After Erica Eiffel - Loren KRONEMYER
After Erika Eiffel, by Loren Kronemyer is the story of a tool with the power to pierce straight to the heart. This immersive work invites you to discover the startling intimacy and potent sensation of firing an arrow. Archery is a sport that demands patience and sensitivity. As you gradually hone your aim on a solo journey through a customized 16-target archery course, you become aware of the intense relationship between your body and the deadly bow. When you attune yourself to the object through your senses, you are rewarded by the rush of pleasure that comes from hitting the target.
First presented at ANTI Festival in Finland 2019
https://www.lorenkronemyer.com
pakana kanaplila Residency - Sinsa MANSELL
Tasmanian Aboriginal Dance Troupe pakana kanaplila, led by Sinsa Mansell was invited to lead a cultural exchange residency program in the lead up to the 2019 Vrystaat Festival in Bloemfontein, South Africa. The troupe facilitated a one week cultural exchange residency program designed to sensitively restore and revive ancient traditional practices, in a twenty-first century context.
First presented at Vrystaat Festival South Africa 2019 and was to be fully commissioned at Vrystaat Festival 2021.
Onesie World - Adele VARCOE
Onesie World by Adele Varcoe, celebrates how fashion can unite us! Onesies made by the local community! Racks and tables packed with up to onesies in various sizes (baby through to adult) caved in on a team of 20 onesie makers who were working up a sweat to the humming beat of their machine to keep up with the demand and production of Onesie World.
First presented at Vrystaat Festival, South Africa in 2017
Presented at Mona Foma in 2018 and 2019
Presented at Melbourne Fringe in 2018
https://www.adelevarcoe.com/about
Black Mould - Liam JAMES
Temperate nights of lulling song is not Black Mould.
Designed by Launceston artist Liam James, enter the unnerving chaos and cheap glimmer of Karaoke - but not as you have ever known before. Pull on your shittest pair of brown blunnies and skinny black jeans and eulogize original tassie music.
Sing the hot hits of the local pubs; songs that you either know far too well or have never heard before. For three and a half minutes become the underground rockdawg you were never born to be.
First presented at Junction Arts Festival in 2019
Landing by Tanya LEE
Landing by Tanya Lee, is an absurd swimming carnival, a desperate endurance act and a continuous relay in which the distance between Manus Island and Australia will be collectively swum. Through the murky waters of past and present immigration policy, participants will move both towards and away from the idea of home.
Landing invites you to physically experience distance and participate in a policy of exile-which both underpinned Australia’s colonisation and is repeated today at offshore detention sites. Swimmers wearing island-shaped hats and attempting to swim a distance equivalent to the ocean stretch between Manus and Australia’s mainland, will be guided and cheered on by a range of performers and speakers, in a collective contemplation of home and histories of Australian immigration.
First presented at FOLA in 2018, Landing was also presented by Dark Mofo (2018) and Bleach Festival (2019)
A Score to Scratch the Surface by Tom BLAKE and Dom CHEN
Be taken on a journey in which Queenstown’s myths and realities slowly merge with the landscape. Starting in the dress circle of the 1930s Paragon cinema and finishing at a table in the foyer cafe, A Score to Scratch the Surface (Opening Scene) is a roaming sound work composed of local field recordings, archival sounds and fragments of stories reflecting the diverse threads that link people to an environment.
A.I.R Altitude Immersive Radio - Julia DROUHIN
A.I.R. (Altitude Immersive Radio) by Julia Drouhin is a radio walk, a poetry book launch, a street performance, a cloud of transmission, a wearable antenna, a relay of live broadcasts, a lost lover picnic in public space.
Based on posters seen in the streets of Bloemfontein, a Lost Lover book was written in collaboration with South African and Tasmanian writers between 2016 and 2018 as a score for the performance. Wordsmith and local field recordings were received by moving bodies and radio balloons, embodying both the poetry and the airwaves.
