Liveworks by Women, Non-Binary and Gender Diverse Artists
With Liveworks 2022, we at Performance Space are broadening our commitment to supporting artists to create progressive, risk-taking, new experimental work and for audiences to experience the latest and most exciting new contemporary performance. And, it goes without saying, women, non-binary and gender diverse artists have always been at the forefront of bold and innovative art. So, put your money where your mouth is and experience experimental art by Women, Non-Binary and Gender Diverse Artists.
Rinse Amrita Hepi
Thursday 27 October - Sunday 30 October
$45/$35 Con
What is it about the beginning that remains intoxicating? Our persistent lust for the first rush of a romance, scene, canon, theory, relationship, meal or country. Created by extraordinary dance artist Amrita Hepi, Rinse explores the romance of beginnings and what happens next, when those initial thrills begin to fade and inertia takes over.
In Progress: The Wait of Expectation Sophie Penkethman-Young
Thursday 20 October 6pm - Saturday 22 October 6pm
$35-$25 Con
Sitting at the intersection of Art Hoe and Tech Bro, Sophie Penkethman-Young’s live video essay 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. We first got a glimpse of In Progress: The Wait of Expectation at LIVE DREAMS May ‘21, and so we couldn’t be more thrilled to be presenting the world premiere of this witty digital performance.
Liveworks Opening & Closing Sounds
Thursday 20 October
Sunday 30 October
Free
Join us at the opening party and closing reflection for Liveworks 2022. Featuring an all women electronic lineup, Liveworks Opening & Closing sounds is set to be a celebration of Australia, and the Asia-Pacific’s, experimental arts community.
RUSH Field Theory
Thursday 27 October
Friday 28 October
Free
RUSH is all about reimagining the queer club. After surveying queers from all generations across Sydney, RUSH offers audiences an array of different club experiences and invites you to pick and choose the ones you love best, creating your own perfect night out. A ‘choose your own adventure’, if you will. RUSH is an immersive performance installation exploring where our queer parties came from and where they are headed.
Day For Night
Saturday 29 October
$45
Our annual party celebrating the amazing queer community fostered over many years. If you know, you know, if you don’t, come anyway. It’s always a massive celebration featuring the creme de la creme of queer Sydney talent.
Rupture: all the stars unshining BoneDirt
Everyday of the festival
Free
Created by pioneering experimental artists V Barratt, Linda Dement and Jessie Boylan, Rupture: all the stars unshining explores how symptoms of environmental and human ‘disorder’ can be seen as an appropriate response to personal traumas and global disaster. This relationship plays out across multiple screens as an affective installation, with occasional moments of live performance, placing Barratt’s body in direct conversation with extraordinary video footage of landscapes in states of transformation and flux.
