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I Hide in Bathrooms

World Premiere

Absurd and darkly funny, I Hide in Bathrooms is a revealing meditation on mortality and romance from performance artist Astrid Pill.

Working with long-term collaborators and experimental theatre-makers, including co-devisors Ingrid Voorendt, Zoë Barry and Jason Sweeney, Astrid Pill draws on real experiences to create a work that fuses fiction with autobiography. I Hide in Bathrooms reflects on the experience of losing an intimate partner, falling for someone whose partner has passed away and traversing a relationship while dying. Shifting between these points of view, a woman addresses her romantic delusions, sense of mortality and capacity for hope.

Premiering at Adelaide Festival and presented by Vitalstatistix as part of their 40th anniversary celebrations, I Hide in Bathrooms is a funny and deeply moving work about the relationships between lovers – dead and alive.

“Astrid Pill [is] an astounding contemporary performer… I was spellbound.” RealTime

2024 / Performance

The Two Body Problem

The Two Body Problem is an experimental performance lecture that starts from the provocation: what if we had not one, but two bodies? How would this change the decisions we made and the risks we took? Would we just spend time in the ‘good’ body and leave the other one at home? And what is a ‘good’ body, anyway?

2023 / Residency / bodies-of-work / incubator

Bodies of Work – A Symposium

Labour rights for artists,  cultural democracy for workers

2023 / Residency / bodies-of-work

Bodies of Work

Bodies of Work, is exploring the broad territory of labour, labour organising, artists as workers, and the future of work.

2023 / Project / bodies-of-work

Loophole Shelter and the Places We Look for Her

Loophole Shelter and the Places We Look for Her is a multidisciplinary artistic and research project responding to transformative understandings of intergenerational grief. Ali Gumillya Baker will collaborate with First Nations writers, educators, researchers, and artists, to enact processes of observing, reading, speaking, singing, and moving in place and with ceremony as remedy for toxic neo-colonial relations. 

2023 / Residency / incubator

Port Adelaide for Yes

PUBLIC MEETING – GATHER, LISTEN, ORGANISE!

Speakers include:
Uncle Mickey Kumatpi O’Brien, Kaurna Elder
Thomas Mayo, Assistant National Secretary, Maritime Union of Australia
Kirstie Parker, Strategic Advisor, Uluru Dialogue
Ali Gumillya Baker, Artist, Unbound Collective

Thursday, September 7, 7pm
Waterside, 11 Nile St, Port Adelaide,
Kaurna Yerta
Free

2023 / Performance

Port Adelaide for YES

 

PUBLIC MEETING – GATHER, LISTEN, ORGANISE!

Speakers include:

Uncle Mickey Kumatpi O’Brien, Kaurna Elder
Thomas Mayo, Assistant National Secretary, Maritime Union of Australia
Kirstie Parker, Strategic Advisor, Uluru Dialogue
Ali Gumillya Baker, Artist, Unbound Collective

Thursday, September 7, 7pm
Waterside, 11 Nile St, Port Adelaide,
Kaurna Yerta
Free

2023 / Event

Adhocracy 2023

Adhocracy is Vitalstatistix’s annual national hothouse, supporting the creative development and critical discussion of experimental, multidisciplinary arts projects. 

2023 / Project / adhocracy

The Art of Work is a Work of Art

The Art of Work is a Work of Art is a documentary theatre project that explores the groundbreaking activist theatre work and legacy of the co-founders of Vitalstatistix in Yerta Bulti, Port Adelaide. It is in development in 2023, for its premiere in 2024 as part our 40th birthday celebrations. 

2023 / Residency / incubator

ASQ: Synthesis

In partnership with Nexus Arts, the Australian String Quartet (ASQ) and shamisen virtuoso Noriko Tadano bring you an intercultural musical experience celebrating the contemporary practice of two traditional artforms.

2023 / Performance

The Paranormal is Personal

In two interconnected paranormal sound and text-based projects, using paranormal research tools, Fiona Sprott’s Ghost? and Jason Sweeney’s Corporeal will collaboratively and individually map locations of heartbreak, love, of trauma, of old houses they’ve lived in, and the places their previous performances and artworks have taken place in. Can personal ghosts at sites of memory, loss and grief have something to say or offer the haunted body and mind? 

2023 / Residency / incubator

Wild Dog — Six Dog Night

An immersive and interactive workshop, led by senior Kaurna Elders, focusing on the importance of one of Australia’s most misunderstood but significant cultural symbols – the dingo.

2023 / Performance

Progress Report

Progress Report is a new solo dance performance about consumerism and waste. The work puts real world every day decisions under the microscope to reveal seemingly contradictory, at times hilarious and often unbearable truths.

Now Showing at The Substation 1st – 4th March 23 – purchase tickets here.

 

2023 / Performance

Sightings

Gabrielle Nankivell’s Sightings explores personal and collective mythologies of place through crowd-sourced mapping and storytelling, choreographed site interventions, video works, documentation, and public performance.

