feasting house
presents
Cathy Livermore
Solo Mihi - movement performance
I propose a solo movement piece that is the danced version of a mihi whakatau. The process of acknowledging another in a formal way for Maori is generally done within a powhiri ritual or a mihi whakatau. I am exploring this practice of acknowledging from a moving, physicalized language, rather than spoken word.
A treat for the kids - public sculpture
Line up for John's special treats. No-one goes home empty handed.
(Outside Old Folks Ass. in the blue booth)
John Radford
Sean & Stephen
Do you know you're soaking in it? - interactive environment
Soak with us, soak with each other, soak in the opening night atmosphere from our special vantage point
6.00 - 7.30
opening antics - one or two things I know about her (& him)
Old Folks Ass. Hall - Gundry St
Emotional Rollercoasters - temporary sculpture/installation
(via Skype from Melbourne)
The establishment of ‘Emotional Rollercoasters’ - a permanent large scale art installation site which houses an ongoing collaborative artwork functioning as a theme park where each artwork takes the form of a viscerally experienced, conceptually realised ride.
Beth Sometimes
Sarah-Jane Blake
Foolhardy? - immersive live art
If technology fails how do we deal physically with extreme parts of the earth, the extremities are expanding. Deep sea, space, mountain, ice-landscapes few humans investigate with support systems in tow.
This performance leads on from the artists constant exploration of environmental degradation resulting from human activities - the nonsense and greed of the human condition creating such physical action. looking at our uncertain future and climate with a dark humor and naive perspective, the folly of it all. Inspired by the explorers and their environments of the 18th century and on, wild landscapes which have been overshadowed or made accessible with new technology and a childhood attic adventure this immersive live art installation will take you on a perhaps physically compromising journey.
Doors open 6.00pm
ENTRY - FREE
Lineup for Thursday (these may change)
THURSDAY 20 MARCH
OLD FOLKS ASS. HALL ON GUNDRY ST - AUCKLAND
6.00 - 7.30pm
opening performances in and around Old Folks Ass.
Cathy Livermore, John Radford, Kristian Larsen, Sean & Stephen, Beth Sometimes,
Sarah-Jane Blake
7.30 - 9.30pm
opening night concert feasturing
Ivan Mrsic, Madeline McNamara, Kate Bartlett & Chris Tempest, Sarah/Steve Campus/Carter
Ivan Mrsic
(AKD)
Sold Them Out - sound performance
I will try to create a variety of tones navigating with dynamic microphone, all over my body, trying to search for my internal drones. There is an element of uncertainty, because every day is differently charged and conductivity is different, I will do my best to create fine electromagnetic induction.
Refusing Performance - The Attitudes - theatrical performance
I try to explore in my body and voice different modes of white resistance to challenges about power and privilege.
This fragment is inspired by the eighteenth century's original voguer Lady Emma Hamilton and her "Attitudes". These static, non speaking performances/tableaux vivant were a form of 'mime art', a cross between postures, dance, and acting. Performed to the European elite of the day as a form of popular entertainment the subject matter was based on specific historical and mythological characters.
This is part of a work I live with which includes unhappy performatives, an act of impossible necessity, unmoored manouvres, and when giving is taking.
Madeline McNamara
(WGN)
7.30 - 9.30pm
Lifting the lid on avoidance
Old Folks Ass. Hall - Gundry St
Back Yard Oddity - movement performance
Back-yard 1989 will attempt to look at the nomadism of our personal belief system, the sometimes faux structuring of our morality and the humor that can be found in trying to define it all. As we find ways to physically band together, disrupt each other’s odyssey and ignore each other entirely, a dynamic of telling will unfold that will make some sense and some non-sense.
Kate Bartlett & Chris Tempest
(AKD)
Sarah/Steve Campus/Carter
Courting Uncertainty - movement & words
We will share a performance experiment inspired by inquiry into an audience’s relationship to courtship rituals, personal confession and the willingness to expose internal states of human experience. The willingness to offer up one’s personal experiences to the collective and co-create the performance lies at the heart of our provocations. What processes do we use to create invitation and participation amongst an audience and how do people respond to the stimulus of co-created direction performance?