WWIMakeshift

~~ Making, co-posing, rupturing, overlapping, permeating, percolating …~~

If you came to WIMMake-shift last year, this one is slightly different! A 2 hr workshop will be facilitated by the very special AliceC and Annika Moses, artists who bring their brilliant knowledge and passion for improvisation, embodiment, movement and sound. Following this is a 1-hr long open improvisational performance for workshop participants, with an audience. Everyone is welcome to join the workshop (RSVP below!) and the performance is for public viewing!

AliceC says

‘Through my love and commitment to improvisation, I am interested in cultivating practices that shift, transform and elucidate states of moving and being.’

Alice is an interdisciplinary artist, working in dance, film, performance and installation, with a 40 year history of contemporary performance making. She is a provocative and versatile performer whose enduring aesthetic enquiry into the moving body creates work that interrogates and disrupts social and cultural narratives. The materiality of her work emerges from an attention to inner and outer worlds, inviting an intimacy with the body and place, wrestling an entwinement of personal/artistic, colonial and planetary histories. Alice has been an educator and mentor to a generation of Australian artists, influencing diverse disciplines of dance, theatre, writing, sound, visual art, sculpture and film making. Since returning to Boorloo/Perth in 2022 she has been actively engaged with STRUT Dance teaching and mentoring young and mid-career artists. Her most recent work terra first realised as performance, Holmes à Court Gallery, Perth (2024) and further film iterations by Cobie Orger with global distribution as a 3-channel 4K video installation and single channel HD video.

Annika says

‘Every musician has a body, though Western music has spent centuries trying to obscure this fact, and every movement artist makes sound. Since the beginning of my improv practice in 2016, I have been curious about the ways musicians and movement artists can get slippery with those labels, cultivating curiosity in the between-space that is neither Sound nor Dance but something more like Listen.’

Annika lives and makes on Whadjuk Noongar land in Boorloo (Perth), so-called Australia. On this land she also likes to write, play, listen, and sew. Annika contributes to the musical projects Nika Mo, Great Statue, Didion’s Bible and Lyndon Blue, and is co-director of Boorloo-based exploratory music org Tone List. She has developed a practice of improvisation alongside sound-makers and movers since 2018.

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Friday December 12th

Workshop 4-6 pm, studio 1

Performance 7:30 pm, studio 3

at King Street Art Centre, Level 2

*Bring soft clothes + instrument/sound making object

Click this link to RSVP by the 8th December

We hope to see you in December!

…. also, we’re bringing cake again for everyone to enjoy at the end of the evening …