LIVEWORKS ON DEMAND
Liveworks 2021 looks a little different. Hosting an all-digital festival means we are able to offer an incredible on-demand program. Get experimental from the comfort of your living room. Tune in for fascinating conversations, exploratory video work, provocative works-in-progress, and a whole lot more - all available until Sunday, October 31st at midnight.
LIVEWORKS ON DEMAND PROGRAM
LIVE FUTURES: KIN-SHIP-MATTER
Tickets $20, concession $15
Curator
Dr Léuli Eshrāghi
This conversation brings together key voices working across performance, politics and cultural restitution to consider the transformative potential of Indigenous knowledge systems and the activation of the collective through gathering.
How might the renewal and reinstatement of Indigenous knowledge generate ancestral-futurist kinships and possibilities beyond the carceral, the fascist and the hateful? How much might we gain by restoring ceremonial-political gatherings that centre sovereignty in shared processes, shared feasts, shared care for lands, waters and airs?
Afflicted as we are by the intersecting crises of habitat, disease, race hierarchy and extreme violence, this conversation offers windows into humility and connection. It is inspired by the continuity of freshwater courses despite extractive industries and settler colonies, and of saltwater bodies reaching from Gadigal Country to every shore of the Great Ocean.
Panellists
Tanya Lukin Linklater
Amrita Hepi
Stelly G
Sarah Biscarra Dilley
LIVE DREAMS: MOSHI MOSHI!?
Tickets $20, concession $15
Curator
Kyoto Experiment
A Japanese phrase used when answering the phone. A question to an unknown other. Works that deal with intimacy, voice or presence and absence of the body.
Artists
Roslyn Orlando (Melbourne)
Kate McGuinness (Sydney)
MindsEye Collective (Sydney)
Yudai Kamisato (Japan)
Yuta Hagiwara Kamome Machine (Japan)
Jarunun "Jaa" Phantachat (Thailand)
Intimacy Through the Camera: Cherine Fahd in Conversation with Daniel Mudie Cunningham and Jeff Khan
Free
In this special conversation and screening event, Cherine Fahd shares an exclusive preview of her new video installation Ecdysis and discusses its themes, origin and process with project curators Daniel Mudie Cunningham (Carriageworks) and Jeff Khan (Performance Space).
Knowledge of Wounds: S/kin Keynote with Kim Tallbear and Daniel Browning
Tickets: $15
In this keynote conversation, Dr. TallBear will speak with Bundjalung journalist Daniel Browning on her work on critical non-monogamy.
LIVE FUTURES: REMAPPING ECOLOGIES
Tickets $20, concession $15
Curator
Holly Williams
As the inevitability of global warming becomes impossible to ignore and human-caused extinctions become widespread, how might the body-centred practices of the deep ecology movement, activist interventions and the work of contemporary artists inform where we go from here?
How can we reinstate different relationships between humans and the network of animals, organisms, weather and environment that we are inextricably connected to? How can we constructively meet the grief, fear, rage and guilt that marks this time? Where might hope lie?
Panellists
Ceridwen Dovey
Luke George
Daniel Kok
Charles Koroneho
Rowena Potts
John Seed
LIVE DREAMS: PORTAL
Tickets $20, concession $15
Curator
Emma Webb (Vitalstatistix)
Artists
Mrs Tan (Philippines)
Jay Gardener, George Wohlfiel and Jeff McCann (Sydney)
Jenny Brown (Sydney)
Too Close to the Sun (Perth)
Sally Craven (Adelaide)
Pat Toh (Singapore)
Angus McGrath (Sydney)
Hear directly from Queenie, the undignified dignitary making a special guest appearance at Liveworks this year. Don’t miss this opportunity to meet one of Julie-Anne Long’s Invisiblists up close, sharing this very special address as part of her larger unentitled project at Liveworks.
LIVE FUTURES: REIMAGINING TOUCH
Tickets $20, concession $15
Curator
Dr Zahra Stardust
In an age of skin hunger and physical distancing, how can art reimagine what constitutes intimacy and connection? If our touch is predominantly mediated through sensors, screens and surfaces, what does this mean for the future of radical intimacies?
Artists, sex workers and queer communities are pioneering innovative responses to the global pandemic, including sharing sex-positive public health messaging, mobilising funds for mutual aid and creating COVID-safe experiences of intimacy. Some have engaged new technologies that allow for unique sensory experiences and connections across time and space.
In this panel, artists reimagine touch, intimacy and sexuality at a time of global pandemic, big tech and sexual surveillance. When government solutions are founded upon assumptions of nuclear families, monogamous relationships and heteronormative households, how do we nurture and sustain queer intimacies? As always, we look to artists for creative, experimental and boundary-pushing practices that take us outside existing social, technological and economic imaginaries.
