Performance Contemporary

Sydney Contemporary, Australasia’s Premier Art Fair, In Partnership With MA Financial Group, Returns To Carriageworks 8–11 September 2022.

Curated by Performance Space, Performance Contemporary delivers a program of experimental and ephemeral work which explores key social, cultural and political ideas. Presented across Carriageworks, performance artists take risks, stage ambitious works and develop ideas in this unique setting.

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WeiZen HoStories from the Body#1 (ongoing series)
When: Thursday 8 September only: 5.30pm – 6.00pm
Where: Balcony + Foyer/Café

WeiZen Ho presents The Stories from the Body #1, the first of a performance series – a lifework – that attempts to retrace lineages that have been disrupted, as a result of migration, from the South Fujian Province of China to Java, Singapore and Malaysia.

Rakini DeviReliquary Body (2022)
When: Thursday 8 September: 7pm – 8:30pm + Friday 8 September: 7pm – 8.30pm
Where: Next to The Green Room, Hall (Stationary)

Rakini Devi's new installation Reliquary Body is inspired by sacred artefacts, reliquaries of saints and the body as relic and ritual artefact. The notion of the artist’s body as a reliquary, and as receptacle of sacred essence draws on her research into European Marian traditions, the cult of saints and relics in Byzantium, the Medieval West, and the Islamic East.

Salote TawaleThrough the Night (2017 & 2022)
When: Friday 8 September: 6.30pm –7pm
Where: Roving through the Fair

In a special one-off performance at Sydney Contemporary, Salote Tawale will reprise a work from her ongoing series of expanded self-portraiture. The work takes the form of an awkward celebration, unfolding across performance, live feed video and interventions into spaces throughout the Fair.

Alli Sebastian Wolf Frill Neck Lizards
When: Friday 9 September 6pm – 6.30pm + again at 7.00pm – 7.30pm
Where:Roving through the Fair

Alli Sebastian Wolf and their collective Deep Sea Astronauts create some of Sydney’s wildest and most fabulous costumes and characters. Viewers are invited to watch and engage as these eye-catching creatures take over the Fair during Friday Night Art Night (9 September).