Witness science and art collide at Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art presented by Performance Space. The annual festival runs from 17 to 27 October and features an illuminating program of experimental art from across Australia and the Asia Pacific. Across eleven days, Carriageworks will be consumed by performances, installations, parties, workshops and conversations designed to reverberate through your body.
At Liveworks this year there will be three
groups of artists who integrate science and technology into their creative
practice including:
Choy Ka Fai (Singapore)
Imagining wild new futures for the human body, Choy Ka Fai interweaves science and technology in his fascinating multimedia performances. As part of his creative practice, Ka Fai has studied brain cortical activity in dancers, monitored muscle movement in performers and integrated electric muscle stimulation.
Choy Ka Fai’s latest performance Unbearable Darkness investigates the choreographic process of a ghost through live dance, motion capture technology, digital avatars and a spirit medium. As part of developing the work, Ka Fai visited an itako, or blind medium, on Mt Osore in Northern Japan and invoked the spirit of Tatsumi Hijikata, the founder of world-renowned dance art Butoh. Unbearable Darkness is an uncanny cybernetic dance experiment that stirs up long-gone spirits and allows them to perform once again with the living. Read more
Gail Priest and Thomas
Burless (Sydney)
Playfully presenting
electro-acoustic sound on stage, Gail Priest teams up with industrial artisan
Thomas Burless for a fascinating new performance where science, sound and
sculpture meet. Inspired by pioneering vocalist Maragret Watts Hughes and her
invention, the Eidophone (1885), Priest’s latest performance features a
collection of sculptures and devices that allow the audience to witness the
human voice transform into a mesmerising display of visual patterns and
effects.
A continuous self-vibrating region of intensities combines live performance and installation for a fascinating display of cymatic patterns and vocal vibrations created alongside vocalists Carolyn Connnors and Sonya Hollowell. Read more
Image of Gail Priest courtesy of the artist
Chicks on Speed
(Berlin)
Pioneering pop
provocateurs Chicks on Speed return to Sydney with their unique performance
style fusing electronic music with performance art and bespoke technology.
Comprised of Australian Alex Murray-Leslie and American Melissa Logan, Chicks
on Speed have been reimagining new ways of creating sound since the late 90s.
Science meets sound and fashion with their specially-crafted wearable music devices known as objektinstruments, like the e-shoe (the first wireless high-heeled shoe guitar), cigar-box synthesisers, ‘super suits’ and tapestries with sensors that trigger audio/video samples and haute-couture hat amplifiers. Their upcoming season I’ll Be Your Body Instrument is a rare opportunity to witness music, art, technology, performance, film and fashion collide for a spectacular examination of the boundaries of sound. Read more
About Liveworks
Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art is your place to connect with a curious community at the edge of experimental art. Bathe in sound waves as they echo through industrial architecture, conjure spirits in paranormal performance, hold tender conversations with strangers over the telephone, ride high on a bittersweet sugar rush, and observe the voice evolve into entrancing sculpture.
Feature image by Katja Illner shows Choy Ka Fai performing in Unbearable Darkness. Explore the full program online at www.performancespace.com.au
Witness science and art collide at Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art presented by Performance Space. The annual festival runs from 17 to 27 October and features an illuminating program of experimental art from across Australia and the Asia Pacific. Across eleven days, Carriageworks will be consumed by performances, installations, parties, workshops and conversations designed to reverberate through your body.
At Liveworks this year there will be three groups of artists who integrate science and technology into their creative practice including:
Choy Ka Fai (Singapore)
Imagining wild new futures for the human body, Choy Ka Fai interweaves science and technology in his fascinating multimedia performances. As part of his creative practice, Ka Fai has studied brain cortical activity in dancers, monitored muscle movement in performers and integrated electric muscle stimulation.
Choy Ka Fai’s latest performance Unbearable Darkness investigates the choreographic process of a ghost through live dance, motion capture technology, digital avatars and a spirit medium. As part of developing the work, Ka Fai visited an itako, or blind medium, on Mt Osore in Northern Japan and invoked the spirit of Tatsumi Hijikata, the founder of world-renowned dance art Butoh. Unbearable Darkness is an uncanny cybernetic dance experiment that stirs up long-gone spirits and allows them to perform once again with the living. Read more
Gail Priest and Thomas Burless (Sydney)
Playfully presenting electro-acoustic sound on stage, Gail Priest teams up with industrial artisan Thomas Burless for a fascinating new performance where science, sound and sculpture meet. Inspired by pioneering vocalist Maragret Watts Hughes and her invention, the Eidophone (1885), Priest’s latest performance features a collection of sculptures and devices that allow the audience to witness the human voice transform into a mesmerising display of visual patterns and effects.
A continuous self-vibrating region of intensities combines live performance and installation for a fascinating display of cymatic patterns and vocal vibrations created alongside vocalists Carolyn Connnors and Sonya Hollowell. Read more
Chicks on Speed (Berlin)
Pioneering pop provocateurs Chicks on Speed return to Sydney with their unique performance style fusing electronic music with performance art and bespoke technology. Comprised of Australian Alex Murray-Leslie and American Melissa Logan, Chicks on Speed have been reimagining new ways of creating sound since the late 90s.
Science meets sound and fashion with their specially-crafted wearable music devices known as objektinstruments, like the e-shoe (the first wireless high-heeled shoe guitar), cigar-box synthesisers, ‘super suits’ and tapestries with sensors that trigger audio/video samples and haute-couture hat amplifiers. Their upcoming season I’ll Be Your Body Instrument is a rare opportunity to witness music, art, technology, performance, film and fashion collide for a spectacular examination of the boundaries of sound. Read more
About Liveworks
Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art is your place to connect with a curious community at the edge of experimental art. Bathe in sound waves as they echo through industrial architecture, conjure spirits in paranormal performance, hold tender conversations with strangers over the telephone, ride high on a bittersweet sugar rush, and observe the voice evolve into entrancing sculpture.
Feature image by Katja Illner shows Choy Ka Fai performing in Unbearable Darkness. Explore the full program online at www.performancespace.com.au
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