5–22 May Festival 2016

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0 Next Wave Festival 2016 Festival Printed Program Cover Draft 2—Event Pages Only 2016 05.02.2016 The new generation 1 in Australian art 6 5–22 May It's been said the best way to predict Acknowledgement of Country the future is to create it—or in the case

Welcome of Next Wave, to curate it.

Next Wave showcases emerging creative talent from across the nation and is the first opportunity for audiences to discover the future of Australian art.

Expect 18 days of new experiences, Begin here Acknowledgement incredible art and ideas—see you there. We are grateful to the Traditional Custodians of Country of the lands this Festival is held upon, the

Acknowledgement of Country P.3 Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung peoples, and pay Bookings P.4 Access P.5 A note from our greatest respect to Elders past and present. the Artistic Director P.6 Indigenous Martin Foley MP From time immemorial, to European arrival language workshops P.7 Discursive Minister for Creative Industries and through to the present, Aboriginal P.7–9 P.10 Victorian Government projects Writers in Residence culture has always played a major part in RealTime DanceWrite P.10 Worm Hole Australian culture, but has not always been P.11 Festival Club P.12 seen by all. There is a resurgence occurring as we speak, with legacies being left for

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As the home to Australia's most Melbourne Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung nextwave.org.au vibrant and diverse arts scene, the City communities. Through mirram ngang-gak of Melbourne is pleased to support the Central Business District P.13–18 Next Wave Festival in 2016. (deep listening) to the ngulu-al Gulinj Narrm-u North Melbourne and Brunswick Taking place in galleries, theatres, (voice of Indigenous Melbourne) and wurrung P.19–25 Fitzroy, Collingwood and nextwave.org.au streets and gardens across Melbourne, (language) we hope to learn about onemda Next Wave Festival is renowned Abbotsford P.26–28 Northcote P.29–34 for challenging artistic norms and (love), biik (land) and balit (strength). unearthing the next generation of #nextwave16 Australian talent.

I invite you to explore this world of Other important information creative discovery. It's truly a festival like no other. #nextwave16 I hope you enjoy the Next Wave About P.4 2 – 4 3 Calendar P.4 4 – 45 Festival and all that our great city P.4 6 P.47 has to offer! Index Partners

Hon Robert Doyle Lord Mayor 2 City of Melbourne 3 Access Green Tickets Next Wave is committed to making our activities and our How to book Access Festival as inclusive as possible. Bookings We use a range of different venues and spaces to present Online at nextwave.org.au Dust off your bike, top our Festival. We encourage you to call or email us if you up your myki or pull on a have any questions about accessibility or would like to By telephone on pair of kicks—we've got discuss your requirements with us. (03) 9329 9422 during Green Tickets! business hours. Green Tickets provide a 25% discount Access symbols i Festival information At the venue one hour off the advertised ticket prices for prior to the event starting, select performances if you travel to the Look out for these symbols show in an environmentally friendly Festival information can be found in alternative unless sold out. throughout this program way. Check out the sessions listed in formats at nextwave.org.au, including: Shows can and do sell out, so avoid green in this guide and remember to and on our website to the stress—book early! show proof of transit at the venue indicate the accessibility upon arrival. • Large print PDF, RTF and Word files of this of each event. More Unless otherwise specified, online program ticket sales will end two hours prior information about symbols • An audio version of this program to a performance start time. and events can be found at Entry to free events is subject to nextwave.org.au • Auslan interpreted videos venue capacity and at the discretion Pricing and Refunds • A Next Wave Festival 2016 Access Guide of venue staff. Wheelchair access In an effort to reduce waste, Next Wave If you would like to request information in asks that patrons do not print their Assistive listening another format please call us on (03) 9329 9422. tickets at home. Save yourself the nextwave.org.au Prices in this guide are listed as Full/ time, effort, paper and ink and simply Concession, except in cases where Audio description turn up! Just remember to bring some all tickets are one price. All events in photo ID to verify your identity. the Next Wave program are general Tactile tour admission. Booking tickets

nextwave.org.au The advertised ticket price includes Auslan interpreting To book your tickets, please call (03) 9329 9422 during all booking fees. Credit card or business hours or email [email protected] and transaction fees may apply if booking Relaxed performance through partner providers. let us know about your access requirements. #nextwave16 Open captioning Join us online Concession discounts apply to children Companion Cards 14 and under, full-time students, seniors, pensioners, Healthcare Card #nextwave16 Audio notes Companion Card holders qualify for concession price holders and MEAA members. #nextwave16 tickets and receive a complimentary ticket for their Next Wave honours Companion Cards— Partly surtitled or Share your Festival by using: companion. To book, please call (03) 9329 9422 during see opposite page for details. includes dialogue, @next_wave business hours or email [email protected] All ticket sales are final; Next Wave background music @next_wave regrets that it is unable to facilitate and/or sounds The companion ticket must be booked at the same time exchanges or refunds. Next Wave as the purchased ticket.

The information contained in this Fully surtitled or Sign up to our Pegboard e-news guide is correct at time of printing minimal dialogue; National Relay Service at nextwave.org.au for all the (February 2016). For the most latest Next Wave and art world some background 4 up-to-date information, please visit We're Relay Service friendly! Contact the National Relay 5 news and opportunities, music and/or sounds nextwave.org.au delivered directly to your inbox Service on 133 677 or via relayservice.com.au, then ask year-round! No music or dialogue for (03) 9329 9422 during business hours. A note from the Indigenous Discursive Discursive projects Artistic Director language workshops projects Artistic Director Artistic Director

Next Wave is underpinned by learning. notice frictions and affinities between Language and culture are one and the Or, if a festival could And by Next Wave, I don't just mean experiences. Focus on the questions this Festival, but this organisation in that surface, and as more bubble up, same, culture is the tree and language talk, what would it say? the other 23 months of our biennium. seek out the ones that keep repeating. is its roots, one cannot exist without the Discursive projects celebrate Since we last saw you, we have There are more connections than I can other. This is why it is so important to knowledge as something that deliberately shifted the way we frame tell you about. include traditional languages in as many is unstable and subjective, and what we do, to focus on learning as something that can be both found What can we learn from being next opposed to development. We did this aspects of life as possible, especially in and made. This Festival we're taking to one another? The point isn't because development seems to cast an experimental approach to public to find an answer, nor to make a the modern era where our sense of place too clear a path between start and programming through a series of coherent argument—we happily finish to properly reflect the process- can be blurred at times—Mandy Nicholson, digital interventions, new archives and foster disagreement—it's to bring driven approach that is central to Next intimate conversations that use fiction the results of coexistence into focus. Wurundjeri language expert Wave's ethos. as a critical tool and time as a material This is inherently political, because it Next Wave acknowledges the traditional custodians of the to dismiss authoritative perspectives. Learning does not tend to have a fixed prioritises the personal and it comes lands and waters the Festival takes place on and around, nextwave.org.au Anchored by an exploration of local beginning or end point: it's propelled from diverse voices and perspectives. the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung lands, two language Indigenous languages, these projects first by curiosity, then by conversation, By drawing attention to the glow groups that form part of the Eastern Kulin Nation of are intrinsic to this Festival—making research, trial and error. It is a around things, this Festival aims southcentral Victoria. space for poetry, enquiry and dialogue process, but it does not necessarily to disempower centres in favour of across cultures and artforms. progress us. If development is black peripheries, to make space for both Through translations and a series of workshops in and white, learning is every colour anger and imagination. partnership with the Victorian Aboriginal Corporation nextwave.org.au in between. And while development for Languages, we aim to raise awareness of Victoria's The way Le Guin describes her science implies charging ahead at great speed, first languages, and specifically (in the words of Mandy fiction is the way I dream of this learning can be slow and meandering. Nicholson), “why they are no longer spoken every day,

