We the People

workshop

2 hours, 3 – 5pm

A new multimedia performance for large-scale public screens. The project explores how traditional public demonstration can intersect with the digital realm, carving out space for different forms of participation in a political conversation, and expanding our understandings of emancipatory, hybrid, public space.

The Practice of Being Close

artist talk / showing

A collaborative dance and video project creating intimate, participatory and site-specific performance experiences for artists and publics, foregrounding the themes of care, closeness, proximity, survival, and the spaces between bodies and the inhabited environment, as we emerge from isolation and live with the pandemic.

30-50 Feral Hogs

showing

A site-specific theatrical game where audiences play as wildlife reclaiming a built environment. Drawing on the popularity of ‘nature is healing’ memes, and genuine rewilding experiences in Australia, the work interrogates our relationship to public and ‘green’ space, in a tech-lite and tactile participatory performance.

Collectivism, Care & Cultural Organising

panel

In conversation with curators and artists

Death of a Bitcoin Server Repairman

showing

A theatre work about climate, capitalism, and crypto. Taking Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman’ as its starting point, the show reflects on how productivity, purpose, and personhood have changed since 1949, exploring the role of technology in both destroying and supporting our chances of survival.

Undoing Kingdoms

artist talk / showing

A project of experimental methodology and long-term collaboration between the artists, utilising adaptative ritual movement practice and its documentation. The process features embodiment, poetics, remoteness, silence and listening, and a radical regard for the concept of rest/withdrawal in relation to decolonisation and visibility.

It’s Already Happened, We’re Just in the Past

artist talk / showing

A live performance and video work for galleries where untrained, queer bodies borrow from the body-assist stunts and effects of action film craft, stripped of their behind-the-scenes aesthetic, to examine the destabilising experience of witnessing and living within this time of multiple, simultaneous global disasters.

The Two Body Problem

artist talk / showing

An experimental performance lecture that starts from the provocation: what if we had not one, but two bodies? Detouring through queer theory and political philosophy via pop music about the materiality of the body, the work playfully imagines the body as a multiplicity, cared for collectively rather than by individuals alone.

Brag Drunch

artist talk / showing

A food-based drag event that will communicate key stories of queer history and culture, through the lens of hospitality and the popular, accessible format of the drag brunch. The project is inspired by activism such as the creation of the Anita Bryant cocktail and boycott of orange juice from Florida in the 1970s.

We Loot

artist talk / showing

A documentary and exchange project, seeking to unravel the worldview of ‘the looter’, to make tangible the concepts of cultural theft and auto-destruction, and to explore the profoundly intimate, embodied and deeply felt experience of the carnivorous destruction of one’s own cultural heritage.

Calendar Days

showing

A theatre performance built from crowd sourced testimonials of gig work, exploring the experience of precarity in people’s working and private lives. The work will use accumulating, satellite narratives in search for a deeper vocabulary for precarious work and the creation of a log of claims.

I Don’t Owe You

artist talk / showing

A durational, endurance-based performance that invites conversation about care alongside violence and extraction, queer labour, and socio-cultural debt. Drawing on the ancestral, cultural traditions, lived experience, and poetic practice of the artist, this project dives into bodily integrity, agency, and control.

Margaret and the Grey Mare

artist talk / showing

A multi-channel video work, harnessing and subverting the high culture of opera and classical theatre, and the image of the horse – both its sacred role in ancient Celtic paganism, and as a metaphor for the coloniser. The libretto for this project will be generated through an AI chatbot, trained to act as an oracle.

We the People

workshop

2 hours, 3 – 5pm

A new multimedia performance for large-scale public screens. The project explores how traditional public demonstration can intersect with the digital realm, carving out space for different forms of participation in a political conversation, and expanding our understandings of emancipatory, hybrid, public space.

The Practice of Being Close

artist talk / showing

A collaborative dance and video project creating intimate, participatory and site-specific performance experiences for artists and publics, foregrounding the themes of care, closeness, proximity, survival, and the spaces between bodies and the inhabited environment, as we emerge from isolation and live with the pandemic.

30-50 Feral Hogs

showing

A site-specific theatrical game where audiences play as wildlife reclaiming a built environment. Drawing on the popularity of ‘nature is healing’ memes, and genuine rewilding experiences in Australia, the work interrogates our relationship to public and ‘green’ space, in a tech-lite and tactile participatory performance.

We Loot

artist talk / showing

A documentary and exchange project, seeking to unravel the worldview of ‘the looter’, to make tangible the concepts of cultural theft and auto-destruction, and to explore the profoundly intimate, embodied and deeply felt experience of the carnivorous destruction of one’s own cultural heritage.

Brag Drunch

showing

A food-based drag event that will communicate key stories of queer history and culture, through the lens of hospitality and the popular, accessible format of the drag brunch. The project is inspired by activism such as the creation of the Anita Bryant cocktail and boycott of orange juice from Florida in the 1970s.

Margaret and the Grey Mare

artist talk / showing

A multi-channel video work, harnessing and subverting the high culture of opera and classical theatre, and the image of the horse – both its sacred role in ancient Celtic paganism, and as a metaphor for the coloniser. The libretto for this project will be generated through an AI chatbot, trained to act as an oracle.

Undoing Kingdoms

artist talk / showing

A project of experimental methodology and long-term collaboration between the artists, utilising adaptative ritual movement practice and its documentation. The process features embodiment, poetics, remoteness, silence and listening, and a radical regard for the concept of rest/withdrawal in relation to decolonisation and visibility.

Calendar Days

showing

A theatre performance built from crowd sourced testimonials of gig work, exploring the experience of precarity in people’s working and private lives. The work will use accumulating, satellite narratives in search for a deeper vocabulary for precarious work and the creation of a log of claims.

I Don’t Owe You

artist talk / showing

A durational, endurance-based performance that invites conversation about care alongside violence and extraction, queer labour, and socio-cultural debt. Drawing on the ancestral, cultural traditions, lived experience, and poetic practice of the artist, this project dives into bodily integrity, agency, and control.

It’s Already Happened, We’re Just in the Past

artist talk / showing

A live performance and video work for galleries where untrained, queer bodies borrow from the body-assist stunts and effects of action film craft, stripped of their behind-the-scenes aesthetic, to examine the destabilising experience of witnessing and living within this time of multiple, simultaneous global disasters.

The Two Body Problem

showing

An experimental performance lecture that starts from the provocation: what if we had not one, but two bodies? Detouring through queer theory and political philosophy via pop music about the materiality of the body, the work playfully imagines the body as a multiplicity, cared for collectively rather than by individuals alone.

Death of a Bitcoin Server Repairman

showing

A theatre work about climate, capitalism, and crypto. Taking Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman’ as its starting point, the show reflects on how productivity, purpose, and personhood have changed since 1949, exploring the role of technology in both destroying and supporting our chances of survival.