The 2016 Liveworks program, a festival of experimental art, will include a number of dance and movement based works. Liveworks 2016 will take place at Sydney’s Carriageworks, 27 October – 6 November.
Sydney dancer and choreographer Kristina Chan will present A Faint Existence, a solo work which questions our complex connection to the environment; our desire to make a change; and the feelings of helplessness that derail our best intentions.
Melbourne performer Nicola Gunn has once again teamed up with choreographer Jo Lloyd to present Mermermer. The performance work asks ‘If you were one of the last two humans on earth, what would you talk about?’ Blending unpredictable humour and trance-like movement, the artwork explore ideas of extinction and myth-making.
Brisbane’s Liesel Zink questions the personal price of protest in The Stance, a live performance that sees nine people create a large-scale intervention in the Carriageworks public spaces. As the ensemble perform to a live score, a sprawling dance work transforms into an intimate viewing experience and listen to a soundtrack transmitted through wireless headsets.
From further afield comes Singaporean artists Choy Ka Fai with his performance series "SoftMachine", live performances and video portraits which explore contemporary dance across the breadth and diversity of Asia. The performances fuse live choreography with documentary film and theatrical elements to create intimate and revealing portraits of four extraordinary Asian artists. Performance Space will present two of these performances. The first sees Choy Ka Fai work with Indonesian dancer Rianto to explore the transition between man and woman. The second sees him collaborate with Chinese artists XiaoKe + ZiHan to create an artwork which explores the harsh realities and censorship restrictions for artists making work in China today and their personal experience of constant cultural surveillance to question the boundaries of artistic freedom.
For more information about all these works head to http://performancespace.com.au/events/liveworks-2016/