Festival: “full of beginnings without #nextwave16 It can be useless. Learning can make but also why they are not dead: they are sleeping. Through ends, of initiations, of losses, of things seem more complicated and raising awareness, we are reawakening them. If something transformations and translations, and interconnected than we ever thought. is dead, it can never return, but if it is asleep it can always far more tricks than conflicts, far fewer be woken up.” We are thrilled and privileged to have received This is where we're coming from. triumphs than snares and delusions; permission to include Woiwurrung and Boonwurrung #nextwave16 full of space ships that get stuck, language during Next Wave Festival 2016. In her essay The Carrier Bag Theory of missions that fail, and people who Fiction, writer Ursula Le Guin describes don't understand.” For full workshop details, check nextwave.org.au a novel as “a leaf a gourd a shell a net a bag a sling a sack a bottle a pot a Don't worry though, it shouldn't make box a container. A holder.” I have been sense. The most interesting way to get thinking about the Festival like this: somewhere new is to let yourself get a time-sack stuffed with disparate lost. As for these three weeks, I can things banging around against each promise there will be a space ship, but other. I'm interested in what this the rest depends on you. 6 nearness can do, to the works, to our With thanks to Mandy Nicholson (Wurundjeri) and Fay Stewart-Muir 7 thinking, and to our universe. So, (Boon Wurrung), Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Elders, and the Victorian direct your attention to the paths you Aboriginal Corporation for Languages. This project has been supported by The Margaret Lawrence Bequest. Georgie Artistic Meagher, Director take between works in this Festival, Discursive projects Discursive projects

Through love: five feminist perspectives Brainlina (VIC)

through tongues through touching through tempers through bleeding through bending through spit through showers through promise through pupils through counting through Our disappearing present Separating Hydrogen Ships in the night communion through eclipse through collapse through exclusion through correction through waiting through Editionless Editions From Air: A Primer Kelly Fliedner (VIC) glasses through guessing through tanks through teens There are no profiles, no permanence and no images in this Eleanor Zeichner (NSW) Seeing you laugh and not knowing what you are laughing through chains through code through clams through artist-run social media network that exists parasitically and about. Seeing you cry and wanting to cry with you. Seeing love temporarily within Next Wave's website. A prototype and Presented in association with Arts House someone look at you and being able to feel the weight of their a provisional statement towards what could be possible if through poetry through philosophy through writers through Separating Hydrogen From Air: A Primer captures an unofficial stare. Seeing you over there and wishing you were here with me. social media had a different kind of politic, Our disappearing artists through listening through thinking through bodies history of Next Wave Festival 2016 by documenting and present channels Twitter and Snapchat, without the invasive Ships in the night is a series of love letters between artworks through brains sharing the recommendations of its artists via a reading nextwave.org.au commodification of your identity. Demonstrating a possible floating in a festival. A program of texts responding to the room, website and print publication. As a primer for curious Feminist collective Brainlina—hosts of discussions, structure for our online world that sidesteps corporate aesthetic and conceptual elements of various Next Wave visitors and a resource for researchers, this project explores screenings and reading groups in their own home—will control, this project is deliberately fleeting. Festival 2016 projects will be read or published alongside the fugitive nature of legacy and influence. each, aiming to create new relationships and weave new reach out to five living rooms across Melbourne's inner- Write through, across, into and out of Next Wave projects, north over five evenings of the Festival, to share five new Pick up a publication at any Next Wave venue, visit the conversations across the Festival. identify yourself or not, provoke, comment, question and collaborative texts. Through love: five feminist perspectives Reading Room in the foyer of Arts House, or explore Come along to one or all of the performances or listen to the nextwave.org.au make connections. Don't be shy—your messages only last directs the minds of artists and writers towards the nature separatinghydrogenfromair.com online. for a limited time, and will not be archived. No logs are kept, Ships in the night podcast at shipsinthenight.info to map and operation of this elusive emotion—love—within and all data will disappear. your own journey. contemporary society. #nextwave16 5–22 MAY at nextwave.org.au 5–22 MAY Arts House 5–22 MAY Various Festival venues 8–22 MAY Various living rooms across and disappearing.us Mon–Tue 11am–2pm | Wed–Fri 11am–8:30pm 30 min | Free Melbourne's inner north 24 hours | Free Sat 2pm–8:30pm | Sun 1pm–7:30pm | Free Check nextwave.org.au for details Sun 5pm | Tue 6pm | 90 min Free | Limited capacity; bookings required

#nextwave16 17 MAY 6pm

#separatinghydrogen Selected sessions

#throughlove #shipsinthenightnwf16

8 This project has been supported by The Margaret Lawrence Bequest. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through 9 Image Editionless Editions/Benjamin Forster Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and The Margaret Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and The Margaret the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, The Margaret Lawrence Bequest. Lawrence Bequest. Lawrence Bequest and City of Yarra. Image Maria Smit Image Lee Bailey Image Angel Doberman Worm Hole nextwave.org.au Writers in Residence

Writers in Residence is a new Next Wave program that privileges the idea that there is no right or wrong way to experience art. In residence during the Festival are a group of writers who have been exchanging ideas and developing skills through a series of workshops presented in partnership with Writers Victoria. These writers are creating work in response to the Festival projects, mapping recurring themes and examining their own experiences of Next Wave Festival 2016. You might see their work in our online publication Worm Hole, infiltrating Next Wave's social media channels during the Festival, or later—in magazines and newspapers and on screens and stages.

Writers in Residence is part of a long-term strategy for Next Wave to be more inclusive of artists and audiences with disability. We believe that a diverse conversation is the only conversation worth having; and that the more expansive the conversation becomes, the better.

Writers include: Alistair Baldwin, Sophie Cassar, Paul Dalla Rosa, Honor Eastly, Katie Paine and Andrew Westle.

This project has nextwave.org.au RealTime been assisted by the Gordon Darling Foundation. DanceWrite Next Wave is pleased to host RealTime DanceWrite, in partnership with Sharing Space. DanceWrite is an intensive

nextwave.org.au writing workshop with a methodology designed to develop writers' sensory awareness and their responsiveness to all dimensions of performance—movement, design, sound and

context. The workshop participants and directors will see #nextwave16 Next Wave dance performances together, then share their responses, and write and re-write drafts of their reviews for quick turnaround online publication.

#nextwave16 DanceWrite is presented as part of the Sharing Space program. Conceived by curator Hannah Mathews, this 12 Surf the edges and foggy zones Worm Hole is an online publication month program brings focus to the shared terrains between featuring [what keeps bubbling up] artistic disciplines through a series of public lectures, of Next Wave Festival 2016 workshops and masterclasses involving practitioners from artworks and [what falls away completely] various generations and disciplines. writing in parallel with Next Wave Festival Keywords: water, power, sci-fi, history, fiction, intuition 2016. [img, video, text, <3] Worm Hole kicks up the dust and finds kinship in the cloud [tunnels between everything in the world]. 10 This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the 11 Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body. Contributors include: Maddee Clark, Hannah Donnelly, Jana Hawkins-Andersen, Ellen van Neerven, Paradise Structures, Ruth O'Leary and more. Central Business District A Bareberp 1 Australian Centre for the 4 RMIT Design Hub Language area Moving Image (ACMI) Building 100 Woiwurrung Federation Square Cnr Victoria St Flinders St, Melbourne & Swanston St Narrm ‘scrub’ Carlton Festival Club Eastern Kulin 2 Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria—Melbourne 5 West Space The Toff in Town is your B Narrm-jaap Dallas Brooks Drive Lvl 1, 225 Bourke St Eastern Kulin late-night destination Melbourne Melbourne 3 Signal 6 The Toff in Town Flinders Walk 2nd Flr Curtin House during Next Wave Northbank, Melbourne 252 Swanston St Melbourne Festival 2016.

