Liveworks 2022 Festival of Experimental Art
Liveworks 2022 Festival of Experimental Art
Liveworks 2022 Festival of Experimental Art
Presented by Performance Space, Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art 2022 presents the latest and most exciting, innovative new work from Australian, Asia Pacific and First Nations artists, with a program of performances, immersive installations, parties, and conversations. Now in its 8th year, Liveworks 2022 brings you provocative, ambitious and unpredictable new work across physical and digital realms. Offering audiences the opportunity to experience art that affirms our capacity for renewal, wonder and transformation.
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Free events
Opening Sounds
Featuring Rainbow Chan, Sui Zhen, DJ Krystel Diola
Thu 20 Oct
A Barrow, A Singsing
Yuriyal Eric Bridgman
20-30 Oct
Rupture
Bone Dirt
20-30 Oct
RUSH
Field Theory
27-29 Oct
Closing Sounds
Haco & Lisa Lerkenfeldt
Sun 30 Oct
Ticketed Events
Follies of God
Raghav Handa
20-23 Oct
In Progress: The Wait of Expectation
Sophie Penkethan-Young
20-22 Oct
(Digital event)
Hundreds + Thousands
Luke George & Daniel Kok
21-23 Oct
Live Now: Knowledge of Wounds
e fishpool
22Oct
(Digital event)
Night Songs
Jon Rose
26-28 Oct
RINSE
Amrita Hepi
27-30 Oct
Day for Night
29 Oct
Read our COVID-Safe Plan before your next visit.
Presented by Resident Company Performance Space and Carriageworks.
Follies of God was initially commissioned as a 20 minute work for the 2022 Keir Choreographic Award by Dancehouse, the Keir Foundation, and Australia Council for the Arts, co-presented by Carriageworks.
RINSE is co-commissioned by Performance Space, The Keir Foundation and Carriageworks and produced by Performing Lines. Following a prototype of RINSE winning the People’s Choice Award at the 2020 Keir Choreographic Award, Performance Space has commissioned the full-length premiere for Liveworks 2022.
Come celebrate the opening night of Liveworks with this free concert in Carriageworks’ public space.
20 Oct
In Progress: The Wait of Expectation is a diary-like live video essay that looks at the techno-psychology of the loading bars and digital icons that placate us as we wait for our apps to load and our technology to come online.
20-22 Oct
Follies of God sees Sydney-based dance artist Raghav Handa collaborate with sound artist James Brown to explore the complexities of the Gita and its many interpretations through the ages.
20-23 Oct
This new commission by Australian-Papua New Guinean artist Yuriyal Eric Bridgeman brings together 19 large-scale shield paintings with sculpture, photography and installation, to create one of Bridgeman’s most ambitious bodies of work to date.
20-30 Oct
Rupture: all the stars unshining is an affecting video and performance installation, revealing the ways in which the body and the world mimic each other in states of panic and crisis.
20-30 Oct
Led by long-time collaborators Luke George (Australia) and Daniel Kok (Singapore), Hundreds + Thousands enlists the participation of plants as collaborators, mediators and audience in this performance work.
21-23 Oct
e fishpool is a Budawang artist based in Long Beach, Budawang Country. Their work maps processes of unlearning and (re)learning identity through sampling sound, dialect and field recordings. This intimate performance is part of the ongoing Knowledge of Wounds program.
22 Oct
Created by Australian experimental musician and composer Jon Rose, Night Songs is a remarkable sonic experience between the 13-million-year-old music of a uniquely Australian songbird—the Pied Butcherbird—and contemporary human musicians.
26-28 Oct
RUSH reimagines our experience of the queer club. After surveying queer people across Sydney about their nights out, RUSH offers audiences an array of different experiences and invites you to pick and choose the ones you love best, creating your own perfect night out.
27-29 Oct
Co-commissioned by Carriageworks and Performance Space, Amrita Hepi's Rinse explores the romance of beginnings and what happens next, when those initial thrills begin to fade and inertia takes over.
27-30 Oct
Co-presented by Carriageworks and Performance Space, Day for Night is back to take you on an incredible journey through queer space and time. Explore performances, catch up with your queer family and hit the dancefloor with us once again, as Day for Night takes over the Liveworks Festival in an explosion of queer joy and togetherness.
29 Oct
As Liveworks 2022 comes to a close, listen to the music of Haco and Lisa Lerkenfeldt, as we celebrate the festival that was and re-enter the world with rejuvenated hearts and minds.
30 Oct
CLOISTERED explores works that consider the: reclusive, sheltered, confined, hidden, insulated, restricted, sequestered, shielded, withdrawn, hermetic, recluse, secluse, seclusive, shut off.
Performance Space’s LIVE DREAMS is a platform for artists to share works-in-progress and ideas in development in a dynamic and responsive environment.
25 Oct
TIDAL presents works that consider a turn, a rise and fall, a surge and reveal, a changeover cycle and a return.
Performance Space’s LIVE DREAMS is a platform for artists to share works-in-progress and ideas in development in a dynamic and responsive environment.
26 Oct
The notion of IRL invites artists to critically rethink what makes real lives real in both contexts of human encounters and the digital culture.
Performance Space’s LIVE DREAMS is a platform for artists to share works-in-progress and ideas in development in a dynamic and responsive environment.
27 Oct
Join Australian-Papua New Guinean artist Eric Bridgeman for a conversation about his major commissioned work A barrow, a singsing as well as his broader artistic practice.
22 Oct
Our planet is rapidly changing, and so are the tools and skills we need to survive it. Survival tools can take a range of forms, from familiar traditional skills to uncanny techniques borne of challenges, opportunities, and ingenuity.
23 Oct
NIU BEGNININGS introduces the artists of the SaVAge Lab and explores new ways to apply Pacific-led principles into contemporary art-making and world-building.
29 Oct
This conversation brings together Liveworks artists whose works interrogate and reinvent the myths of the past in order to build a more equitable and exciting tomorrow.
30 Oct