Adhocracy 2012 projects announced!

Download the full Adhocracy program here 

Adhocracy is Vitals’ annual make ‘n’ show hothouse, inviting interdisciplinary artists to create, converse and critique, in one highly-charged space over the June Queen’s Birthday long weekend.

After a national call and a huge response, we are very pleased to announce the projects that will be participating in Adhocracy this year. Get ready to head to the Port and immerse yourself in three days of open studios, artists’ talks, work-in-progress showings, audience experiments and site-specific happenings.

The ten projects and new works you can experience and contribute to at Adhocracy 2012 are…

Dance Hall > Jess Olivieri, Hayley Forward & the Parachutes for Ladies (NSW & SA) > a site-specific work about dance hall culture and the sense of collective enchantment associated with dance halls across eras.

Audio Commentary > isthisyours? (SA, NSW & VIC) > a performance work exploring the desire to comment upon the world around us and the boundaries between content and commentary in fields such as DVD commentary and tourist audio tours. 
 
Daily Lecture Series #1 > Paul Gazzola, Sarah Rodigari & Brigid Noone (SA & NSW) > an onsite, discursive research team exploring curatorial practice and the presentation of knowledge in the public domain.

Decomposition > Stone/Castro (SA) > a theatre dance work about political saviours.
 
On My Big Day > Mish Grigor & Lachlan Vercoe (NSW) > a perfect day in the future described by a variety of participants and edited into an audio experience for an audience.

 
Wishing Dark > Julie Vulcan & Ashley Scott (NSW) > a durational performance work exploring a liminal dark world where a perpetual state of searching and recovering is the key to unfolding a mysterious circumstance.

Taking Up Space > Brown Council (NSW) > a video portrait and live performance work which examines the agency located in women gathering together in the civic space of a hall.

I Met Viborg > The Australian Bureau of Worthiness (SA) > a once-off reprise performance of location-made live performance work I Met, an Adhocracy 2011 project most recently made in the Danish city of Viborg. A gentle revelation about a place, and a place in time.

reallybigroadtrip > Fee Plumley (SA) > an artist talk exploring reallybigroadtrip, an experiment in living and breathing creative digital culture, and how digital culture continues to challenge ideas around art.

Lastly, Adhocracy co-curator Jason Sweeney is curating Adhocrasound, a micro-survey of some - and only some - of Australia's experimental and exploratory sound makers. Curated through a process of submissions, solicitations and soft persuasion, it is a space for you to take time out from the visual, the live and re-focus, immerse yourself in some sonic landscapes for while, maybe with a drink in hand, a friend by your side. Enjoy the (almost) silence. See the Adhocrasound program at the bar for artist and track details.

Find out more about Adhocrasound on Soundcloud or facebook

Curators: Emma Webb & Jason Sweeney.

Queen’s Birthday Long Weekend

9^th to 11^th June, various events & times

Waterside, 11 Nile St, Port Adelaide

Free entry

Download the program from Adhocracy 2012 here
Download the Adhocracy 2012 media release here 
See a mini documentary about Adhocracy 2011 here

Twitter: #Adhocracy2012, #DanceHall

Currently incubating at Vitals...

The sounds of experimentation and creative break-throughs are drifting from the Vitals hall as our first Incubator residency for 2012 gets underway.

Vital’s Incubator residency program supports the development of new work by independent artists. Our first Incubator resident in 2012 is Torque Show- the company that brought us Malmö in the Adelaide Festival.

The Torque Show team are using their residency to develop Farrugia- a devised verbatim dance theatre work, based on interviews with adult entertainment identity Joseph Farrugia aka Madame Josephine. Part confessional, part documentary, Farrugia will explore a thirty-year shift in the adult entertainment industry, in what is set to be an extraordinary theatrical experience aiming to premiere in 2013.

To find out more about Torque Show, visit http://www.torqueshow.com.au/

Photographer: Tim Standing

Artist Call Out

Two great opportunities for artists at Vitalstatistix

Vitalstatistix is currently offering two fantastic creative and professional development opportunities to artists as part of our interdisciplinary hothouse Adhocracy 2012. 

Adhocracy immerses artists and audiences in three days of open studios, artists’ talks, work-in-progress showings, audience experiments and site-specific happenings. If you weren’t at Adhocracy 2011, you missed the burgeoning of a new national event that independent artists have raved about. Now an annual fixture in Vitals’ program, Adhocracy is on again over the Queen’s Birthday Long Weekend, 9th to 11th of June, 2012.

