Image credit Nicholas Folland
Dancer Veronica Shum
'42a' is an interactive dance installation for a gallery space. It has been presented at Downtown Artspace, Australian Experimental Art Foundation (AEAF), Adelaide, Rough Draft, Sydney, Metro Arts, Brisbane and Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne. Funded by Arts SA and Australia Council for the Arts.
Photo credit Edwin Comey, Graphics Fleur Lewis
'42a' was developed through a collaborative process with Alison's initial concept being evolved by and with each of the artists working on the project.
Concept/ direction /choreography: Alison Currie
Video: Annemarie Kohn
Sound: Alisdair Macindoe
Visual Art: Kel Mocilnik
Media: Adam Synnott
Dancers have varied with different presentations:
Carlie Angel
Alison Currie
Kel Mocilnik
Lewis Rankin
Adam Synnott
Veronica Shum
Rachel Fenwick
Mentor: Solon Ulbrich
Producer national tour: Jason Cross Insite Arts
Auspice: Ausdance SA
Thanks: Phil Callaghan
Excerpts fromAustralian Experimental Art Foundation season
Director: Alison Currie
Video: Annemarie Kohn
Sound: Alisdair Macindoe
Visual Art: Kel Mocilnik
Media: Adam Synnott
Dancers: Carlie Angel
Alison Currie
Rachel Fenwick
Kel Mocilnik
Adam Synnott
Veronica Shum
Video by Closer Productions
Image credit Nicholas Folland
Dancer/ maker Kel Mocilnik
Concepts of house and home are explored in '42a'. The private made public.
The dance and objects are seen to have equal value within the work and the performers are present for the entirety of the gallery opening hours. A cued performance system was developed in order to make this possible, where dancers would take cues from the audience to perform segments of choreography.
Image credit Edwin Comey
Maker: Annemarie Kohn
Wallpaper spread from the wall underneath the cracked tiles of the Downtown Art Space floor. Adam Synnott worked to create an interactive wall of the same wallpaper in which the flowers followed views as they passed.
Image credit Teri Hoskin
Dancer: Alison Currie
Maker: Kel Mocilnik
The experience of ones house varies depending on what is happening in ones life. The physical structure of this space will appear to change. When you are irritable the space may seem smaller, calm more spacious, when you worry the ceiling feels closer. This corridor created a space where the intensity of feeling was present, here the space reflects the feeling as opposed to the reverse. A sound score of similar intensity, by Alisdair Macindoe was played within this space.
Image credit Edwin Comey
Maker: Alison Currie
Scale is manipulated in '42a' within the objects and choreography large actions and objects become small and vice versa. A giant biscuit, minature bikes, the enlarged movement of a small action etc.
Article written for DOMA - Issue 0/ Spring 2010
DOMA is a biannual book-zine in Skopje, Macedonia
Full article can be read here: 42a: The Dance of the Home