2022 / Performance

Elegy of the Pale Lion

A choreographic and sculptural ritual about remembering, forgetting, and mourning. Performed on the stripped chassis of a Holden Commodore VF, the work reimagines the car as a uniquely evolved Australian species of feral lion, now facing extinction.

2022 / Residency

Yes

YES is an investigation into the dynamics of power, consent, knowledge, truth and the complexities of one seemingly simple word.

2022 / Performance

Collective Feminist Practice workshop

2022 / Project

Goddess Ball’s Fun House

An exploratory dive into online performative spaces, adult camming sites, chat windows, and cyber encounter. Using text, performance and endurance, the artists’ subjectivities and gaze are placed within the wider aesthetics and politics of online sex work.

2022 / Residency

The Read

Drawing on Amrita’s interests in participatory research, intimate conversations and resilience, The Read will explore the similarities and differences in body-centred professions, and the broader observation that their labour is not contained to a singular act, event or performance.

2022 / Residency

The Photo Box

Emma Beech’s art is both simple and hard to define. Labels like direct address performance, docu-drama, verbatim real-life portraiture, all seem to rob her storytelling of its straightforward warmth and worth.

2022 / Performance

Jennifer Mills

Writer Jennifer Mills joined the Vitals team in 2022 as Artist-in-Residence.

2022 / Project

APRON-SORROW / SOVEREIGN-TEA

The work explores the complexity of women’s experiences and survival strategies; intergenerational stories that span loss, love, sorrow, solidarity, resistance and refusal.

2021 / Project

Sightings

Sightings explores personal and collective mythologies of place through crowd-sourced mapping and storytelling, choreographed site interventions, video works, documentation and public performance.

2021 / Residency

Emission

An immersive sound performance.
Penetrating ferocity. Near silence. Deep cuts.

2021 / Performance

Adhocracy 2021

2021 / Project

Progress Report

The work puts everyday decisions under the microscope to reveal seemingly contradictory, at times hilarious and often unbearable truths. A hortative manifesto that boldly proclaims wasting waste is a waste, Progress Report exemplifies the imperative need to transform the value of garbage.

2021 / Performance

Bedroom

Bedroom explores the space of internalising the pervasive domination that women experience on a regular basis, and then the embodied expulsion of anger and grief, delivered through a visceral and charged performance – one full of humour and grace.

2021 / Performance

tiny revolutions

A ‘think and do’ tank for epic issues, tiny revolutions responds to the overwhelming scale and anxieties of key global issues through quick and dirty creative resistance that is impactful and fun.

2021 / Performance

Set Piece

From the creators of global cult hit The Second Woman (presented by Adelaide Festival with Vitalstatistix in its final Australian presentation in 2019) comes Anna Breckon and Nat Randall’s much anticipated new work Set Piece.

2021 / Performance

YES

An investigation into the dynamics of power, consent, knowledge, truth and the complexities of saying yes, YES is a new performance work-in-development by acclaimed feminist theatre makers THE RABBLE.

2021 / Residency

Jane Howard

In 2020 our artist-in-residence is writer, critic and Walkley award winning journalist Jane Howard.

2020 / Residency

The Read

The Read will explore the body in service with a performance by a dancer, a sex worker and an athlete.

2020 / Residency / incubator

Cher

2020 / Performance

Sightings

Sightings explores personal and collective mythologies of place through crowd-sourced mapping and storytelling, choreographed site interventions, video works, documentation and public performance.

2020 / Residency / incubator

We the Sick [of It]

We the Sick [of It] generates a series of participatory micro manifestos about the health of the social body, engaging with poetics, play and radical care practices. Cat Jones is

2020 / Project / adhocracy

AI vs Baby

AI vs Baby is an exploration of neuroscience, artificial intelligence, racial bias and memory, using pedagogy and movement to unpack responsive differences between a child and a virtual digital assistant.

2020 / Project / adhocracy

Broth Bitch

Broth Bitch is a podcast performance work about the wellness industrial complex and white women, set against conversations about women, labour and capitalism. Michele Lee is an Asian-Australian playwright and

2020 / Project / adhocracy

Capital and Darkness

Capital and Darkness is an improvised sonic writing process, a song cycle and a deep listening, responding to labour, exiting the labour body, machines of production, automation and essentialism. Virginia

2020 / Project / adhocracy

Cliffhanger

Cliffhanger is a multidisciplinary work across performance, installation and text, investigating the cliffhanger and the state of suspension as an omnipresent facet of contemporary anxiety. Holly Childs is an Adelaide-based

2020 / Project / adhocracy

Das Wasser im Bade

Das Wasser im Bade is an experimental exploration of commodified use of water in our daily lives, through sound, video and performance works made from the mundane to the sublime

2020 / Project / adhocracy

Energy Fields

Energy Fields is an experimental, practice-based exploration of body-oriented, dialogical and decolonised ways of working towards future cultural ecologies.  This process brings together four artists whose interests and lived experiences

2020 / Project / adhocracy

Epoch Wars

Epoch Wars is an artist-run alternative symposium to the 36th International Geological Congress, where artists, thinkers and audiences debate and negotiate the name of the era we will die in.

