A live performance installation for YOU’RE HISTORY!

20 – 24 November
Wed-Sun, 9pm

Performance Space @ Carriageworks
245 Wilson St Eveleigh NSW

performance direction Tess de Quincey
choreography & dance Linda Luke, Kathryn Puie, Ellen Rijs & Kirsten Packham
totemic beings Ryuichi Fujimura, Krisztina Joos, Lian Loke, Monique Lyle & Anita Maritz
kuroko Gideon Payten-Griffiths

photographic projections Mireille Astore & Anne Ferran
vocals/text Mireille Astore
felt objects & costumes Anne Ferran & Katja Handt
lighting Sian James-Holland
sound Vic McEwan

Inviting audiences deep within the nooks and crannies of Carriageworks’ grand industrial passageways, Box of Birds invades YOU’RE HISTORY! for a mythic late-night journey through the shadows of the human psyche – probing the power of the past, life on the outskirts, and distorted memories in an immersive melting pot of large-scale photography, improvised dance and live music.

Fusing Anne Ferran’s acclaimed photographic trilogy of 1940′s psychiatric patients (INSULA, 1-38, Box of Birds – exhibition) with the unpredictable swing of Australia’s BodyWeather dance collective, De Quincey Co’sBox of Birds conjures a labyrinth-like domain where other-worldly fashion and immersive sound design intertwines with select readings of the legendary German philosopher, Frederich Nietzsche.

http://dequinceyco.net/performances/box-of-birds/

A workshop-symposium led by FRANK VAN DE VEN & TESS DE QUINCEY

4 – 9 NOVEMBER 2013

Monday-Friday 9.30-5.30
SATURDAY SYMPOSIUM
Saturday 9 November 2-5pm

REX CRAMPHORN STUDIO
The University of Sydney

Dancers, artists, artist-academics and academics are invited to participate in a six-day process that consists of a 5-day workshop followed by a public symposium on day 6. As a continuation of their 2012 Sydney workshop, Frank and Tess will further share and explore the legacy of images that were an integral part of their BodyWeather training and performances within Min Tanaka’s MAI-JUKU performance group in Japan from 1984 until 1991. They will also explore a new format for exchange between practitioners and writers, with the latter effectively ‘embedded’ or integrated within the image practice and research.

Besides a rigorous introduction to the images and methods of BodyWeather image-practice, the process will encourage the development of individual images generated by participants for use in contemporary performance whilst engaging with writers and thinkers to tease out questions underlying the physical work.

The second day, Tuesday, of the workshop will include an evening of presentations from independent BodyWeather dancers who will perform a short selection of their own images in the studio and then talk about the genesis of the images and the process around them.

Dr Amanda Card from The University of Sydney will facilitate the input from the artist/academics observing  or integrated within the image practice and research during the workshop phase. Daily review and coordination by Frank, Tess and Amanda will ensure a balance of physical and discursive work throughout the process.

The final Saturday opens out this process to audiences in a symposium with a focus on the nature and function of ‘images’ and their embodiment from a BodyWeather perspective. Besides exploring the use of imagery across different cultures, this public event will include the demonstration of workshop and image techniques as well as the construction and articulation of images from an ancestral and cross-cultural perspective with contributions from a number of independent BodyWeather dancers.

http://dequinceyco.net/bodyweather/dance-image-think-tank/