2011
Melbourne
Pushing the experimental edges of things, on Saturday August 6, The Little Con goes something like this:
An audience sits in two adjacent lines, forming a cross shape which divides the space into four quadrants. Peter Fraser, Fiona Bryant, Alice Cummins and Tony Yap each curate forty-five minutes of performance in their quadrant of the space. None of the curators know what to expect from the other curators.
Audience can focus on one quadrant, swap their focus between quadrants, or try to take in the whole space. Each curator’s beginning time is staggered by five minutes, so the space slowly fills with activity, one quadrant at a time, until all the quadrants are busy, then slowly quietens until all the quadrants are empty. What happens in between is for the audience and performers to negotiate in real time. See you there.
Upstairs at Dancehouse, 150 Princes St. North Carlton
Saturday 6 August @7pm
All tix $10. Bookings via email: littlecon@gmail.com
With performers: Emma Bathgate, Brendan O’Connor, Tony Yap, Lucy Farmer, Fiona Bryant, Peter Fraser, Kathleen Doyle, Alexandra Harrison, Jonathan Sinatra, Gretel Taylor, Alice Cummins and a mystery guest or two.
Melbourne
Performance/installation what matters most is what happens next, coordinated by Ashley Higgs, February 23 – 31 March, 2011. Experimental Art Space, 2nd Floor, Union House, University of Melbourne.
Sydney
Whip It, February 26 at 8pm, Heffron Hall, 225–245 Palmer Street, Darlinghurst.
2010
Melbourne - Acoustica
Ashley Higgs & Co. @ Night In an evening of improvisational music, spontaneous sung words and dance.
Alice Cummins - has been a dance artist for over twenty years. She has studied and worked extensively in Australia, Europe and the United States and has worked collaboratively with musicians, writers, visual artists and filmmakers as well as creating solo work. Her most recent work includes: In 2008 hear her breathe: a rhapsody of gravity, space and the body and in 2009 she performed alicec, co-created with Rose Anne Spradlin in New York City; and Where Our Edges Meet with musician/composer Anita Hustas in Melbourne, Australia.
Forbes Hawkins - analogue pianist, photographer, tone poet, composer and software developer; explores themes of urban and environmental decay, natural dreamscapes, mathematical formation, structural chaos, emptiness and oh I don’t know, whatever, working with classicism, counterpoint, minimalism, symbolism and impressionism, assisted by folk such as Bill Lowe, Alice Cummins, Ashley J. Higgs, Chay Baker, Abraham Dunovits, Huni Bollinger and Nicola Eddington
Ashley J Higgs - is a polyartist, drawing influences from performance art, guerilla actions, and subversive word plays. He has never been to London.
Where: The Gallery @ City Library
When: Thursday 21 October, 2010, 6pm to 7pm