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SDS1
This is football as theatre – stripped back, extracted, frozen, repeated, abstracted. Beautiful and ugly all at once. …
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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. …
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MADAME: THE STORY OF JOSEPH FARRUGIA
Dance theatre meets documentary biopic in the extraordinary and highly entertaining personal story. …
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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 be…
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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 …
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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…
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ULYSSES
Victorian-based theatre makers THE RABBLE are developing a new epic, 18-part, ten-hour contemporary performance inspired by James Joyce’s Ulysses. …
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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….
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Climate
THERE IS NOTHING ACCIDENTAL OR SURPRISING ABOUT THIS
A long term artwork that uses tree rings to record the human activity. …
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Climate of Cruelty
In the absence of known eulogies and memorials for individual animals slaughtered in environmentally impacting commercial industries in Australia and globally. …
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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 specif…
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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 F…
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BODY OF WORK
Atlanta Eke’s acclaimed Body of Work (Keir Choreographic Award, 2014) sees the visceral and mechanical collide. Described as dance meets perfor…
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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. …
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BETWEEN LIGHT
Zephyr Quartet presents their critically acclaimed 2014 project Between Light in the beautiful Waterside Workers Hall. Between Light commissioned five Australian a…
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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….
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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. …
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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. …
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River Cycle
A sculpture, a watercraft, and an experiment in community engagement with adaptation, everyday creativity and the future of our rivers. …
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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 o…
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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 huma…
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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. …
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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 …
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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 q…
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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 Orla…
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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…
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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. …
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Points in the Plane
Points in the Plane is a mentoring project with South Australian artists Josephine Were, Ashton Malcolm and Meg Wilson. …
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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,…
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LOSS. GAIN. REVERB. DELAY.
Presented by Vitalstatistix in association with TARNANTHI: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art. …
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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 chang…
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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. …
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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 conservat…
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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 …
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Ulysses
Feminist theatre makers THE RABBLE are developing an epic, multi-part durational performance event inspired and repulsed by James Joyce’s Ulysses. …
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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. …
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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. …
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Move Along
A multimedia walking tour about urban visibility and dispossession. Help build the stories for this new work-in-development. …
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Fully Automated Luxury Communism
A playful, immersive artwork about the post-work future. Participate in the artists’ studio, research and showings. Robots. …
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Exit Strategies
A solo theatre show about mobility, privilege and ways to disappear. See it develop over three days. …
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Airports
Contemporary dance about liminal spaces – such as airports – that operates like a palindrome, a reversible performance. See it develop over three days. …
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A Roaring Silence
A performance project about white Australia’s obsession with monuments to settler colonialism. Hear artist talks and see showings. …
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(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. …
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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….
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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 …
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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…
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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….
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We All Know What’s Happening
Welcome to a tropical island full of palm trees, phosphate mines, coconut water and kids. …
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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. …
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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…
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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 powe…
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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. Thi…
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Semaphore
Semaphore is a compelling and intriguing exploration of signalling, communication and miscommunication. Using …
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Waterborne
Waterborne is the story of micro-inhabitations, decay and the flow of matter. Forensically researched, stunnin…
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Natalie Harkin
Natalie is undertaking a three-year Australian Research Council-funded project entitled Resistance Poetics and Dec…
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Set Piece
Set Piece explores homosexual coupledom through the lens of power dynamics and erotic power play. …
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Progress Report
Progress Report is a new solo dance performance about consumerism and waste. The work puts real world, every d…
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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. …
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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 p…
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Raft of the Medusa
A subversive river cruise and participatory performance about creating a new water-world order. …
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Eyes
A provocative and innovative audio performance about beliefs systems and survival tactics for the end of the world. …
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Deepspace
A mesmerising dance performance about remoteness and proximity, connectedness and isolation, and our curiosity for the unknown. …
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Sentients
An immersive concert of beautiful and hopeful odes to individual animals who suffer for our desires. …
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SOVEREIGN ACTS III – REFUSE
A very special evening event, offered in two parts, that brings together research, performance, ceremony and conversation. …
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KINSTILLATORY MAPPINGS IN LIGHT AND DARK MATTER
A series of outcomes from a two-week residency about decolonialised artistic activation. …
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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….
