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Matt Cornell and Wendy Yu

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“Look back and see the gallery that the body is”
Wendy Yu

Wendy Yu is a dance or movement artist based in Sydney. Her work has generally been centred around exploring dance outside of it’s theatrical context and placing it on a medium in which viewers may witness the intricacies of movement that bodies, in the space, may achieve. We cover.

Matt’s lineage and background
Designing interactive Jitter matrix patchworks
Apathetic movement
Binocular vision: sensing the phenomena and seeing the semiotics
Choreographing coding / Aleatoric choreography
Phenomenology of seeing dance
Charlie, Charlie
Having a sense of what could be
Working with choreographers that have an extra sense
Embodiment
‘Independencies’, as an artist
Missing dancing
Gallery dance
Minisculisation of dance
The act of creating a pre-exisiting entity
Look back and see the gallery that the body is
Preferred methods of choreography: Matt
How can we systematise that magic that comes from movement
Being a magician or a wizard in choreography
The power of dance being in empathy and the notion of apathetic choreography
Choreographing for parents, colonial movements
Making cheap art
Making until you realise what you’re making
Valuing extraction to become an object outside of the self, to be viewed, restructuring it rather than restructuring you
Frontality
Hating Formula 1 into loving
Generating movement from data
Handling impulse and handling data

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Candy Bowers

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“A really hard (glass) ceiling gives you cuts and bruises” (breaking through it leaves scars)
Candy Bowers

Candy Bowers is an award-winning writer, actor, director, theatre maker, social-activist, comedian and producer. The artistic director of Black Honey Company, Candy has pioneered a fierce sub-genre of lyrical theatre that delves into the heart of radical feminist dreaming. We cover.

Background: South African | Australian
Making people feel tension in performance
Explaining the Apartheid
Not just whats going on outside of us but also intra-community conversations
Using the term Colonial Supremacy instead of white supremacy
challenging the conservatism
Female roles in theatre performance
Perpetuating gender roles in theatre
preventing diabetes being the ultimate decolonisation: One the Bear
Changing relationship with food, challenging relationship with sex and women
South Africans and diabetes and introduction of sugar
“Spiritual underpinning of diabetes, is unrequited love” – Candy Bowers
Empowering yourself, on others terms
“The process of decolonisation is so much about self care and self loving…Pure nurture” – Candy Bowers , an opposition of the structure and binaries of colonials
“You don’t fight possession with possession” – Candy Bowers
Growing self worth
Legacies and monogamy
Period blood and spinster-ism

“Decolonisation isn’t colonisation” (by a different group)
Candy Bowers

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Anna May Kirk

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“Do less. Do it better.”
Anna May Kirk

Anna May Kirk is an emerging curator, artist and project maker based in Sydney, Australia. She currently holds positions as the Executive Producer of Arts and Culture at FBi Radio and the Coordinator of AD Space.

Casula Powerhouse installation work
Finding the creative process
Running dancing workshops
Being the performer and conducting the performance
Queer Nu werks performance work
Imagining the future as an inquisitor and artist
Making scent
The body as a home for many
Making social comments in curating and presenting artworks

“Art making is kinda impulsive… An itch to be scratched”
Anna May Kirk

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