Residency Program
RESIDENCY PROGRAM
Marina Abramović mentored twelve Australian performance practitioners during our 30th Kaldor Public Art Project, Marina Abramović: In Residence. Throughout this intensive live-in Artists' Residency Program, these artists explored the Marina Abramović Method and developed their own performative practice through research, workshops, discussion and debate.
Visitors were invited to observe and participate in the development of performance works, join conversations over a coffee with the artists, catch up on the history of performance art in our library and explore each resident’s creative practice through our stimulating series of public programs.
The Australian Artists' Residency Program for Marina Abramovic: In Residence was curated by Sophie O’Brien and Emma Pike.
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ACTIVITIES
EXPERIMENTS
George (Poonkhin) Khut experiments with biofeedback technology, with the participation of Project visitors.
BRB
zin rehearsing a new work, BRB, ahead of their performance at Evenings in Residence, upstairs at Pier 2/3 on Saturday 4 July.
DESIRE
Lottie Consalvo experiments with stories of desire, with Project staff and visitors, upstairs at Pier 2/3.
CRASH MAT
Natalie Abbott performs Crash Mat Experiment #3, with the participation of Project facilitators and visitors.
10-MINUTE REFLECTION
A guy walks into a residency, takes a photo and then leaves. You’re welcome. Thank you, celebrity. Mariana has a T-shirt that says “No…
CURATOR
Frances Barrett workshops a new work, Curator, in which Emma Pike, Co-Curator of the Artists’ Residency Program, is required to “care” for the artist…
TUCKED UP IN BED
Artist Harriet Gilles with Sophie O’Brien, Co-Curator of the Artists’ Residency Program. It gets cold at the Pier.
10-MINUTE REFLECTION
Our days are so full. Mike Parr, Jill Orr, Nicola Gunn. I notice that “performance artists” in Australia favour the ‘rr’-lion-like. I have two…
CRASH MAT
Natalie Abbott performs Crash Mat Experiment #2, with the participation of Project visitors.
CRASH MAT
Natalie Abbott performs Crash Mat Experiment #1, with the participation of Project visitors.
10-MINUTE REFLECTION
Continental breakfasts are always cold. Is this a fact? I cannot get the Internet today. No matter how nice a continental breakfast is, in…
CONVERSATIONS
Frances Barrett’s notes from the day’s discussions between Marina Abramović and the Residency artists.
CONVERSATIONS
Frances Barrett’s notes from the day’s discussions with Marina Abramović and the Residency artists.
ONE ON ONE
Marina Abramović assists the Residency artists with workshopping ideas for new performance works.
GROUP WORK: Part 3
Marina Abramović assists the Residency artists with workshopping ideas for new performance works.
GROUP WORK: Part 1
Marina Abramović assists the artists with workshopping ideas for new performance works.
10-MINUTE REFLECTION
It is 7 degrees this morning and hard to type. I am not going to warm up with a run (a fast waddle along…
GROUP WORK: Part 2
Marina Abramović assists the Residency artists with workshopping ideas for new performance works.
SCRIPT
The first iteration of a script for zin’s new work, BRB, which explores surfing the internet as a performative act. The work was developed…
CONVERSATIONS
Frances Barrett’s notes from the day’s discussions between Marina Abramović and the Residency artists.
COUNTING RICE
Christian Thompson spends 6.5 hours downstairs, separating and counting rice and lentils, as part of Marina Abramović’s Counting Rice exercise.
PARTICIPATION
Harriet Gillies and Roslyn Helper, of artist duo zin, discuss the use of participation in their collaborative practice.
“PROSUMER”
Harriet Gillies and Roslyn Helper, of collaborative artist duo zin, discuss the concept of the “prosumer” in relation to their performance works.
THE RESIDENCY PROGRAM
Introducing Lottie Consalvo, George Khut and Frances Barrett, participating artists in the Australian Artists’ Residency Program, as part of Marina Abramović: In Residence.
EXPECTATIONS
My approach to making work includes responding to the project brief in the site where the work is presented. In short, this means I…
RADICAL VULNERABILITY
As a performer, I owe a debt to Abramović and other artists of her generation as pioneers of the form. “Pioneer” is a difficult…