2020 / Project / adhocracy

Every Woman

Every Woman is a research process towards a large-scale public performance installation where women will collectively embody diverse and intersectional feminist movements. Liesel Zink is an award-winning Australian choreographer interested

2020 / Project / adhocracy

Game of I-Lands

Game of I-Lands is an intercultural science-art performance project about the impact of the South China Sea conflict on the sentient creatures who inhabit the South China sea marine ecosystem.

2020 / Project / adhocracy

Helpline

Helpline is a participatory live artwork that utilises the ubiquitous helpline and product assistance service to explore isolation, therapeutic outreach and community care. Working across theatre and live art, comedy

2020 / Project / adhocracy

Hot Body

Hot Body is a poetic performance text exploring touch, intimacy, desire and embodied power in fictional and virtual spaces. Grace Marlow is an early career, multidisciplinary artist working in text-based

2020 / Project / adhocracy

How Long Can This Last?

In How Long Can This last? a performer with chronic illness pursues a pain-free space provided by live performance in a durational work interrogating the visibility of disability, medical gaslighting,

2020 / Project / adhocracy

Hundreds + Thousands

Hundreds + Thousands is a choreographic work that enlists plants as artistic collaborators, audience members and social mediators to explore the transformative powers of communality, fluidity and stillness. Both Luke

2020 / Project / adhocracy

Identify: What boxes do you tick?

Identify: What boxes do you tick? is a multi-platform performative work that seeks to unpack the fixed and fluid notions between identity of the self and identity by interpolation. Amala

2020 / Project / adhocracy

Immaculate

Immaculate is an intimate, durational artwork about transforming and reframing the conception of a child, through the lens of queer experience. Casey Jenkins is a Melbourne-based installation and performance artist.

2020 / Project / adhocracy

Mother’s Blood

Mother’s Blood is a contemporary urban drama played out online and IRL about three generations of an Aboriginal family, exploring political change across decades, online identities and technology in dramatic

2020 / Project / adhocracy

Nature Is Healing

Nature is Healing is a performance work about the relationships between human and non-human animals sharing urban environments, based on the story of the gweela/Australian bush turkey. Too Rude is

2020 / Project / adhocracy

Nevermore

In Nevermore, a group of cross punks take aim at rapists through an exploration of how to incorporate comedy, fantasy and punk politics into an artistic response to sexual violence. Jennifer Greer

2020 / Project / adhocracy

Of Stubborn Songs and Unequal Wars*

Of Stubborn Songs and Unequal Wars* is an intercultural theatre work and living repository of research about domestic violence, the micro-personal and macro-political landscapes of female bodies, and women’s cultural

2020 / Project / adhocracy

Plant Notes

Plant Notes is an ephemeral art tour investigating the remnant flora on Kaurna Yerta/ the Adelaide Plains, and in this iteration the mangroves (Avicennia marina) which inhabit the Yerta Bulti/Port

2020 / Project / adhocracy

Scomodo

Scomodo is a durational performance work where two dance artists obsessively deconstruct and reconstruct a wheelchair, exploring the boundaries between humans and their machines. Cinzia Schincariol is an independent artist

2020 / Project / adhocracy

Screen Me

Screen Me is a performance project exploring representation on screen, inspired by the lead artist’s experience as the only visible person of colour on an Australian police procedural in the

2020 / Project / adhocracy

Sincere Apologies

Sincere Apologies is a performance work constructed entirely from apologies – the famous, the obscure, the imagined, the speculative or forth-coming and those that begin every second email in our

2020 / Project / adhocracy

Takatāpui

Takatāpui is an expansive performance work unearthing the transgenerational and collective trauma of colonisation, and the relentless journey to reclaiming sovereignty of body, mind and soul. Daley Rangi (Te Āti

2020 / Project / adhocracy

The Lost and Found Office

The Lost and Found Office is a performance installation about loss, memory and the everyday experience of slippage, woven together from real-life interviews with South Australian communities. Early career playwright

2020 / Project / adhocracy

What’s Eating Tristan Meecham?

What’s Eating Tristan Meecham? is a podcast about identity, sexuality, faith and how people with divergent beliefs can find common ground, inspired by an unbelievable coincidence and an internationally journey to connect left

2020 / Project / adhocracy

You Are Jeff

You Are Jeff is a composed theatre piece for pianist and orchestra, inspired by Siken’s Crush, evoking a portrait of queer discovery, self-reflection, rage and sensuality. Dan Thorpe is a

2020 / Project / adhocracy

YES (after Ulysses)

Set within an everchanging and unpredictable physical space, an audience witness the joys and horrors of women saying yes. Part endurance feat, part public debate.

