Vitalstatistix is seeking ten South Australian artists to join Adhocracy 2015’s residency project. Selected artists will collaborate with interdisciplinary artists Halcyon Macleod and Willoh S. Weiland on the creative development of live artwork and sound installation Crawl Me Blood.
ARTIST CALL OUT EXPRESSIONS-OF-INTEREST DUE ON FRIDAY 27 MARCH
Halcyon Macleod & Willoh S. Weiland Presented by Vitalstatistix in association with Aphids
CRAWL ME BLOOD “IT WAS A WILD PLACE, UNTOUCHED, ABOVE ALL UNTOUCHED, WITH AN ALIEN, DISTURBING SECRET LOVELINESS. AND IT KEPT ITS SECRET. I’D FIND MYSELF THINKING, WHAT I SEE IS NOTHING – I WANT WHAT IT HIDES.” JEAN RHYS
Crawl Me Blood is inspired by the work of Jean Rhys, whose book Wide Sargasso Sea, expounds the landscape and complex race relations of post-colonial Dominica. Jean Rhys languished in obscurity until a radio play of her work drew attention to her exceptional talent as a writer.
This ambitious work in development, which will include a radio docu-drama, live artwork and sound installation, uses the sinister eden of the tropical garden and the gossip-ridden, musicblasting medium of live radio to explore the myths we make of paradise. The atmosphere of Crawl Me Blood is that feeling of being lost and alone on the dance floor; of when a bombshell drops as a relative tells you something hideous about your own family; that uncomfortable gripping and crawling when you experience your
own racism. The work takes its name from a saying that ‘what crawls your blood’ are the secrets you sense but are not told. In Belizean Kriol this phrase is akin to saying “it gave me the shivers”. During the residency interdisciplinary artists Halcyon Macleod and Willoh S. Weiland will work with ten South Australian artists to explore the theme of ‘longing for paradise’, including romantic notions of landscape versus reality and dislocation. The lead artists and their collaborators will experiment with the audio and visual worlds of the live work. The work-in-progress, as a participatory experience for audiences, alongside artist talks by the team about Crawl Me Blood and the residency, will be presented as part of Adhocracy 2015, over three nights.
DATES AND DETAILS
LEAD ARTISTS
The Crawl Me Blood residency will take place at Vitalstatistix’s venue Waterside, Port Adelaide, between Saturday 23 May and Monday 8 June.
Halcyon Macleod
Saturday 23 May Half-day introductory session
Wednesday 27 May – Friday 5 June Residency (including one day off on Sunday 31 May)
Saturday 6 June – Monday 8 June Adhocracy 2015 including Crawl Me Blood daily showings.
Halcyon Macleod is a Tasmanian-based writer, theatre-maker and director. Until recently she was co-director of acclaimed performance company My Darling Patricia, whose works include Politely Savage, Africa, Posts in the Paddock, Night Garden, The Piper, and Mantle. Halcyon has written texts for installations by Matt Prest (Hole In The Wall) and Sam Routledge (Please Hold) and collaborated with Arena Theatre as a writer on the installation House of Dreaming (Melbourne Festival 2012, Perth Festival 2013). Most recently she presented a new interdisciplinary work Falling with Alice Osborne in late 2014 at Performance Space.
The residency includes participation in Adhocracy. For more info on what Adhocracy is like, we highly recommend you check out further information available for download from vitalstatistix.com.au
To apply for a place in this residency, please provide:
Please note that this is a non-residential residency, meaning you will travel to and from Port Adelaide each day. Selected participants will be paid an honorarium of $500 to cover basic travel costs of taking part.
1. a covering note, of no more than one page, outlining who you are and why you’d like to participate in the residency. Please include your full name, address and contact phone number in your covering letter.
The residency is open to established and emerging artists, across art forms including sound artists, visual artists, writers and performance-makers. The ten participating artists will be selected through an expression-of-interest (EOI) process.
2. a biography or abbreviated CV of no more than one page.
Vitalstatistix is now taking EOIs from artists who would like to be part of the residency.
i Have you ever idealized a landscape in your memory and longed to visit it again? Describe that place and those feelings.
CLOSING DATE FOR EOI IS FRIDAY 27 MARCH DIRECT ENQUIRIES & YOUR EOI TO: Program Coordinator, Vitalstatistix E program@vitalstatistix.com.au T 08 8447 6211
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Willoh S. Weiland
Willoh S. Weiland is an artist, writer, curator and Artistic Director of Aphids, Victoria. She recently completed the third in her trilogy of works investigating the relationship between art and space, with the launch into space of 21st century digital ‘golden record’ Forever Now at MOFO 2015. Other Aphids works have included Thrashing Without Looking, a live-cinema and performance work experienced through virtual reality goggles; Computer Boy, a contemporary performance work commissioned for Performance Space, Sydney; Fever Beach and Exile, interactive digital artworks for the iPhone and iPad; and Atelier Edens, a research project investigating the creation of cross art-form works in remote areas.
EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
3. a response to the following task. Choose one only of the following questions to explore. i What is your idea of paradise?
i The smells and tastes of a certain dish can conjure up specific memory of the person who made it for you or taught you the recipe or perhaps the place in which it was eaten. Describe the recipe or the dish of food eaten and let it be an avenue to a place or a person.
Explore the relationship between fiction and documentary in your responses. Focus on the sensory, what you can see, hear, smell, touch and taste. Present your response in one or a combination of the following forms: text (up to 500 words), sound or music (up to 3 minutes), video (up to 1 minute), images (up to 10). If you have an interest in performance of any kind, feel free to include yourself within your response. If you have a previous work that you feel addresses these questions/themes you are welcome to include examples as support material (up to three items only please). It is not essential that you provide support material. NOTE: Please stick to the information we have asked for. We do not want anything more All support materials should be common file types and reasonable file sizes. If needed large non-pdf material can be sent via dropbox.com or sendspace.com. Ensure you clearly identify your documents and files with your name and project title.