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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 pr…
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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. …
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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. …
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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 d…
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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. …
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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…
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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 vid…
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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 …
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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 c…
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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 c…
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Dirty Pieces
A collaborative exploration of the question “but what is it about?” conducted through improvisation, generative writing, and image making. …
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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. …
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Never Trust a Creative City
Never Trust A Creative City is a performance about the uncomfortable topic of artists and gentrification. …
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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…
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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. …
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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 dif…
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Uncanny Valley, Girl
Uncanny Valley, Girl explores a feminist cyber/socio-political imagination to produce a new narrative for the ‘fembot’ trope. …
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Adhocracy 2016
Adhocracy is Vitalstatistix’s national hothouse, supporting the creative development of new experimental and multidisciplinary arts projects. …
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Adhocracy 2015
Adhocracy is Vitalstatistix’s national artist hothouse, supporting the creative development of new experimental and interdisciplinary projects. …
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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. …
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Future Turf
Future Turf is a performance installation exploring the relationship between the built environment, home and the human form. …
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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 frie…
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Alternative Futures Working Group
Alternative Futures Working Group is a research project exploring perceptions of the future and conversations as artworks. …
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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…
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Versions of Truth
Versions of Truth draws on verbatim theatre and live art practices to explore identity, performance, authenticity and representation. …
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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). …
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Adhocracy
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 …
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1984
The project explores how memories and narratives of histories are interpreted across generations and geographies. …
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Black Market
Part game, part social experiment, black market explores modes of value exchange in an uncertain world. …
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Witness Stand
Witness Stand is about enacting a public hearing of places that demand witnessing and reflection. …
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Good Silence
How do we create and participate in meaningful rituals that permit some temporary alleviation from the obligations of the everyday? …
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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. …
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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? …
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Old Body, New Management
Motus Collective are exploring ideas of regeneration, identity and change, based on the philosophical problem of the Ship of Theseus. …
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MASConfessional
Queer performance and music duo GIRL explore masculinity, patriarchal power and androcentrism. …
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Let Me Tell You
Let Me Tell You is an almanac of the first decade of Adhocracy and its impact, cultural and personal. …
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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. …
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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. …
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CREATION: sustenance
CREATION proposes lateral, experimental ways to creatively engage with climate denialism. …
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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. …
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Howl
A no-holds barred performance at the intersection of parade, protest and procession, Howl…
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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. …
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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. …
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Not Today’s Yesterday
This stunning performance blends Bharatanatyam, contemporary dance and theatre in a provocative, politically pertinent and dark fairy tale about colonialism. …
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Bedroom
Bedroom explores the space of internalising the pervasive domination and violence that women experience on a regular basis. …
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Jane Howard
In 2020 our artist-in-residence is writer, critic and Walkley award winning journalist Jane Howard. …
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Sightings
Sightings explores personal and collective mythologies of place through crowd-sourced mapping and storytelling, choreographed site interventions, video works, documentation and public perf…
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The Read
The Read will explore the body in service with a performance by a dancer, a sex worker and an athlete. …
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Adhocracy Call Out
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Cher
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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. Virg…
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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 assist…
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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 Chil…
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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…
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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. Through …
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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-winn…
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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. Austral…
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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 …
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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-ba…
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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,…
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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 stil…
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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 Groom is a Wi…
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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 perf…
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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…
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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 a c…
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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 H…
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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 …
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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 Ade…
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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…
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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 late 90…
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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 in…
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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 …
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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 ca…
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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 an interdisciplinary …
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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 internati…
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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 classicall…
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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 playwr…
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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 in suburban waterways….
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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…
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Bodies of Work
Bodies of Work, is exploring the broad territory of labour, labour organising, artists as workers, and the future of work. …
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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 impact…
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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 visc…
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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…
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Emission
An immersive sound performance. Penetrating ferocity. Near silence. Deep cuts. …
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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 …
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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…
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Yes
YES is an investigation into the dynamics of power, consent, knowledge, truth and the complexities of one seemingly simple word. …
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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 straig…
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Bodies of Work
Bodies of Work, is exploring the broad territory of labour, labour organising, artists as workers, and the future of work. …
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Sightings
Gabrielle Nankivell’s Sightings explores personal and collective mythologies of place through crowd-sourced mapping and storytelling, choreographed site interventions, video works, docu…
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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…
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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 Aust…
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Collective Feminist Practice workshop
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Progress Report
Progress Report is a new solo dance performance about consumerism and waste. The work puts real world every day dec…
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The Paranormal is Personal
In two interconnected paranormal sound and text-based projects, using paranormal research tools, Fiona Sprott’s Ghost…
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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 wor…
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Adhocracy
Adhocracy 2023
Adhocracy is Vitalstatistix’s annual national hothouse, supporting the creative development and critical discussion of experimental, multidisciplinary arts project…
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The Two Body Problem
The Two Body Problem is an experimental performance lecture that starts from the provocation: what if we had not one, b…
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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 sy…
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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 tra…
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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 tr…
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Port Adelaide for Yes
PUBLIC MEETING – GATHER, LISTEN, ORGANISE! …
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Bodies of Work – A Symposium
Labour rights for artists, cultural democracy for workers …
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Class Act
In Class Act, working class unfortunate Mish Grigor tells the story of a grotesque world of class and social mobility straight from her dirty mouth. …
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Acting in Good Faith
Artist Sarah Rodigari questions the labour of faith in power and art. …
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