SEAM Symposium 2009 Artist Talks

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ARTIST TALKS
15 & 16 SEPTEMBER 6.30 PM
LOCATION: Critical Path, Rushcutters Bay & FraserStudios, Chippendale

Carol Brown and Dorita Hannah
Moderator Dr Sam Spurr
15 SEPTEMBER 6.30PM
FREE event, limited seats, to book
email Katy at SEAM2009@criticalpath.org.au
or call 02 9362 9402 or 02 9362 4023
Location: Critical Path, Rushcutters Bay

Making Space Speak
NZ-based performance designer, Dorita Hannah and choreographer, Carol Brown have been collaborating on international projects since 2002, developing dance-architectures and site-responsive works which fold audiences into live performance whilst attending to the fractured narratives of place, memory and mythology. Through their work, architectural forms become entwined with corporeal states so that choreography and performance landscape exist as a continuous surface of habitation for performer and audience alike. In combining dance, architecture, sound and screen-based media, Carol and Dorita stitch together different spaces and temporalities, allowing audiences to engage with the work on multiple levels. Making connections between live and mediated bodies and environments, they are concerned to make space speak, shifting audience expectations about how and where one might come to experience a dance and presenting architecture as an inhabiting force within choreography. In talking with, through and after the works, Tower of Touch (Prague Quadrennial 2003), Her Topia (Athens 2005) and Aarero Stone (New Zealand International Festival 2006) they will discuss their creative and critical practices in making work.

Dr Benedict Anderson and Lawrence Wallen
Moderator Margie Medlin
16 SEPTEMBER 6.30PM
FREE event, limited seats, to book
email Katy at SEAM2009@criticalpath.org.au
or call 02 9362 9402 or 02 9362 4023
Location: FraserStudios, Chippendale

Figuring Spatial Urbanities
Lawrence Wallen and Dr Benedict Anderson have been engaged in exploring the city, urban conditions and performance throughout their careers. Practicing and teaching in Europe and Australia their work engages with architecture, scenography, film and dramaturgy. Their focus on performance, the city and multi-media is distinguished by how they animate relationships between body and space through the solid and fluid natures of the temporal and ephemeral states of appearances and representations inherent within.

The idea for this artists talk is to generate an understanding of the artist’s individual working practice by focusing on their crossovers, meeting places and connections. Their combined interests and inspiration will be examined and how these impact in their work in performance and design, urbanity and the city, teaching and research. The talk begins by going back in time to their first crossovers and the paths their careers have since followed.