WASTE is an experimental exchange platform for artists in Perth initiated by Hydra Poesis & friends. As part of WASTE, artists will use their discarded, abandoned, rejected or forgotten projects to:
- create group presentation outcomes with little-to-no-money
- explore alternative economics of collaboration, sharing and un-funding
- and, uncover ideas about conceptual / immaterial / political / cultural excreta
WASTE will kick off as a special dinner party this November as part of the International Conference for Reconstruction of Japan - an alternative post-disaster conference being staged at PICA by visiting Japanese activist Sakiko Sugawa and her collaborators Keith Pasco (USA) and Sam Fox (local).
At the WASTE Dinner Party, participating artists will be asked to discuss their ideas and anecdotes about the unseen or immaterial waste within our culture. The dinner will revolve loosely around hopes for the reconstruction of our respective societies - Japan and Australia. You will be served food and drink by the ICRJ convenors.
The dinner will be recorded and streamed live to the ICRJ website and become part of the archive of international contributions.
The ‘Experts on Cultural Waste’ dinner will take place on Sunday November 20th in a special dining room @ PICA.
To apply to be one of 8 WASTE Dinner Party participants please email: info@hydrapoesis.net by Friday September 30
and tell us (in a couple of easy paragraphs) what interests you about conceptual waste, waste culture or waste politics, and let us know about an abandoned project or waste anecdote you might refer to at the dinner. Please put your postal address in there too.
More About WASTE
www.hanareproject.net
www.pica.org.au
September 22nd, 2011
Personal Political Physical Challenge.
September 9th, 2011
CIA Info Night & Discussion - International Conference on Reconstruction of Japan & WASTE project
Sakiko Sugawa - Hanare Project (JPN) & Sam Fox - Hydra Poesis
7.30pm, Thursday August 4 @ CIA Studios
480 Newcastle St, West Perth, WA
Japanese organiser and media activist Sakiko Sugawa will introduce the Perth leg to her worldwide project International Conference on Reconstruction of Japan (ICRJ) taking place here in November (and hot on the heels of CHOGM) as part of PICA’s Alternating Currents exhibition.* ICRJ is a collaboration between Sakiko and San Francisco based artist Keith Pasko.
ICRJ references the big international conferences that have been held for countries devastated by natural disasters and wars. However, ICRJ is a counter to these mega-conferences that are populated by politicians and corporate representatives. ICRJ involves Sakiko and her collaborators hosting small dinners with groups of people whose expertise is drawn from their personal experience or work on the ground. Sakiko will present the ideas behind the project and is interested in responses from a diverse range of Perth ‘experts’.
Sam Fox will introduce a new cross-artform collaborative initiative called WASTE that investigates ideas, aesthetics and politics of cultural and material refuse. A key part of the process will involve artists contributing works that have failed, been abandoned, rejected or forgotten. WASTE will link in with ICRJ Perth and is one of the ways Perth artists can be involved in Sakiko and Keith’s project.
*The Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) with the support of the Japan Foundation and Allens Arthur Robinson present Alternating Currents, a co-curated group exhibition of contemporary Japanese artists. This exhibition is part of a series of three different but connected exhibitions (Under the shared title Omnilogue) that will take place in New Delhi and Singapore in 2012, culminating in singular publication uniting the exhibitions, and a symposium on broader issues Asian art in Singapore in June 2012.
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www.hanareproject.net
www.pica.org.au
www.hydrapoesis.net
July 29th, 2011
Well, it has been a very long time between posts but Hydra has been as busy or busier than ever. The first half of this year has seen alot of small scale collaboration with dear peers and comrades and the seeding of new collaborative initiatives. And amongst all this, work on Prompter Live Studio has intensified and we will be presenting a development showing of the now quite truly international work in the first week of December. PPPC is ready to tour if you want it and all scoped and budgeted. And Liberty In The Dark is packaged and off to film festivals.
Also, look out for CIA Studios new foyer mindmap artwork by the Geeks in Residence and the wiki. It has been really busy in at CIA and lots of cross-pollination afoot. And if you are on the internets, you should look out for our mentor organisation Pacitti company and their new series of works On Landmark Point. This project is happening and being captured in film and writing presently and for the next three months before premiering as a feature film for the London Olympics.
July 29th, 2011
The PICA season of Personal Political Physical Challenge is now wrapped. The work recieved a string of glowing reviews and big houses. Lookout for upcoming video footage of the show and a touring package for all your presenter needs.
