Liveworks Festival 2024
Liveworks Festival is Performance Space’s flagship festival of live art and performance, spanning dance, music, theatre, installation, experimentation and celebration. This year’s program is once again taking over Carriageworks from 23 – 27 October 2024 with a festival of art from across Australia and the Asia Pacific.
The Liveworks program reflects on the moment of crisis and precarity we find ourselves in and how – or if – we can find our way through. This year’s artists explore how we practise care and intimacy, how we hold each other in collapse, how we find release and joy in unexpected places, and the power of small actions to make big change. They offer us spaces to reflect, to come together in surprising ways and imagine new and alternative worlds. Performance Space invites you to join them on a journey of imagination, joy, rage, and contemplation of our most fundamental human experiences – love, life, death, and of course – dancing.
Wed 23 – Sun 27 Oct, 2024
Purchase tickets for 3 or more performances at once and enjoy a 20% discount.
Liveworks Festival is curated to let you experience multiple shows in a single day—so why not make the most of it and see them all!
The Archie Rose Liveworks Bar will be open all week for you to eat and drink before and between performances.
Please let us know of any accessibility requirements by contacting us via email boxoffice@carriageworks.com.au
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We are located at 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh.
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Experience the magic of THUNDERBLOOM-LIVE; a full length theatrical extravaganza with original songs, dance, and live music. Join HOSSEI and his mother NAHID as they explore health, family, love, death and the bond between mother and son!
Adapted from Marcus Whale's 2024 album, Ecstasy is a mystical pageant to the void, drawing from Christian liturgy, the rave and other raptures with the divine.
The Performance Space team are saddened to report that due to illness, the Liveworks Festival season of dissent by Daley Rangi has been cancelled.
All ticket holders have been contacted. Please email boxoffice@carriageworks.com.au with any questions.
Through a single image of stillness and suspended movement - that of a body and a log - George attempts to suspend the narrative of a human will to power so that other memories, including those of nature might also become sensible.
In this deeply personal and form-bending adaptation of his award-winning online work The Crying Room, Marcus Ian McKenzie scours infinite planes in search of his lost brother.
A spectacle of pure endurance. An electrifying non-stop rave of chaos, carnage and catharsis. A 3-day rave condensed into an hour.
Imagine being a fig wasp - born pregnant. Imagine the sex of mould. Jessie McCall brings us The Bloom; a heady choreographic dive into the generative glitches of queer propagation and motherhood.
In this new commission, Taiwanese artist Su Pinwen interrogates ideas of value in our society - what do we consider ‘leftover’ and who gets to decide? Through a feminist lens, Leftover Market traverses gender, misogyny and sexism, food and material waste, begging the question, do people have a best before date?
It’s Already Happened, We’re Just in the Past is an evolving, transforming installation, where time and physics become liquid. Activated by live performance each day. Check the schedule for exact timings.
Immerse yourself in Brolga: A Queer Koori Wonderland - an interactive art party curated by renowned Wiradjuri man and multidisciplinary artist Joel Bray. You're invited to join us at a reimagined contemporary gathering of light, colour, projected image and ecstatic dancing bodies, inspired by First Nations stories of the dancing Brolga.
Celebrate the start of another exciting year of Liveworks at Carriageworks with complimentary food and drinks, generously provided by Performance Space's partners Archie Rose Distilling Co. and Scotchmans Hill. Enjoy a drink before diving into one of the many performances on opening night.
When you purchase tickets for 3 or more performances, you’ll receive a 20% discount.
Liveworks Festival is curated to let you experience multiple shows in a single day—so why not make the most of it and immerse yourself in them all?
Get in the Liveworks spirit when you visit Performance Space's exclusive merch store. Featuring a range of limited edition stock and handmade items from their 2024 artists, there is something for everyone to be found. Merch is available to pre-order online and buy in person during the festival. While stocks last.