 - 7pm 6.30 - 9.10pm 6.30 - 8.40pm 6.30 - 7.20pm 12.30 - 1.30pm 5 - 6.30pm
SUN 8 NOV
liveworks Festival ticket prices
HOW TO BOOK Booking Liveworks tickets is easy! Head to performancespace.com.au, select the work of your choice and follow the links.
MAJOR WORKS (+BF)
CONCESSIONS
$35 $25 $20 FREE
Patrons may purchase a concession tickets if they qualify as a full time student, pensioner, child or senior. Proof of concession must be provided upon request.
Full Concession Opening Party Jonathan Jones
Major Work + Guided Meditation (+BF) $55 $45
Full Concession
PUBLIC PROGRAMS (+BF) $25 $20 $10 $10 $10 FREE FREE
Choreographic Workshops Liveworks Lectures Liveworks Lounge Liveworks x Golden Age Film Processing Workshop Liveworks Conversations Liveworks Forums
PS MEMBERS Dedicated Performance Space members receive free access to the exclusive Liveworks Lounge and 20% off when purchasing 3+ major works. PS Membership card must be provided upon request.
LIVEWORKS MULTIPACK (+BF) Take advantage of these exclusive discount offers with a Liveworks Multi Pack! 3+ Major Works 5+ Major Works
15% Off 20% Off
Please note that Liveworks Multi Packs are only available for purchase by calling Ticketmaster or visiting a Ticketmaster outlet. Tickets must be purchased in one transaction to qualify as a Multi Pack.
getting Around
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ACCESSIBILITY Performance Space is striving for equity of access for all performances and events to ensure that everyone can fully participate and enjoy everything Liveworks has to offer.
Unassisted Access Wheelchair access is via the access ramp at the main entrance to Carriageworks, 245 Wilson Street. Accessible carparks are located in the internal Carriageworks carpark.
AUSLAN Interpreted and Audio Described Performances
ACCESSIBLE SEATING Wheelchair bookings can be made for performances in any of the venues within Carriageworks. Patrons are welcome to transfer to a seat or remain in their chair. Performance Space is happy to reserve a space next to this position for up to four companions or friends attending the performance. A number of access seats in each Carriageworks venue.
Accessible Facilities
Accessible seating can be booked via Ticketmaster Customer Services Centre on 136 100 (option 8) between 9am and 9pm, Monday to Saturday and 9am to 5pm Sunday. Outside these hours, requests for accessible seating can be submitted via the Ticketmaster Accessible Tickets button. This button is located on the right hand side of the page of each Carriageworks event listed on the Ticketmaster website.
There is an accessible toilet located next to the public toilets within the Carriageworks complex. Please note that Robot Opera, I might blow up someday and Death of the Pole Dancer are standing performances. Please wear comfortable shoes and do not hesitate to contact us if you have specific access requirements.
If you have any questions regarding Access-related enquiries, please phone Performance Space on 02 8571 9111, 10am – 6PM, Mon – Fri.
Performance Space offers AUSLAN interpretation and Audio Description for a select number of performances. Please refer to performancespace.com.au for further information about Liveworks accessible performances. Liveworks Brochures for screen readers available on request.
Support Performance SPace
JOIN AND SUPPORT Inspire risk. Challenge and transform the way we think about art. Be a part of this extraordinary new beginning by investing in the development of brave new ideas, brilliant new artists and captivating new experiences. LIVEWORKS Generators Become a special Liveworks founding donor (over $1000). Work with us to establish Liveworks, put risk upfront on a national platform. LIVEWORKS Risk Takers
STAFF & BOARD Artistic Director Jeff Khan Executive Director Terese Casu
Risk Takers (up to $1000) are vital to the growth of Liveworks. Ensure our artists are supported to present the most outstanding new experimental work within Liveworks.
Producer Tanja Farman
Corporate Membership
Associate Producer Sonny Dallas Law
Experience great entertainment. Our exciting annual all-inclusive packages include tickets, hospitality and special experiences for corporate companies and their guests. Individual Membership Experience more at Performance Space. Enjoy a range of great benefits including pre-sale tickets, priority theatre entry and exclusive member-only events during Liveworks and Day for Night. $130, or $100 for artists / students
Associate Producer Skye Kunstelj
Associate Curator Tulleah Pearce Curator at Large Bec Dean Development & Membership Manager Karla Tatterson Marketing & Communications Manager Sanja Simic
For more information and to donate call 02 8571 9115 or email development@performancespace.com.au performancespace.com.au/development
Administration & Ticketing Coordinator Ashleigh Garwood Production Manager Emma Bedford Technical Manager Aaron Clark Season Production Manager John Byrne Finance Officer Rhanda Mansour Financial Consultant Emma Murphy Performance Space Board Jonathan Casson, Chair Tony Bonney Clark Butler Ian Enright Greg Clarke Janine Collins Donna Lawler
Special Thanks
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LIVEWORKS SUPPORTERS A very special thank you to all our supporters who are crucial to Performance Space’s continued success and have enabled us to present the Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art. Government Partners
Venue Partner
Presenting Partners
Liveworks Partners
Design Partner
Media Partner
Project Supporters
Liveworks Generators
Liveworks Risk Takers
Anna Rose Stancombe Bryant George Donna Lawler Helen Bauer Janine Collins Jonathan Casson Mark Henry Paul & Pauline Davies Rhonda McCann Rose Hiscock Steven Freeland Terese Casu & Libby Ellis Podium Business Events Plus more that prefer to remain anonymous
Francesca Cathie Greg Joffe Louise Davis Max Dingle OPTUS Rafael Bonachela Steph Walker Sue Spence Tanja Farman Tristan Meecham Yana Taylor Plus more that prefer to remain anonymous