PERFORMANCE SPACE PRESENTS
20 FEBRUARY – 9 MARCH 2013
MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH AT A GLANCE INTRODUCTION
PERFORMANCE
DANCE
VISUAL ARTS / PERFORMANCE
THE LAST SUPPER
PERFORMANCE ANXIETY
UNSETTLING SUITE
WED 27 FEB – SAT 9 MAR
WED 27 FEB – SAT 2 MAR
SAT 23 FEB – SUN 10 MAR
Reckless Sleepers (UK / Belgium)
Brian Lucas (Brisbane)
Sarah-Jane Norman
WED – SAT 8PM SAT 2 MAR 2PM TRACK 12, CARRIAGEWORKS
WED – SAT 8PM SAT 2 MAR 2PM BAY 20, CARRIAGEWORKS
FREE GREEN MATINEE, SAT 2 MAR 2PM, LIMITED SEATS
$35 ADULT $25 CONCESSION / E-SUBSCRIBERS $20 STUDENT RUSH (FRI 1 MAR) FREE GREEN MATINEE, SAT 2 MAR 2PM, LIMITED SEATS, PRE-BOOKING ESSENTIAL
Exhibition SAT 23 FEB – SUN 10 MAR OPEN DAILY 10AM-6PM OPEN UNTIL 8PM ON PERFORMANCE NIGHTS FREE
FRIDAY 1 MARCH: After-show Q&A session – meet the artists $45 ADULT $35 CONCESSION / E-SUBSCRIBERS $30 STUDENT RUSH (FRI 5 MARCH) TUE 5 MAR 6:30PM-9PM $10 WORKSHOP
THURSDAY 28 FEBRUARY: After-show Q&A session – meet the artists behind Performance Anxiety
Performances WED-FRI 4PM-8PM SAT 23 FEB, SUN 24 FEB, SUN 3 MAR 12PM-4PM SAT 2 MAR, SAT 9 MAR 4PM-8PM FREE BAY 19, CARRIAGEWORKS
SPECIAL EVENTS
SPECIAL EVENTS / WORKSHOP
SPECIAL EVENTS
NIGHTTIME: LIVE AND LET DIE
MAKING TIME
CLUBHOUSE
SAT 2 MAR
TUE 5 MAR – THU 7 MAR
TUE 5 MAR – SAT 9 MAR
Guest Curator: Eddie Sharp
Makeshift: Tessa Zettel with guests
5:30PM - 7:30PM BAY 17, CARRIAGEWORKS $15 ADULT $10 CONCESSION / E-SUBSCRIBER
Workshop Workshop venue, times and other details on website.
CARRIAGEWORKS Check website for times and locations
Making Time Stall SAT 9 MAR 8AM-1PM $10 PER WORKSHOP SESSION
$10 ALL TICKETS* $20 FOR 3 CLUBHOUSE EVENTS* Available only by phone 02 8571 9111 or email admin@performancespace.com.au
*Excluding $20 RECKLESS SLEEPERS ARTIST WORKSHOP
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JOIN THE CONVERSATION ON #PSPACE Student Rush Friday Limited discounted tickets are available for students on selected Friday performances: • $30 The Last Supper Friday, 1 March • $25 Performance Anxiety Friday, 1 March FREE Green Matinees tickets Limited free tickets are available for those who travel green to our performances. Online bookings only. • The Last Supper Saturday, 2 March 2pm • Performance Anxiety Saturday, 2 March 2pm
MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH
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Matters of Life and Death is Performance Space’s program of international and Australian works exploring the ultimate driving force of life: our fear of death. These works offer a rich and unconventional collection of ideas about aging, longevity, ancestry, extinction and the anxieties of the living. You are invited to delve deep into the unknown and become intimately comfortable with ‘the other side’. So pack up your most primal fears and your brightest hopes, and join us for an inspiring three weeks of participatory performance, unsettling installations, contemporary dance, food preserving workshops, discussions about the great beyond, and much more!