2020 / Residency

Bedroom

Bedroom explores the space of internalising the pervasive domination and violence that women experience on a regular basis.

2020 / Residency

ARCHIVAL-POETICS FOR DECOLONISING LABOUR STORIES

Through this project she is tracing a history of Aboriginal women’s domestic labour and servitude, via oral history and the State’s official record.

2020 / Residency

Howl

A no-holds barred performance at the intersection of parade, protest and procession, Howl is a glorious celebration of controversy in the art world.

2020 / Performance

Not Today’s Yesterday

This stunning performance blends Bharatanatyam, contemporary dance and theatre in a provocative, politically pertinent and dark fairy tale about colonialism.

2020 / Residency

Waterborne

Waterborne is the story of micro-inhabitations, decay and the flow of matter. Forensically researched, stunningly lyrical and deeply life affirming, this audio artwork brings science and imagination together in a surprising, beautiful meditation on our watery bodies and the cycle of life and death.

2019 / Performance

Semaphore

Semaphore is a compelling and intriguing exploration of signalling, communication and miscommunication. Using physical, visual and aural encoding systems – Semaphore, Morse code, pennants, lights and binary code – dancers and musicians synchronise in a complex choreography of bodies, music and illumination.

2019 / Performance

Below the Line

Below the Line is an immersive, interdisciplinary performance project built around the comments submitted to an online article about David Finnigan’s play Kill Climate Deniers.

 

2019 / Project

how do you feel now?

how do you feel now? is a process-driven exploration and response by Wiradyuri conceptual artist Amala Groom and Wajarri Yamatji/Dutch/English trans-disciplinary creative Nicole Monks.

2019 / Project

Rooman

A girl meets a half-man-half-kangaroo in her dreams, and falls in love. Obsessed by his reality, and the idea of becoming a part of it, she takes desperate measures to spend more time with him. This obsession leads her into the darkest depths of the human psyche.

2019 / Performance

Adhocracy 2019

Adhocracy is a festival of ideas meets intense art camp meets magic house party. Get amongst some of Australia’s most exciting established and emerging makers of Australian contemporary culture, art, performance and commentary.

2019 / Project / adhocracy

A Mountain, a Karanga

A Mountain, a Karanga is a diasporic duet, and an experiment with dialogues and cultural definitions, by Māori women dance makers Forest Vicky Kapo and Paea Leach.

2019 / Project / adhocracy

CREATION: sustenance

CREATION proposes lateral, experimental ways to creatively engage with climate denialism.

2019 / Project / adhocracy

Dorr-e Dari: A Poetic Crash Course in the Language of Love

Inspired by curtain shows that take place in private homes and tea-houses all through Central Asia.

2019 / Project / adhocracy

Good Silence

How do we create and participate in meaningful rituals that permit some temporary alleviation from the obligations of the everyday?

2019 / Project / adhocracy

In the Dark

A live performance installation and political activation for public spaces after nightfall. It is an agitation and reclamation around agency, voice, and holding space.

2019 / Project / adhocracy

Let Me Tell You

Let Me Tell You​ is an almanac of the first decade of Adhocracy and its impact, cultural and personal.

2019 / Project / adhocracy

MASConfessional

Queer performance and music duo GIRL explore masculinity, patriarchal power and androcentrism.

2019 / Project / adhocracy

Medicament for your Predicament

From antidotes to ire, diuretics for disillusionment and cures for capitalism, Medicament For Your Predicament gently applies a drawing ointment to modern maladies.

2019 / Project / adhocracy

Old Body, New Management

Motus Collective are exploring ideas of regeneration, identity and change, based on the philosophical problem of the Ship of Theseus.

2019 / Project / adhocracy

The Future Echoes

What are the conditions for the time to come? How can listening be a critical form of political agency for the urgent project of building sustainable and ethical futures?

2019 / Project / adhocracy

Witness Stand

Witness Stand is about enacting a public hearing of places that demand witnessing and reflection.

2019 / Project / adhocracy

Adhocracy Extras

Extra events!

2019 / Event / adhocracy

Set Piece

Set Piece explores homosexual coupledom through the lens of power dynamics and erotic power play.

2019 / Residency / incubator

The Second Woman – Artist Talk

Join The Second Woman co-creators Nat Randall and Anna Breckon, in conversation with Rachel Healy, Joint Artistic Director Adelaide Festival, and Emma Webb, Director Vitalstatisix.

2019 / Event

mi:wi

With one eye on the future and the other on the past, mi:wi sees three First Nations women intertwine their connection to country, ancestry, each other and their future, in a powerful performance.

2019 / Performance

Cher

“After a nuclear holocaust, all that will be left are cockroaches and Cher.” Jimmy James

Contemporary dance takes on camp and cabaret in this solo tour de force inspired by ultimate pop chameleon, Cher.

