Friday, 24 May
19:30 – 21:00
Vogelmorn Community Precinct, 93 Mornington Road, Brooklyn
The performance evening will present a program of co-performed and delegated works across music, movement, theatre and performance poetry. Featuring works from artists: Josh Bailey, Lisa Samuels, and Emele Ugavule
Josh Bailey’s work SID Code experiments with live visuals and audio generated from a Commodore 64 computer under the control of dynamically generated machine code. The work not only uses machine learning to generate new performances but automatically credits the influence of composers, and extends the approach to other means of music composition, production and instrumentality.
Poet Lisa Samuels considers language a being with rights to expand in all its potential relational arrays. Her performance-talk, A Techonoetics of Autosonography Entanglement (AE), is a report from a new developing project involving acoustic cloth, somatic soundlife, and elemental entanglements. Lisa is Professor of English & Drama at Waipapa Taumata Rau/The University of Auckland.
Tokelauan Fijian storyteller Emele Ugavule presents an excerpt from her recent theatre work Toe fai! (meaning ‘Do it again’ in Gagana Tokelau) commissioned by Arts House (Naarm/Melbourne, Australia) for the Biennial Live Event of the Everyday Digital. Toe Fai! looks at the ways our memories betray us and imagines a future where our descendants cannot visualise their inheritance. Through verbatim storytelling and monologue, Emele Ugavule weaves together a narrative that asks ‘what are the implications of AI technology enabling procedural memory to dissolve for Tokelauan peoples?’ and ‘How do Tokelau peoples locate themselves without procedural memory?’ bringing together stories across generations, choreographed by movement artist Amy Zhang and original music by Jane Stark.