feasting house
presents
11.58am Jennifer De Leon
VENUE - Jennifer's Studio
GREY LYNN
12.00 - 3.00pm
Wunderwanderweg
Various locations
Stripped Bare - dance performance
"I wrote a difficult poem. Then I made a difficult dance to go with it. The dance is strange and hard to do."
Jenny de Leon has long been a dance outsider. Hosted by Nisha Madhan this informal event offers a chance to consider the processes of aging, the impact of pain and the making of community. Includes informal discussion, refreshments and a short dance concert by Jenny.
2pm Becca Wood
VENUE - BETWEEN THE AUCKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY AND ST JAMES THEATRE
DOWNLOAD THE AUDIO SCORE AND PLAY IT ON YOUR MP3 PLAYER (if you are uncertain about your technical capabilities come down to the site and there will be limited MP3 players and headphones for you to borrow)
Listening for the Disappearing - headphonic choreoauratic score
The potential of the fleeting and the imperceptible is channeled through prosthetic listening and participatory performance tactics.Attempting to unsettle the spectacular and dissolve the power of the gaze enlivens a socially responsive space and enables an active process of attunement to the St James site, body and connectivity.
Download available here from 8pm Friday the 21st March: https://soundcloud.com/liverecording/fou
Fruit Salad Republic - social intervention
Fruit Salad Republic will performatively question the contemporary conflict and uncertainty of the complex, indefinable and morphing nature of identity and its relationship to citizenship, ethnicity and the power of the State.
A presence will be maintained at each FOU event during the festival, this final performance will be a culmination of that work.
1pm Melissa Durbin
AT ALBERT PARK FOUNTAIN
ENTRY - FREE
Lineup for Saturday (these may change)
Session orders may change
SATURDAY 22 MARCH
12.00 - 3.00pm
WUNDERWANDERWEG - SEE SPECIFIC LOCATIONS TAKE THE MINI-BUS
3.30 - 6pm
OLD FOLKS ASS. HALL ON GUNDRY ST - AUCKLAND
8 - 10pm
OLD FOLKS ASS.
12.00 - 3.00pm
off-site - various locations
Melissa Durbin, Jennifer De Leon, Becca Wood
3.30 - 6.00pm
Old Folks Ass. - Gundry St - Newton - Auckland
Layne Waerea & Philippa Nielsen, Raewyn Alexander, Kelly McDowell, Misa Tupou, Robert Carter, Wei Lun Ha, Tom Beeston & Morrigan Mullen, Sarah-Jane Blake, Zahra Killeen-Chance
8 - 10pm
Old Folks Ass. - Gundry St - Newton - Auckland
Ben Holmes, Ruby Brunton & Hermione Johnson, Carrie Rae Cunningham, Christina Houton, Sam Trubridge, Jules Turner
Ben Holmes
It's getting late and I'm feeling sick - music
Check out some live buzz and vomit with a short set of music played with uncertainty. Lots of thumping and moaning and bad singing etc. Maybe even some audience participation - not sure – uncertain.
It's been a while Dr. John, Dr. John - music-responsive performance
I was one of those those teenagers who obsessed over their record collection and thought the best way to make an impression was to give someone a mix tape of your favourite songs or your favourite album. (I still consider this gifting of music to be the ultimate expression of flirtation, deep friendship and intense human interest.) Every album told a story, and I felt I owed it to the artist to consider and appreciate their chosen song order, particularly those decisions regarding the delegations of Side A and Side B for records and tapes.
Carrie Rae Cunningham
8.00 - 10.00pm
A perfect crisis - times and life of a withering torch
Old Folks Ass.
Survival Strategies - tour of OFA
I would like to offer a structure for the gathering of individuals as a participatory performance/guided tour of the site of the festival noting both historic and present points of interest or disinterest.
I am interested in survival strategies both personal and ecological that may be discovered and re-enacted on this performance journey that move towards sustaining an uncertain future in opposition to a sustainable future.
