LIVE DREAMS is a new series of curated events for our 2020 Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art, in which artists present their works-and-ideas-in-progress to test them with live audiences, receive feedback and discuss their next steps.
This year, the creative development of experimental work in familiar physical spaces - rehearsal rooms, studios, theatres, and via travel and residencies—has necessarily ceased. Performance Space is striving to support artists to continue creatively developing their work and honing their practice, often in inventive and resourceful new ways.
LIVE DREAMS will be presented at Carriageworks, and will be available to stream at LIVE ON-THE-LINE.
Discover the Live Dreams sessions and artists below!
LIVE DREAMS: UTOPIA
Curator
Performance Space
Works that imagine the best and worst versions of our future world, and the possibilities and pitfalls of reinventing our social, cultural and political structures.
Artists
Luke George
Daley Rangi
Julie-Anne Long
Kate Hunter
Sally Sussman
Val Lee
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LIVE DREAMS: IMPOSSIBLE
Curator
Anna Tregloan
Anna Tregloan’s Impossible Project surveys artists whose works have been deemed impossible, creating an archive of impossible works and an exploration into the possibilities of impossibility.
Artists
Marcus Whale
Bianca Willoughby, Andrea Barett and Amy Claire Mills
Jee Chan
Sarah Aiken
Kerith Manderson-Galvin
Rhiannon Newton
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LIVE DREAMS: CATASTROPHE
Curator
Performance Space
Works that seek to grapple with, refuse, resolve or revel in the multiple layers of catastrophe we are experiencing.
Artists
Katie Sfetkidis
Nikki Heywood, Mark Cauv and Heidrun Lohr
Natasha Tontey
Callum Mooney
Kieran Bryant
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LIVE DREAMS: ALWAYS
Curator
Hannah Donnelly
The end of your art world isn’t the end of ours. Things are going to be always now. First Nations artists share from a future they care for.
Artists
Samuel Withers
Jazz Money
Rowan Savage
Nadeena Dixon
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LIVE DREAMS: WONDER
Curator
Performance Space
Works that seek to imagine the world anew, seek beauty in the everyday, or find hope in unlikely places.
Artists
Fahmi Mursyid
Bron Batten and Gary Abrahams
Victoria Hunt
Tully Arnot
Solomon Frank and Niki Johnson
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See you at LIVE DREAMS!