2019 / Performance

ULYSSES

Rejecting the idea of the ‘everyman’, the modernist canon, and the large amount of space Ulysses takes up in it. Instead THE RABBLE will invent a series of experiments that investigate the intersections between intellectualism and femininity, to be performed over 10 hours.

2019 / Project

Progress Report

Progress Report is a new solo dance performance about consumerism and waste. The work puts real world, every day decisions under the microscope to reveal seemingly contradictory, at times hilarious and often unbearable truths. 

2019 / Residency / incubator

The Second Woman

In an astonishing feat of endurance performance and live cinema, a performer repeats a single scene inspired by the 1977 John Cassavetes film Opening Night, 100 times over a 24-hour period.

2019 / Performance

We All Know What’s Happening

Welcome to a tropical island full of palm trees, phosphate mines, coconut water and kids.

2019 / Performance

Natalie Harkin

Natalie is undertaking a three-year Australian Research Council-funded project entitled Resistance Poetics and Decolonising the Archive: Aboriginal Domestic Labour Stories from South Australia. Through this project she is tracing a history of Aboriginal women’s domestic labour and servitude.

2019 / Residency

SOVEREIGN ACTS III – REFUSE

A very special evening event, offered in two parts, that brings together research, performance, ceremony and conversation.

2018 / Performance / climate

Raft of the Medusa

A subversive river cruise and participatory performance about creating a new water-world order.

2018 / Performance / climate

Eyes

A provocative and innovative audio performance about beliefs systems and survival tactics for the end of the world.

2018 / Performance / climate

Deepspace

A mesmerising dance performance about remoteness and proximity, connectedness and isolation, and our curiosity for the unknown.

2018 / Performance / climate

WAR DANCE OF THE FINAL FRONTIER

A video installation in which a collective body powerfully conjures a resistance to an underwater threat to Oceania.

2018 / Project / climate

THEN LET US RUN (THE SKY IS FALLING)

A large-scale durational installation offering a visceral encounter with the sky of a wild, geoengineered future.

2018 / Project / climate

River Cycle

A sculpture, a watercraft, and an experiment in community engagement with adaptation, everyday creativity and the future of our rivers.

2018 / Project / climate

Sentients

An immersive concert of beautiful and hopeful odes to individual animals who suffer for our desires.

2018 / Performance / climate

Drive

In 2007, NASA astronaut and devoted mother and wife Lisa Nowak got into her car and drove for 14 hours from Houston to Orlando, to confront her lover’s much younger lover, Colleen Shipman, in a parking lot at Orlando International Airport.

2018 / Residency

A Roaring Silence

A performance project about white Australia’s obsession with monuments to settler colonialism. Hear artist talks and see showings.

2018 / Project / adhocracy

Airports

Contemporary dance about liminal spaces – such as airports – that operates like a palindrome, a reversible performance. See it develop over three days.

2018 / Project / adhocracy

Exit Strategies

A solo theatre show about mobility, privilege and ways to disappear. See it develop over three days.

2018 / Project / adhocracy

Fully Automated Luxury Communism

A playful, immersive artwork about the post-work future. Participate in the artists’ studio, research and showings. Robots.

2018 / Project / adhocracy

Move Along

A multimedia walking tour about urban visibility and dispossession. Help build the stories for this new work-in-development.

2018 / Project / adhocracy

The Most Glorious Disastrous Meal of My Life

A contemporary opera built from the high drama of Google reviews of McDonalds. See it develop over three days.

2018 / Project / adhocracy

The Things We Did Next

A speculative talk show set ten years in the future. Help map the next decade, participate in workshops and see a first outing of the performance model.

2018 / Project / adhocracy

(Algo)rhythm

An improvised three-sided game between two content producers (the artists) and the audience. Each showing will be different in this social experiment.

2018 / Project / adhocracy

KINSTILLATORY MAPPINGS IN LIGHT AND DARK MATTER

A series of outcomes from a two-week residency about decolonialised artistic activation. 

2018 / Residency / adhocracy

Adhocracy 2018

Adhocracy is Vitalstatistix’s national hothouse, supporting the creative development of new experimental and multidisciplinary arts projects. Artists from around Australia join us to create and converse over the first weekend of Spring.

2018 / Project / adhocracy

Ulysses

Feminist theatre makers THE RABBLE are developing an epic, multi-part durational performance event inspired and repulsed by James Joyce’s Ulysses.

2018 / Residency

JOAN

Joan is a teenage girl. A virgin soldier who will convince an army of men that she hears the voice of the divine. She will burn.

2018 / Performance

Left Right Forward March

Left Right Forward March is a collaborative performance project between the artist Bron Batten and a member of the Australian Defence Forces, exploring the intersections between conservative and progressive politics in Australian society.

2018 / Residency / incubator

Slow Awakening

Slow Awakening is a performance work spanning the lives and struggles of a unique Aboriginal family from Raukkan Mission, Point McLeay, South Australia, and Dimboola, Victoria.

