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THURSDAY
TALK | Brigid | Thurs 23 Oct, 5pm ticket
Feat. Alice Heyward & Oisín Monaghan/Ó Manacháin Moderator: Dr. Erin Brannigan (UNSW) This conversation delves into the conceptual framework of Brigid, a project by Alice Heyward and Oisín Monaghan/Ó Manacháin, where mythology, (transgenerational) grief and horror, and diasporic identity intertwine. Oisín, who grew up in Mayo, Ireland, before migrating as a teenager to New York City, and later settling in Vienna during the pandemic, reflects on migration and mythology through the lens of his practice and lived experience. Alice—an Australian artist of Irish ancestry (from the North), among other lineages— living in Germany, brings her questions and perspective on myth, imagination and embodied memory, and what was, wasn't, and often isn't, materially inherited within lineages shaped by homogenising traditions of (white Australian) colonisation and migration. Together, they approach Brigid as a space of transmission and transformation: working with what they each know differently, and with what remains unknowable, while resisting the neoliberal production of identity politics. Their methodologies embrace doom, demise, entropy, as well as love, transcendence, and kinship, treating dance and song as a queer and collective means of negotiating social, cultural, and political pain. Emerging from—and regenerating—their curiosities, Brigid considers the healing and revitalising force of mythology as well as our fraught entanglements with our production of their meanings across history. This conversation seeks to engage audiences in reflection and dialogue around the layered cultural histories embedded within this contemporary artistic framework.
Feat. Alice Heyward & Oisín Monaghan/Ó Manacháin Moderator: Dr. Erin Brannigan (UNSW) This conversation delves into the conceptual framework of Brigid, a project by Alice Heyward and Oisín Monaghan/Ó Manacháin, where mythology, (transgenerational) grief and horror, and diasporic identity intertwine. Oisín, who grew up in Mayo, Ireland, before migrating as a teenager to New York City, and later settling in Vienna during the pandemic, reflects on migration and mythology through the lens of his practice and lived experience. Alice—an Australian artist of Irish ancestry (from the North), among other lineages— living in Germany, brings her questions and perspective on myth, imagination and embodied memory, and what was, wasn't, and often isn't, materially inherited within lineages shaped by homogenising traditions of (white Australian) colonisation and migration. Together, they approach Brigid as a space of transmission and transformation: working with what they each know differently, and with what remains unknowable, while resisting the neoliberal production of identity politics. Their methodologies embrace doom, demise, entropy, as well as love, transcendence, and kinship, treating dance and song as a queer and collective means of negotiating social, cultural, and political pain. Emerging from—and regenerating—their curiosities, Brigid considers the healing and revitalising force of mythology as well as our fraught entanglements with our production of their meanings across history. This conversation seeks to engage audiences in reflection and dialogue around the layered cultural histories embedded within this contemporary artistic framework.
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FRIDAY
OPEN STUDIO | Emma Maye Gibson | Beast | 24 Oct, 3-5pm ticket
Feat. Emma Maye Gibson aka Betty Grumble & Angela Dix After recent travel and research to some of her ancestral homelands of Malta & Ireland , specifically to sites of importance for ritual gatherings - Emma Maye Gibson uses intensive studio time alongside collaborator and mystic Angela Dix to process experiences of travel, divination and the next steps to the creative and spiritual work of project BODY SPELL. This open studio will invite audience to sit with the team's process and offer times of co-authorship with intent for unravelling, listening and goddess time. Photograph by Jacinta Oaten
Feat. Emma Maye Gibson aka Betty Grumble & Angela Dix After recent travel and research to some of her ancestral homelands of Malta & Ireland , specifically to sites of importance for ritual gatherings - Emma Maye Gibson uses intensive studio time alongside collaborator and mystic Angela Dix to process experiences of travel, divination and the next steps to the creative and spiritual work of project BODY SPELL. This open studio will invite audience to sit with the team's process and offer times of co-authorship with intent for unravelling, listening and goddess time. Photograph by Jacinta Oaten
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SATURDAY
OPEN STUDIO| Emma Maye Gibson | Beast | 25 Oct, 1-2pm ticket