Jeff Khan and Bec Dean Performance Space Co-Directors
PERFORMANCE
DANCE
THE LAST SUPPER
PERFORMANCE ANXIETY
Reckless Sleepers (UK / Belgium)
Brian Lucas (Brisbane)
ARTIST WORKSHOP Reckless Sleepers (UK / Belgium)
Image: philpottdesign.com
Image: Fiona Cullen
PERFORMANCE
DANCE
THE LAST SUPPER
PERFORMANCE ANXIETY
Reckless Sleepers (UK / Belgium)
Brian Lucas (Brisbane)
“FOR THOSE WITH A TASTE FOR THE MACABRE, THIS IS THE ULTIMATE FEAST FOR YOU. RECKLESS SLEEPERS’ INTELLIGENT, WITTY AND CHILLING DINNER PARTY WILL HAVE YOU PARTICIPATING IN AN UNFORGETTABLE REMEMBRANCE OF LIVES LIVED AND LOST.”
“BRIAN LUCAS IS AN EXTRAORDINARY PERFORMER. HIS UNIQUE PHYSICAL PRESENCE AND MOVEMENT STYLE HAVE BEEN HONED OVER YEARS OF EXPERIENCE, AND HIS ABILITY TO SHAPE SHIFT BETWEEN CHARACTERS AND PERSONAE IS ASTONISHING!” JEFF KHAN
BEC DEAN
WED 27 FEB – SAT 9 MAR WED – SAT 8PM SAT 2 MAR 2PM TRACK 12, CARRIAGEWORKS $45 ADULT $35 CONCESSION / E-SUBSCRIBERS $30 STUDENT RUSH (FRI 5 MAR) FREE GREEN MATINEE, SAT 2 MAR 2PM, LIMITED SEATS, PRE-BOOKING ESSENTIAL FRIDAY 1 MARCH: After-show Q&A session – meet the artists behind The Last Supper TUE 5 MAR 6:30-9PM $10 WORKSHOP: Learn about the processes, mechanisms and strategies that inform Reckless Sleepers’ projects, and develop your creativity under their guidance. See Clubhouse pg 14 for more details.
“There is something about the simplicity of this show that is unbearably moving” The Guardian
You are invited to participate in a morbidly intimate dinner party for 39. Sitting around a dinner table in a Da Vinci-like mise-en-scène, be guided by three charming hosts in a compelling tale of real and imagined death scenarios. These include the untimely deaths of some of the most controversial celebrities, criminals, victims, heroes and not-so-famous individuals of our time. In between sipping your wine and witnessing people’s last words being literally eaten before your eyes, 13 audience members are treated to an unusual feast: the last meal requests of inmates on death row. Join us for this captivating, multi-sensory meal-performance; the ultimate toast to those bereft of life. Written and directed by Mole Wetherell Performed by Leen Dewilde, Tim Ingram and Mole Wetherell
WED WED SAT BAY
27 FEB – SAT 2 MAR – SAT 8PM 2 MAR 2PM 20, CARRIAGEWORKS
$35 ADULT $25 CONCESSION / E-SUBSCRIBERS $20 STUDENT RUSH (FRI 1 MAR) FREE GREEN MATINEE, SAT 2 MAR 2PM, LIMITED SEATS, PRE-BOOKING ESSENTIAL THURSDAY 28 FEBRUARY: After-show Q&A session – meet the artists behind Performance Anxiety
Performance Anxiety was developed at Brisbane Powerhouse. Brian Lucas is supported by MAPS for Artists, a managing and producing program at Metro Arts.
Exploring his very personal fears of performing to all kinds of audiences, acclaimed performer/ choreographer Brian Lucas crafts a breathtaking dance theatre work about our collective anxieties. Take your seat in a Cabaret style setting as a Torch Singer, a War Correspondent, an Orator and a Stand-Up Comedian relate tales of torturous fear and dissatisfaction with their place in the modern world. On a stage in the Loser Bar, these characters will share their experiences of feeling terminally stressed and the struggle to perform well, be it in the boardroom, the bedroom or, quite plainly, in the supermarket checkout queue. Dance, movement, physical imagery, voice and sound combine in an ode to the little hero in all of us who insist on the day-to-day crusade of going on living in society. Created and Performed by Brian Lucas Sound Designer and Operator: Brett Collery Lighting Designer, Production/ Stage Manager: Andrew Meadows Designer: Kieran Swann
SPECIAL EVENTS
NIGHTTIME: LIVE AND LET DIE
Image: Hossein Ghaemi in NightTime: Twilight (2012). Photo by Lucy Parakhina.