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Trams And we mean late. Serving delicious 6 Russell St Lonsdale St Map 1 drinks and tasty morsels 'til 3am Sun–Wed and 5am Thu–Sat, this will Swanston St be the place to refuel and reflect, Lt Bourke St every night of the Festival. 5 nextwave.org.au Bareberp Grab a cheeky spritz and cosy up A Narrm Bourke St with friends and artists in a private Elizabeth St train carriage, or dance the night away with resident DJs playing Trams Next Wave Festival Club at The Toff in Town Nextin Festival Wave The at Toff Club nextwave.org.au sweet sounds all night. #nextwave16 Lt Collins St Trams

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B Narrm-jaap 2 Central Business District Central Business District

A-97 Daniel Jenatsch (VIC) Decolonist Presented in association with ACMI Katie West (WA) It is with some trepidation that we must inform you of Angkot Alien Algorithmic Misfits Can the damage caused by colonialism be undone? a cruel and unusual transgression that has come to our Rafaella McDonald (VIC) Ben Landau (VIC) attention. A crime so perfectly executed it seems to have & Natasha Gabriella Tontey (IDN) Through reflecting on the impact of colonisation upon slipped past our awareness entirely unnoticed. Presented in association with RMIT Design Hub her sense of self as an Aboriginal woman, Katie West has Angkot Alien is a festival bus with no route. Jump on board developed her own method of decolonisation. Decolonist is The truth is that you have been tricked. Does the internet know us better than we know ourselves? with Rafaella McDonald and Natasha Gabriella Tontey as the a space to experience West's personal meditation practice, The year 1997 never ended. Have you noticed how the internet always seems to have bus from Java tours time, space and dead end GPS routes to breathing out the traumas of colonisation and breathing Join experimental archeologist Dr Angela (voiced by poet exactly what you need? Do you ever make attempts to hide finally arrive in Melbourne. in a decolonised state of mind. The familiar imagery of Autumn Royal, sung by Sarah Byrne and performed by Australian national identity becomes infused with native your activities from anyone or anything ‘watching’? Does the McDonald and Tontey use the common Indonesian Angkot nextwave.org.au choreographer Atlanta Eke) as she guides you through an plants sourced from the urban environment: sewn, woven internet really know us better than we know ourselves? van as a literal vehicle to explore the politics of labour historico-forensic investigation of this most terrible crime. and bound together, creating an intricate and fragile across cultures, infiltrating the city in their fully-hotted-up Self-confessed internet junkie Ben Landau invites you to context that audiences are invited to explore. A meditation van that pulses with the sound of reggae mashed up with Throughout this video-operatic presentation, Dr Angela participate in Algorithmic Misfits, a roaming discussion series on the land we occupy as Australians—and the nation riot grrrl and instructional video aerobics. What can will be accompanied by the neuro-upload of Garry Kasparov introducing experts in the bewildering world of data privacy. that inhabits our minds—Decolonist lays a path towards cross-cultural friendships, journeys and experiences offer trapped in the body of the IBM chess computer that defeated Meet algorithm nerds, freedom fighters and obsessed encountering your decolonised identity. nextwave.org.au him (voiced by Alan Nguyen), and The Letter String Quartet. academics, who will help untangle what's real and what's us in terms of improvisation and imagination? Angkot Alien fiction. Can we ever be truly free on the internet? is a way to keep moving while embracing interruption, Katie West is of Yindjibarndi descent and lives on Noongar friction and precarity. Whadjuk country. #nextwave16 11–15 MAY ACMI 12–21 MAY RMIT Design Hub 7–22 MAY A secret CBD location 6 MAY – 4 JUNE West Space Wed–Sat 8pm | Sun 7pm | 90 min Thu–Sat 2pm–4:40pm | 100 min Meeting point provided upon booking Tue–Sat 12pm–6pm | Free Tickets $28 / $23 Roaming discussions leave every 20 min Thu–Fri 7:15pm & 8:15pm Opening 5 MAY 6pm Green Tickets ALL PERFORMANCES Check nextwave.org.au for exact session times Sat–Sun 6:30pm & 7:30pm (limited numbers available) Tickets $28 / $23 | Green Tickets 13 MAY 35 min | Tickets $18 / $13 ARTIST TALK, MEDITATION AND WORKSHOP

#nextwave16 Limited capacity; bookings required 21 MAY 3pm | 60 min | Free | Bookings required Contains loud music and flashing lights.

ONLY TRUTH: A SYMPOSIUM ON INTERNET PRIVACY Video work only

Kickstart 18 MAY 6pm | 120 min | Tickets $10 Kickstart Check nextwave.org.au for full schedule 21 MAY 2:15pm Artist talk 21 MAY 3pm

Symposium 18 MAY 6pm

Artwork contains plant material. This is a mobile performance that moves between venues. Please wear weather-appropriate clothing. Kickstart #decolonist

#algomisfits 14 This project has been assisted by the Australian Government This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the This project has been assisted by the Australian Government 15 through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and the Playking through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria. Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Foundation Asian Performing Arts Travel Grant. and City of Melbourne. Image Daniel Jenatsch Image Grandyos Zafna Central Business District Central Business District

Shadows on the hill Dan McCabe (WA) The Fraud Complex The Second Woman Presented in association with ACCA, Darebin Arts’ Speakeasy, Curated by Johnson+Thwaites (NSW) Nat Randall (NSW) Footscray Community Arts Centre and Testing Grounds

Featuring Abdul Abdullah (NSW), Abdul-Rahman Abdullah Presented in association with ACMI Trying to break into one of the world's most unaffordable (WA), Hany Armanious (NSW), Tully Arnot (NSW), Bindi Cole property markets? Is the suburban sprawl getting you down? A slow-burning revelation of performance art—Crikey (VIC), Megan Cope (Quandamooka/VIC), Beth Dillon (NSW), Grab a cuppa and join artist Dan McCabe for a campsite Ecosexual Bathhouse Sara Morawetz (NSW/USA), Técha Noble (NSW/GER), Nat Randall (Team MESS, Hissy Fit) throws herself into chat about the future of the Australian landscape, and our Yoshua Okón (MEX) and Tyza Stewart (QLD) a strange loop of framing and spectacle in this 24-hour Pony Express (WA/USA) place within it. performance and cinema experiment. As Randall repeatedly Developed in association with West Space Loren Kronemyer and Ian Sinclair aka Pony Express are performs a single scene inspired by John Cassavetes' cult Occupying several locations throughout Melbourne, exciting emerging voices in radical live art encounters At a time when self-help books compel us to accept and film Opening Night, on-stage sparks fly. Starring opposite Shadows on the hill is an artist-designed tent that uses —Leigh Robb, Curator express ‘our true selves,’ The Fraud Complex showcases the Randall are 100 different men ranging in age, background and unique camouflage techniques to blend itself into the urban ways in which eleven artists approach the polar binary of acting ability. Through this repeated performative exchange, Are you eco-curious? Are you environmentally oriented? landscape. Making the mobile shelter his home for the authentic/fake, as it plays out in everyday life. Randall aims to explore the trade of emotion, intimacy, nextwave.org.au Into getting dirty? Let go of your inhibitions and embrace duration of Next Wave Festival 2016, McCabe turns these chemistry and authenticity—cutting across layered realities, temporary engagements with place into opportunities for a new sexual identity where the biosphere becomes your Incorporating performance, painting, photography, video, smudging the line between acting and being, attempting to spontaneous and informal discussion with passers-by. lover. Ecosexual Bathhouse plunges you into an immersive sculpture and installation, The Fraud Complex invites discover a space of enduring intimacy, en masse. Come for an labyrinth of intimate encounters and sensory interactions. audiences into a system of suspended categories. Objects hour, stay for the night—this is performance at its most epic, Bringing together design principles for low-maintenance of uncertain provenance co-mingle with artworks, inspiring Ecosexual Bathhouse is a safe space to get in touch with a complex game of fiction and reality. living, local narratives and community conversation, questions such as ‘what constitutes a fraud?’ and ‘are we all Shadows on the hill seeks to question how we can disrupt and nextwave.org.au nature and celebrate biodiversity—because if we can learn just “faking it” in different ways?’ to love the Earth, maybe we can save it. mitigate suburban aspiration and gentrification, offering a humble, conscious way to view the world. #nextwave16 6–14 MAY Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria—Melbourne 6 MAY – 4 JUNE West Space 20–21 MAY ACMI 5–22 MAY Across Melbourne Wed–Sat 6:30pm–9:10pm | Sun 5:30pm–8:10pm Tue–Sat 12pm–6pm | Free 1pm–1pm (continuous) | 24 hours | Free Check nextwave.org.au for locations and times Up to 45 min | Sessions begin every 20 min Opening 5 MAY 6pm Free Tickets $25 / $20 | Green Tickets 11 MAY