Feat. Emma Maye Gibson aka Betty Grumble & Angela Dix After recent travel and research to some of her ancestral homelands of Malta & Ireland , specifically to sites of importance for ritual gatherings - Emma Maye Gibson uses intensive studio time alongside collaborator and mystic Angela Dix to process experiences of travel, divination and the next steps to the creative and spiritual work of project BODY SPELL. This open studio will invite audience to sit with the team's process and offer times of co-authorship with intent for unravelling, listening and goddess time. Photograph by Jacinta Oaten
Feat. Emma Maye Gibson aka Betty Grumble & Angela Dix After recent travel and research to some of her ancestral homelands of Malta & Ireland , specifically to sites of importance for ritual gatherings - Emma Maye Gibson uses intensive studio time alongside collaborator and mystic Angela Dix to process experiences of travel, divination and the next steps to the creative and spiritual work of project BODY SPELL. This open studio will invite audience to sit with the team's process and offer times of co-authorship with intent for unravelling, listening and goddess time. Photograph by Jacinta Oaten
FreeOPEN STUDIO| Emma Maye Gibson | Beast | 25 Oct, 2-3pm ticket
In conversation with Kate Britton, Artistic Director of PSpace. Feat. Emma Maye Gibson aka Betty Grumble & Angela Dix After recent travel and research to some of her ancestral homelands of Malta & Ireland , specifically to sites of importance for ritual gatherings - Emma Maye Gibson uses intensive studio time alongside collaborator and mystic Angela Dix to process experiences of travel, divination and the next steps to the creative and spiritual work of project BODY SPELL. This open studio will invite audience to sit with the team's process and offer times of co-authorship with intent for unravelling, listening and goddess time. Photograph by Jacinta Oaten
In conversation with Kate Britton, Artistic Director of PSpace. Feat. Emma Maye Gibson aka Betty Grumble & Angela Dix After recent travel and research to some of her ancestral homelands of Malta & Ireland , specifically to sites of importance for ritual gatherings - Emma Maye Gibson uses intensive studio time alongside collaborator and mystic Angela Dix to process experiences of travel, divination and the next steps to the creative and spiritual work of project BODY SPELL. This open studio will invite audience to sit with the team's process and offer times of co-authorship with intent for unravelling, listening and goddess time. Photograph by Jacinta Oaten
FreePANEL | NOW NOW NOW NOW | Sat 25 Oct, 3pm ticket
Feat. Kori Miles, Daley Rangi, Anchi Lin, Nanako Matsumoto Is art-making an activist practice? Can artists bring down empires? Join 2025 festival artists Kori Miles, Daley Rangi, Anchi Lin and Nanako Matsumoto as they share how their values and politics shape their work. Drawing inspiration from various histories of protests, and acts of resistance large and small, these three artists share a commitment to social change and justice. Hear them in conversation about how they bring this into practice, what this means for audiences, and how art and performance really can change the world.
Feat. Kori Miles, Daley Rangi, Anchi Lin, Nanako Matsumoto Is art-making an activist practice? Can artists bring down empires? Join 2025 festival artists Kori Miles, Daley Rangi, Anchi Lin and Nanako Matsumoto as they share how their values and politics shape their work. Drawing inspiration from various histories of protests, and acts of resistance large and small, these three artists share a commitment to social change and justice. Hear them in conversation about how they bring this into practice, what this means for audiences, and how art and performance really can change the world.
FreeTALK | I Remember What the Machine Remembers What I Remember | Sat 25 Oct, 5pm ticket
Feat. Matt Cornell, Roslyn Orlando, Nasim Patel, LEE Ming-Chieh (李明潔), Cynthia Wang (王 惠娟), Linda Dement Join the collaborating artists of I remember what the machine remembers what I remember - 我記得住機器記住我記住的 to discuss Taiwan/Australia collaboration, Xeno Practise, and the search for a new 3rd medium somewhere beyond choreography and future media art. They will also be joined by Critical Path’s Curator for Choreographic Technology – Matt Cornell and C-LAB's Curator for Performance - Cynthia Wang, as well as long term mentor of the exchange, local artist and PSpace alumni, Linda Dement.
Feat. Matt Cornell, Roslyn Orlando, Nasim Patel, LEE Ming-Chieh (李明潔), Cynthia Wang (王 惠娟), Linda Dement Join the collaborating artists of I remember what the machine remembers what I remember - 我記得住機器記住我記住的 to discuss Taiwan/Australia collaboration, Xeno Practise, and the search for a new 3rd medium somewhere beyond choreography and future media art. They will also be joined by Critical Path’s Curator for Choreographic Technology – Matt Cornell and C-LAB's Curator for Performance - Cynthia Wang, as well as long term mentor of the exchange, local artist and PSpace alumni, Linda Dement.