Christina Houghton
Sam Trubridge / The Playground NZ Ltd
(BOOK VIA EMAIL AND WAIT FOR A REPLY FOR FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS)
Streets of Gold II - a walking piece
A journey through the streets of Newton that animates inner city spaces, encounters the inhabitants of the city in new ways, and arrives at a place of unexpected unity.
Audiences are invited to follow an audio track and simple instructions in the format of the audio-guided walk in this new work by the makers of Sleep/Wake and The Performance Arcade. Systems of attraction, control, and power in the city are examined as individuals navigate their own pathways of performance.
To book a part in this work send an email to theplaygroundnz@gmail.com and wait for an email at 4.30 pm on Saturday 22nd March. Make sure to keep the next 4 hours free from commitments for the work.
Tangle Up - words with music
Life is a ceaseless turmoil of seemingly random interactions and events, and this evening of poetry, performance and music promises to emulate that.
Ruby Brunton & Hermione Johnson
Robert Carter
Layne Waerea & Philippa Nielsen
Raewyn Alexander
RAEWYN WILL BE PRESENT ALL DAY AT THE OLD FOLKS ASS. HALL
3.00 - 6.00pm
A charmed afternoon of regret and bitter sympathy
Old Folks Ass. - Gundry St
A Public Service - social intervention
You have to be very careful. It can strike at any time. The old lady who lives behind the big kauri, half way down lovers’ lane; she told me about her experiences. It wasn’t new to me; she described things in so much detail. I had forgotten. The heat; that initial feeling of heat. You’re thinking: “Where is that heat coming from?”
Some of this makes me look foolish - writings and ramblings
I have a large box that housed the new laptop I had to get when I returned from America last year, since mine was stolen by security people at LA airport. (They were eventually caught, but my laptop was not returned). In this box is a vast amount of ephemera and waste material, notebooks and so on which I wanted to make into a book called The Mess of Travelling. It is a mess. It also seems an impossible task. I also have all kinds of messy emotions around my trip, and now I am going back because I cannot stay away. I feel like I was born in the wrong country, (NZ). This does not endear me to many New Zealanders.
Amplified Empathy - performance
I'm interested in creating a moment where the role of performer and audience fluctuates and the outcome isn't predetermined.
I want to have the audience form a circle around me and link arms or hold on to each other so they form a wall and become one unit. I will be in the center and will then explain they are allowed to leave at any point but they must announce they are leaving. I will instruct them that they must move forward with me always in the centre.
Kelly McDowell
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.
Sarah-Jane Blake
Uncertain Pleasures - Free excuses - social intervention
Layne Waerea and Philippa Nielsen are currently uncertain. As visual artists we are interested in the social intersections of time / politics / culture and law. Our proposal is to carry out interventions during the festival that explore the uncertain nature of art production in the public social; interventions that may involve a kumara and perhaps a placard. There will be protesting. And there might be tee-shirts.
Landscape NZ - calligraphy painting
My Name is Weilun Ha, I am a emerging Chinese calligraphy painting artist. I do live paintings with fabric screens and walls at extreme speed, with my art and most of these paintings are larger than a 4 meter wall encapsulating my audience from all distances.
Wei Lun Ha
Zahra Killeen-Chance
Friends Of The Earth Co-op Initiative - video environment
You are invited to join an exciting new project devised by the Friends Of The Earth Co-op Initiative. Experience a way the world could be, and what you could be within this world.
Flutters from Pacific Migrators - Skype performance
Misa in Honolulu would like to get in touch with you online. Standby by me you are too far away, and perhaps twist. You sing or dance your choice.
Misa Tupou
Jules Turner
Sweet Dreams - performance/installation
The mid-life female body builder defies, challenges and deviates from these social norms. She both accepts and rejects conventional beauty by keeping her body in line through discipline and repetition but at the same time builds an unacceptable body one which challenges the paradigm. She demands to be seen, she show’s off a body that is not supposed to be shown. She crosses genders, anatomies and generations.