Panel: On Catharsis

Can we ever really let it all go, escape ourselves and create new forms? 

Performance as expulsion - as endurance - as ecstasy. Sometimes we look to art to inspire, sometimes to provoke ideas, sometimes to entertain. And sometimes we look to purge - to escape ourselves - to break it all down so we can start again. Liveworks artists’ Marcus Whale, Oli Mathiesen and Marcus Ian McKenzie’s works all seek to bring themselves - and their audiences - to the brink, to transcend their everyday and punch through to new and unknown realms of feeling and being, realms of mystics, mystery, and annihilation. Join us to hear from these visionary artists about what it takes to cross the threshold, and what it is that lies beyond.