Staged across Melbourne’s Arts House, Theatre Works and Footscray Community Arts Centre from 13 to 25 March 2018, the third biennial ‘Festival of Live Art’ (FOLA) features a program of immersive and interactive art experiences. FOLA nurtures engagement between artist, artwork and audience with four new works. Jonathan Homsey’s ‘Mx.Red’ blurs the lines between virtuality and physicality by bringing together motion capture technology and live performances, creating a new experience of dance, expression and intimacy beyond gender lines. Homsey’s ‘Waackin’ Ball’ is a queer futurist celebration that unites the local and international waackin’ community. ‘Self Seekers’, The Amplified Elephants’ electronic sound art piece of live video, abstract sound and performance, delves into ‘selfie’ culture and the unique ways each person listens to the world around them. ‘Lovely Mess’ sees theatre group Riot Stage and projection artist Yandell Walton collaborate with ten young people to explore adolescence, and the experimental performance ‘Verbatim’ by artists, the indirect Object, presents three immersive, intimate stories of intergenerational mental illness.
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