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Public showing
When: Friday, November 13, 2020, 6 - 7pm
Where: The Mill Breakout Space, 154 Angas St, Adelaide (enter via Gunson St)
Cost: Free
Workshop
When: Friday, November 13, 2pm to 4:30pm
Where: The Mill Breakout Space, 154 Angas St, Adelaide (enter via Gunson St)
Cost: $25
Holly Childs and Angela Goh will be in residence at The Breakout at The Mill during November, as part of Expand in 2020.
Angela Goh is a Sydney-based choreographer and dancer, and the winner of the 2020 Keir Choreographic award, and Holly Childs resides in Adelaide, working as a writer. Together, they will be developing CLIFFHANGER, a new, multi-art-form work bringing together dance, performance, text and installation. Read more about Angela and Holly’s journey via a blog post, here
The residency will culminate in a public showing of the work-in-development and a workshop, which will offer insight into the CLIFFHANGER project.
What participants can expect:
The workshop will explore the initial research strategies and materials of CLIFFHANGER, working with the “cliffhanger” which is both a narrative device to keep audience attention suspended, and a physical state of literal suspension. Holly and Angela will lead participants through various modes including discussion, movement practices and writing tasks. As this is a multidisciplinary focused workshop, diverse skills and experience are welcome and will be considered in the tasks and processes explored.
What to bring:
Please wear comfortable clothing/shoes and bring a notepad, pen and water.
Thank you to ACE Open for supporting NSW artist Angela Goh with accommodation in Adelaide for this residency.
Artist Biographies:
Angela Goh is a Sydney based dancer and choreographer working with dance in theatres, galleries, and telepathic spaces. Her work considers the body in relationship to commodity, materiality, technology, and feeling. Her works have been presented widely in Australia and internationally, including SPRING Festival (NL), Baltic Circle Festival (FIN), PS122/Performance Space New York (USA), Auto Italia South East (UK), Liveworks Festival (AUS), Artspace Sydney (AUS), Arnolfini (UK), Fusebox Festival (USA), Festival of Live Art (AUS), Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (AUS), Campbelltown Arts Centre (AUS), the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Art (AUS), the Judson Church (USA), My Wild Flag (SWE), among others, and presented by Galerie (int) at La Biennale de la Danse (FR); Jan Mot Gallery (BE); Dansehallerne (DK); Menagerie de Verre (FR); Saal Biennial (EST) and Oslo Internasjonale Teater Festival (NO).
Angela has been artist in residence at Tanzhaus Zurich (CH), Cite Internationale des Arts (FR), Critical Path (AUS), Arts House Melbourne (AUS), ADAM/The Kitchen (TWN). She received the danceWEB Europe Scholarship, the Create NSW Emerging Fellowship 2019/20 and the inaugural Create NSW and Sydney Dance Company fellowship 2020/21. She has won awards including Best Artist in the 2017 FBi Sydney Music Arts and Culture awards and the Keir Choreographic Award 2020.
Find more details about Angela here
Holly Childs is a multimedia artist and writer. Her research involves filtering stories of computation through frames of ecology, earth, memory, poetry, and light. She is the author of two books: No Limit (Hologram) and Danklands (Arcadia Missa), and is currently writing her third book, What Causes Flowers Not to Bloom? a collection of fiction, poems, and essays to be published by Subtext, Berlin, in 2021. She holds a Masters of Art and Design from Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, and has been a postgraduate researcher in The New Normal programme at Strelka Institute, Moscow.
Her most recent work is Hydrangea, a sequential spatial sound work for greenhouses, made in collaboration with J. G. Biberkopf, performed in botanic gardens in Melbourne (Liquid Architecture) and Amsterdam, NL (Botanische Tuin Zuidas), at festivals in Sydney (Soft Centre) and Olomouc, CZ, and at Vilnius Composers House, LT. Other recent work writing a poem for Angela Goh’s Uncanny Valley Girl, that performs alongside Angela, coded with support from cyberfeminist artist and programmer Linda Dement to subtly change each time Uncanny Valley Girl is performed.
Her works have been exhibited at Gertrude Contemporary (Melbourne), Firstdraft, (Sydney), Blue Oyster (Dunedin), Display (Prague). She has created performances for Arcadia Missa (London), PAF (Olomouc), Metro Arts (Brisbane), Firstdraft (Sydney), Minerva (Sydney), Casula Powerhouse (Sydney), Rile (Brussels), Trust (Berlin), Fuzzy Vibes (Auckland), and Liquid Architecture (Melbourne). She has lectured/spoken at Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), LunchBytes @ ICA (London), National Young Writers Festival (Newcastle), ACMI X/Experimenta (Melbourne), Melbourne Writers Festival (Melbourne), Emerging Writers Festival (Melbourne), Digital Writers Festival (online), Moscow Urban Forum (Moscow), Elam School of Art (Auckland), RMIT, VCA and Monash (Melbourne), and Gertrude Contemporary (Melbourne), and alongside Amelia Groom, she led Watermarks a research course for the Graphic Design department at Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.
Find out more about Holly here