Digital Program at Liveworks 2022
Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art 2022 boasts and extensive and exciting digital program. Join us from anywhere in the world to engage in thought-provoking works, ideas, and conversations.
In Progress: The Wait of Expectation
Sophie Penkethman-Young
20 - 22 Oct
$35 - $25
In Progress: The Wait of Expectation is a diary-like live video essay that looks at the techno-psychology of the loading bars and digital icons that placate us as we wait for our apps to load and our technology to come online. This witty digital performance examines what loading means and how its personality, quirks, smell and function have changed over time. The tumbling hourglass, the UberEats animation, the spinning wheel of death: all of these symbols seduce us into a spell that suggests progress is being made. This work is live streamed only, there is no on demand option.
LIVE DREAMS
Various Artists
25 - 27 Oct
$20
Performance Space’s LIVE DREAMS is a platform for artists to share works-in-progress and ideas in development in a dynamic and responsive environment. This platform offers us an exciting glimpse into current developments in experimental art, creating a crucible for experimentation and conversation.
This October, Performance Space presents the 5th season of LIVE DREAMS, inviting artists to present works-in-progress that imagine radical futures. Our three guest curators—Alex Wisser, Louana Sainsbury and River Lin—have themed each stream with a powerful forward-looking provocation, inviting us to interrogate the role of art in shaping and reshaping our collective future in an ever-shifting world. What agendas do we want to advance and how might art dispel myths, illuminate concerns or provoke radical visions?
All LIVE DREAMS events will be live-streamed and available on demand.
LIVE DREAMS: CLOISTERED
Curated by Alex Wisser
Every inside exists in relationship to its outside, a relationship that the word cloistered holds in suspension, resonates through the history of its use, and echoes in the ambivalence that is shared between its two terms. Protection and Imprisonment mingle their meanings in its single signifier, consolidation of self and isolation from others contradict without dispelling their union.
LIVE DREAMS: TIDAL
Curated by Louana Sainsbury
Tides have a rhythm of regularity and impermanence, both consistent and shifting. They signify a turn, a rise and fall, a surge and reveal, a changeover cycle and a return. TIDAL invites artists to reflect on the constant cycles of change; an advance and recession that can be slow, sudden, dangerous, surprising, joyful, devastating, predictable and mundane.
LIVE DREAMS: IRL
Curated byRiver Lin
IRL is Amazing, Bloody, Crying, Desperate, Ephemeral, Fragile, Gay, Hybrid, Impalpable, Je ne sais quoi, Kabuki, Liveworks - What has IRL done to you? LIVE DREAMS: IRL presents all the heavens and nightmares in the universes of a collection of provocative experimental artists.
LIVE FUTURES
Various Artists
22 & 23, 29 & 30 Oct
$20
Every Saturday and Sunday afternoon of Liveworks dive into LIVE FUTURES, a series of curated public conversations that explore the pivotal role of artists in defining the new civic life we are entering. In this sustained period of disruption and change, LIVE FUTURES offers radical new thinking and investigates ways to build a more empowered and equitable world.
All LIVE FUTURES events will be live-streamed and available on demand.
LIVE FUTURES: Keynote Conversation with Eric Bridgeman
Join Australian-Papua New Guinean artist Eric Bridgeman for a conversation about his major commissioned work A barrow, a singsing—viewable across the duration of the Liveworks Festival—as well as his broader artistic practice, which takes place between his Queensland studio and his ancestral homelands in Papua New Guinea and often involves collaboration with members of his extended family.
LIVE FUTURES: FUTURE TOOLBOX
Curated by Loren Kronemyer
The relationship between tools and their humans can inform the balance of power and agency that separates dystopia from utopia, in both science fiction and the everyday. How can we learn to identify and wield the right tools for the monumental job of surviving the future?
LIVE FUTURES: NIU BEGINNINGS
Curated by Rosanna Raymond and Latai Taumoepeau
NIU BEGNININGS introduces the artists of the SaVAge Lab and explores new ways to apply Pacific-led principles into contemporary art-making and world-building. The six artists of the SaVage Lab—led by Rosanna Raymond and Latai Taumoepeau—will be undertaking a residency across the duration of the 2022 Liveworks Festival, responding to the Pacific collections held in museums across Sydney and exploring collaborative methods for devising and developing performance.
LIVE FUTURES: FUTURE TRUTHS
Curated by Jeremy Smith
Who sets the boundaries of our world, and who creates the stories we use to understand them? This conversation brings together Liveworks artists whose works interrogate, explode and reinvent the myths of the past in order to build a more equitable and exciting tomorrow.
e fishpool (live)
Saturday 22 October
$5-20 depending on what you can afford
Welcome the weekend with a transportive sonic performance from e fishpool. e fishpool is a Budawang artist based in Long Beach, Budawang Country. Their work maps processes of unlearning and (re)learning identity through sampling sound, dialect and field recordings.
