Friday 19th September & Saturday 20st September, 15pm -16pm
Plateau ouvert
La XXX Punk II: Betel Nut Green
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 20st September, 15pm
MARGIN - Original Bomber Crew
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
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.
La XXX Punk
A film by Fangas Nayaw
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.
Springback Assembly
Critical Presence
In partnership with Aerowaves
Hosted by fore-fronting European dance festivals or events, Springback Assembly brings together a core group of international writers who have completed the Springback Academy critical writing programme and are now correspondents for Springback Magazine. In collaboration with the host organisation, each Assembly attempts to encompass local cultural and socio/political contexts as well as art. The writers reflect profoundly on topics that either they themselves decide, or that emerge throughout the course of the festival. Inspired by the FORUM, the overarching theme of this Assembly will be Hospitality — not only as an act of welcome, but as a critical, artistic and political gesture.
On Record
Sound Presence
In partnership with Aerowaves
On Record is a growing collection of “albums” that register themes, impressions, voices, stories and reflections from dance festivals and platforms. Each album is a track list of separate numbers, in text or audio form, composed by a dedicated team of writers and podcasters. The resulting compilation of different takes and treatments gives a creative afterlife to the live event. During the Biennale, the On Record team will be dedicated to the production of a new Album specifically concerned with the performances, activities, audiences and artists of the FORUM.
