Performance Space’s 2016 Liveworks attracted loyal fans, hungry for experimental art and many others, attracted by the unusual. This E-dition features reviews of most of the festival’s diverse works that occupied Carriageworks in a way that made sense of the building. There’s an overview from us of the ‘bigger picture’ that Liveworks offers of our culture, its connections with Asia, the self, Indigeneity and community. It’s a festival well worth celebrating in dark times.
Keith and Virginia, Oztrayah, Trumpistan
LIVEWORKS: THE MUSEUM GOES LIVE Angus McPherson finds Jon Rose’s violin museum full of surprises: eerie instruments triggered by capitalism’s data feeds, a fearsome apparition and bracing music.
LIVEWORKS: RIVER LIN In River Walk, the Taiwanese performance artist transcends the festival’s opening night hubbub, and in the one-on-one Cleansing Service surprises Nikki Heywood with a “brazen yet tender act.”
PROPEL Omer and Sharon Backley-Astrachan and Craig Bary and Dale Collier are the latest artists to participate in Catapult Dance’s Propel Residency program in Newcastle. Omer and Craig talk with RealTime about their plans.
LIVEWORKS: A BIGGER PICTURE
Keith and Virginia look back over a successful festival that intimately embraced Asia, the personal, some bracingly strange visions and Performance Space’s Redfern neighbours.
LIVEWORKS: THUNDERHEAD From a moving car, Tina Havelock Stevens captured on video a massive storm in Texas, in turn captivating Lauren Carroll Harris with the contemplative immediacy of this big-screen artwork.
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