LIVE DREAMS
Dates & Session Times
Thursday 4 May - 7:00pm
Friday 5 May - 7:00pm
Saturday 6 May - 7:00pm
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PRESENTED BY PERFORMANCE SPACE AND CARRIAGEWORKS
Curated by Performance Space Guest Co-Artistic Directors Rosie Dennis and Daniel Mudie Cunningham
In its 6th season, with a cult following and a beloved intimacy with artists practice and process, Performance Space and Carriageworks are thrilled to present LIVE DREAMS May 2023. Taking place both in physical space and online, come and get a glimpse at the future of experimental art from across the Asia Pacific.
As Performance Space gears up to celebrate its 40th anniversary, LIVE DREAMS reflects on the rituals of time as a way of thinking through the development of exciting, new performance work.
Bringing artists and audiences together in dynamic and responsive ways, LIVE DREAMS is a series of curated performance events across three nights: BIRTHS, DEATHS and MARRIAGES. Taking its theme from the government registry that records significant life events, curators Rosie Dennis and Daniel Mudie Cunningham have selected works that speak to the rituals and markers of time as they shape a diverse spectrum of lived experience and the human condition.
Each theme is a prompt for artists to consider the correlation of art to life. From starts and origins, beginnings and conception, LIVE DREAMS artists will literally birth new ideas for audiences, while others will consider how the natural cycles of existence give way to departures and endings, and loss and cessation as metaphoric notions of death are offered up for consideration. Though lifespans are inevitably measured from where they start and end, they are coloured in by collaboration and togetherness, companionship and commitment, marriages of self to other, artist to audience, idea to action.
This innovative platform allows the artists to present ideas- and works-in-progress, so you can see first hand into the creative process, getting a glimpse into current developments in experimental art, and engage in a conversation about their next steps.
BIRTHS
Honouring the rituals and markers of time, works will consider starts and origins, beginnings and conception.
AnSo
Daley Rangi
Leila el Rayes
Kate Brown
Sophie Penkethman-Young
Bianca Willoughby
DEATHS
Honouring the rituals and markers of time, works will consider departures and endings, loss and cessation.
George Tillianakis
Melanie Jame Wolf
Charlotte Arizona Otton
Georgia Banks
Chelsea Hickman
Andrew Burrell
MARRIAGES
Honouring the rituals and markers of time, works will consider collaboration and togetherness, companionship and commitment.
Jodie Whalen
Sabrina Lee Muszynski
Elsie Yager
Michelle St Anne & Linda Dement
Chenoeh Miller
Nick Delatovic
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