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artist talk / workshop

A choreographic work that draws from the horizontal stroke, pronounced as yi, that is the foundational mark in Chinese brush calligraphy. This is a practice-based exchange and creative development that unpacks the relationship between language, writing, thinking, inscribing, labour and the experience of being a polyglot.

Spell Kit for Navigating Uncertainty

artist talk / workshop (2hrs)

An instructional artwork and workshop for the creation and use of speculative tools to find our routes/roots through uncertain times. The project blends practices of spell making with instruments of navigation and the psychology of wayfinding, offering a playfulness that incorporates gravitas and humour, expertise and ineptitude, and ultimately a sense of imaginative agency.

Bodiness: hands like wings

showing / artist talk

A performative body of work about memory, freedom, and loss. The long-term-project uses the artist’s lived experience as a disabled woman, to explore the body as a site for potential and difference as a site for connection. This iteration creates kinetic appendages for her wheelchair that become a vivid component of live performance.

Spell Kit for Navigating Uncertainty

artist talk / workshop (cont.)

Adhocracy In-Conversation

Adhocracy artists & curators

Evil Hour

showing / artist talk

A performance and sound-based imagining upon the real-life story of Elizabeth Woolcock, the only woman ever hanged in South Australia. The work explores the pre-Christian heritage and rites of Cornish migrants in Mid-Northern South Australia; it is a meditation on decolonising the self and an experiment in horror and Australian Gothic

Maintain, Rest, Value: Bread & Roses

showing / artist talk

An ongoing choreographic project where the artists honour a site, other artists’ work and offer participatory actions of maintenance, rest, and value. This iteration references ‘8 hours work, rest and play’ and responds to the Waterside Workers Hall, with its history of solidarity, unionism, social dances, political struggle, and Yartapuulti as a place of sleep.

How Not to Climb a Mountain

showing / artist talk

A performance that explores survival, ingenuity, failure, and disentanglement from systems. Partly a response to the cost-ofliving crisis, and the artists’ own experience of precarity, the work also seeks to unpack what ubiquitous ‘creativity’ really means for those living and making art on the edge.

how to play bridge

showing / artist talk (shopfront)

A multimedia show exploring the Wiradyuri experience of living in between two worlds. The work will splice archival and popular culture images from a large array of media to create a supersaturated, surrealist allegorical experience where rapid-fire appropriation elevates First People’s epistemologies while turning the gaze onto the Colonial Project.

My Hair is Thinning

showing / artist talk

A documentary theatre work about hair regrowth, navigating grief, and learning to make peace with things that feel irreconcilable: genetics, death, and the incongruity of who we fall in love with. Combining memoir, performance lecture, soundscape technology and non-fiction essay, this is a darkly funny and heartfelt meditation on yearning.

Cultural Capital

showing / artist talk

A devised performance taking aim at class dynamics in the arts. In development between three queer and neurodivergent artists from differently racialised backgrounds, this experimental and satirical drama will interrogate the pursuit of cultural capital, and the nefarious faces it can take in a time of late capitalism.

King’s Choice

showing / artist choice

A sound and performance work that interrogates the fairy-tale protagonist of the prince, through a critique of the 16th century instruction guide for new princes and royals, ‘The Prince’ by Niccolo Machiavelli. It explores masculinity, gender fluidity, power, decolonial practices, queer utopias and what it means to challenge authority to become your true self.

Not Very Berry

showing / artist talk

An intimate montage of words, music, contemporary and folk dance and participation, this performance tells a fictional meets semi-autobiographical story of a Filipino Australian gay man’s journey spanning the mid 1980s to now. Beginning with a dance class, it soon explodes into a personal deep dive into growing up, coming out, and finding one’s place.

Streetlights & Long Nights

showing

A site-based, audio performance, evoking transient intimacy specific to time and place, from childhood sleepovers, long drives, late night confessionals, staying up too late and talking into the night in an unexpected place. This is a meditative, feelingsbased experience that plays with Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR), storytelling and poetics to summon nostalgic, deep bodily memory.

The MacroPlastic Workout

showing / artist talk

A performance that imagines a world overtaken by micro and macro plastics, where binaries, biology, culture and daily life will change. Using live music and foley, electroacoustic soundscapes, costume and choreography, this is a fitness class for posthuman ecologies – Waterworld meets Jane Fonda, performed in the style of Jacques Tati with clarinets and percussion.

