TEMPER #2: Liz Rosenfeld presents Tremble

Flutter. Shutter. Quiver. Throb. Vibrations oscillate between all the holes and all the folds. Exposed under full house lights, a lone body trembles with the architecture of an empty darkroom. The video component of this work was shot during the COVID-19 lockdown, in the shutdown darkroom of one of Berlin’s oldest gay cruising bars. Through tableaus of nuanced movement, the artist's body proposes an ambiguous future towards abundance and desire. Skin and flesh palpitate with unknown anticipation against porous materials soaked with stale fluids, ghostly utterances, and queer potentials. This is not a memorial to what was once possible, but rather, a proposal to what this space can still become. Always an infinite hole. Always a threshold. The vibrant material of fat and flesh rock in service to ecologies and bodies not yet known.

Tremble is an immersive three hour performance, where audience are invited to roam, cruise around, come in and out, and tremble along with us if they are moved to do so.

CREATED AND PERFORMED by Liz Rosenfeld
Liz is calling for performers for this work – express your interest here.

PERFORMANCE DATE
Friday 24th October 6-9pm 

LOCATION
Temperance Hall, Main Hall
199 Napier Street, South Melbourne 

CONTENT WARNING
Nudity, sexual content

ACCESSIBILITY 
Wheelchair accessible

TICKETS 
Ticket by donation

Liz Rosenfeld is a Temperance Hall TEMPER Artist for 2025

Liz Rosenfeld is a Berlin/London based interdisciplinary artist and educator who works with performance,moving images, drawing and experimental writing practices. Liz addresses the sustainability of emotional and political ecologies, cruising methodologies, past and future histories in regard to the ways in which memory is queered. Liz's work deals with flesh as a non-binary collaborative material, specifically focussing on the potentiality of physical abundance and excess, edging questions regarding the responsibility and privilege of taking up space. Embracing an auto- theoretical style, Liz's writing is rooted in questions that contend with how queer ontologies are grounded in variant hypocritical desire(s.) Liz's inaugural book "Crossings: Creative Ecologies of Cruising," co- authored with Professor João Florêncio, was recently released in April by Rutgers University Press. Liz has shown work in international museums and venues including The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, The Forum Expanded Program of the 2022 Berlinale, Anti-festval, Bärenzwinger Berlin, Mousonturm, Tanzhaus nrw, Kampnagel, 2019 Bergen Assembly,Berlinischer Galerie, Mapa Teatro, Sophiensæle, The Hebbel am Ufer Theatre, The Gorki Theater, Arts Admin, Galerie Emanuel Layr, The Tate Modern, The Hammer Museum, The Leslie Lohman Museum, The Barbican Centre, The CAC- Glasgow, Tramway, The Stedelijk Museum, The C/O Gallery, and The Deutsches Historisches Museum. Liz’s short films are represented by Video Data Bank and LUX Moving Image. Liz received an MFA in Performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005, followed by an MA from The Department of Performance Studies at New York University in 2007. Liz is slated to commence their PhD research at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, in 2026.

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TEMPER is a new program inviting 3 choreographic artists/collaborations to develop and show new choreographic work at Temperance Hall, while in residence on-site in the Apartment Studio.

Bringing experimental, radical art/work/ideas/experiences/research/perspectives/practices/dances from farther afield to share with local audiences at Temperance Hall.

#1 Martin Hansen (Melbourne/Berlin): August

#2 Liz Rosenfeld (Berlin/London): October

#3 Juliet Widyasari Burnett (Gold Coast) and Ishvara Devati (Jakarta): November

TEMPER is supported by Creative Australia, the Australian Government's principal arts investment and advisory body.