2018 / Residency / incubator

Alexis West

Alexis has worked as a dancer, choreographer, performer, writer, theatre-maker and filmmaker over the past 20 years. As a Birri Gubba, Wakka Wakka and Kanak woman, Alexis is passionate about First Nation people’s voices as well as the stories of people with disability and people from diverse backgrounds.

2018 / Residency

Fever

Fever is an immersive dance-based work that asks us to consider personal, political and cultural change: what starts it and what has stopped it, in the face of human-induced climate change.

2017 / Project / climate

IRON LADY

Iron Lady is a performative research project and comedic intervention into the finance district by an artist armed with an ironing board. The work starts from the premise that finance is an experimental playground that peddles in speculation, fiction, and value creation.

2017 / Project

The Exaltation of Enheduanna

The Exaltation of Enheduanna is a live sound and video work by Daniel Von Jenatsch. It combines ancient history with speculative fiction.

2017 / Project

LOSS. GAIN. REVERB. DELAY.

Presented by Vitalstatistix in association with TARNANTHI: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art.

2017 / Project

Second Hand Emotions

Second Hand Emotions is a process-driven, queer and discursive project responding to the provocation of ‘love and feminism’, the theme of Fontanelle’s keynote exhibition during FRAN.

2017 / Residency / adhocracy

Border Crossers

In this creative development, contemporary dance practitioner Ben-Hur Winter joins Berry; together they will create ‘rebel political warriors’, hybrid forms of the artists’ complex selves.

2017 / Project / adhocracy

DIRTY HARRY

Multidisciplinary artist Martyn Coutts will work with choreographer Caitlin Comerford in a subversive exploration of machismo. Dirty Harry, in its first development, is an experimental process that positions the male body as a site of power and violence, and seeks to find out what happens to it under pressure.

2017 / Project / adhocracy

DON’T READ THE COMMENTS

DON’T READ THE COMMENTS questions climate change denial, online disinhibition and the impact of creative responses to political issues.

2017 / Project / adhocracy

MAYBE YOU, MAYBE YOU, MAYBE EVEN YOU

Maybe You, Maybe You, Maybe Even You is a participatory performance that investigates the nuances of queer visibility in public space. 

2017 / Project / adhocracy

SOLO FOR (HU)MAN AND FOAM

At its most frivolous Solo for (Hu)man and Foam is a playful dance experiment; at its deepest it reflects the possibilities and limits to individual change in the face of environmental disaster.

2017 / Project / adhocracy

SQUASH!

Artist Meg Wilson, continues her fascination with sports-based durational art events, in her new work SQUASH!, a live art work exploring grandiosity, narcissism and deceit.

2017 / Project / adhocracy

THE SILENT KEY

At its heart The Silent Key will produce a relay of broadcasts featuring artists, communities and individuals, forming an ‘exquisite corpse’-style narrative arc. These playful global broadcasts will be accompanied by a series of terrestrial and online clues, performances, publications, and other interventions.

2017 / Project / adhocracy

The Witness

The Witness is a performance installation and video work exploring death awareness and acceptance, and the internet as a site for private inquiry. This creative development draws on a video work commissioned by RealTime in 2017; video and sound artist Tiyan Baker will begin a major research and performative extension to its first iteration.

2017 / Project / adhocracy

Adhocracy 2017

Adhocracy is Vitalstatistix’s national hothouse, supporting the creative development of new experimental and multidisciplinary arts projects. Artists from around Australia join us to create and converse over the first weekend of Spring.

2017 / Project / adhocracy

SPEECHLESS

Speechless is developing as an experimental opera homage to persons rendered speechless through political means. The work draws its primary score and thematic material from Gillian Triggs’ 2014 Human Rights Commission report entitled ‘The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention’.

2017 / Residency / incubator

SUPER IMPOSITION

Super Imposition is a new work and first collaboration by contemporary performance-makers Tamara Saulwick and Nicola Gunn. Fusing performance dramaturgy, music composition and video art, the work interrogates notions of change – our desire for it, our resistance to it and the inevitability of it.

2017 / Residency / incubator

CHER

Cher breaks convention, challenges the system and somehow remains a constant. Choreographer, dancer and fan, Larissa McGowan, will use Cher’s iconic figure as a totem in order to flesh out the real possibilities of personal-political transformation.

2017 / Project

SPEECH PATTERN

Speech Pattern is an investigation into contemporary subjectivity utilising performance, video and installation. The work draws from the fields of dance and the moving image, alongside queer, feminist and psychoanalytic theory.

2017 / Project

DRIVE

In 2007, NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak got into her car and drove for fourteen hours from Houston to Orlando, to confront her lover’s much younger lover, Colleen Shipman, in a parking lot at Orlando International Airport. Disguised in a dark wig, glasses and trench coat, she allegedly wore an adult nappy used in space so that she didn’t have to stop.