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Bodiness: hands like wings

showing / artist talk

A performative body of work about memory, freedom, and loss. The long-term-project uses the artist’s lived experience as a disabled woman, to explore the body as a site for potential and difference as a site for connection. This iteration creates kinetic appendages for her wheelchair that become a vivid component of live performance.

Spell Kit for Navigating Uncertainty

open studio 3-7pm (4hrs)

An instructional artwork and workshop for the creation and use of speculative tools to find our routes/roots through uncertain times. The project blends practices of spell making with instruments of navigation and the psychology of wayfinding, offering a playfulness that incorporates gravitas and humour, expertise and ineptitude, and ultimately a sense of imaginative agency.

My Hair is Thinning

showing

A documentary theatre work about hair regrowth, navigating grief, and learning to make peace with things that feel irreconcilable: genetics, death, and the incongruity of who we fall in love with. Combining memoir, performance lecture, soundscape technology and non-fiction essay, this is a darkly funny and heartfelt meditation on yearning.

Adhocracy In-Conversation

Adhocracy artists & curators

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showing

A choreographic work that draws from the horizontal stroke, pronounced as yi, that is the foundational mark in Chinese brush calligraphy. This is a practice-based exchange and creative development that unpacks the relationship between language, writing, thinking, inscribing, labour and the experience of being a polyglot.

how to play bridge

showing / artist talk (mezzanine)

A multimedia show exploring the Wiradyuri experience of living in between two worlds. The work will splice archival and popular culture images from a large array of media to create a supersaturated, surrealist allegorical experience where rapid-fire appropriation elevates First People’s epistemologies while turning the gaze onto the Colonial Project.

King’s Choice

showing

A sound and performance work that interrogates the fairy-tale protagonist of the prince, through a critique of the 16th century instruction guide for new princes and royals, ‘The Prince’ by Niccolo Machiavelli. It explores masculinity, gender fluidity, power, decolonial practices, queer utopias and what it means to challenge authority to become your true self.

The MacroPlastic Workout

showing / artist talk

A performance that imagines a world overtaken by micro and macro plastics, where binaries, biology, culture and daily life will change. Using live music and foley, electroacoustic soundscapes, costume and choreography, this is a fitness class for posthuman ecologies – Waterworld meets Jane Fonda, performed in the style of Jacques Tati with clarinets and percussion.

Maintain, Rest, Value: Bread & Roses

showing

An ongoing choreographic project where the artists honour a site, other artists’ work and offer participatory actions of maintenance, rest, and value. This iteration references ‘8 hours work, rest and play’ and responds to the Waterside Workers Hall, with its history of solidarity, unionism, social dances, political struggle, and Yartapuulti as a place of sleep.

Evil Hour

showing

A performance and sound-based imagining upon the real-life story of Elizabeth Woolcock, the only woman ever hanged in South Australia. The work explores the pre-Christian heritage and rites of Cornish migrants in Mid-Northern South Australia; it is a meditation on decolonising the self and an experiment in horror and Australian Gothic.

Cultural Capital

showing

A devised performance taking aim at class dynamics in the arts. In development between three queer and neurodivergent artists from differently racialised backgrounds, this experimental and satirical drama will interrogate the pursuit of cultural capital, and the nefarious faces it can take in a time of late capitalism.

Streetlights & Long Nights

showing

A site-based, audio performance, evoking transient intimacy specific to time and place, from childhood sleepovers, long drives, late night confessionals, staying up too late and talking into the night in an unexpected place. This is a meditative, feelingsbased experience that plays with Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR), storytelling and poetics to summon nostalgic, deep bodily memory.

How Not to Climb a Mountain

showing

A performance that explores survival, ingenuity, failure, and disentanglement from systems. Partly a response to the cost-ofliving crisis, and the artists’ own experience of precarity, the work also seeks to unpack what ubiquitous ‘creativity’ really means for those living and making art on the edge.

Not Very Berry

showing

An intimate montage of words, music, contemporary and folk dance and participation, this performance tells a fictional meets semi-autobiographical story of a Filipino Australian gay man’s journey spanning the mid 1980s to now. Beginning with a dance class, it soon explodes into a personal deep dive into growing up, coming out, and finding one’s place.

DJs & Drinks

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