Program 1 - Theatre

“DO U LIKE 2 WRESTLE” John-Paul Hussey
13 & 14 March 2009 8.30 pm (50 min)

John-Paul Hussey This is a show for only the brave and the passionate. This is a show for those truly interested in an extreme 360 interaction. This is the kind of night for those who have yearned for that full participation, very messy and very stylish, no way out audience participation spectacular. WHEN You arrive on the roof top will meet your host THE MOST REVEREND DAVID PANACHE. He will give his sermon on the mount on how the universe is separated. He will baptise you all into 8 different personality groups and then you will WRESTLE. Boy vs Boy. Girl vs Girl. Girl vs Boy in a GIANT INFLATABLE POOL OF MUD - all to the fabulous tunes of DJ KELLY RYALL.

You MUST bring along :
1. A cheap plastic bag.
2. An even cheaper towel
3. A swimming costume or underwear representing one
of the 2 international hotel chains of either Armani or Versace.

Program 2 - Dance

Sakasama Reverse World, Yumi Umiumare (35 min)
Yumi Umiumare Edge, Tony Yap (30 min)
3 & 4 April 2009 7:30pm

Sakasama Reverse World. The original impulse came from the ancient Japanese belief in Sakasama: the reverse world. The two worlds of Life and Death are described as two shores; one is ‘the near shore’ (the world of the living), and the other is ‘the far shore’ (the world of after-death). A river flows between them. ‘The far shore’ is a reversed world: it is the reverse of the world of the living and everything is upside down. I explore the juxtaposition of my presence in Australia, experimenting with the neutrality of emotion and colour, and to manipulate rhythms.

Credits: Media Art by Bambang Nurcahyadi, Video and Sound edited by Bambang Nurcahyadi and Ian Corcoran, Videography by Richard Back, Anthony Pelchen and Yumi Umiumare

EDGE by Tony Yap and Sakasama by Yumi Umiumare are crossing over with their shared performance sensibility of Butoh and Trance dance, using different resource of digital images. Tony and Yumi have been collaborating through their unique styles over 14 years in Australia, Europe, and Eastern Asia. Walking the perimeter. /An ambivalent return to the City. /The border between city and country. /Country and Country. /Tradition and Currency. /Clear lines or border region. / Solid and air. /Body and Spirit. /Body and Surrounds.

Credits: Installation Naomi Ota, Composers/sound design Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey, Film Sean O'Brien.

Program 3 - Sound Art

Common Tongue, Martin Renaud & Patrice Coulombe (40 min)
Metamorphosis 4 2, Jeffrey Hannam & Karl Willebrant (30 min)
6 & 7 November 2009 8:30pm

Common Tongue, a lone and totally vulnerable performer lost in the crowd, attempts communication in disordered movements from pins and needles, cramps and body stutters while wired with accelerometers. Activating and playing back the field recording sounds of the audience the performer is making up from scratch a language from his new lexicon of movements producing sounds in an ambiophonic multi-channel environment. Common Tongue is a taming game between an audience and its entertainer.

with Performer: Martin Renaud, Sound Artist and Programmer: Patrice Coulombe, Choreogapher: Sarah Wendt, produced by Silex Creations at Bain St-Michel, Ville de Montreal.

METAMORPHOSIS 4 2 is a work for two performers with electronic music over eight loudspeakers using classic diffusion techniques, ambisonic treatment and live manipulation. As a site-specific work, it aims to address the unique conditions of the performance space to shape the spatial and spectral morphologies together with the performers response to an electroacoustic work. METAMORPHOSIS 4 2 explores the affective nature of the transitionary state and its relationship to the performer with the environment as a measured potential to persist toward transformation.

with Composer & Live Manipulation: Jeffrey Hannam, Bass: Karl Willebrant

Program 4 - Performance Art

tablet, Michael Hornblow (50 min)
11 & 12 December 2009 9pm

tablet… a small block of wood for posting photos of our lost loves, a tabletop theatre of gestures, a cake of soap for washing our animals, a tablet for pharming the self… for writing on, from and through the body.

The post-human gargoyle tunnels through the urban brain, an embodied architecture of mind where ornament, vantage point and drainage combine to become a wet flesh machine spouting the existential terror of life on the edge. Caught in the liminal zone between endless striving and a state of exhaustion, we feel the unbearable Outside in the depths of our interior, like the gargoyle teetering on a threshold…

Performance art, dance, video projections, surround sound, architectural installation.