VISUAL ARTS / PERFORMANCE
SPECIAL EVENTS
UNSETTLING SUITE
NIGHTTIME: LIVE AND LET DIE
Sarah-Jane Norman
Guest Curator: Eddie Sharp
Exhibition SAT 23 FEB – SUN 10 MAR OPEN DAILY 10AM-6PM OPEN UNTIL 8PM ON PERFORMANCE NIGHTS FREE Performances WED-FRI 4PM-8PM SAT 23 FEB, SUN 24 FEB, SUN 3 MAR 12PM-4PM SAT 2 MAR, SAT 9 MAR 4PM-8PM FREE BAY 19, CARRIAGEWORKS
“UNSETTLING SUITE IS SARAH-JANE NORMAN’S MOST AMBITIOUS WORK TO DATE – FOLLOWING ON FROM HER INDIGESPACE RESIDENCY WITH PERFORMANCE SPACE LAST YEAR. UNSETTLING SUITE LIVES UP TO ITS NAME: IT WILL BE THOUGHTPROVOKING, INTRIGUING, AND ENTHRALLING – HISTORY WRITTEN ON BLOOD AND BONES”
“NIGHTTIME IS THE MOST POPULAR ONE-OFF EVENT PERFORMANCE SPACE HAS STAGED OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS. ALWAYS PRODUCED BY INDEPENDENT ARTIST CURATORS, THIS TIME THE SMALL ISSUES OF LIFE AND DEATH ARE CONCERNING FIRST-TIME NIGHTTIME CURATOR, EDDIE SHARP. IT’S BOUND TO BE A SCREAM”
JEFF KHAN
BEC DEAN
“One of Sydney’s most provocative and magnetic performance artists” Concrete Playground
Performance Space is delighted to present Sarah-Jane Norman’s most ambitious installation and performance project to date, bringing together her entire Unsettling Suite project into a dramatically charged exhibition and series of live performances. Unsettling Suite takes us into a dreamlike house, with translucent walls and an eerie interior glow. Each room plays host to an individual installation and performance, investigating the legacies of colonialism and their resonance through history into the present. Through works that are both beguiling and disturbing, Unsettling Suite explores the ways that Australia’s history of colonisation plays out on the body, and permeates the sphere of the personal. Norman is an artist of mixed British and Aboriginal descent, and Unsettling Suite is a powerfully personal work that speaks to broader historical truths about who we have been, and who we are.
SAT 2 MAR 5:30PM - 7:30PM BAY 17, CARRIAGEWORKS $15 ADULT $10 CONCESSION / E-SUBSCRIBER
‘Go and see everything Eddie Sharp puts his name to, you will not be disappointed’ The Brag
The fourteenth incarnation of this always-popular night of short works will ambitiously tackle life, death and everything in between. The cavernous space of Bay 17 will be transformed for one night only into a wonderland of installation, sound, colour and performance. Guest curated by Eddie Sharp, NightTime: Live and Let Die is sure to be a hilarious, chaotic and poignant moment in the Matters of Life and Death program. Eddie Sharp is one of Sydney’s finest cultural troubadours. He is the founder and director of The Imperial Panda Festival, Erotic Fan Fiction Readings, The Mad Max Remix and Some Film Museums I Have Known.
VISUAL ARTS / PERFORMANCE
SPECIAL EVENTS / WORKSHOP
UNSETTLING SUITE
MAKING TIME
Sarah-Jane Norman
Makeshift: Tessa Zettel with guests
Image: Sarah-Jane Norman, Corpus Nullius/Blood Country (2011), part of the Unsettling Suite. Photo by Penelope Benton.