Limited capacity; bookings required DISCURSIVE EVENTS

#nextwave16 6 & 7 MAY | Check nextwave.org.au for details 20 MAY 3:30pm–5pm

PANEL: CAN ECOSEX SAVE THE EARTH? Upon request — ask the artist

8 MAY 3pm | 60 min | Free | Bookings required Audio notes available at nextwave.org.au

Audio notes available at nextwave.org.au

7 MAY 2pm Artist talk May contain coarse language, nudity and adult themes. Kickstart #shadowsonthehill Contains sexual content, nudity and the use of organic/biological Contains nudity and adult themes. #thesecondwoman materials such as pollen, dirt, perfume and plants. Emerging Curators Program #fraudcomplex Kickstart #ecosexualbathhouse

16 This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the This project has been supported by International Art Space and the 17 Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory board, the Western Australian Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and City of Melbourne. Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Western Australian Government through the Department of Culture Government through the Department of Culture and the Arts, the Royal Image Hany Armanious, Body Swap 2015. Photographer Peter Morgan. Image Kate Blackmore and the Arts. Botanic Gardens Victoria and Creative Partnerships Australia through MATCH. Image courtesy the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney © the artist Image Dan McCabe Image Matt Sav North Melbourne and Brunswick 1 Arts House 4 North Melbourne shopfronts 521 Queensberry St Errol St and Victoria St North Melbourne North Melbourne

2 Meat Market 5 Blak Dot Gallery 5 Blackwood St 33 Saxon St North Melbourne (via Dawson St) Brunswick 3 Meat Market: The Stables Cnr Wreckyn St 6 Howler

Central Business District & Courtney St 7–11 Dawson St North Melbourne Brunswick

Sisters Akousmatica Curated by Julia Drouhin (FRA/TAS) Flemington Rd & Pip Stafford (TAS) 55 & 59 Featuring eves (NZ/VIC), Angie Garrick (NSW), Kate Geck Trams

(VIC), Rosalind Hall (VIC), Shani Mohini-Holmes (VIC), 19 Tram

radio cegeste (NZ/TAS) and Ela Stiles (NSW) Royal Pde Arden St Developed in association with Liquid Architecture Wreckyn St Presented in association with Signal and 3CR 3 5 Blackwood St Sisters Akousmatica is a city-scale radio orchestra. 2 6 Over seven hours, seven female artists perform on the banks of the Yarra River, their sounds broadcast via Courtney St radio transmission. Meanwhile, armed with a collection 19 & 59 Trams

of portable radios, Radio Queens Julia Drouhin and Pip nextwave.org.au

Stafford lead a procession through the streets of Melbourne, Errol St

stopping at various locations along the way to tune in to Leveson St each live performance. ChetwyndSt 1 Howard St Queensberry St The live broadcast will culminate in an installation work at Signal that captures, multiplies and archives the 4 nextwave.org.au performance works as a radiophonic acousmonium. Raglan St #nextwave16 PERFORMANCE, WALKING TOUR AND BROADCAST 8 MAY 11am–6pm | Departs from Signal | Free Check nextwave.org.au for locations Victoria St CAN'T MAKE IT? Listen live on 3CR 855AM or stream online at 3cr.org.au Peel St 57 Tram #nextwave16 EXHIBITION 11–21 MAY Signal King St Wed–Sat 11am–5pm | Free

Emerging Curators Program #sistersakousmatica Queen Victoria 55 Tram Market

18 This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the 19 Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, City of Melbourne and The Channel. Image Keelan O'Hehir Nth Melbourne and Brunswick Nth and Melbourne

Rosslyn St Dudley St North Melbourne and Brunswick

North Melbourne and Brunswick Admission into the Everyday Sublime Lilian Steiner (VIC) Far From Here Camel The Horse Presented in association with Arts House Claire Robertson (VIC) Geoffrey Watson (VIC) Dylan Sheridan (TAS) The real deal… a manifestation of something transcendent Returning to the remains of the temporary gold mining —The Australian on 'Noise Quartet Meditation' Presented in association with Arts House camp that her family called home in the late 1980s, video Presented in association with Arts House artist Claire Robertson transports her audience into the vast Admission into the Everyday Sublime assembles a You've been at rock bottom for so long, you wouldn't even Sheridan is a real talent—The Age landscape of the Western Australian outback. choreographic and sonic experience that lures the observer recognise desire if it looked you dead in the eye. Why don't A dark and dreamlike concerto for saxophone, accompanied through unexpected states of energised tranquillity. you make like yeast and rise up? A screen installation of cinematic proportions, Robertson by violin, cello, electronics and automated instruments, The Through studies of alternative medicine and energy leads the viewer through large-scale, multi-channel Drawing on the legend of God designing the camel from Horse begins with equine apparitions found in an MRI scan of therapies, this new work by dancer and choreographer Lilian projections that capture fly-in fly-out mining camps of the spare parts of other animals, Geoffrey Watson's Camel exists composer Dylan Sheridan's own brain, and voyages through Steiner investigates the body's malleable relationship to Pilbara Region. Awaiting their imminent removal, these in the choreographic hinterland between text, wearable space to the Horsehead Nebula, 1500 light years from Earth. weight and density, light as an extension of the body, the demountable villages sit in stark contrast with an endless design, dance and music performance. Using the animal's sculptural nature of sound and the healing power of its horizon, balanced on the edge of reality. Like a pianola reading a piano paper roll, Sheridan takes story as a metaphor for creative intuition, this collision of nextwave.org.au resonant frequencies. interstellar data and masterfully turns it into a surreal artforms presents Camel as a bold contemporary emotional With a haunting sound design by composer Tilman Robinson, and immersive musical performance. The result is a sonic As perception of time and space is gently altered, Admission innovation strategy. Far From Here explores the politics of our relationship to the exploration of galactic patterns—a ground-breaking into the Everyday Sublime invites audiences to surrender to land, and the effects of colonial and corporate interventions Mixed metaphors and disparate historical influences are composition that could be played for one minute, one hour, the uniquely therapeutic nature of performance. Reuniting in the Australian desert landscape. made to sit uncomfortably next to each other like sisters or one year, depending on the resolution of its data. the creative team from Steiner's Green Room Award-winning and brothers on a hotel bed. All fired up with nowhere to

nextwave.org.au Noise Quartet Meditation (2014), this is a performance as Traversing scales, spectrums, land, Earth and the universe, go, Camel is an ardently futilitarian protest performance restorative as it is stimulating, unlike anything you've Sheridan makes the impossible possible: playing the galaxy; without agenda. experienced before. hearing the stars. #nextwave16 18–22 MAY Arts House 11–15 MAY Arts House 12–22 MAY Meat Market 12–22 MAY Arts House Wed–Sat 6:45pm | Sun 2pm & 5:45pm Wed–Sat 7pm | Sun 2pm & 6pm | 60 min Tue–Sun 12pm–6pm | Free Thu–Sat 8:15pm | Sun 7:15pm | 45 min 75 min | Tickets $28 / $23 Tickets $28 / $23 Opening 12 MAY 6pm Tickets $23 / $18

