Project Summary
This three-part Project will see Le Roy work with artistic collaborator Scarlet Yu, and 18 Australian performers to create a groundbreaking new work
Temporary Title, 2015, and for the first time, the public will be invited to experience the creative development of a Kaldor Public Art Project
through a series of open rehearsals. In Addition, Le Roy will perform his seminal solo work Self Unfinished (1998), which has never before
been presented in Australia.
Over the past two decades, Le Roy has collaborated with numerous acclaimed artists around the world to create his works. In 2012, Le Roy was invited
by Laurence Rassel to create his first exhibition Retrospective at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies solidifying him as a key figure in the recent
dialogue between choreography and contemporary art. This exhibition was later presented to critical acclaim at Centre Pompidou, Paris, and MoMA PS1
in New York. Le Roy’s work Untitled, 2012, was presented at the 27th Kaldor Public Art Project, 13 Rooms, and was recognised as one
of the strongest and most resonant pieces in the exhibition.
Please note: Temporary Title, 2015, the open rehearsals and Self Unfinished contain nudity.
Xavier Le Roy
Date
Temporary Title, 2015
Friday 20 November, 3-9pm
Saturday 21 November, 12-6pm
Sunday 22 November, 12-6pm
Track 8, Carriageworks
Free entry, bookings not required
Open rehearsals
5, 12, 18 & 19 November, 4-6pm
Carriageworks
Free entry, bookings required
Self Unfinished
17-19 November, 8pm
Bay 17, Carriageworks
Free entry, bookings required
Location
Currently exhibiting at
Temporary Title, 2015
Temporary Title, 2015, experiments with the process of pattern recognition, exploring forms which are not quite distinguishable as human - yet not completely anything else - and the idea of movement as a continuous process of transformation. The performers transition between strange and familiar forms and formations, challenging our perceptions of the human body and its capacity for physical expression and representation. The piece does not utilise props or costumes and the peformers are naked throughout the exhibition. This neutrality allows the transitory movements and conversations to remain the core of the visitor’s experience.
Le Roy works at the forefront of choreographic and dance practice, representing the most contemporary developments of the form, and presents Temporary Title, 2015, in an exhibition context rather than in the theatre. His practice explores facets of the relationship between performers and spectators,
using movement as his medium. By calling the exhibition Temporary Title, 2015, he alludes to the state of constant flux
which marks and defines the work. Le Roy describes the exhibition as a continually transforming landscape, where the visitor shifts between observer
and contributor to the collective experience.
Temporary Title, 2015, is free to the public and bookings are not required.
Open Rehearsals
A former molecular biologist, Le Roy brings a deep, critical curiosity to his collaborative experimental process. Rather than instructing his performers
to move using a specific technique, direction or tempo, he proposes ideas to be discussed and actualised in movement and form. For the development
of Temporary Title, 2015, he invites the audience through a series of open rehearsals to participate in this unique process.
The open rehearsals are free to the public. Please reserve your place here.
Self Unfinished
This seminal solo work was first performed in 1998 and presents the choreographer’s early experiments with the ‘performer’s body’ and its relationship
to the spectator. Unlike Temporary Title, 2015, this work utilises the traditional constraints of a theatre environment - together the two
works offer complementary perspectives of his renowned practice.
"A gripping mental space. Head over heels, the dancer’s body is transformed in real time into a series of hallucinogenic, morphing aberrations…based on unwritten laws and a disquieting, inhuman rhythm. Xavier Le Roy taps into a new field where scientific and social data is transferred into imaginary representations of the body."
- Curator and art critic François Piron
Self-Unfinished is free to the public. Please reserve your seat here.
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Xavier Le Roy, Scarlet Yu, John Kaldor and Lisa Havilah discuss Temporary Title, 2015
Xavier Le Roy, Scarlet Yu, John Kaldor and Lisa Havilah discuss Temporary Title, 2015
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Xavier Le Roy
Xavier Le Roy is a celebrated choreographer, dancer and performance artist. Over the past two decades, he has collaborated with numerous acclaimed dancers
and artists around the world. Le Roy’s work Untitled, 2012, was presented at the 27th Kaldor
Public Art Project, 13 Rooms, and was recognised as one of the strongest and most resonant pieces in the exhibition.
In 2009, Le Roy began to create works for museums and galleries including the Tate Modern and the Hayward Gallery in London. In 2012, he produced the
exhibition Retrospective for the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona, and later presented an edition of that work to critical acclaim
at Centre Pompidou and MoMa, PS1 in New York in 2014. In recent decades, he has performed his works worldwide. His collaborators include
renowned artists such as Jérôme Bel, Tino Sehgal and Yvonne Rainer. Between 1991 and 1995, Le Roy worked with the Compagnie de l’Alambic
in Paris and from 1992 to 1997 he performed with the group Detektor in Berlin.
Le Roy has been artist-in-residence at the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His work has been shown in many
international festivals and institutions, including Tanz im August in Berlin, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Museum of Contemporary
Art in Seoul and the Julia Stoschek Collection in Dusseldorf.
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DATES
Open rehearsals
5, 18 & 19 November, 4-6pm
Self Unfinished
15-17 November, 8pm
Temporary Title, 2015
Friday 20 November, 3-9pm
Saturday 21 November, 12-6pm
Sunday 22 November, 12-6pm
LOCATION
Carriageworks
245 Wilson St, Eveleigh
ENTRY
All events are free to the public
Bookings not required for Temporary Title, 2015
Bookings required for the open rehearsals and Self Unfinished
ACCESSIBILITY
Carriageworks has wheelchair ramps and level access at all entrances. There is level access and disabled seating available in all venues. Toilets
are fully accessible. See the How to Book page on the Carriageworks website
for information on booking accessible seating for ‘Self-Unfinished’.
TRANSPORT
By Train
Redfern Station: 8 minute walk
Macdonaltown Station: 10 minute walk
Newtown Station: 15 minute walk
By Bus
Buses: 422, 423, 426, 428, 370, 352
The nearest bus stop is at Codrington Street at City Road, approximately a 5 minute walk to Carriageworks.
By Bike
There are bike lanes on surrounding streets, and plenty of bike racks on site. View the City of Sydney’s recommended cycle routes here.
By Taxi
Taxis should enter Carriageworks at 229 Wilson Street, corner of Queen Street.
By Car
Casual parking at Sydney University: 5 minute walk
Casual parking at Shepherd Street carpark: 7 minute walk
Casual parking at Australian Technology Park: 20 minute walk
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Lead Patrons
Lead Corporate Partner
Government Partners
Philanthropic Partner
Corporate partner
Cultural Supporter
Official Airline Partner
