The year we didn't work together
The year we didn't work together
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Gertrude Street Projection FestivalStart date
2022-07-28End date
2022-07-31Language
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Gertrude Street Projection Festival 2022 grounds in unapologetic, intimate and sensitive displays of care grounding itself in conversations and storytelling. 'A Soft Pulse' lands and brings together our artists, collaborators and partners to celebrate and explore our relationship with ourselves as the grounding for relationships with others. Featuring new work from a diverse range of practitioners, these public activations work towards engaging the audience into the private worlds of the selected artists. This year’s projections will be accessible from Gertrude street and surround, inviting audiences to consider the moments presented by the selected artists.Research statement
Background COVID lockdowns forced artists into isolation, while permitting a fracture from habitual patterns and a reflection on learned expectations of arts production and consumption. Instead of producing entirely new work, choreographers, scholars, museums and I responded by enquiring into the intersection of live art, the archive and collections, (MUMA, Precarious Movements: Rethinking and Reconfiguring the Museum Collection 2020 and Lloyd, J. Archive the archive 2020, National Gallery of Aus). How can artistically engaging with one’s personal archive, through digital technologies, propose means to reconsider and create new collaborative performance during COVID? Contribution Recognising human and screen as an enriching partnership within a physically isolating landscape (COVID), my work is a moving image in which I perform with documentation of a past performance. Propelling posthuman perspectives, a process of ‘bodying’ occurs in which the digital/archive have agency to affect and connect with present actions/bodies. The two selves, digital and organic, are fragmented across time and space while bound in immediate, material and poetic dialogue. Informed by queer theory and experimental performance methodologies, the work proposes new ways of considering collaborative arts practice through digital and performative interventions. Significance This work sits within a larger body of research on expanded choreographies that distribute agency and authorship through collaborative performance, extended by technological innovation and a rethinking of ‘collaboration’ within solo work. Its value is attested to by the following indicators: • Selection of the moving image for Gertrude Street Projection Festival (GSPF) ‘A Soft Pulse’ 2022, curated by Eleanor Scicchitano. Produced by Centre for Projection Art and City of Yarra • 4-day public exhibition, large-scale outdoor projection at a major inner-city intersection • Invitation to share research on a panel on ‘Practice and Place’, Composite Moving ImagePublication classification
JL3 Live Performance of Creative Works – DanceExtent
1 x pdf including link to moving image, festival website, documentation and other evidence of selection for presentation in festival and panel discussionEvent
A Soft Pulse, Gertrude Street. Projection Festival (2022 : Melbourne, Victoria)Publisher
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