There are two ways that artists can be involved in Adhocracy 2012. 

The first way: As part of each year’s Adhocracy, Vitals hosts a three week lead-up residency with an interstate live art collective, who collaborate with ten SA artists to make and present a new work. In 2011 it was the infamous pvi collective. This year NSW artistic pair Jess Oliveri and Hayley Forward, and their umbrella Parachutes for Ladies, will lead this year’s residency making a site-specific work commissioned by Vitals called Dance Hall, a site-specific, residency-made work about dance and dance hall culture.

*Applications have now closed* 

The second way: This year Vitals will select up to five creative teams to undertake creative development of interdisciplinary arts projects over the course of three days, in-situ at Waterside, as part of Adhocracy. This opportunity is open to artists from across Australia. Selected projects will be offered a grant of up to $3000, production and other support, and a highly sought after creative development environment.

The five creative teams that took part in 2011 have all gone on to secure further funding and presentation opportunities for their projects. Artists who participated made comments such as:
 “It is rare to have the support of an organistation to develop and present work so quickly and easily whilst being surrounded by artists using a similar process. This made for a weekend that was equally dynamic and supportive, fast paced and friendly, DIY and professional.”

“Adhocracy is a genuine asset to artists and audiences and this year Vitals absolutely nailed this project.  It’s a winner on all counts.”

“Adhocracy has the potential to become one of the leading mini-festivals in Australia for anyone who is serious about making new work, or serious about the watching of new work developing, or wants a cheap holiday with free shows and a well stocked bar, which could be every artist we know.  And their mates.  And siblings.”

*Applications have now closed*

Vitals 2012 program...

independent distinctive outsider contemporary cliché-bending conceit fear documentary participatory subversive feminist visceral charged enchantment hothouse dance hall port incubator memory confessional absurd verbatim crazy horse cutaway interdisciplinary fiction transgression resident accessible utopia portrait tradition research monday custodian adult culture studio in-situ
common decency history imaginary parachutes critical informed boutique

Download it here

Malmö

Torque Show

Presented by Vitalstatistix Theatre Company
in association with Adelaide Festival

“We turn to wallpaper, benches, paintings and streets to staunch the disappearance of our true selves.”
     Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness 

Malmö is a story of a couple in that quintessentially Australian condition: the home renovation. We are invited into their world; we laugh and join their conceit. But things are not as they first seem. This couple is, perhaps, hell-bent towards aspirational ruin.

Segueing between dance, text and striking visual imagery, Malmö challenges the performer-audience contract in a surprising physical and emotional journey described as Dogville meets The Block.

Unsettling, absurdly funny and profound, Malmö is a cliché-bending exploration of the commercialisation of modern nesting.

Waterside

11 Nile St, Port Adelaide

8pm, Tuesday 28^th to Saturday 3^rd March

6pm Sunday 4^th March

80mins, no interval

$35 full/$30 Friends/$25 conc and Fringe Benefits

See more and buy tickets here
Check out Torque Show here

Twitter: #MalmoTorqueShow 

Malmö was developed and presented through Arts House – The City of Melbourne. Malmö and Torque Show have been supported by Arts Victoria and the Besen Family Foundation.

MALMӦ TRAILER from Monki Pictures on Vimeo.

The Dead Ones by Margie Fischer

The Dead Ones
Presented by Margie Fischer in association with Vitalstatistix 

The Dead Ones explores death, memory, family, effects of the Holocaust and the power of objects through storytelling and photography.

Fischer’s parents were Austrian Jews who fled from Vienna to China to escape the Holocaust. After 10 years in Shanghai they came to Australia as refugees.

Margie lived with her extended family in the house her father built in Sydney. Her grandparents died there, so did her brother. When both her parents also died Margie was left to clear out the house.

While doing this she became fascinated with what is left when loved ones die. Throughout this time she documented her feelings and the processes involved. The Dead Ones explores her family stories through the objects left behind.

This solo performance is the first created by Margie Fischer since her critically acclaimed award-winning show The Gay Divorcee.

“Raw and beautiful” Samela Harris, The Advertiser

Written and performed by Margie Fischer; Directed by Catherine Fitzgerald; Designed by Kathryn Sproul.

