The National 2021 Opening Weekend

Carriageworks presents a live program of performances and artist talks celebrating the opening weekend of The National 2021. Hear discussions from the artists, and see performances by Agatha Gothe-Snape, Sarah Rodigari and A Constructed World.

Image: Agatha Gothe-Snape with Andrew Burrell, ‘Every Act of Reading Performs the Work’, 2019-21 (virtual environment accessed via LED screen at Carriageworks) and ‘Apparitional Surge’, 2021 (live streamed remote mixed reality performance of monologue from within virtual environment). Installation view ‘The National 2021: New Australian Art’, Carriageworks. Photo credit Zan Wimberley. Agatha Gothe-Snape courtesy The Commercial, Sydney

Sat 27 Mar, 10am – 12.30pm

On Time Performance
Sarah Rodigari

10-10.30am
Bay 21
Registration essential – allocation exhausted.

Artist Talks
Vernon Ah Kee, Janet Burchill, Isadora Vaughan, Lorraine Connelly-Northey, Alana Hunt, Michelle Nikou, Mitch Cairns, Sarah Rodigari, Darren Sylvester, and Brendan Van Hek

10.30-11.45am
Bay 21

Apparitional Surge
Agatha Gothe-Snape

11.45am – 12.15pm
Public Space

A Constructed World Performance
12.15-12.30pm
Bay 21

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The National 2021 is presented by Carriageworks, Art Gallery of NSW and Museum of Contemporary Art.

Supported by Major Partner Bloomberg Philanthropies.

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On Time  Developed through interviews with casual workers at Carriageworks in 2020, the artist has formed these multiple conversations into a poetic monologue. Twelve ‘clock hands wrought from twisted steel are placed in an abstracted clock face formation- Rodigari’s performance as an ‘atmosphere of time’ will take place on this mini-stage. 10am in Bay 21. Registration essential - allocation exhausted.
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Apparitional Surge  A live-streamed performance of a monologue by artist Agatha Gothe-Snape, describing her six-year engagement with The National. Performed remotely by the artist from within the virtual environment, co-created with Andrew Burrell, she will appear at Carriageworks as an apparition and an avatar. 11.45am in the Public Space.
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A Constructed World Performance  Formed relationally through dialogue rather than instruction, A Constructed World performances include songs, script readings, conversation and exercises of ‘failed telepathy’. Open to both interpretation and chaos, the artists introduce ‘not knowing’ as a shared space - the performances operate from a series of devised actions intended to bring people together. 12.15pm in Bay 21.