#freerange2012

So we're at the tail end of what has been an amazing four weeks of process and development!

It seems like ages ago that Sarah Winter's CROSS-STITCH: Night of the Dead Trees kicked off FreeRange 2012 with an immersive two night experience of experimental work, curated around subtlety and storytelling - but here we are, beginning the final showings tonight of five developing projects.

Over the next two days, the following works will open their doors to share what they've been growing so far:

I Don't Think This is Happiness - a collection of works curated by Lauren Clelland, in the Galleries.

Trade Winds - a new dance and new media work developed by members of Polytoxic, in our Studio.

Aurelian - a contemporary performance work developed by Genevieve Trace mixing memory, biography, and verbatim stories of grief, in The Basement.

Violatus - a confronting and visceral new work, exploring the audience-performer relationship and underworld environments, by Ron Seeto - in the Warehouse

and finally, Seed, from which the above pictures come - a developing dance work; a collaborative piece initiated by Brian Lucas, and members of Singapore's Odyssey Dance Theatre, Lo pui Sze and Linnea Ong - presenting in The Whitlam space.

Lauren Clelland, lead artist of the FreeRange 2012 project, I Don't Think This is Happiness, kindly shares some of the stimulus material that she and her team of artists worked from as this suite of works started to take form. 

They've been working together in a fluid way - Lauren working as a centre point from which the ensemble of artists touch in and out, consulting and developing new works as Lauren frames dialogues, connects different artists, facilitates and teases out emergent ideas. It's been an extremely collaborative and discursive model of curatorship or facilitation, and we're eager to see the end results.

Take a look at the following pieces of writing to see the drivers behind this team's process.

Goat Island performance Group - Letter to a Young Practitioner

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Members of Odyssey Dance Theatre (Singapore), Linnea Ong and Lo Pui Sze have joined dance-theatre maker Brian Lucas in the rehearsal room today, as they start developing Seed. 

A sewing day for Lisa and Leah from Polytoxic - these expansive white costumes encompass both form and function. In addition to being beautiful creations in their own right, the team have been exploring the costumed body as a projection surface, for animations by artist Samuel Tupou. This approach will be the context in which the narrative of their work unfolds.