Presented by Dancehouse and Asia TOPA, Arts Centre Melbourne

Melati Suryodarmo's Performance Lectures see the acclaimed artist revisit, illuminate and re-perform her extraordinary body of performances, exhibitions and installations. These lectures provide an insight into the work and process of once of the most celebrated performance artists of our time, straight from the artist herself. They are for all to enjoy, whether you’re an artist, arts curious or looking to get up close and personal with our artists.

>> Save over 15% when you book both performance lectures by Melati Suryodarmo: Unpacked No. 2: Political; and BORROW + Exergie - butter dance

Unpacked No. 2: Political by Melati Suryodarmo

6pm, Wednesday 26 Feb | Sylvia Staehli Theatre, Dancehouse | 90 mins

Unpacked No. 2: Political delves into the political dimensions and circumstances of Suryodarmo’s work. This performance lecture revisits performances from Suryodarmo’s archive includingVisible Undone Behavior (2005), Feather Fell from Nowhere (2011) and The Seed (2008). Unpacked No. 2 is brought to life through a series of actions and provocations, prompting profound and visceral encounters with Suryodarmo’s body of work and somatic practice.

BORROW + Exergie – butter dance by Melati Suryodarmo

6pm, Friday 28 Feb | Sylvia Staehli Theatre, Dancehouse | 60 mins

This performance lecture sees "borrow” fragments of her previous works that are put together in a performative presentation based on different influences and backgrounds that led her to create Sisyphus, an ongoing research for a choreography piece, which focuses on the body as a container of memories and how the body can remember its movements that appeared when it was under the condition of shamanistic possession.

Asia TOPA is a joint initiative of Arts Centre Melbourne and the Sidney Myer Fund, supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, Playking Foundation and the Australian Government Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, and the Arts.