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 multidisciplinary artist and writer, recently based in Moscow and Amsterdam. Her research involves filtering stories of planetary computation through frames of ecology, earth, memory, poetry and light. Angela Goh is a Sydney-based dancer and choreographer working in theatres, galleries and telepathic spaces. Her work considers the body in relationship to commodity, materiality, technology and feeling.
The artists have previously collaborated, including on Angela’s acclaimed performance work Uncanny Valley Girl which undertook a development with Adhocracy in 2016; this new process brings them back together to co-author a timely new work.
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.
Emele Ugavule is a Tokelauan Fijian multidisciplinary storyteller. Her work centres the development of ethical trans-Indigenous collaborative creative processes and outcomes informed by Indigenous epistemologies, ontologies and cosmologies. In this work she explores how the myth of unconscious bias reinforces whiteness as a default lens.
Working with collaborators Amy Zhang and Jackson Garcia – choreographers and dancers who draw from street styles, hip hop and contemporary – this team is combining their interests in intercultural explorations to begin this new experimental work, while currently residing at opposite ends of the country due to COVID-19.
Creative Team: Co-creators – Emele Ugavule and Emosi Ugavule with Amy Zhang and Jackson Garcia
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 Barratt is an Australian researcher, artist, writer and performer, whose work has been instrumental in developing critiques around gender and technology over the last three decades. Lauren Abineri is an early-career multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes music and sound-based interventions, solo and collaborative.
This project emerged from an unplanned co-performance encounter online between the artists during the first weeks of the initial COVID-19 shutdown. A foundational feature of this project is making with and staying with the trouble whereby crisis creates the conditions for the emergence of difference, novelty and diversity.
Creative Team: Sonic fermenter and astral automater – Lauren Abineri aka jemisahologram; Twitch channeler, performer and automatic writer – Virginia Barratt aka mouthhouse
ADHOCRACY OPENING > 5pm, Friday 6 September
Celebrate our tenth birthday in style, with Jane Howard and Jessica Alice’s project
Let Me Tell You plus other special guests, cake, bubbles, and a host of performances and talks for you to enjoy throughout our first evening.
EXPERIMENTAL ART EXCHANGE > 3-4 September
A gathering of this year’s participating Adhocracy artists joined by other local and national guest artists and sector leaders; two days of conversation in the leadup to
our tenth edition of Adhocracy.
JOIN THE EXCHANGE – What’s urgent for experimental artists in Australia? >
7pm, Wednesday 4 September
Hart’s Mill Flour Shed, Mundy Street, Port Adelaide
Convivial discussion and provocation on what’s keeping us up at night and getting
us out of bed in the morning.