Higher Ground

9 Light Square, Adelaide

16, 17, 18 Nov at 7pm

19 Nov at 3pm & 6pm

20 Nov at 7pm

23, 24, 25 Nov at 8:30pm

26 Nov at 4pm

$20/$15 Conc & Fringe Benefits

Tix from FEASTiX at tix.feast.org.au or 8463 0684

Tix available at the door

Purchase tickets online here

Twitter: #TheDeadOnes

www.feast.org.au

Cutaway

Download the Cutaway - an installation program here

Cutaway is a three year project interdisciplinary arts project from 2011 to 2013, about the Waterside Workers Hall, an iconic, heritage listed building in Port Adelaide. Site-specific art works, made within and around Waterside by artists and community makers, will reveal and honour the extraordinary memories that inhabit the hall. Waterside, originally built by the Waterside Workers Federation in 1926 and Vitals’ home since 1992, has been central to Port Adelaide’s cultural life for eighty five years.

The Cutaway installation is our first public exhibition of work. Each artist is responding to the resonance of Waterside, working with community members, other artists and alone to make art works from song and sound, text, projection, sculpture, still image, film and live performance. It’s a beautiful, eclectic and unfinished exploration of the hall and the people who have occupied it.

Each Friday and Sunday, Live Cuts is a chance to see live elements of the installation, connect with the Cutaway project and make your own contribution to this celebration of Waterside Workers Hall.

Creative team: Annalise Rees, Cindi Drennan, Emma Webb, Gaelle Mellis, Heidi Angove, Janine Peacock, Jason Sweeney, Maude Davey, and Sasha Grbich.

Community Partners: Born on Monday Choir, Kurruru Youth Performing Arts, Port Adelaide Artists Forum, Port Adelaide Maritime Union of Australia Veteran’s Association, and the Port of Adelaide National Trust.

INSTALLATION SEASON: Sat 8th Oct to Sunday 23rd Oct, 11am-5pm

(open Wed to Sun, closed Mon and Tues).

LIVE CUTS:

Friday Oct 7th from 7pm til 10pm - opening night

Sunday Oct 9th from 2pm til 5pm - featuring Kurruru & Born On Monday

Friday Oct 14th from 7pm til 10pm - featuring Living Libraries

Sunday Oct 16th from 2pm til 5pm - featuring Living Libraries

Friday Oct 21st from 7pm til 10pm - featuring Hall Monitor by Jason Sweeney

Sunday Oct 23th from 2pm til 5pm - featuring Kurruru & Born On Monday

Waterside Workers Hall, 11 Nile St, Port Adelaide

Entry by gold coin donation

Download a flyer about Hall Monitor: a Public Demands project for Cutaway by Jason Sweeney here

Or visit www.publicdemandsproject.com/hallmonitor

Download a flyer about Cutaway's Living Library here

Twitter: #Cutaway , #WatersideWorkersHall , #Waterside, #PortAdelaide ,#LiveCuts, #HallMonitor

Flickr: www.flickr.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/VitalstatistixTheatreCompany

What people are saying about Pie...

With only FIVE chances left to have your piece of Pie, we thought we'd share some of the beautiful imagery and reviews of the show.

Book at BASS.

Glam Adelaide review

Australian Stage review

No Plain Jane review

Vitals presents Pie by Gabrielle Griffin

Pie

by Gabrielle Griffin

presented by Vitalstatistix

Sometimes, we begin to want something unexpected. Sometimes, the passing of time becomes the only thing that matters. Sometimes, words just won’t do.

Pie is a story both strange and familiar. Beautiful visual theatre, made with puppetry, handmade imagery, animation and sound, about one woman’s reproductive desires and dilemmas.

Click here to download the Pie e-flyer

Premiere season

Waterside, 11 Nile St, Port Adelaide

8pm Wed July 27th (preview), Thurs 28th (opening night) & Fri 29th

3pm & 8pm Sat July 30th,

2pm & 6pm, Sun July 31st

8pm, Wed Aug 3rd, Thurs 4th & Fri 5th

3pm & 8pm Sat Aug 6th

$26/$22conc/$18 Fringe Benefits

Book at BASS, www.bass.net.au or 131 246

Creative team

Conceived, devised and performed by Gabrielle Griffin.

Designers: Gaelle Mellis and Wendy Todd; Lighting Design: Mark Pennington; Projection Design: Cindi Drennan; Puppet Design, Construction and Consultancy: Rod Primrose; Composers/Sound Design: Catherine Oates and BelindaGehlert; Rehearsal Director/Dramaturgy Consultant: Kat Worth; Animation: Luku KuKu; Outside Eye/DramaturgyConsultant: Maude Davey.

