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SCORING THE COMMONS (2021-)


Gosford Regional Gallery; University of Helsinki; World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, Avant Project (Poland)
Ongoing sonic research and performance activity exploring the relationship between shared lives and livelihoods  across working-class social  spaces derealised by precarity, and development working with local ensembles, brassbands, community volunteers and  interviews with youth in the regions. Videography by Jeremy Elphick.

underscoringthecommons.com

POOR OPERA(TIONS) / PARA OPERA)IA)
(2022-)

PACT CENTRE;  Cité Internationale des Arts; CASHMERE Radio; Critical Path



POOR/PARA OPERA(TIONS) is an exploratory ‘poor’ opera project concerned with making ‘cheap performances within one’s means’ across the three ecologies. The first iteration B(Z)LOOM ANONYMOU$ was performed as part of Liquid Architecture’s MONO-POLY; the second iteration THE MARINE ROOM, was performed and developed at PACT Centre with mentorship from choreographer Martin Del Amo. Documentation by Jeremy Elphick.

ATMOSPHERES ~ HETEROPHONIES
(2023)

CRITICAL PATH REGIONAL FELLOWSHIP


https://criticalpath.org.au/resources/reflections-with-regional-fellows-kristina-chan/
Choreographer Kristina Chan (Biripi Country) @chankristina; composer, artist, researcher, and dramaturgist James Hazel @poor_opera_para_operaia ; and dancer, choreographer Sophia Ndaba @sophiandaba investigate-speculate what it could mean to collaborate affectively via dance and sound in a way that acknowledges a ‘pluriversal' conception of the world - ‘troubling’ human-orientated ways of conceiving of communicating-relating. 

Collective comprised of: Gadigal/Bidgigal/Yuin Elder, Rhonda Dixon-Grovenor, Kaz Therese, James Hazel
(concerned with intersecting, lived experiences of poverty - across micro-geographies in an era of radical change) with a host of collaborators to articulate what ‘class’ means within the contemporary world.


underclass(auto)
theology no.1

(2022)
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