ARTIST TALK

#nextwave16 15 MAY 4pm | 60 min | Free Contains loud noise. 13 MAY 6:15pm Contains haze, loud sound, mild strobing effects and very mild use of aerosol spray. Please arrive on time; no latecomers will be admitted. 13 MAY 7pm

#everydaysublime Artist talk 15 MAY 4pm

Contains coarse language. Kickstart #farfromhere Kickstart

20 This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through This project has been supported by the Victorian Government through This project has been assisted by the Australian Government This project is part of Salamanca Arts Centre's HyPe program and has 21 the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, the Victorian Creative Victoria, Lucy Guerin Inc, Dancehouse, BalletLab and Chunky through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Government through Creative Victoria, City of Melbourne, Chunky Move's Move's Maximised Residency Program. body and the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria. Council, its arts funding and advisory body, Hobart City Council, Maximised Residency Program, Arts House's 4 Walls Residency Program Image Thomas Russell Mountain Maria Ly Image Claire Robertson Regional Arts Tasmania and Arts Tasmania. and Lucy Guerin Inc. Image Dylan Sheridan Image Gregory Lorenzutti North Melbourne and Brunswick North Melbourne and Brunswick

Mummy Dearest Annaliese Constable (NSW) Sedih // Sunno Presented in association with Arts House One Million Views Rani P Collaborations (VIC/NSW) Something Less Every few years you come across a comedic mind where Alasdair Doyle & Liam James (TAS) Xanthe Dobbie (VIC) & Tiyan Baker (NSW) Presented in association with Arts House and Metro Arts you think ‘YES’—Ali Benton, ABC producer Something Less is an unmistakably Tasmania-centric Anyone can be a star—all you need is an internet connection Rani Pramesti's live-art project [Chinese Whispers] aims Writer, performer and queer-rights activist Annaliese collaborative exhibition and publishing project that breaks high and it hits the mark—Sydney Morning Herald Constable's whip-sharp mind and deadpan delivery clash Launching themselves into the ultimate battle between open the narrative of Tasmanian history and mythology, in all the right ways to present Mummy Dearest—a brutally IRL and URL, video artists Xanthe Dobbie and Tiyan Baker Sedih is Bahasa Indonesia for ‘sadness’. Sunno is ‘to listen’ and its place in the Australian national psyche. honest take on parenting, childhood and what it's like reach behind Australian webcams to capture six of the in Fijian Hindi. Sedih // Sunno is a gentle invitation to listen This challenging project looks at the little-understood to have a mum who once tried to take a swig from a nation's biggest YouTube stars in a series of intimate to sadness. Indigenous history of Tasmania, an island where imperial breathalyser. Mummy Dearest is for anyone who was ever moving portraits. attempts at mass-genocide and ethnic ‘cleansing’ of unparented, underparented, overparented or parentified. Four artists accompany you through treasured heirlooms nextwave.org.au Channeling the cultural impact and banal spectacle Aboriginal peoples were more extensive than on mainland It's for anyone who misses a parent—or wishes they missed to reveal hidden family legacies. Collections of Indonesian of YouTube, the diptych portraits reflect the binary Australia. Whilst James grapples with identity, self and a parent more. It's for those of you who look at your kids Batik form intimate spaces in which to listen, as memories undercurrent of One Million Views: the duality of on and culture in his melancholic self-portraiture, Doyle offers a and think: ‘I've made a huge mistake.’ filter through a richly woven encounter with ritual, music offline existence in contemporary society. As Baker focuses and movement. From the team that created the award- sharp counterpoint with his critical perspective, analysis Don't miss this uncomfortably hilarious tragicomedy on the private lives of the YouTubers, creating works that are winning Chinese Whispers, Sedih // Sunno is a contemplative and historical research. about families, addiction, mental illness and magpie subtle, human and emotive, Dobbie digitally mashes up each and uplifting experience that asks: what have we inherited nextwave.org.au Inspired by Tracey Moffatt's iconic photographic series attacks—topped off with an unforgettable bar fight, YouTuber's online persona to create vivid, over-stimulating from those before us? And what do we want to pass on? Something More, Something Less examines truth, belonging, set to pokies music. portraits that appear perpetually stuck in the internet. and the continuous alteration of identity. #nextwave16 5–21 MAY Arts House 5–21 MAY North Melbourne shopfronts 5–15 MAY Arts House 13–22 MAY Meat Market: The Stables Thu–Sat 9:15pm | 60 min Tue–Fri 11am–4pm | Sat 11am–3pm | Free Wed–Fri 6:30pm | Sat 3pm & 6:30pm Tue–Sun 12pm–6pm | Free Tickets $28 / $23 Sun 5:30pm | 60 min | Tickets $28 / $23 Opening 12 MAY 6pm Green Tickets 12 & 19 MAY WALKING TOUR Limited capacity; bookings required 7 MAY 1pm | 45 min | Free | Bookings required

#nextwave16 POST-SHOW ARTIST TALK WORKSHOP AND Q&A Arts House 8 MAY 6:30pm | 45 min | Free 14 MAY 9:15pm 8 MAY 3:30pm | 90 min | Tickets $10

7 & 14 MAY 2:30pm

Contains coarse language and adult themes. Available at nextwave.org.au

11 MAY 1pm | 90 min | $15

Kickstart #MummyDearest This work contains the appropriation of religious iconography. Contains references to sexual violence. #OMV Please arrive on time; no latecomers will be admitted.

Kickstart #SedihSunno #ranipnews

22 This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the This project has been supported by City of Melbourne and the Victorian This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the 23 Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, Performance Space Government through Creative Victoria. the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, the Victorian Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, Arts Tasmania's and UNSW. Image Xanthe Dobbie & Tiyan Baker Government through Creative Victoria, the Besen Family Foundation and Artsbridge, Regional Arts Tasmania and Creative Partnerships Australia Image Emily Spencer & Danny Adams Creative Partnerships Australia through MATCH. through MATCH. Image Daniela Rodriguez Image Liam James, Self-portrait with flowers (presumed native), 2015 North Melbourne and Brunswick North Melbourne and Brunswick

FEMPRE$$ Curated by Hannah Brontë (Yaegel/QLD) Under My Skin Still I Rise Featuring SOVTRAX (VIC), SEZZO (QLD), Busty Beatz (QLD), The Delta Project (VIC) Hannah Brontë (Yaegel/QLD) Amrita Amrita (NSW) and guest MCs Presented in association with Arts House FEMPRE$$ places women on the mic, the decks and the Presented in association with Blak Dot Gallery dance floor in a one-off hip hop event that is as fierce as The Delta Project explore what we choose to hide and what The parliament of Australia shall address the people. it is deep. can be revealed in this new dance-theatre work, presented It's time to rise. through the lens of deaf culture. This ground-breaking Get ready to sweat with some of Australia's hottest company, comprised of deaf and hearing dancers, creates Indigenous fem-cees and DJs, including SOVTRAX, Busty Through a politically charged, fiercely feminist rap entwined cross-cultural work using Auslan and English with dance as Beatz (Hot Brown Honey) and Brisbane's queen with oestrogen and camouflage, Still I Rise is a music video a universal communicator. environment harnessing female and Indigenous power. of twerk, SEZZO, or flex your own skills during the open mic session (open to all female MCs). Under My Skin is the company's highly anticipated new nextwave.org.au Exploring forms of resistance practiced by women and First work, choreographed by Jo Dunbar and Lina Limosani. Witness the power of a visionary future. Nations people around the world, Hannah Brontë presents a Working together with new media artist Rhian Hinkley, formidable future Australia in which an Indigenous woman is Curated by Hannah Brontë as a live party performance lighting designer Richard Vabre and sound designer Russell Prime Minister, and parliament is entirely female. accompaniment to her Next Wave Festival 2016 Goldsmith, choreography blends with images and sound, Inviting audiences to expand their visions of what the future exhibition, Still I Rise. building access into aesthetics. Layered and revealing, Under My Skin challenges what it is to listen and be heard. nextwave.org.au can hold, Brontë's hyper-female universe of densely loaded visuals portray a government formed by strong women of all ages and ethnicities.

