Feather Star explores human and non-human entanglements, attuning a myriad of bodies to the beauty and diversity of interdependent ecological systems. Alicia Frankovich seeks out new images and imaginaries in the age of the Capitalocene —an epoch defined by extraction and overconsumption —to find alternative ways of living and being in the world.

Derived from a child’s existential questions, Feather Star is a movement work that unfolds through a relational exchange between performers (trained and untrained) into choreographic knowledge-making, vocal utterances, and sound. Motifs are drawn from the microscopic realms of symbiotic bacteria to the motions of underwater creatures, and the interplanetary escapism of Big Tech. By enlisting performers to layer and embody imagery, Feather Star figures possible modes of queer world-building and resistance in the context of climate collapse.

Feather Star will be presented for two performances at ACCA: Saturday, 22nd February, 5:45pm and Monday, 24th of February, 5:45pm.

Feather Star is presented in association with ACCA’s current exhibition, The Charge That Binds, and as part of the Relational Ecologies Intensive hosted at ACCA. Learn more about the program and intensive here.

Performers:
Deanne Butterworth, MaggZ, Daniel R Marks, Molly McKenzie, Enzo Nazario, Bea Rubio-Gabriel, Gemma Sattler

Production Assistant:
Ruth Höflich

Music:
Igor Kłaczyński

Sound Technician:
Alex Mraz

Feather Star will be presented at UQAM (Meanjin/Brisbane) on Friday, 28th of February, 1pm and Saturday, 1st of March, 3pm. Ticketing link to come.

Feather Star is co-commissioned and co-presented by The University of Queensland Art Museum (UQAM) and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA).

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body and The Robert Salzer Foundation.