‘the manic tension between [the text], the witty choreography and design, the eclectic music, and stunning performances (particularly by Rachel Ogle) make it worth the concentration needed.’ The Australian, Rita Clarke
‘the pacing and dynamics are beautifully pitched. This is a piece that delights and surprises; thoroughly entertaining.’ The West Australian, Ali Taulbut
‘where I think [PPPC] differs from lesser experimental theatre experiences is that with Fox’s production the cohesion is in the ‘playing’; the flow of the antagonism, and desires of the characters, the artfully achieved march of time both personal and political. It strikes a rich resonant chord’ Arts Hub, Gillian Clark
Martin Hansen and Rachel Ogle, photo Traianos
August 17th, 2010
Hydra Poesis in association with PICA presents
PERSONAL POLITICAL PHYSICAL CHALLENGE
Premiere
photo: Traianos / performer: Rachel Ogle
A suburban couple’s quest for reconnection and depth through radicalising exercises in their garage coincides with a surreal and conceptually impossible anniversary celebration. Featuring dance, theatre and flaming design, this show is a provocative, entertaining and adult extrapolation of the childhood game of risk; truth, dare, physical challenge. A uniquely high stakes experience.
Directed by performance innovator Sam Fox and choreographed in collaboration with an ensemble cast led by Rachel Ogle and Martin Hansen. The work features original composition by Perth’s own woman-Korg-laptop-matrix: Stina, and design from Hydra Poesis’ interdisciplinary production team.
When: 16 - 20 July
Friday, Saturday, Monday & Tuesday: 7.30pm
Sunday: 6pm
Where: PICA Performance Space, Perth Cultural Centre
Price: Full $28 / Concession $22
Bookings: Through PICA on 9228 6300
This project has been supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body, and by the Western Australian Department of Culture and the Arts. Hydra Poesis is supported by ARTRAGE and CIA STUDIOS in association with Fox Associates, ABAF and The WA Premier’s Arts Partnership Fund, STRUT Dance, Future Moves, Muse Bureau, The City of Perth and the Winter Arts Season, and the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.
OTHER HYDRA NEWS
Hydra’s short film work Liberty In The Dark premiered at NEXT WAVE’s enormous Private Dances project in May. Starring Chris Cobillis and Molly Tipping, and with blistering production by Siamese, Liberty In The Dark is a conceptual and pretty exploration of our exchange of liberty for sweet things.
PROMPTER LIVE STUDIO Hydra is entering the final phase of the epic WATDI supported exploration of theatre work PROMPTER LIVE STUDIO. The creative team have worked with Pacitti Company’s Dicky Eton, forum TV producer Richard Fabb and dramaturge and political playwright Stephen Sewell. Below is Brendan Ewing and Warren Herbu in the studio, photo Traianos.
June 2nd, 2010
After a huge final six months wrapping key creative developments, initiating new projects, and a whole lot of producing work in 0809, Hydra Poesis is looking at a year of wall-to-wall art and performance making for 0910.
This is a big update so bullet points were a necessity.
The Financial Year Just Past saw:
- new work created as part of the Trademark Manoeuvres project investigating the deeper nature of BOOMtime and the corruption of Home - check out video work from TMM#1 here
- the wrap up of the Prompter One-to-One development featuring trials of the works unique teleprompter performance infrastructure and a range of experimental content.
- the initiation of a new practice, applied research and producing arm for the company entitled Masters Of Nothing or M.O.N.
- the beginning of a reinvestment in pure physicality in performance through the Remade program - check out dance experiments here
The program for the Year That Is 0910 includes:
- Hydra Poesis director Sam Fox attending the Shanghai eArts Festival in two weeks as part of the WAsh delegation.
- a 12 month creative development of the multi-locational theatre work Prompter Live Studio as one of three new works being supported by the West Australian Theatre Development Initiative
- a new physical/performace/dance work to be performed at PICA in 2010 entitled Personal Political Physical Challenge featuring the superdynamic Paul Blackman and Rachel Ogle, excavated through the Remade program.
- the ongoing production of artworks and performance as part of the Trademark Manoeuvres project - including TMM#2 currently in development by Sam Fox and dramaturg/collaborator Tomas Ford.
- and the realisation of the Masters Of Nothing program providing mentoring, peer review, creative consultancy services to local artists and organisations, and the production of a new largescale community art project called The WildSTYLE Store with key partners DADAA inc and the City of Swan.
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September 9th, 2009
TRADEMARK MANOEUVRES
development showing_TMM#1
As the first of many impending art actions for the Trademark Manoeuvres project, Hydra Poesis will perform a showing of TMM#1 - an installation performance featuring Sam Fox, Aimee Smith, sound by guest Dave Miller and object designed and built by Ainsley Canning and Joshua Webb.
6pm Friday 19 June 2009. CIA Studios - 480 Newcastle St W/Perth.
RSVP 5pm Thursday 18 to: info@hydrapoesis.net
June 12th, 2009
For 2009 Hydra Poesis is set to enter 2nd stage developments of 2 new works - Prompter and Trademark Manouevres, roll out some smaller scale incursions, workshops and writings, and turn the company’s new bigger room at CIA Studios into a fully fledged Art Lair.
Below is a teaser image from the Prompter R&D development of 2008 featuring performer Deborah Robertson inset within a teleprompter, and framed by the design of the Tanktheatre to-be; an interface conceived in the imagination of director Fox and made material/visual/functional by Joshua Webb and Ainsley Canning.
January 20th, 2009