ARTIST TALK

#nextwave16 14 MAY 2pm | 60 min | Free POST-SHOW Q&A 6 MAY 12pm | 45 min | Free

Contains coarse language. Incorporated into performance

Kickstart #hannahbrontë Post-show Q&A 6 MAY 12pm

24 This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Image Hannah Brontë This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through 25 Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, the Queensland the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, the Victorian Government through Arts Queensland and Aphids' Supermassive Government through Creative Victoria, Arts Access Victoria and Deaf Arts mentorship program supported by the Margaret Lawrence Bequest and Network. Footscray Community Arts Centre. Image Pippa Samaya Image Hannah Brontë Fitzroy, Collingwood and Abbotsford 1 Centre for Contemporary Photography 404 George St, Fitzroy

2 National Storage Collingwood 110 Wellington St, Collingwood

3 Gertrude Contemporary 200 Gertrude St, Fitzroy

4 Abbotsford Convent: Rosina Building 1–16 St Heliers St, Abbotsford Fitzroy, Collingwood and Abbotsford Arrival of the Rajah Kerr St Blaksland and Lawless Eva Heiky Olga Abbinga (VIC) Lorna Munro, Merindah Donnelly & Argyle St Easey St 1 Presented in association with Abbotsford Convent Tjanara Talbot (NSW) Sackville St The Rajah Quilt is one of Australia’s most important textiles… In Australia we have an unnatural obsession with ‘discovery.’ an extraordinary work of art—Robert Bell, Senior Curator, People like James Cook, Arthur Phillip, William Lawson and Johnston St Decorative Arts and Design, National Gallery of Australia Gregory Blaxland are applauded as heroes, while Aboriginal 4 Over 60 collaborators from across Australia have come warriors and heroes like Pemulwuy are persecuted, murdered together with lead artist Eva Heiky Olga Abbinga to create and forgotten in the collective Australian psyche. Arrival of the Rajah: a seven-metre wide sculpture paying Blaksland and Lawless presents an irreverent and political homage to one of Australia’s most precious artworks alternate universe in which Aboriginal women are the ‘The Rajah Quilt’, originally quilted by some of the 180 explorers and conquerors, and Australia was colonised by convicts on board the Rajah Ship during its three-month nextwave.org.au Aboriginal women instead of white European men. Through journey from England to Van Diemen’s Land in 1841. This large-scale photographs displayed across Melbourne streets, 11 Tram response by Abbinga and collaborators brings quilting Blaksland and Lawless shines a light on the ludicrous nature out of the domestic setting and into the public sphere,

86 Tram of colonialism, patriarchy and the idea of ‘discovery.’ relocating traditional processes of making into the frame of contemporary art. Arrival of the Rajah acts as a temporary Together, artists Lorna Munro, Merindah Donnelly and

nextwave.org.au memorial—one which invites the audience to consider their Tjanara Talbot turn a matriarchal lens on invasion, and the own relationship to the history and colonisation of the land unceded and unresolved political climates and territories Gipps St upon which they stand. that we live and work in today. #nextwave16 Peel St 5–20 MAY Abbotsford Convent: Rosina Building 5–22 MAY Across Melbourne

Wellington St 2 Tue–Fri 11am–5pm Check nextwave.org.au for locations | Free Sat 7 May & Sun 8 May 11am–5pm | Free Brunswick St

Napier St George St ARTIST TALK Gore St

Smith St #nextwave16 Gertrude St 12 & 19 MAY 1pm | 60 min | Free These images contain strong black women and weapons of mass destruction. 3 PERFORMANCE 14 MAY 12pm | 60 min | Free

12 & 19 MAY 1pm

Kickstart #arrivaloftherajah Victoria Pde 12 & 109 Tram Special thank you to Plast Australia, Geelong Patchwork and Quilters Guild, Geelong Embroidery Guild, Lehenda Ukrainian Dance Company Albert St and the Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through 26 This project has been supported by the Victorian Government through 27 the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Creative Victoria and by the City of Greater Geelong through its Community Arts program. Image Tjanara Talbot

Fitzroy, Collingwood and Abbotsford and Fitzroy, Collingwood Image Arrival of the Rajah performance by members of Plast Australia at Sokil Tabir, 2015 Lansdowne St Fitzroy Gardens

Clarendon St Northcote

1 Arts Project Australia 24 High St, Northcote

2 Northcote Town Hall 189 High St, Northcote

3 Northcote Uniting Church 251 High St, Northcote Ua numi le fau Fitzroy, Collingwood and Abbotsford Curated by Léuli Eshraghi (SAM/IRN/VIC) shadow sites Featuring Atong Atem (SSD/VIC), Dale Harding (Bidjara/ Arthurton Rd Curated by Samantha McCulloch (ZAF/VIC) Ghungalu/Garingbal/QLD), Yuki Kihara (SAM/JPN/NZ), Carlos Motta (COL/USA), Frédéric Nauczyciel (FRA) and & Frances Wilkinson (VIC) Separation St Mandy Nicholson (Wurundjeri/VIC) Featuring Léuli Eshraghi (SAM/IRN/VIC), Catherine Evans (VIC), Grace Herbert (TAS), Sophie Neate (VIC), James Tylor Developed in association with Gertrude Contemporary (Te Awara/Kaurna/SA), Rudi Williams (ITA/VIC) and Northcote Station Six leading local and international artists draw on resurgent Hawthorn Rd Elmedin Žunić (BIH/NOR/VIC) First Nations and diasporic knowledges in Ua numi le fau, Hawthorn Rd Developed in association with the Centre for Contemporary an exhibition project asserting sovereign futures through 86Tram Photography performance video, photography and textiles. The title is a Sāmoan expression that literally means ‘the string tying Mitchell St What happens to artworks when they are hidden from view, the lupe pigeon is entangled’, but is used metaphorically waiting in vaults and archives? Examining the relationship to explain an affair that is complicated and difficult. 11Tram nextwave.org.au between artwork, its documentation and viewing spaces, 3 Bodies and kinships are explored through sexuality, shadow sites explores how art is understood both within Westbourne Grv and outside of the gallery. Across two locations—the spirituality and ecology in this exhibition, which is uniquely Centre for Contemporary Photography and a nearby storage articulated in multiple languages and mediums. Bastings St unit—seven artists working with photography, sculpture and language present new site responsive works that explore the 2 nextwave.org.au relationship between original and document, tracing the James St stages of production and display. #nextwave16 1 APRIL – 22 MAY Two locations 6 MAY – 18 JUNE Gertrude Contemporary StGeorges Rd Charles St Tue–Fri 11am–5:30pm | Sat 11am–4:30pm | Free Clarke St Centre for Contemporary Photography Opening 6 MAY 6pm Charles St Wed–Fri 11am–6pm | Sat–Sun 12pm–5pm | Free Opening 31 MARCH 6pm

#nextwave16 Bridge St National Storage Collingwood 6 MAY 6pm

Check nextwave.org.au for times | Free Opening 6 MAY 5pm Contains adult themes.

