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Performature : Performateur #3
06 May 2021 14:00
A temporary artists’ collective based around WeiZen Ho’s thematic including:
Chris Caines, sound
Damian Castaldi, audiovisual percussive installation
WeiZen Ho, concept initiator and performance deviser
Naomi Oliver, digital video, animation, sound and performance
Michael Petchkovsky, electronic media
Alan Schacher, installation and performance/activation
PLUS Laura Altman (clarinet) with guest artists
Performature:Performateur #2 (2019) photo: Marie Ngai-King
Venue: Steep St. 84 Bathurst Road, Katoomba
Open Studio (visit and chat and view the installations) Thurs, Fri, Sat 6, 7, 8 May 2-5pm
Installation Activation, Performance and Action Events: Friday 7 May 8pm Saturday 8 May 10pm
$15 entry [https://performature-performateur-3.eventbrite.com.au]
Archiving Project:Our Unspoken
01 January 2021 00:00
In 2019 Critical Path invited me to join the 2nd year of the Dancing Sydney Archiving Project. I called for “unspoken” contributions and am still assembling them into an audio/video work for online presentation. This research project seeks to address ephemerality – its potentials and its problems – by finding, creating and reinvigorating old and new, public and private dance archives: not only the kind that exist in ephemera, text and objects, but also those that are produced and maintained within/through the body dancing. I attempted to find a common thread in the unspoken spaces that connect and differentiate us.
A silent rendering.
Supported by Critical Path, Sydney. Collaborating sound artist: Ash Baker.
Recalling the Picnics of Old
31 December 2020 00:00
This video project celebrates the picnic heydays of Blue Mountains tourism. The scenes are staged inside some of the historical faux rock shelters of Katoomba and Leura, built around 1935 by Tom Adam.
A staged scene at Katoomba Falls.
Initiated by Alan Schacher with video by Sam James. Performers: WeiZen Ho, Phillip Mills, Katia Molino, Phillip Mar, Nathan Robinson, Alan Schacher. This project is supported by the Blue Mountains City of the Arts Trust.