LIVEWORKS FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ART 2019 PERFORMANCE SPACE

Performance Space presents an illuminating program of experimental work from across Australia and the Asia Pacific. For eleven days, Carriageworks is consumed by performances, installations, parties, workshops and conversations. Liveworks is a place to connect with a curious community at the edge of experimental art.

Choy Ka Fai, Unbearable Darkness, Image Katja Illner 2019

Lauren Brincat
Other Tempo
Exhibtition: 17 – 27 Oct, 10am-6pm
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Choy Ka Fai
Unbearable Darkness
Thu 17 Oct, 8pm
Fri 18 Oct, 8.30pm
Sat 19 Oct, 8.30pm

Joel Bray
Daddy
Thu 17 Oct, 8pm
Fri 18 Oct, 7pm
Sat 19 Oct, 3pm & 7pm

Gail Priest & Thomas Burless
A Continuous Self-Vibrating Region of Intensities
Wed 23 – Sat 26 Oct, 6.30pm & 8.30pm

Chicks on Speed
I’ll Be Your Body Instrument
Sat 19 Oct, 8.30pm

Samara Hersch
Body of Knowledge
Thu 17 Oct, 8pm
Fri 18 & Sat 19 Oct, 6pm & 9pm
Sun 20 Oct, 5pm & 8pm

Vicki Van Hout
plenty serious TALK TALK
Wed 23 – Sat 26 Oct, 7pm

Liquid Architecture
Tricks of the Mouth
Wed 23 – Sat 26 Oct, 8.30pm

Betty Grumble
The Unshame Machine
Fri 25 Oct, 6.30pm

Lloyd, Butterworth, Havelock Stevens & Ida Morris
Double Double
Wed 23 & Thu 24 Oct, 6.30pm

John Vea
If I Pick Your Fruit, Will You Put Mine Back?
Sat 19 & Sat 26 Oct, 8am-1pm

Sonic Nightcap
Thu 17 Oct, 7.30pm
Fri 18 & Sat 19 Oct, 9.30pm
Sun 20 Oct, 7pm
Wed 23 – Sat 26 Oct, 9.30pm
Sun 27 Oct, 6pm

Live Sparks
Sun 20 Oct, 4.30pm

Day for Night
Sat 26 Oct, 12pm-12am
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$20 – $35 + fee

A transaction fee of $4.40 applies to all bookings.

Presented by Carriageworks and Performance Space.

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Performance Art, Liveworks Festival, Carriageworks
Lauren Brincat  Other Tempo is a dynamic performance installation of modified drum kits and visual scores. Under Brincat’s direction, the work is activated by a group of women drummers who each have a unique approach to the properties of their instruments. More.
Choy Ka Fai, Unbearable Darkness, Contemporary Art, Performance Art, Liveworks Festival, Carriageworks
Choy Ka Fai  In Unbearable Darkness, Witness an uncanny cybernetic dance experiment conjuring Butoh master Tatsumi Hijikata from beyond the grave using a spirit medium, live dance, motion capture and a lively digital avatar. More.
Joel Bray  Joel has daddy issues. And his insatiable cravings for father figures always leave him wanting more. Daddy probes one of the paradoxes of our age: when so much is on offer, why are we left so hungry? More.
Gail Priest & Thomas Burless  In A Continuous Self-Vibrating Region of Intensities, experience an installation and performance where science, sound and sculpture meet, inspired by the work of pioneering vocalist Margaret Watts Hughes and her invention, the Eidophone (1885). More.
Contemporary Art, Chicks on Speed, Performance Art, Carriageworks, Liveworks
Chicks on Speed  I'll Be Your Body Instrument is a newly-comissioned performance by pioneering pop provocateurs Chicks on Speed, featuring their extraordinary objekinstruments (wearable music devices). More.
Samara Hersch  An intimate new work, Body of Knowledge is performed by teenagers who call into the theatre on mobile phones. A powerful mediation on age and change, questions of boundaries, sexuality, shame and consent are all on the table. More.
Vicki Van Hout, Plenty Serious Talk Talk, Performance Art, Liveworks Festival, Carriageworks
Vicki Van Hout  With gleeful humour and sharp observation, plenty serious TALK TALK puts front-and-centre the parts of Indigenous art-making that usually remain behind the scenes. More.
Performance Art, Liveworks Festival, Carriageworks, Experimental Music, Liquid Architecture, Tricks of the Mouth
Liquid Architecture  Sound art pioneers Liquid Architecture curate Tricks of the Mouth, a program showcasing groundbreaking women artists from across the Asia Pacific. More.
Betty Grumble  The Unshame Machine is iconic Sydney performer Betty Grumble’s pussy printing party: a deep-squat disco of experimental bodily becoming, storytelling, sharing and sex. More.
Performance Art, Liveworks Festival, Carriageworks, Double Double, Drumming
Lloyd, Butterworth, Havelock Stevens & Ida Morris  In Double Double, celebrated dancers and choreographers Jo Lloyd and Deanne Butterworth are joined by artists Evelyn Ida Morris and Tina Havelock Stevens in an epic meeting where spontaneous formations emerge. More.
John Vea, Installation, Performance, Performance Art, Liveworks Festival, Carriageworks
John Vea  John Vea’s exploration of Pacific migrant workers is anchored by his signature humour, challenging viewers to consider the equality of a global workforce. If I Pick Your Fruit, Will You Put Mine Back? is the first presentation of the artist's work in Australia. More.
Performance Art, Liveworks Festival, Carriageworks
Sonic Nightcap  A specially curated program of performance every night by artists working at the cutting edge of electronic music, sound art and pop, with a focus on female, non-binary and gender diverse artists. More.
Live Sparks  Festival artists share texts that shaped their artistic practice and sparked the ideas for their Liveworks projects in an intimate talk series, framed by creative conversations with Performance Space CEO Jeff Khan. More.
Performance Art, Liveworks Festival, Carriageworks, Day for Night, Queer Art Party
Day for Night  Immerse yourself in a series of performances and installations by our brightest and best queer artists. As day becomes night, join us on the dancefloor as the artists reinvent their work for the glittering unfurling of Sydney’s hottest queer art party. More.
Performance Art, Liveworks Festival, Carriageworks
Liveworks Conversations  Talks from a range of festival artists and special guests, offering insights into the ideas and processes behind some of the works in the festival. More.