LIVE DREAMS: RECLAIM

Interrogating the status quo;

An innovative platform of creative idea sharing, storytelling and experimentation. 

LIVE DREAMS: RECLAIM ARTISTS 

Jamaica Moana
Shana O’Brien
James Hazel
AñA Wojak & Cloudbeard
Too Close to the Sun
Elysa Wendi and Rhiannon Newton

COVID 19
If you are feeling unwell, please contact admin@performancespace.com.au and remain at home.
With a recent tightening of restrictions the wearing of a mask is mandatory in the venue, except when eating or drinking.
- We recommend bringing your own but we will have some single use masks if needed.
- You must be seated when drinking.
- Where possible keep a 1.5m distance between you and other patrons.
- There will be no cloaking onsite.
- Read more on the Carriageworks Covid Safety Plan

WE HAVE A BAR
There will be a bar open at Carriageworks an hour before and an hour after the show, so come early or stay back and grab a beverage and a snack.

LIVE STREAM
You will received your Live Stream link on the day of the performance. If you have got a link by 6.50pm please email admin@performancespace.com.au

LIVE DREAMS: RECLAIM brings together six dynamic works-in-progress by experimental artists from Sydney, Perth, Hong Kong, Canada and Northern NSW. Collectively, these works reconstruct spaces and ideas that have been lost, dismantled or stolen, or that propose what should exist instead. Whether reclaiming language, decolonising cultural and power structures, or resetting our relationship with our bodies and the environment, this collection of performances and presentations explores how we can create a more equitable, joyful and sustainable world through the radical intervention of artists’ visions. 

From Jamaica Moana’s reclamation of Maori language and lineage to Shana O’Brien’s powerful invocation of her connection to ancestors and Country, several of the Live Dreams: RECLAIM artists unravel colonial systems and assert new narratives of sovereignty and culture. Through working-class poetics, James Hazel explores the possibilities of (un)settling and reclaiming the score on class-identity within ongoing precarities; while AñA Wojak, working with Cloudbeard, reclaims the power of the ageing trans body through the lens of their decades-long performance practice. Elsewhere, Too Close to the Sun take on themes of wildness and extinction, inviting us to rethink our relationship with the environment, and Elysa Wendi and Rhiannon Newton weave together choreography and multi-sensory storytelling to unpack their experiences as women shaped by the cultural contexts of South-East Asia and Australia.

Live Dreams: RECLAIM offers insight into the future directions of performance, resetting our relationship with the past to explore remarkable new futures.

Bringing artists and audiences together in new, dynamic and responsive ways, Live Dreams is a series of curated performance events across three nights; DESTROY, RECLAIM, REVEL.

This innovative platform invites artists to present ideas- and works-in-progress, to test them with live audiences. Each night, see first hand into the creative process, get a glimpse into current developments in experimental art, and engage in a conversation about their next steps.

Curatorium: Dino Dimitriadis, Jeff Khan, Anna Tregloan, Sam Watson-Wood