2017 / Residency / incubator

DUNCAN

In 1903 dance pioneer Isadora Duncan gave her speech ‘The Dance of the Future’, which became a manifesto of free dance. “The dancer [of the future] will not belong to a nation but to all humanity.” Chris Scherer will investigate the nature of liberty, as such ‘dancer of the future.’

2017 / Project

ST. JEROME’S LANEWAY FESTIVAL 2017

In 2017 celebrate living and longing, loss and lust, at Temple of Love. Throw yourself headlong into heartfelt declarations, sweet goodbyes, hauntings and ritual, all set within a dance party.

2017 / Event

Emma Beech

Performance-maker and conversationalist Emma Beech joins Vitalstatistix as our artist-in-residence in 2017, working in our Shopfront Studio throughout the year.

2017 / Residency

Points in the Plane

Points in the Plane is a mentoring project with South Australian artists Josephine Were, Ashton Malcolm and Meg Wilson.

2017 / Residency

I CON

I CON is a new work-in-development by artist, dancer and choreographer Atlanta Eke. Atlanta joins us again after her acclaimed Body of Work at this year’s Adelaide Festival, this time at Waterside.

2016 / Residency / incubator

LIFE IS SHORT AND LONG

Life Is Short and Long is a performance installation created from three years of travel yarns and investigation of how people respond to crisis and change.

 

2016 / Performance

The Lost Art of Listening

Composer and musician Hilary Kleinig is collaborating with conversationalist Emma Beech to investigate how people experience and value music in an age of 24-hour connectedness and distraction.

2016 / Project / adhocracy

The Tension of Opposites

Sparked by a comedic idea based around two dictators attempting to share a small apartment, The Tension of Opposites expands this idea to explore conflict and pigheadedness, from petty differences to global politics.

2016 / Project / adhocracy

Uncanny Valley, Girl

Uncanny Valley, Girl explores a feminist cyber/socio-political imagination to produce a new narrative for the ‘fembot’ trope.

2016 / Project / adhocracy

Adhocracy 2016

Adhocracy is Vitalstatistix’s national hothouse, supporting the creative development of new experimental and multidisciplinary arts projects.

2016 / Project / adhocracy

AEON

As we walk multiple paths toward a future in flux, Aeon envisions the space between civic responsibility and personal consent; between soaring clouds of wings and piles of pigeon poo to offer a paradoxical, complex and ever emerging horizon.

2016 / Residency / adhocracy

Dirty Pieces

A collaborative exploration of the question “but what is it about?” conducted through improvisation, generative writing, and image making.

2016 / Project / adhocracy

Lady Example

Lady Example begins as forensic examination of the women who surround us – in our lives, in our cities, in our histories, in our mythologies, in our popular culture.

2016 / Project / adhocracy

Never Trust a Creative City

Never Trust A Creative City is a performance about the uncomfortable topic of artists and gentrification.

2016 / Project / adhocracy

Raft of the Medusa

Set in a speculative future, sea levels have risen, the ocean has overtaken the land, and only two boats remain: a large raft-like boat modeled on the raft of the Méduse, and a more habitable, yet decrepit yacht.

2016 / Project / adhocracy

LOSS. GAIN. REVERB. DELAY

LOSS. GAIN. REVERB. DELAY is an ambitious sound and sculptural work-in-development, which explores knowledge transmission through time and across land, referencing specific landmarks and correlations between Aboriginal knowledge and scientific discovery.

2016 / Residency / incubator

THERE IS NOTHING ACCIDENTAL OR SURPRISING ABOUT THIS

A long term artwork that uses tree rings to record the human activity.

2016 / Project / climate

Climate Century

Join us for a mid-winter, Sunday afternoon conversation about how artists are responding to the global condition of climate change.

2016 / Event / climate

BETWEEN LIGHT

Zephyr Quartet presents their critically acclaimed 2014 project Between Light in the beautiful Waterside Workers Hall.

Between Light commissioned five Australian artists to create new work for Zephyr Quartet, exploring notions of light and dark in their work, taking the Italian art term ‘chiaroscuro’ as a genesis.

2016 / Performance

CRAWL ME BLOOD

Crawl Me Blood is inspired by the work of Jean Rhys whose book ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ expounds the landscape and complex race relations of the post-colonial Caribbean.

2016 / Project

Climate of Cruelty

In the absence of known eulogies and memorials for individual animals slaughtered in environmentally impacting commercial industries in Australia and globally.

2016 / Project / climate

A Satirist’s Journey

A personal account of Bryan Dawe’s journey into political satire. From the grim educational pickings of working class Port Adelaide in the 1950s and 60s, Bryan escaped from high school at 15 and went on to become one of Australia’s finest satirists.

2016 / Event

BODY OF WORK

Atlanta Eke’s acclaimed Body of Work (Keir Choreographic Award, 2014) sees the visceral and mechanical collide. Described as dance meets performance art, this work is both strangely familiar and radical, with its nods to science fiction and cyborg feminism.

