Composing, Performing, Translating, and Curating Times

All arts are time based. They are experienced in and as time. Musicians, performance-makers, dancers, composers, choreographers and dramaturgs configure temporal experiences that layer and transpose the personal and the social, cultural norms and differences, memories and multiple histories, potential and seemingly missed futures. Publics and audiences are not only witnesses but co-contributors to the ways in which time matters.

These issues will be explored by indigenous and native artists, performers and researchers from Oceania, Australasia and South East Asia, including: Ting-Jung Chen; Simon Eastwood; Jau-lan Guo; Ann Mak; Helly Minarti; Johsua Pearson; Ken Takaguchi; and Rob Thorne.

The event will also feature a panel from Performance Curation: the Buxton Project, an interdisciplinary subject offered at the University of Melbourne in partnership with the Buxton Contemporary art gallery. Working collaboratively, students from across creative disciplines  consider, curate and perform an innovative live performance experience within the gallery, responding to the exhibition currently on display. Mediated by Elliott Gyger, two faculty and two students - Anna Cordingley, Joseph Lallo, Gianni Posadas-Sen, and Xiaole Zhan - will relate their experiences to issues of performance curation - its social, cultural, environmental and creative dimensions - and the temporalities of production.