What's coming up at Vitals? The Book Fair and Pie...

After a massive start to the year (Stories of Love & Hate, A Comedy, BossLady, transumer: deviate from the norm and Adhocracy 2011) Vitals is getting ready for the second half of 2011.

Join a winter tradition by coming along to the Vitals Book, Zine and Crafty Affair on Sunday July 10. This is our annual fundraiser – so, the more books we sell, the more theatre we can present and artists we can support!

We are so looking forward to presenting Pie, a puppetry work for adults by Gabrielle Griffin. Pie premiere’s at Waterside from July 27 – see here for all the details. Pie has been developed over several years following an Incubator residency with Vitals in 2009.

Then in October Vitals presents Cutaway from October 7 – see here for all the details. Cutaway is a three year, site-specific project about our home Waterside Workers Hall.

In November Gaelle Mellis and her team will undertake another creative development of Take Up Thy Bed and Walk, our 2011 Incubator residents. Read about this new work here.

Vitals will not be doing a public call for the 2012 Incubator residencies. We look forward to announcing the two projects we have selected for Incubator very shortly.

Keep in touch with us for program announcements, events at Waterside and artist opportunities throughout the year.

pvi collective hit Adelaide ready to fcuk it up for Adhocracy 2011...

Adhocracy is South Australia’s new annual make ‘n’ show hothouse, inviting interdisciplinary artists to converse, create and critique in one space over 3 days. This year’s Adhocracy will present a long weekend of mini-projects, artists’ talks, mash-ups and cultural interventions.

Click here for full program of participating artists and events.

Adhocracy 2011

The Artist is Dead, Long Live the Artist

Presented by Vitalstatistix

June 11- 13 (Queen’s Birthday Long Weekend)

Waterside, 11 Nile St, Port Adelaide

Download the poster for Adhocracy 2011

Twitter hashtag #Adhocracy2011

As part of Adhocracy, Vitalstatistix presents transumer: deviate from the norm by pvi collective. See below for more info.

Vitalstatistix is presenting a three week residency with acclaimed tactical media arts group pvi collective, commencing with tiny revolutions and culminating with performance-intervention work transumer: deviate from the norm.

pvi collective produce interdisciplinary artworks that are intent on the creative disruption of everyday life. Every artwork aims to affect audiences on a personal and political level and is geared towards instigating tiny revolutions.

Download the eFlyer for tiny revolutions and transumer: deviate from the norm

tiny revolutions

A chat and show-and-tell with pvi collective, as they discuss the role intervention plays in their practice and their latest body of work as well as subtle [and not so subtle] strategies for mis-behaviour in public spaces and their philosophy of instigating tiny revolutions through art.

7pm Friday May 27

Format Space, 15 Peel St, Adelaide

Free entry – donations gratefully accepted

Twitter hashtag #tinyrevolutions

transumer: deviate from the norm

Get ready to fcuk things up and reimagine Port Adelaide, as you take to the streets clutching self assembled deviation kits, absurd weaponry, a slippery identity and armed with a customised i-torch.

transumer: deviate from the norm is a darkly playful site-based intervention, inviting audiences to undertake tiny acts of resistance against their built environment. A joyful, deviant, profound experience, intent on unhinging our beliefs about what cities bring to our daily lives and how we can subvert the official narratives of place.

This is a new manifestation of a body of work by pvi collective, first commissioned for the 17th Biennale of Sydney in 2010, and has been made in the ‘awaiting development’ landscape of Port Adelaide with a team of local artists.

Fri June 10, Sat June 11 and Sun June 12

6pm, 8pm & 10pm (50mins)

Waterside, 11 Nile St, Port Adelaide

$14, book at BASS, www.bass.net.au or 131 246

Limited numbers, bookings recommended

Outdoor experience – please dress warmly!

Twitter hashtag #transumer_portadelaide

Creative team
pvi collective: Kelli McCluskey, Jason Sweeney and Steve Bull.
Collaborating artists: Anna McLean, Elena Carapetis, Kyra Kimpton, Michele Fairbairn, Steven Glass, Elizabeth Hay, Indigo Eli, Lachlan Tetlow-Stuart, Steve Noonan and Tamara Lee.