2016 / Performance

ST. JEROME’S LANEWAY FESTIVAL 2016

In 2016, get your festival mojo back at House and Garden, a lush neon lounge of tunes and live art, dance lessons and icy poles, under the high ceilings of Waterside.

2016 / Event

PIECE FOR PERSON & GHETTO BLASTER

This is the story of a man, a woman and a duck. It is about the excruciating realms of human behaviour. It is about trying to become a better person.

2015 / Performance

Climate Century

Climate Century is an exhibition of multidisciplinary art works that imagine climate futures in the coastal and river environs of Port Adelaide and the LeFevre Peninsula.

2015 / Event / climate

ULYSSES

Victorian-based theatre makers THE RABBLE are developing a new epic, 18-part, ten-hour contemporary performance inspired by James Joyce’s Ulysses.

2015 / Residency / incubator

LIFE IS SHORT AND LONG

Life is Short and Long is a new work in development by South Australian theatre maker and conversationalist, Emma Beech. Drawing on local and global travel experiences, Emma is undertaking a humanist investigation of how people and communities respond to crises.

2015 / Project

Adelaide Film Festival

Vitals is excited to be hosting the world-first screening of Rolf de Heer’s 1993 classic Bad Boy Bubby. 

2015 / Event

Vitals Community Fair

Handmade, heritage & vintage at the Port Festival. We throw open the doors at the heritage-listed Waterside Worker Hall. Expect vintage and craft stalls, food and drink, music, special tours of Waterside, participatory experiences and more!

2015 / Event

SDS1

This is football as theatre – stripped back, extracted, frozen, repeated, abstracted. Beautiful and ugly all at once.

2015 / Performance

National Trouble Makers Union

Join us for the public launch of the South Australian Branch of the National Trouble Makers Union (NTMU), with National Secretary of the NTMU, Bryan Dawe as Sir Murray Rivers QC.

2015 / Event

THAT’S HIS STYLE

Angelique is young and full of dark mystery. The future is hers. But her existence teeters on the edge. The future threatens to close in on her. Now she’s disappeared. What happened to her? What does she know? And what are these clues she’s left behind?

2015 / Residency / incubator

Adhocracy 2015

Adhocracy is Vitalstatistix’s national artist hothouse, supporting the creative development of new experimental and interdisciplinary projects.

2015 / Project / adhocracy

Alternative Futures Working Group

Alternative Futures Working Group is a research project exploring perceptions of the future and conversations as artworks.

2015 / Project / adhocracy

Awkward Sex Scenes

A new performance work in its first stage of creative development that explores discomfort with representations of sex when in the presence of others.

2015 / Project / adhocracy

Future Turf

Future Turf is a performance installation exploring the relationship between the built environment, home and the human form.

2015 / Project / adhocracy

Jarrod Duffy is Not Dead

In October 2010, Jarod Duffy disappeared, leaving behind the furniture at his house and no explanation.  This is the story of that disappearance and Applespiel’s hunt to find their missing friend.

2015 / Project / adhocracy

New Wave/No Wave

A feminist research project working towards a large visual arts exhibition in 2017, commemorating the 30th anniversary of The Women’s Show (Adelaide, 1977), the first contemporary Australia-wide, all-women exhibition.

2015 / Project / adhocracy

Versions of Truth

Versions of Truth draws on verbatim theatre and live art practices to explore identity, performance, authenticity and representation.

2015 / Project / adhocracy

CRAWL ME BLOOD

Crawl Me Blood is inspired by the work of Jean Rhys, whose book ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’, expounds the landscape and complex race relations of post-colonial Dominica.

2015 / Residency / adhocracy

MADAME: THE STORY OF JOSEPH FARRUGIA

Dance theatre meets documentary biopic in the extraordinary and highly entertaining personal story.

2015 / Performance

St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival 2015

Australia’s premier indie music event returns to the Port.

2015 / Event

1984

The project explores how memories and narratives of histories are interpreted across generations and geographies.

2014 / Project / adhocracy

Black Market

Part game, part social experiment, black market explores modes of value exchange in an uncertain world.

2014 / Project / adhocracy

Broadcasts

Broadcasts is a project about listening to edges and mapping the faltering periphery of a territory by using sound and signals.

2014 / Project

Hello My Name Is

A beautifully chaotic, joyous and uplifting event that reminds us how to engage with and celebrate the act of living (and conga lines).

2014 / Performance

Feltmaps

An ephemeral public art project responding to the small, the large, the public and the hidden, in central Port Adelaide.

2014 / Project

St Jerome’s Laneway Festival 2014

Australia’s premier indie music event returns to the Port.

2014 / Event

Adhocracy 2010

Adhocracy: A form of  organisation  that cuts across normal bureaucratic lines to capture opportunities, adapt to change & solve problems. A process of decision making where  groups of individuals reach consensus by responding in an ad hoc fashion to frequently changing priorities.

2010 / Project / adhocracy

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