A.I.R was presented at Vrystaat Festival in South Africa in 2018
Vocal Womb - Eve KLEIN
Vocal Womb, was a world premiere at Mona Foma (2018). The artist, Eve Klein, a mezzo-soprano, belted out an operatic performance while a laryngoscope inside her throat externalises the hidden, fleshy workings of the human voice. The performance also incorporated the opportunity for audience members to contribute by remixing the live audio feed.
Viewpoint - Amanda SHONE
Consider things from another point of view…
(It’s a giant throne, and you can sit on it.)
Presented by Mona Foma in 2016
Plastic Histories - Cigdem AYDEMIR
Cigdem Aydemir’s Plastic Histories’ Australian premiere was part of the 2016 Dark Mofo, with statues wrapped in pink plastic in Hobart’s Franklin Square and Parliament Lawns creating interest in what’s under there. Why is it that we don’t notice so many public monuments until they’re wrapped in pink plastic?
Plastic Histories was first presented as part of the Vryfees Festival in Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa in July 2014, the first artist’s commission by one of SAC’s Festival partners coming through SITUATE Art in Festivals Arts Lab 2013.
An extension project, Plastic Histories Unpacked, was at Salamanca Arts Centre’s Long Gallery Laboratory and provides a context for the wrapped works with additional information and perspectives.
The artist added to the exhibition daily and was pleased to hear public responses to Plastic Histories wrapped and unwrapped. Viewers are encouraged to leave written comments in the Long Gallery.
Plastic Histories provides pause to reflect, commenting on the absence of marginalised peoples in histories and as community heroes. In South Africa 90% of the population is black yet 99% of the statues honour dead white males of English or Dutch origin. In Australia, we see high on plinths war heroes and leaders of the colonial invasions. Where are the public monuments to the Aboriginal peoples whose lands were stolen, who fought valiantly to try to retain them, and to the women who endured hardships in new lands.
White Horse - Jess OLIVIERI
Jess Olivieri created a spectacular parade of 200 costumed characters and a celebratory feast in South Africa. In the middle of South Africa on a hill, where zebras and giraffes roam free, lies a mysterious rock formation known as the White Horse of Bloemfontein. The White Horse by Jess Olivieri celebrated, reconfigured and allowed space for the multiple narratives that surround this curiously contested monument, to be embodied and enriched. 200 members of the local community came together in a fantastical reimagining of the White Horse monument. By participating in a series of workshops and creating elaborate costumes to be worn in the parade, the work culminated in a celebratory feast at the foot of the White Horse. The ‘characters’ developed in the workshops will became subjects of a photographic series; protagonists in a documentary style fictional film and an accompanying storybook style publication. The artist will choreograph the entire event, with assistance from Gali Maleboeg, who will coordinate the contribution of local community groups such as the VChords Choir and others.
Giidanyba - Tyrone SHEATHER
Giidanyba (Sky Beings) by Tyrone Sheather consists of seven figure-like sculptures, depicting nocturnal spirits that impart knowledge and guidance to the First Nation, Gumbaynggirr people of Australia. The Giidanyba transforms from unlit statues in the daytime to bright, shimmering beings in the evening. Emanating from within these spirit-like forms, are sound and light that are responsive to the movement of audiences. The structural components of the installation are made of fibreglass and steel while traditional ochres have been applied to the surface of the individual figures by Gumbaynggirr community members, under the direction of the artist. Tyrone Sheather is an Australian artist of mixed heritage, belonging to the Gumbaynggirr people from the mid-north coast of New South Wales. His work aims to explore identity and to reveal, through a combination of traditional and contemporary media, knowledge and stories that have been passed down over centuries within the Gumbaynggirr Dreamtime. Sheather explains: “In the Dreaming (Yuludarla), the Hero-Ancestors made and transformed the landscape with their special powers of creation and destruction. Simulating a Gumbaynggirr rite of passage, Giidanyba symbolises these Spiritual Ancestors, as they descend from the Muurrbay Bundani (tree of life) in the sky, to support people throughout their cultural journey and to guide them into the next stage of their lives.”
First presented at Dark Mofo in 2015 Giidanyba then toured to Womadelaide in 2016 and Vrystaat Festival in South Africa in 2017