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SUNDAY
WORKSHOP | WHO CARES?! | Sun 26 Oct, 12pm ticket
For the third version of WHO CARES?!, Kori Miles is seeking participants for a Performance Workshop on Sunday 26 October, 12-2pm. The primary intention is to bring together a group of artists/performers/activists to connect with each other, and encourage lateral ways of thinking about activism + art. Kori Miles will guide participants through a series of movement and sound based exercises and will teach a specific performance methodology to help participants manifest an expression of their convictions. Learn more and register to participate: https://bit.ly/kori-miles
For the third version of WHO CARES?!, Kori Miles is seeking participants for a Performance Workshop on Sunday 26 October, 12-2pm. The primary intention is to bring together a group of artists/performers/activists to connect with each other, and encourage lateral ways of thinking about activism + art. Kori Miles will guide participants through a series of movement and sound based exercises and will teach a specific performance methodology to help participants manifest an expression of their convictions. Learn more and register to participate: https://bit.ly/kori-miles
FreePANEL | Breathing Archive | Sun 26 Oct, 1pm ticket
Feat. Jamie James, Victoria Spence, Anne Hocking, Frances Barrett, Daniel Browning Join Breathing Archive artists Jamie James and Victoria Spence as they explore the complexities, challenges and opportunities of the archive with a panel of artists, thinkers and archivists. Featuring Anne Hocking (State Library of NSW), Frances Barrett (artist and researcher), Daniel Browning (artist and writer) and Jose De Silva (Director, UNSW Galleries), this discussion will reveal the driving forces behind Jamie's Breathing Archive project, and what it means to archive the ephemeral. As our archives of underground queer performance start to quite literally disintegrate, how can we preserve and honour these culture-defining histories before it's too late?
Feat. Jamie James, Victoria Spence, Anne Hocking, Frances Barrett, Daniel Browning Join Breathing Archive artists Jamie James and Victoria Spence as they explore the complexities, challenges and opportunities of the archive with a panel of artists, thinkers and archivists. Featuring Anne Hocking (State Library of NSW), Frances Barrett (artist and researcher), Daniel Browning (artist and writer) and Jose De Silva (Director, UNSW Galleries), this discussion will reveal the driving forces behind Jamie's Breathing Archive project, and what it means to archive the ephemeral. As our archives of underground queer performance start to quite literally disintegrate, how can we preserve and honour these culture-defining histories before it's too late?
FreeOPEN STUDIO | Heavy Metal | Sun 26 Oct, 2pm ticket
Feat. Julia Croft, Nisha Madhan & Emily Parsons-Lord Join artists Julia Croft, Nisha Madhan and Emily Parsons-Lord as they crack open their latest performance experiment, Heavy Metal. Part performance, part experiment, Heavy Metal transforms the theatre into a foundry, an alchemist’s laboratory and a space for the sublime. Heavy Metal is a molten feminist baptism and a celebration of material transformation. Drawing on the labour, weight and unpredictability of metal casting, the work chases those charged moments just before the flashpoint when everything glows molten, unstable and swollen with possibility. Heavy Metal is a queer, feminist exploration of transformation, the radical potential of matter in motion and the sweaty work of change. This is not a finished work but a becoming, an invitation to witness an evolving choreography of matter, material, labour, failure and utopian dreaming.
Feat. Julia Croft, Nisha Madhan & Emily Parsons-Lord Join artists Julia Croft, Nisha Madhan and Emily Parsons-Lord as they crack open their latest performance experiment, Heavy Metal. Part performance, part experiment, Heavy Metal transforms the theatre into a foundry, an alchemist’s laboratory and a space for the sublime. Heavy Metal is a molten feminist baptism and a celebration of material transformation. Drawing on the labour, weight and unpredictability of metal casting, the work chases those charged moments just before the flashpoint when everything glows molten, unstable and swollen with possibility. Heavy Metal is a queer, feminist exploration of transformation, the radical potential of matter in motion and the sweaty work of change. This is not a finished work but a becoming, an invitation to witness an evolving choreography of matter, material, labour, failure and utopian dreaming.
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