CURATOR TALK | ARTIST TALK & WALKING TOUR Emerging Curators Program #uanumilefau Check nextwave.org.au for details

Walking Tour

Merri Creek Merri Pde Emerging Curators Program #shadowsites

HighSt Westgarth St Westgarth Station 28 This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through This project is supported by the Victorian Government through 29 the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, City of Yarra, Creative Victoria, City of Yarra and the Curatorial Practice program at National Storage and Creative Partnerships Australia through MATCH. Monash University Art Design and Architecture (MADA). Cunningham St Image Elmedin Žunić, document #79 (installation view), 2014. Image Frédéric Nauczyciel, A Baroque Ball [Shade] (film still), 2014 Northcote Photographer J Forsyth Walker St 1 Rushall Station Northcote Northcote

Desert Body Creep Angela Goh (NSW) BlaaQ Catt microLandscapes Presented in association with Darebin Arts' Speakeasy Maurial Spearim (Gamilaraay NSW/VIC) GROUND CONTROL Emma Fishwick (WA) Presented in association with Darebin Arts' Speakeasy Desert Body Creep feeds on the corpse of a post post- Rachel Perks & Bridget Balodis (VIC) everything world. Turning fear and horror into an imaginary Presented in association with Darebin Arts' Speakeasy Spearim is achingly good—The Herald Sun force, it explores the transition from dead to undead, Presented in association with Darebin Arts' Speakeasy Space and time can stretch and contract… depending on A stand-out performer—The Koori Mail proposing a strategy towards new forms of life. [ANGRY SEXX] is bold and dark, and poignantly blurs the where you stand They say a cat has nine lives—and for Ruby, a First Nations Drawing from the long history of fictional worms in our line between truth and science fiction to make a lasting Navigate a path through a shifting landscape of movement, woman navigating the 21st century, ‘nine lives’ are but cultural imagination—as agents of fear, invasion and statement—The Music digital projection, sculpture and rippling sound that one way to explain her idiosyncrasies. Join this captivating monstrosity—Desert Body Creep repositions the worm as Meet Chris, a tireless young astronaut on an interstellar collapses, folds and expands around you. character on her quest for connection, as she unites the the protagonist in a world of contemporary decay. Through mission to find Earth 2.0 and save all of humanity. No biggie. truths of history with her experience of the present to its churning of the earth, and cyclic action of demolition Perth-based dance and media artist Emma Fishwick presents After a year of voyaging in artificial stasis in a tiny capsule— uncover the binding threads of people and place. and rearticulation, the worm offers a chance at microLandscapes, an immersive 360-degree exploration of her only companions a passive aggressive operating system transformation. distance and perception, and their effects on landscape. Following stand-out performances across theatre and and a plant called Terry—Chris wakes and tries to call home. nextwave.org.au screen, BlaaQ Catt is the solo debut from writer and Performed by dancer and choreographer Angela Goh and But Earth is not at all as she left it. Transforming the main hall within the Northcote Town Hall, performer Maurial Spearim (We Get It, Redfern Now)—a an oversized gummi worm, Desert Body Creep wriggles microLandscapes features stunning video and original sound Part science experiment, part love story, GROUND one-woman exploration of hope, longing and connection, and writhes through a hallucinatory landscape, inviting design from Sydney artist Kynan Tan alongside dancers CONTROL takes our world and fast forwards it 100 years resonant without exception. Spearim skilfully fuses the a parasitic invasion to produce new forms of flesh from Niharika Senapati (Chunky Move) and Ella-Rose Trew into the future, spitting it back with a grimace. A furious, ancient with the contemporary to bring two worlds into the compost of history. More zombie than phoenix, this (Co3). This is a multi-dimensional experience that creates experimental comedy about violence, technological nextwave.org.au one, weaving Gamilaraay language together with song, new dance work constructs a simulation of natural forces, a dynamic, shifting terrain allowing you to explore and singularity and long-distance relationships, created by the dance and storytelling, to reflect on the complexities of through which the body emerges as an unnatural entity— contemplate your own relationship with landscape. award-winning team behind ANGRY SEXX. contemporary Indigenous experience. redefining itself for an uncertain future. #nextwave16 17–22 MAY Northcote Town Hall 17–22 MAY Northcote Town Hall 4–14 MAY Northcote Town Hall 4–8 MAY Northcote Town Hall Tue–Fri 7:30pm | Sat 3:30pm & 7:30pm Tue–Sat 7:45pm | Sun 3pm & 6:45pm | 60 min Tue–Sat 7:45pm | Sat 14 May 4:15pm & 7:45pm Wed–Fri 6:30pm | Sat 2pm & 6:30pm | Sun 5:30pm Sun 6:30pm | 60 min | Tickets $28 / $23 Tickets $28 / $23 | Green Tickets 22 MAY 3pm Sun 6:45pm | 60 min | Tickets $28 / $23 50 min | Tickets $28 / $23 Green Tickets 18 MAY Green Tickets 8 MAY & 10 MAY

#nextwave16 POST-SHOW ARTIST TALK

21 MAY 4:30pm | 60 min | Free Contains smoke effects. Contains haze, loud sound and strobing effects. Audiences are invited to 13 MAY 7:45pm roam during the performance. 21 MAY 3:30pm Kickstart #desertbodycreep Artist talk 21 MAY 4:30pm Contains content around gender-based violence, strobe lighting, smoke Kickstart #ml_16 and haze, nudity, adult themes and coarse language. Contains strong language, strobe lighting, smoke effects, some loud sound effects and adult themes. #GROUNDCONTROLNW

#blaaqcatt

30 This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the This project has been assisted by Critical Path, UNSW Creative Practice This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the This project has been assisted by the Western Australian Government 31 Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, City of Melbourne, Lab, ReadyMade Works, the Australian Government through the Australia Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. through the Department of Culture and the Arts, Healthway promoting Ilbijerri Theatre Company, Songlines Aboriginal Music Corporation and Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and FORM Dance Projects. Image Sarah Walker the Drug Aware message, Propel Youth Arts, Fremantle Arts Centre, Centre Phunktional Arts Limited. Image Angela Goh of Interdisciplinary Arts (CIA Studios) and Performing Lines WA. Image Arika Waulu Image Tanya Voltchanskaya & Matt Sav Northcote Northcote

