Adhocracy - Vital's annual make 'n' show hothouse is back!
Download the full Adhocracy program here
Adhocracy invites interdisciplinary artists to create, converse and critique, in one highly-charged space over the June Queen’s Birthday long weekend.
Download the full Adhocracy program here
Adhocracy invites 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 & NAME (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.
Daily Lecture Series #1 > Paul Gazzola, Sarah Rodigari & NAME (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
9th to 11th June, various events & times
Waterside, 11 Nile St, Port Adelaide
Free entry
Twitter: #Adhocracy2012, #DanceHall
Cutaway - a portrait
Presented by Vitalstatistix
Cutaway is a three-year (2011 to 2013) interdisciplinary arts project about Waterside Workers Hall. Site-specific art works, made within and around Waterside by artists and community makers each year, will reveal the abundant stories that inhabit the hall. In 2011 the project commenced with Cutaway – an installation, made up of nine works about the history of the hall.
In 2012 we present Cutaway – a portrait, a headphone-verbatim theatre work that tells the stories of individuals connected to Waterside.
Headphone-verbatim theatre utilises audio-scripting, a paperless form of constructing a performance script entirely via a process of editing audio interviews. Performers then literally adopt the actual words, breaths and speech mannerism of another human being with the aim of preserving the vocal print of a recorded interview. Acclaimed headphone-verbatim theatre maker Roslyn Oades (Fast Cars and Tractors, Stories of Love & Hate, I’m Your Man) will join us in making Cutaway – a portrait.
To stay in touch with Cutaway, email cutaway@vitalstatistix.com.au.
Creative team: Roslyn Oades, Katia Molino, Stephen Sheehan, Sasha Zahra, Gaelle Mellis, Jason Sweeney, Sasha Grbich, Emma Webb & Janine Peacock.
Cutaway – a portrait will be presented in December 2012 at Waterside
For more info on Cutaway – an installation (2011) download the program here.
Take a look at Hall Monitor, a Public Demands project for Cutaway – an installation, by Jason Sweeney here.
Twitter: #Cutaway, #WatersideWorkersHall, #Waterside, #PortAdelaide #LiveCuts #HallMonitor
