ACE Open, a collaboration between the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia (CACSA) and the Australian Experimental Art Foundation (AEAF), are presenting a three-day long series of genre-bending dance, film and visual art programs titled Physical Forces to accompany the opening of traveling exhibition ’24 Frames Per Second’ (commissioned by Carriageworks, Sydney, in 2015).
Francois Chaignaud, Solitude, The Sweetest Choice (still), 2015. Carriageworks, Sydney
From 25 to 27 May, the Lion Arts Centre, Adelaide will be host to some of Australia’s finest dance talent. In partnership with Vitalstatistix and Performance & Art Development Agency, the exhibition will bring together Latai Taumoepeau, Amrita Hepi and other notable artists in a unique celebration of the diversity of performance that will encompass an eclectic grouping of works that spotlight both the haunting image of climate change disaster and lively pop-culture influenced dance sessions.
Dancer/choreographer, artist and activist Amrita Hepi
The organisation are especially excited about the dance classes conducted by Amrita Hepi that promises a fun time and the opportunity to “empower and motivate the self through movement”. Hepi, a notable presence both online (with a formidable Instagram following of over 6000 users) and offline (with her notoriously sold out schedule of pop dance classes), is bringing together her signature dance moves with a performance lecture called Power Moves For Perilous Times that is open to all willing participants – with or without experience! Hepi’s classes will run on the Saturday 27 May from 10.30-11.30am at $15 per person (tickets are available online via aceopen.art).
Latai Taumoepeau performing Ocean Island Mine, Liveworks, 2015 at Carriageworks, Sydney. Photograph: Sanja Samic
Accompanying these light-hearted and energetic classes is Latai Taumoepeau‘s evocative exploration of the dangers that await society as a result of climate change. Armed with only a shovel and a 500kg block of ice, the artist hopes to bring the harrowing effects of open cut mines to the surface of a worldwide debate on the impending threat of climate change. The performance piece, aptly titled Ocean Island Mine, will show Taumoepeau slowly “excavating the solid white rock into invisibility”, as she moves the melting ice block, piece-by-piece, across her stage at the Lion Arts Centre Precinct for an entire morning. Taumoepeau’s performance will run, for free, on the Saturday 27 May from 10.30am-1pm.
Latai Taumoepeau performing Ocean Island Mine, Liveworks, 2015 at Carriageworks, Sydney. Photograph: Sanja Samic
Joining these two celebrated performers is a series of work-in-progress showings by Vitalstatistix and Performance & Art development, titled Cher and Speech Pattern, which will be shown at the opening event and the Friday night at 7pm. Other notable elements of the weekend, include a panel discussion; Expanded Fields, with the artists from 24 Frames Per Second, as well as screenings of their work that will run throughout each day.
Make sure to visit Physical Forces at ACE Open if you’re in Adelaide, to immerse yourself in a powerful exploration of performance art in all its forms.
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