Public Program 2020: Carriageworks
CURATED BY BROOKE STAMP & SARAH RODIGARI
Carriageworks has invited choreographer and dancer Brooke Stamp and artist Sarah Rodigari to be Guest Curators for the public program in Sydney. The program aimed to create opportunities for Sydney-based artists and audiences to gain access and insight to the international scope of discourse through a series of workshops, panel discussions, lectures and morning classes. The curators were interested to create proximity to physical practice and critical discourse, and explore embodied knowledges, global pedagogical lineages and changing curatorial relationships with dance and choreography.
PERFORMANCE : Penelope Sleeps - Mette Edvartsen
An opera in essay form, Penelope Sleeps deconstructs the myth of the Odyssey by reconsidering the long years separating Penelope from the return of Ulysses. Acclaimed Norwegian choreographer Mette Edvardsen working with composer and performer Matteo Fargion, approach opera as a departure point, without incorporating any of its traditional narrative devices and grand gestures. Dangling on a border somewhere between opera and dreams, Penelope Sleeps makes and unmakes the configurations expected between women, others and the world.
MARCH 10-11
PRESENTATION : This is What We Did, This is What We Are Doing
Conceived of by Claudia La Rocco and Created In Collaboration with Lee Serle
Co-existence: adjacent things colliding and departing, cycling through. Strange and intimate bodies: whose work is it anyway? A conversation between languages, pasts, and presents.
MARCH 14
WORKSHOP: Choreography as Writing – A Workshop with Mette Edvardsen
Many of Mette Edvardsen’s recent works have been developed using language as material, looking into the relationship between writing and speaking, between language and voice. Mette Edvardsen is working on the verge of the visible, considering choreography as writing. This workshop will explore some of her methodologies and scores.
MARCH 12
WORKSHOP : Creative Differences – A Workshop with Claudia La Rocco
A writing workshop, open to anyone who wanted to play with words, to see what they can do, and how. How does language live in time and space, whether on the stage, the page, in the body and the mind? Critical writing, creative writing, performance texts… are they really such different creatures? The four-hour session included some combination of moving/writing warm up; exercises for people to do alone and in pairs; quiet time; and discussion around people’s questions, concerns, experiences, and etcetera.
MARCH 13
WORKSHOP: Touch of the Other Workshop and Presentation with Takao Kawaguchi
Takao conducted a three-day workshop entitled Touch of the Other, for a group of up to 10 people of any genders and sexualities, and of any discipline and skill level. The workshop, which concluded with a public presentation used the manuscripts of Dr. Laud Humphreys, the US sociologist who researched M2M sex in public toilets during the late 1960s, whose data is now collected at the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives in Los Angeles. Participants explored the manuscripts and re-enacted some scenes of toilet cruising along with personal experiences and fantasies, to examine how human relationships are explored, shared and/or witnessed.
MARCH 9-11
BOOK LAUNCH : Time Has Fallen Asleep in Afternoon Sunshine
Lizzie Thomson, Sydney based choreographer and performer, will host an in conversation with Mette Edvardsen to launch her publication of Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine. A book on reading, writing, memory and forgetting in a library of living books.
MARCH 12
LECTURE/ CONVERSATION : Public Lecture and Expanded Conversation with Serge Laurent
Serge Laurent will give a short presentation on his history of curatorial practice within the performing arts at institutions such as the Centre Pompidou, Paris. Following this, a broader discussion about curatorial practices for dance and museums will take place with Dr Erin Brannigan, Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of New South Wales, Hannah Mathews Senior Curator at Monash University Museum of Art, Choreographer and Dancer Shelley Lasica and Louise Lawson, Time-based Media Conservation Manager at Tate Modern.
MARCH 14
PANEL DISCUSSION : Pushing Boundaries
As creative practitioners, do we have responsibilities, and to whom/what? Who sets boundaries and to what extent should we abide? When do we notice that boundaries are broken, and what are the indicators? Is it necessary to not only push boundaries but to break them in order for the Arts to continuously grow? This panel of distinguished First Nations creative panelists from Dance, explore the horizons of Boundaries and what extent Our people, Our Culture, Our audience allow us to question, explore, replace once-accepted boundaries.
With Merindah Donnelly, Victoria Hunt, Marilyn Miller, Latai Taumoepeau, Kilia Tipa and Vicki Van Hout.
MARCH 14
MORNING CLASSES
With Jane McKernan, Lee Serle, Rhiannon Newton, Shelley Lasica and Vicki Van Hout
MARCH 9-13