Friday 19, September, 3pm - 4pm & Saturday 20, September, 6pm - 7pm
Plateau ouvert
La XXX Punk II: Betel Nut Green (Taiwan)
Choreography & artistic direction Fangas Nayaw
Performance Ansiyang ‧ Markakazuwan, Naceku, maya' a taboeh hayawan, Sayum ‧ Vuraw
Dramaturg Betty Yi-Chun Chen
What does it mean to restage traditions that have disappeared, and how? Through La XXX Punk, Amis artist Fangas Nayaw speculates on the extinction of Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples’ cultures via notions of Indigenous-punk futurism. Fangas begins the creative process by creating legislative rules and guidelines for Indigenous customs that do not exist. Featuring a 4-channel video work, documenting the disappearance of a shared life form of Amis People’s past and traditions. Betel Nut Green is a live work reimagining the musical and choreographic embodiment of Indigenous Peoples’ future through a collective fictionalisation towards rewriting futuristic history as embodied by four performers from various Nations of Taiwan. Yet this hidden and invisible color is not the black or white of day and night — it is green: vivid, life-giving, and rooted in the earth.
Saturday 20, September, 3pm
MARGIN - Original Bomber Crew (Brazil)
When we talk garbled and write misspelled,
when we sing out of tune and dance off-key,
when we paint blurred and draw skewed...
it's not because we're making mistakes,
it's because we haven't been colonised
-- Antônio Bispo dos Santos
Original Bomber Crew share here some of their creative technologies in “everyday dances”, revealing their ways of relating to the world and choreographing new realities, unique devices in tune with the "quebrada" and the streets, between each dawn and dusk, taking the flow of their place to distant places, such as Piauí - an area of transition between biomes in the north-east of Brazil - and other collectivities that they build there: Interação Ralé, Casa Dança, trilogy tReta - Suspeit∞ - Vapor, Festival Retalho, Maior de Todas, Revoada-casa de produção, Dança Quebrada, Preto Correndo, Campo Arte, Click, Labigó, Estúdio Debaixo, Caju Pinga Fogo, Flow da Caatinga (...)
From 16 to 28, September, 12pm-7pm
Gudirr Gudirr (Australia)
Installation by Marrugeku 22 minutes. 3 channel.
Gudirr Gudirr (the guwayi bird) calls when the tide is turning — to miss the call is to drown. By turns hesitant, restless, resilient and angry, Gudirr Gudirr lights a path from a broken past through a fragile present and on towards an uncertain future. Expressing a language born of their Asian–Indigenous identities, Visual artist Vernon Ah Kee and movement artist Dalisa Pigram capture the warning call of the wader bird in an intimate gestural language of dance, portraiture and text compositions. Filmed on location in Dalisa’s Yawuru homelands in the north west of Australia, the installation re-imagines her original solo work first presented by Marrugeku in 2013.
From 17 to 21, September,12pm-7pm
La XXX Punk (Taiwan)
A film by Fangas Nayaw
Alcôve
Originally commissioned by the 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art of QAGOMA, Brisbane, for the context of FORUM, Fangas presents the version of the director's cut as a one-channel video. This work reimagines the disappearance of Amis People's dancing culture and proposes a speculation on futurist dance.