[MIS]CONCEIVE PASSING Thomas E.S. Kelly Amrita Hepi (Bundjalung NSW/Ngāpuhi NZ) (Bundjalung/Wiradjuri/NSW) & Jahra Wasasala (NZ) Relating to the Immediate Telltale Presented in association with Darebin Arts' Speakeasy Curated by Justin Hinder (VIC) Presented in association with Darebin Arts' Speakeasy Surroundings of Something; In his debut full-length dance-theatre work, rising & Anna Louise Richardson (WA) Amrita doesn't just make the political personal, she makes it performer and choreographer Thomas E.S. Kelly explodes or, This is What I'm Talking physical and impossible to ignore—Nakkiah Lui, writer Featuring Richard Lewer & Eden Menta, Paul Hodges & the misconceptions and prescriptions of what it is to be a Georgina Cue, Katherine Hattam & Megan Sloan, Kate Knight young urban Aboriginal person in Australia. Using the notion of racial passing as a catalyst for a series of About & Kate Just, Mark Smith & Chilly Philly (VIC) movement monologues, spoken word passages and physical Megan Alice Clune (NSW) Combining Indigenous knowledge with contemporary gestural conversations, PASSING maps two bodies under pressure Developed in association with Arts Project Australia motifs, [MIS]CONCEIVE's fusion of hip hop, physical percussion from the responsibility that comes from being of mixed Ambient, adjective and rhythmic cultural pattern is expressive and immediate. Telltale takes you through the dusty corridors of a once cultural background. 1. Relating to the immediate surroundings of something Through the mash-up of traditional and contemporary styles majestic hotel, steeped in the echoes of a mysterious past. that simultaneously reject, reveal and re-educate modern A trans-pacific partnership of physical force, PASSING Forging a new mode of composition and music making, A place where lovelorn ghosts float through tumbling (mis)understandings of Indigeneity, [MIS]CONCEIVE argues combines Amrita Hepi's hip-hop prowess and background Relating to the Immediate Surroundings of Something; or, This children, and where laughter, tears, breakfast and booze that ‘knowledge’ does not equal comprehension. Books are in contemporary dance with Jahra Wasasala's grounded is What I'm Talking About is musician and composer Megan blend into a heady cocktail of comic tragedy. nextwave.org.au not their covers. One size does not fit all. and ritualistic choreographic style to create a provocative, Alice Clune's exploration of performance and space. Across Telltale is a writing and exhibition project centred on a complex and deeply magnetic work—a physical dialogue that six days, a series of leading Melbourne musicians, including Kelly and his ensemble move with assured physicality in narrative conceived by ten artists, written by Justin Hinder exists between two daughters of diaspora. pianist Jacob Abela and techno maestro Lucy Cliché, will this high-energy work that pulses with humour, play and perform private morning sets which are then recorded and explored over a series of collaborative workshops personal stories. Voice and body become pathways to Bringing together some of Australia's most talented and morphed by Clune's innovative composition into an and studio sessions. In pairs they have created a suite of traditional dance and song, as repetition and disguise creatives including an original score by Lavern Lee (Guerre, expansive echo that inhabits the venue for the entire day. works including painting, ceramics, video and drawing

nextwave.org.au make way for moments of discovery. [MIS]CONCEIVE brings Cassius Select, Black Vanilla) and styling by installation A feat of musicianship and technology, Relating… examines that interpret and respond to the stories built up around audiences through the past, to understand the present, artist Honey Long, PASSING is an evocative portrait of the the nature of the concert and its relationship with the space the mythical hotel Telltale Grande, where some guests are and move forward into a better future. ‘exotic’, and the exhausting effects the title can bear. surrounding it. destined to stay forever. #nextwave16 17–22 MAY Northcote Town Hall 12–18 MAY Northcote Town Hall 12–21 MAY Northcote Uniting Church 7 MAY – 11 JUNE Arts Project Australia Tue–Sat 9pm | Sun 2pm & 8pm | 45 min Tue–Fri 6:30pm | Sat 3:15pm & 6:30pm Thu–Sat 12pm–5pm | Free Mon–Fri 9am–5pm | Sat 10am–5pm | Free Tickets $23 / $18 40 min | Tickets $23 / $18 Opening 7 MAY 3pm Green Tickets 14 MAY 3:15pm & 18 MAY 6:30pm LIVE PERFORMANCE EVENT 14 MAY 6pm | 120 min | Free ARTIST TALK

#nextwave16 21 MAY 2pm | 60 min | Free #misconceive 13 MAY 6:30pm

#relatingtoambient Opening 7 MAY 3pm Contains coarse language, adult themes, strobing effects, loud sound and haze. Artist talk 21 MAY 2pm #PASSINGnextwave Emerging Curators Program #telltalenextwave

32 This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the 33 Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and Blacktown Arts the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, Creative the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Centre through its Creative Residency Program. Blacktown Arts Centre is Partnerships Australia through MATCH and Critical Path. Image Anastasia Nielsen Image Kate Just and Kate Knight Telltale artists, 2015. Photographer an initiative of Blacktown City Council. Image Lucy Alcorn and Vanessa Varghese Simon Strong Image Amanda James Northcote Collective

The Voices of Joan of Arc Support for Next Wave doesn’t always come from deep pockets. Janie Gibson (VIC) More often, deep hearts. Presented in association with Darebin Arts' Speakeasy

Janie Gibson has established herself as a powerful and Make a tax-deductible donation, or pledge your time, art original performance maker—RealTime Arts or space! Join the Next Wave Collective as a Lover, Joan of Arc was a prophetess, a warrior, a girl. Her story Maker, Mover, Shaker or Future Shaper at nextwave.org.au is one of resistance, speaking to the tragedy of silenced women's voices across the ages.

In this intimate performance, actor and theatre maker Janie Gibson delves into the past to channel the voices of Joan of Arc. Weaving together song, story, text and music, Gibson gives voice to Joan's own words as captured in the detailed transcript of her trial for heresy.

Together with electric violinist and vocalist Xani Kolac (The Twoks) we enter a musical world of wild lamentation, devotional hymns and original compositions. From the courtroom, to her prison cell, to the battlefields of France… nextwave.org.au Out of the fire, we hear Joan speak.

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13 MAY 2:15pm WITHOUT THE Contains full frontal nudity, violent imagery and a replica weapon. #voicesofjoan MURDOCH

34 This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the THESATURDAYPAPER.COM.AU Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Image Daniel Han

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Central Business District North Melbourne and Brunswick Fitzroy area Northcote Discursive P. 13–18 P. 19–25 P.26–28 P. 29–34 P. 8–9 Supporters Artists Eva Heiky Olga Abbinga P.27 Brainlina P.9 Hannah Brontë P.24 Government Partners Index Annaliese Constable P.22 Megan Alice Clune P.33 The Delta Project P.25 Xanthe Dobbie & Tiyan Baker P.22 Alasdair Doyle & Liam James P.23 Julia Drouhin & Pip StaffordP.18 Editionless Editions P.8 Léuli Eshraghi P.28 Kelly Fliedner P.9 Emma Fishwick P.31 Janie Gibson P.34 P.30 P.32 Angela Goh Amrita Hepi & Jahra Wasasala Justin Hinder & Project Partners Anna Louise Richardson P.33 Daniel Jenatsch P.14 Johnson+Thwaites P.16 Thomas E.S. Kelly P.32 Ben Landau P.14 Samantha McCulloch & Frances Wilkinson P.28 Rafaella McDonald & Natasha Gabriella Tontey P.15 Lorna Munro, Merindah Donnelly & Tjanara Talbot P.27 Dan McCabe P.17 Rachel Perks & Bridget Balodis P.31 Pony Express P.16 Nat Randall P.17 Rani P Collaborations P.23 Claire Robertson Education Partner Principal Media Partner Media Partners P.21 Dylan Sheridan P.21 Maurial Spearim P.30 Lilian Steiner P.20 Geoffrey WatsonP.20 Katie West P.15 Eleanor Zeichner P.8

Program Partners nextwave.org.au Events A-97 P.14 Admission into the Everyday Sublime P.20 Algorithmic MisfitsP.14 Angkot Alien P.15 Arrival of the Rajah P.27 BlaaQ Catt P.30 Blaksland and Lawless P.27 Camel P.20 Decolonist P.15 Desert Body Creep P.30 Ecosexual Bathhouse P.16 Far From Here P.21 FEMPRE$$ nextwave.org.au P.24 The Fraud Complex P.16 GROUND CONTROL P.31 The Horse P.21 microLandscapes P.31 [MIS]CONCEIVE P.32 Mummy Dearest P.22

One Million Views P.22 Our disappearing present P.8 PASSING P.32 #nextwave16 Relating to the Immediate Surroundings of Something; or, This is RMIT DESIGN HUB What I'm Talking About P.33 The Second Woman P.17 Sedih // Sunno P.23 P.8 #nextwave16 Separating Hydrogen From Air: A Primer Shadows on the hill P.17 shadow sites P.28 Ships in the night P.9 Sisters Akousmatica P.18 Something Less P.23 Still I Rise P.24 Telltale P.33 Through love: five feminist perspectives P.9 Ua numi le fau P.28 Under My Skin P.25 The Voices of Joan of Arc P.34

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