Soundscape for a listening journey crafted from recorded dialogues between non-binary artists, exploring what gender and transition mean to them, sharing their journey and process – emotional, philosophical, medical and creative. Visit the team for conversations about gender, drop in through the weekend and have your voice embedded in the work. Join a guided speculation following the conversations around exiting the social and cultural construct of gender.
Waterside Workers Hall, Hall Stage
Image: Sia Duff
A participatory performance work that takes a country dance and sends it… somewhere else entirely. See You at the Dance explores collectivism and the nature of community, inviting the audience to connect and converse, all while trying to keep in step.
Sling your cardigan over a chair, put down your drink and join us on the dance floor, where we ask the big questions: what’s the unseen force outside the doors? What’s next on the dance card? And when is that promised cup of tea going to materialise?
Hart’s Mill Flour Shed
Image: Matt Byrne
Artist/eligible bachelor Solomon Frank is botanical guide and facilitator for regular walks through suburban fringe bushland in and around Eora/Sydney. Solomon started this queer bushwalking club for two reasons
(1) to explore the often-overlooked pockets of surprisingly biodiverse bushland wedged between suburbs
(2) to find a husband.
He is coming to Yartapuulti/Port Adelaide for a special one-afternoon stand of Power Botany.
Outdoors, meet at Waterside Workers Hall
Bookings essential, available HERE.
Image: Solomon Frank
This pair’s history of riffing off one another’s absurd responses to everyday ideas, working with a lot of intuition and not a lot of censorship is something to behold. We’re putting them in the Hall together with no forward planning and many pairs of pants to see what happens…
Waterside Workers Hall, Hall Floor
Image: Esther Sheehan, Betty Sheehan, Miles Sheehan, Chris Romanos, Henry Pill and Astrid Pill
Intermission is a new body of improvisations based on the notion of the theatre interval to reflect the use of metanarratives in Fuata’s practice of staging process as content. Each iteration is site and context specific highlighted in the parenthetical phrase.
Intermission (port values) is literally about being situated in Adhocracy 2024 informed by recent Intermissions, (seini_transmit) at Sumer Gallery in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa and (cancer of the bile duct) curated by Soft Centre for Now and Then Festival, Naarm.
Hart’s Mill, Office
Image: Stuart Ringholt
Ointments and salves, tonics, gargles and powders to soothe our soluble and insoluble bodies. Drawing together her botanic, sensory and social practices, Jones invites participants to visit OPEN PHARMACY! part of Jones’ body of work around medicine + feminist futures.
From antidotes to ire, diuretics for disillusionment and cures for capitalism, Medicament For Your Predicament gently applies a drawing ointment to modern maladies and creates recipes for transformation. OPEN PHARMACY! offers a taste of the larger artwork and pharmacy of collectively made remedies. Pop in for medicinal beverages, a quick and dirty prescription, bespoke merch and the effervescent power of conversation.
Waterside Workers Hall, Mezzanine Bar
Image: Alain Bouvier
An impossible story of the Australian Bush Turkey and its domination of Sydney’s North Shore. Part performance lecture, part hymn, and part transformative bush doof – Nature is Healing was a performance work about the relationships between human and non-human animals sharing urban environments. Nature is Healing spotlights this misjudged scrub-dweller and its fight against the gentrification of urban areas.
The show was developed remotely as part of Adhocracy 2020, further developed by Performing Lines, and has since been presented at BrandX.
Multiple locations, Friday and Saturday: Ask Us About the Bush Turkey
Waterside Workers Hall, Annexe Stage, Saturday: Excerpt Performance
Waterside Workers Hall, Annexe Stage, Sunday: Excerpt Performance and Artist Talk
Image: Andrew Sikorski
Experimental live art duo and Adhocracy frequent flyers Pony Express are pivoting from arts raconteurs to real estate entrepreneurs.
Taking inspiration from a real-life scam/plan to gentrify an island community into unregulated fabulousness, New New Fire Island takes the form of a firebrand timeshare pitch meeting, to capture that ‘pink dollar’ for the Port before it trickles off the turtle’s back entirely.
Waterside Workers Hall, Shopfront: Drop in sessions
Annexe Stage: Sunday Sundowner
Image: Cassie Sullivan
Hear Caleena discuss her new work as part of The Mill’s First Nations Dance Residency as she creates a rich, multidimensional exploration of her great-grandmother Mary Cooper’s life. Investigating the personal and systemic challenges faced by Aboriginal people in the 1940s, highlighting their resilience and cultural significance, this work is being developed off-site, and we welcome Caleena to undertake a mid-development artist talk as part of Adhocracy.
In conversation: Caleena Sansbury with Thomas E.S. Kelly
Waterside Workers Hall, Annexe Stage
Image: Kate Holmes
Continuing Branch Nebula’s investigation of the body under duress, exploring the vulnerability and endurance of the human subject, and its capacity for resilience in an unstable atmospheric world. Elemental effects, natural materials and debris are reconfigured to develop a terrain that the performers encounter and endure.
Their appearance in Yartapuulti / Port Adelaide is sandwiched between two developments in NSW, including a work in progress presentation at Cementa Festival in Kandos.
Hart’s Mill Packing Shed
Image: Jennifer Greer Holmes
