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image credit: Margie Medlin, Dancer Carlee Mellow

SEAM SYMPOSIUM
18-20 SEPTEMBER
LOCATION: Critical Path, Rushcutters Bay

Three days of conversation and discourse with theoretical papers and performative presentations by leading national and international academics and practitioners.

The symposium will comprise of two streams:

Theory and discourse: keynote speakers such as Erin Manning, Brian Massumi, Andrew Benjamin and Pia Ednie-Brown and academic and performance papers by local and international academics and artists.

Artist talks and the presentation of commissioned works: conversations with the key practitioners including Dorita Hannah, Carol Brown, Dr Benedict Anderson, Lawrence Wallen , Mårten Spångberg and Jondi Keane. Five commissioned artists including Alan Schacher, Russell Dumas, Sue Healey, Margie Medlin and the Physical TV team will present their research through artists’ presentations.

SEAM 2009 Themes:

Non-staged Spaces – sequence, edit, frame
Generating fields of vision that capture time and space through movement sequences, the moving image floods the viewer with constant expectations. Highly controlled and framed the medium of film adds a layer to our perception of the world as something more real than the real. These simulacra can also be found in the spaces and places void of stage in the form of site specific and non-staged spaces. The set-up of the stage arguably tries to performatively pacify the outside world for the inside performance. What is called for is not so much a structural change but a change in focus from the site of capture to the space of viewing.

Unstable Bodies - compound, chemical, prescriptive
Emerging from spatial phrases, bodies in dance stage a constant stream of appearances. As bodies fall into and out of space, prescriptive movements are disbanded in favour for alchemy of visual configurations. The sensed and the felt combine to construct new properties for perceiving the dance, space and the figures within. Explorations of unstable bodies and the changes that take place in and outside prescriptive territories, dimensions and navigations.

Traversing Spaces – peripheral, edge, boundaries
Made-up of constructed borders, entrances and exits the built environment assumes an awareness of the body as something that can be measured, captured and encapsulated and in the process affording architecture its scale. Traversing a city’s architectonic boundaries situates the body not as a peripheral entity but more as an edge condition. Breaking into architecture and scaling its reaches empowers the body to stake a claim over the constructed materials it moves in and through.

3 Day Symposium $310 / $130
1 Day Symposium $110 / $50
Closing Dinner $60