Image: Pekka.
ABOUT PERFORMANCE SPACE
SPECIAL MAKING TIME STALL / WORKSHOP
MAKING TIME Makeshift: Tessa Zettel with guests
Workshop Workshop venue, times and other details on website.
Market Day SAT 9 MAR 8AM-1PM $10 PER WORKSHOP SESSION Workshop venue, times and other details on website.
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.
Making Time is an open kitchen laboratory where local participants are invited to share preserving techniques for a variety of foraged, native or backyard surplus foods through the traditional homebased crafts of pickling, jam making and bottling. This ongoing project seeks to generate interest in food security and non-institutional learning, investigating how food preservation techniques may be preserved and deployed in an impending age of unsettlement and urban adaptation.
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Workshops will be followed by a Saturday market.
SPECIAL EVENT
CLUBHOUSE
2013 MEMBERSHIP
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. Performance Space is a resident company and key programming partner at Carriageworks. 245 Wilson St, Eveleigh NSW.
Get exclusive access to Performance Space events throughout 2013 with our annual Membership. For only $100 you’ll enjoy free tickets to six new shows, plus have the opportunity to engage in artist led tours, curator talks, residency showings, private viewings, previews and one-off gatherings, all for members only. Membership is a fantastic way for you to experience a multitude of new work and engage in the creation and discussion of new ideas. Annual Benefits: • Free tickets to 6 new works over the year • Discounted tickets for a friend • Discounted tickets to Performance Space presented projects at other venues and sites • Access to our program through preferential invitations to residency showings and special Members-only events • Free Performance Space publications throughout 2013 Visit our website for more info
TUE 5 MAR – SAT 9 MAR CARRIAGEWORKS Check website for times and locations
Brace yourself as we confront our fears and fuel our morbid curiosity by looking death in the face, for our first Clubhouse program of 2013.
$10 ALL TICKETS*
Artist and celebrant Victoria Spence will answer all the questions you’ve ever wanted to know in a cleansing ceremonial performance tackling death rights and rites in contemporary Australian life.
$20 FOR 3 CLUBHOUSE EVENTS* Available only by phone 02 8571 9111 or email admin@performancespace.com.au
*Excluding $20 RECKLESS SLEEPERS ARTIST WORKSHOP
The history of death, execution and their power to shape history will be discussed at Death(cha) Kucha with quick-fire presentations by researchers from Sydney University’s ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. Critically acclaimed Belgian/ UK company Reckless Sleepers (The Last Supper – see pg 6) give an insightful workshop for artists. Delve into the details of processes and strategies that inform their theatre pieces and installations, and further develop your craft under their guidance. Prepare to be white-knuckled with a night of cult horror films curated by the Mu Meson Archives and join us for performance lectures, artist talks, workshops, and more as we attempt to lift the veil and know the unknowable.
RECKLESS SLEEPERS ARTIST WORKSHOP Also see pg 6. $20 TUESDAY 5 MARCH 6:30PM-9:00PM DEATH KNOCKS SUPPER CLUB With Sumugan Sivanesan THURSDAY 7 MARCH 9:30PM-11PM DEATH(CHA) KUCHA With the Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions FRIDAY 8 MARCH 6PM-7:30PM DESENSITISING DEATH: A NIGHT OF FILM With Miss Death and Jay Katz (Mu Meson Archives) FRIDAY 8 MARCH 9:30PM-11PM PICKLE STALL MAKING TIME STALL Makeshift at Eveleigh Market SATURDAY 9 MARCH 8AM-1PM FREE MORTALITY TALKING With Victoria Spence SATURDAY 9 MARCH 6PM-7:30PM
FOR FULL DETAILS ON CLUBHOUSE EVENTS GO TO PERFORMANCESPACE.COM.AU
Photo by Lucy Parakhina
SPECIAL EVENTS
CLUBHOUSE
Image: Clubhouse: SEX CLUB (2012), photo by Lucy Parakhina.