Past Work

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. …

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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….

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 pr…

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

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

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 d…

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. …

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…

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 vid…

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 c…

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 c…

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

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. …

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

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…

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. …

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 dif…

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

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

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

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

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

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 frie…

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

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…

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

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 …

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

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

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

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

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

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? …

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. …

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. Virg…

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 assist…

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 Chil…

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…

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. Through …

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-winn…

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. Austral…

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 …

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-ba…

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,…

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 stil…

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 Groom is a Wi…

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 perf…

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…

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 a c…

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 H…

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 …

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 Ade…

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…

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 late 90…

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 in…

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 …

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 ca…

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 an interdisciplinary …

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 internati…

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 classicall…

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 playwr…

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 in suburban waterways….

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