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25 OCTOBER- 1 DECEMBER

[Carriageworks 245 Wilson St, Eveleigh 2015]

FREE

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Thursday 25 October
Travis de Jonk | 6pm-8pm – Foyer
Jessica Olivieri and the Parachutes for Ladies | 7pm – Foyer Stage
Philip Brophy | 7:15pm – Foyer

Friday 26 October
Sarah Coconis | 7:30pm – Foyer Stage

Thursday 1 November
Yorgos Zafiriou | 7:30pm – Foyer Stage

Saturday 3 November
Paul Gazzola | 5pm – Foyer

Thursday 15 November
norrie mAy welby | 7:30pm – Foyer Stage

Friday 16 November
Sarah Coconis | 7:30pm – Foyer Stage

Saturday 17 November
Fiona McGregor | 1pm – Bay 19/Foyer
Sarah Coconis | 7:30pm – Foyer Stage

Thursday 22 November
WART | 7:30pm – Bay 19

Saturday 24 November
Maude Davey | 12:30pm – Bay 19
Fiona McGregor | 12:45pm – Bay 19

Sunday 25 November
Maude Davey | 4pm – Bay 19
Atlanta Eke | 4:15pm – Bay 19

Wednesday 28 November
WART | 7:30pm – Bay 19

Friday 30  November
Travis de Jonk | 7pm-11pm – Foyer

Saturday 1 December
Paul Gazzola | 5pm-11pm – Foyer

Throughout SEXES, the gallery spaces will be animated by a series of live performances that will extend, contextualise, and generally prance around the themes and ideas raised by the exhibition. Featuring some of Australia’s most thrilling visual and performing artists, the SEXES Live Art Program will span performance tours, a participatory clothes-swapping event, durational spectacles, and much more.

Artists include Atlanta Eke, Fiona McGregor, Maude Davey, norrie mAy-welby, Jess Olivieri with the Parachutes for Ladies, Paul Gazzola, Philip Brophy, Sarah Coconis, Travis de Jonk, WART.

Atlanta Eke – Monster Body
In the SEXES exhibition spaces, dancer/choreographer Atlanta Eke and her collaborator Emma Kim Hagdahl perform a short sequence drawn from Eke’s Monster Body project. This quietly explosive work experiments with the image of the dancing female body to produce different, new, and changed ways for the audience to view this body.

Fiona McGregor
Celebrated Sydney writer and performance artist will present a specially-tailored performance lecture responding to the SEXES exhibition. Fiona’s latest novel Indelible Ink was shortlisted for many awards and won Age Book of The Year. Her multidisciplinary series of performances Water Series showed at Artspace at the end of 2011. She is currently writing essays and working on a new novel.

Jessica Olivieri and the Parachutes for Ladies – Like a Prayer (Justify My Love)
Like a Prayer (Justify My Love) is an installation and performance projecting the prophecies of love and sex from seven public figures, though liturgical song. The work will be then transmitted through a wall of speakers placed within the public space of Carraigeworks for the duration of the exhibition.

Maude Davey - My Cunt
For the SEXES Live Art Program, Maude Davey presents a very special reprise of her iconic performance My Cunt. Talking of the work’s inception, Davey says: “1996: I had been performing in the queer scene a lot, the three minute performance with an orgasmic climax had become a trope for me and I wanted to find out what I could do if I didn’t take my clothes off. What comes after nudity? And I had a mission: to counter the prevalence of the Phallus with a proliferation of Cunt. People are so squeamish about the word, I wanted to say it a lot, to break through the encrusted fear and implicit loathing to reveal a shiny pearl. I was also in the throes of a significant affair – my cunt was talking to me at night, insisting on release, wanting wanton-ness, rebelling against that stitched up monogamy which underpins a quiet life. My Cunt was made into a short film by Wild Iris Films (Deb Strutt and Liz Baulch) and shown on SBS, resulting in a little flurry of complaint and counter-complaint. It won me a Best Actress award in a film festival in Belgium. The prize was 2000 Belgian francs and a plaque. I exchanged the francs for eighty six Australian dollars. I’ve lost the plaque.”

norrie mAy-welby
Androgynous performance artist and anarchist activist, norrie mAy-welby sings in this solo performance. You might like to join in too. Some of the songs sound familiar but the words just ain’t the same: Sometimes it is hard to be a woman, proving to the world you’re not a man, for it is a sad sin, if you don’t fit in, though you’ll do everything you can (snip snip!).

Paul Gazzola – If I go like you…
Part installation, part performance, and part social gathering, If I go like you… offers you the opportunity to transform your persona through the exchange of clothing. This physical gesture prompts a psychological shift, affecting the way you would normally present yourself in public.

Philip Brophy and dancers – Stadium
Stadium is a live music performance for solo drums and showgirl dancers. A quasi-orgiastic celebration of rhythm staged theatrically within the mock pyrotechnica of ‘the rock gig’ unfolds. Philip is bare-chested and adorned with long flowing black metal-dude hair, flailing away at the drums, flanked by exuberant, explosive dancers. No words. No guitars. No other visible instruments. Just a set of skins sandwiched by skin.

Sarah Coconis
In a series of short, intense performance works, Sarah Coconis physically and verbally recalls her time training as an elite athlete at the Australian Institute of Sport, and the strange mix of sex, misogyny, gender politics and physical and psychological conditioning she experienced.

Travis de Jonk
Artist and photographer Travis de Jonk will be roving through the SEXES audience at selected times, encouraging you to unleash your inner sexy beast in a series of performative portraits, that will later be available on the Performance Space Facebook page.

Wart
Poet of outsider voices and champion of the disregarded, Wart recites her wittily dark words, distrusting and disrupting definitions and pushing the double-entendre to new limits. With a focus on sex and its vicissitudes, Wart dishes it out and then some. Drop dead funny, and then just drop dead. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

Yiorgos Zafirou
Introducing Kuntina K. Klakalakis
Kuntina K. Klakalakis is a renowned plastic surgery super model. For the SEXES Live Art Program, she will be presenting a drag show and making political as well as other commentary, interacting with the audience and using satire to usurp sex and gender. She will try to avoid making a fool of herself – however, this is often hard to achieve.