Panelists
Bhenji Ra
Queenie Bon Bon
Cherine Fahd
LIVE DREAMS: TRANSCEND
Tickets $20, concession $15
Curator
Choy Ka Fai
Works that explore the aspiration for self-transcendence, and the psychological phenomena of liminal spaces, expanding boundaries of oneself.
Artists
Rakini Devi (Sydney) and Karl Ockelford (Melbourne)
Grace Marlow (Adelaide)
Luna Mrozik Gawler (Melbourne)
Chung Nguyen and Julia Santoli (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
Joana Chicau and Renick Bell (Amsterdam)
Maria Judova (Prague)
How do you cope with constant beginnings? Amrita Hepi in conversation with Mish Grigor
Free
Covid has been a time of deep disruption for artists. Venues closed, borders snapped shut, our shows got cancelled, or perhaps worse – rescheduled into an uncertain future. Coping with uncertainty is a given as an artist, but this feels especially cruel.
Join acclaimed makers Amrita Hepi and Mish Grigor for yet another zoom. One where they discuss what was, what should have been, and hopefully what will be. They’ll consider the impact of the pandemic on their own practices, and dare to look at a horizon beyond vax targets and border restrictions.
LIVE FUTURES: KEYNOTE LECTURE, ROSANNA RAYMOND
Tickets: $20, concession $15
WOULD THE REAL TUSK PLEASE STAND UP?
For Liveworks’ 2021 Keynote Lecture, Auckland-based artist Rosanna Raymond draws from the warps and wefts of more than 30 years of experience in the creative arts. Fearlessly fusing artistic disciplines and finding new methods for the strengthening and evolution of Pacific cultures, Raymond’s work draws strongly from her Samoan heritage and imagines new possibilities for artistic practice.
LIVE DREAMS: ISLAND
Tickets: $20, concession $15
Curator
Performance Space
LIVE DREAMS is new platform for artists to share works-in-progress and ideas in development in a dynamic and responsive environment. For ISLAND, artists consider what it means to be on (or be) and island, presenting qorks that interrogate counter-currents of isolation, paradise, protectionism and sovereignty amidst shifting weather patterns and uncertain futures.
Artists
Jonny Seymour (Sydney)
Sēini Taumoepeau (Sydney)
Sela Vai (Sydney)
Luke John Campbell (Hobart)
Darlane Litaay (New York)
Amy Zhang, Billy Keohavong, Jeremy Santos and Reina Takeuchi (Sydney)
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In Perpetuity Screening and Artist Conversation - Ivey Wawn
Free
Working people are, like the dressage horse, cut off from their spontaneity in order to align with the rhythms of a labour process. In this iteration of In Perpetuity Ivey Wawn presents a video work featuring three dancers performing dressage choreography as a metaphor for the pressures of a life subjected to wage labour.
This video will be followed by a conversation between Ivey Wawn and Lizzie Thomson.
LIVE FUTURES: THE INHERITANCE OF THE FUTURE
Tickets: $20, concession $15
Curator
Clothilde Bullen
Bequest technologies—such as keeping places—and other forms of direct action, offer a range of options by and for First Nations peoples to support critically important opportunities for cultural continuity. The increasingly escalated destruction of natural environments, within which First Nations cultural knowledge is embedded, requires us to urgently re-think how these knowledges are retained if access to Country is denied.
Within urban environments, different technologies must be embedded that support access to disrupted custodianship of Country, in order to create new economic, ideological and social understandings of the place of First Nations peoples. Guests in this conversation will offer the audience a variety of understandings of—and challenges to—accepted connections and histories, and a glimpse of what the new normal could be.
Panellists
Marianne Nicolson
Jazz Money
Latai Taumoepeau
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LIVE DREAMS: ANCESTRY
Tickets: $20, concession $15
Curator
Nisha Madhan (Basement Theatre, NZ)
LIVE DREAMS is new platform for artists to share works-in-progress and ideas in development in a dynamic and responsive environment. IN ANCESTRY, artists present works that channel forgotten, stolen or repressed creativity through remembering one’s ancestry.
Artists
Forest V Kapo (Bendigo, Victoria)
Marc Conaco (New Zealand)
Arjunan Puveendran (Sydney)
Raina Peterson (Melbourne)
Morgan Hogg (Sydney)
Amit Noy (New Zealand)
Jahra Wasala and Ooschon Masseurs (New Zealand)
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On View: Panoramic Suite, Sue Healey
Tickets: $15
In a unique digital broadcast from Carriageworks, shot by aerial drone and moving cameras, Sue Healey’s On View: Panoramic Suite weaves live performances amongst a 7 screen video installation to create a visionary augmented cinematic experience.
Viewers can experience On View: Panoramic Suite as a captivating digital broadcast crafted by Healey and cinematographer Ken Butti, revealing Carriageworks’ spaces and the remarkable cast of performers in ways not seen before. The broadcast features celebrated dance artists Nalina Wait and Martin del Amo alongside live percussionist Laurence Pike, intricate thread portraits by Jane Theau and music by Darrin Verhagen.
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