Public showing
When:
Wednesday, August 4, & Thursday, August 5, 2021: 12-2pm
Friday, August 6, 2021: 4-7pm
Saturday, August 7, 2021: 12-2pm
Where: The Mill Breakout, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide) enter via Gunson St
Cost: Free
Bureau d’Exchange presents a participatory performance work that reflects upon the meaning and value of objects and the unique stories embedded within them.
Please bring a personal item you feel ready to let go of, to exchange for an item of equal emotional value from the Bureau’s ever-evolving stock of ‘merchandise’.
Bureau ‘staff’ (award-winning artist Cynthia Schwertsik and performer Emma Beech) will guide you through the discreet process of valuing your item and adding its story to the Bureau’s poignant emporium of memories and desires.
Bookings are available for individuals or small groups (<5 people), there are two bookings available per 15 minute session.
PLEASE NOTE: Mask wearing is required throughout your attendance at The Mill unless you are an exempt person under the current SA Health guidelines.
We encourage attendees to also book for our Bureau d'Exchange Artist Talk on Friday, August 13 at 5pm.
About the artists:
Cynthia Schwertsik’s art practice is diverse, including visual art and contemporary performance, with a focus on activating public space. She works preferably in collaborations to investigate the oxymorons found in the wake of contemporary life. Absurdity and humour are central to Cynthia’s cross-disciplinary art-solutions.
Emma Beech graduated from Flinders Drama Centre in 2000, and works across theatre and screen. She has established a practice developing theatre shows from meaningful conversations with strangers. Emma has worked with The Last Tuesday Society, Real TV, Bron Batten, Patch, Monkey Baa, Playwriting Australia, Arts House, Open Space Contemporary Arts, STC, SA Museum, The Rabble and Vitalstatistix.
Elyas Alavi’s practice is interdisciplinary bridging elements from poetry to visual arts, from archive to everyday events with the intention to address issues around displacement, trauma, memory, body and sexual identity.
Valerie Berry is an actor, performance maker and emerging director. Throughout her practice, she has focused on collaborative and interdisciplinary processes.
