‘Friday Night: May’ delivers an array of performance work in development and an exhibition, as the building opens for another edition of our open house event; connecting artists and audiences in a lively social environment – through our building and at the foyer bar from 6pm.
Work in Residence artist Julie Vulcan – who you may remember from her durational installation performance ‘Drift’ in 2014 – has been working with a small group of volunteers for her new work ‘Wishing Dark’ – exploring survival tactics and our subconscious fears and associations with darkness. Join Julie and her team for a performance experiment that asks what really happens to us when the lights go out?
In the Sue Benner Theatre, playwright Emma Workman Bolt shares a playreading of her powerful new work in development, ‘Yielding’. The first of a series of work prioritising the voices of the disadvantaged, ‘Yielding’ explores the experiences of carers and the disabled through a difficult conversation between a stroke victim and her adult daughter. Emma has been assisted in development of the work by Carers Queensland.
Upstairs in the gallery, Mira Oosterweghel’s exhibition ‘Unstable Moments’ explores the psychological terrain between bodies and the external environment. Engaging with the architecture of the site, her sculptural apparatuses rely on the foundational structures of the building.
And on level 3, Margi Brown Ash, of 4 Change (Metro Arts’ Company in Residence), will be hosting a creative exchange lab – step into her cozy space for a cup of tea and contribute a bank of thoughts, ideas, and tips on how we can take care of ourselves in stressful times.
Image credit: Julie Vulcan, ‘Wishing Dark’, at the Rex Cramphorn Studio, University of Sydney
