YOUR WEEKEND AT LIVEWORKS 2021
We've got you sorted for this weekend Oct 23-24. Liveworks 2021 comes to you with an extensive digital program, seeking to create surprising, meaningful and transformative encounters between artists and audiences. Join us for fascinating conversations, cannibalistic feasts, exploratory video work, provocative works-in-progress, or take a walk through the city led by experimental audio journeys with the Queer youth of Sydney - we have something for everyone.
LIVEWORKS WEEKEND PROGRAM
SATURDAY
unentitled, Julie-Anne Long
Saturday 9:30-11:00am, Carriageworks Farmers Market
Free
Created by Sydney’s much-loved, maverick dance artist Julie-Anne Long, unentitled brings together a collection of captivating moments. While picking up some fresh produce, catch Bev Beasley — lollypop lady — officer on duty at the Carriageworks Farmers Market.
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience a body of work that is at once understated, powerful, humorous and moving.
LIVE FUTURES: KEYNOTE LECTURE, ROSANNA RAYMOND
Saturday, 2:00pm, Live streamed & on demand
Access: Auslan Interpretation and captioning
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.
Public Speaking, Field Theory
Saturday, 5:00-7:30pm, Audio broadcast
Free
Public Speaking is a unique walking and listening experience, inviting you to look at your neighbourhood through different eyes. This inspiring series of audio broadcasts asks you to take a walk through the city whilst listening to conversations between Field Theory and a series of young people from the LGBTIQA+ community of Sydney. A different conversation will be broadcast on each afternoon of Liveworks, inviting listeners to walk with these young people as they playfully persuade, conflate and scramble their intimate intergenerational perceptions of what it means to be young, queer and vulnerable in the City of Sydney.
LIVE DREAMS: ISLAND
Saturday, 6:00pm, Live streamed & on demand
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)
In Perpetuity Screening and Artist Conversation - Ivey Wawn
Saturday, 6:30pm, Live streamed & on demand
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.
Hundreds + Thousands (Multi-City): Virtual Nursery
Saturday & Sunday 9:00pm
Free
This Virtual Nursery is an exhibition of 100 digital artefacts co-created by plant-lovers and their plants from across the world. Created through the Hundreds + Thousands (Multi-City): Germination workshops, the Virtual Nursery presents what happens when hundreds of humans and plants come together to commune and collaborate under the guidance of artists Daniel Kok (Singapore) and Luke George (Australia). You’re invited to convene in the Virtual Nursery on each evening of Liveworks, where these artefacts will ‘sprout’ for 100 minutes per night.
Day For Night
Saturday 8:30pm-1:30am, Zoom
Tickets: $30
Tune in from anywhere across Sydney or the world! Dress up, bring your A-game, turn your webcams on and dance together across space and time with queer family, via our superqueer digital channel. Reconnect with your body through a special club mix of Betty Grumble’s iconic Grumble Boogie; learn how to limb sync with Weird Nest; and marvel at Sidney McMahon’s stunning Day for Night installation…a little piece of it might even show up at your home. Special performances by Jamaica Moana and Demon Derriere will light up your house, Garden Reflexx will bring some cinematic wonder to your living room, and Stereogamous will get you on your feet, with an all-night DJ set…and there’s more to be announced. To top it off this night of queer excellence will be hosted by Sydney party legends Kelly Lovemonster and Stelly G.
Artists:
Stereogamous
Grumble Boogie
Jamaica Moana
Demon Derriere
Weird Nest (Dean Walsh & Andrew Batt Rawden)
Sidney McMahon
Garden Reflexx
imbi
Seann Miley Moore
…with special guest appearances by
Joe Pol
Aaron Manhattan
& last but not least, your hosts:
Kelly Lovemonster
Stelly G
The Order of Autophagia: The supper of terror, the lunch for the uncanny, unapologetic snacks on the apocalyptic moment
Saturday, 11:59pm, Zoom
Access: Audio description
Tickets: $40
The Order of Autophagia is a midnight dinner party, inviting you to consider a perspective on cannibalism that speaks urgently—and with dark humour—to our times. Could the practice of autophagia, where humans self-cycle their energy by eating themselves, challenge our culture of overconsumption and waste? Tontey creates an immersive digital world and invites guests to attend her performative midnight feast. You are invited to dial in (and dine) from your own home, in costume, on faux cannibalistic recipes as you enter The Order of Autophagia.
SUNDAY
LIVE FUTURES: THE INHERITANCE OF THE FUTURE
Sunday, 2:00pm, Live streamed & on demand
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.
LIVE DREAMS: ANCESTRY
Sunday, 6:00pm, Live streamed & on demand
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)
On View: Panoramic Suite, Sue Healey
Sunday, 8:00pm, Live streamed & on demand
Access: Audio described
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.
