My inspiration comes from my materials. I can pick up a fibre or a piece of bling and it will tell me what to make.
Author: Living Room Theatre
Reflecting on ‘Black Crows Invaded Our Country’
Professor Danielle Celermajer Sydney has been battered by torrential rain for weeks. Unusual rain, lashing rain, sometimes deafening rain. And in the background, rain that occurs to many of us through the trope of climate change; and so terror-inducing rain. Shuttered in the round-house (that site in the University of Sydney vet school where horses […]
Behind the Curtain…
The Research and Inspiration for ‘Black Crows’ – Part 3 ‘Black Crows’ gathers a diverse range of artists, performers, researchers and activists who respond to these ideas through performance, dance, sound, field recordings, voice samples, climbing, and lecture, allowing the audience to reflect on the content in an emotional and intellectual way. In part three of […]
Behind the Curtain…
The Research and Inspiration for ‘Black Crows’ – Part 2 How does Black Crows draw on environmental issues and themes for an axis of storytelling and performance? Thematically, my artistic work steps between environmental and the personal, often referring to it as the epic vs domestic. The Anthropocene gives me a framework to tell story from, to […]
Behind the Curtain
The Research and Inspiration for ‘Black Crows’ – Part 1 On March 24-25, 2017 The Living Room Theatre in partnership with Sydney Environment Institute & the City of Sydney will be hosting ‘Black Crows Invaded Our Country,’ an artistic contextualisation of the public lecture in the merging of academic research with indigenous story, performance, and sound art. Black Crows features research […]
How do we communicate our academic work to the broader public?
The idea is to rethink, recontextualise, and rediscover the usual academic lecture.
Architect of an unstable mind
“The decisions she makes about how spaces and buildings are used are breathtaking, and often deeply unfashionable”.
Introducing Leah Lui-Chivizhe
Earth Hour’s Storyteller Leah is a doctoral student in history at the University of Sydney where her research focuses on Torres Strait Islander relationships and engagements with the marine environment and the Islander-turtle relationship. Leah also holds graduate qualifications in material anthropology and human geography. She has undertaken research on material culture and eastern Torres Strait tombstone ceremonies, Islander […]
5 minutes with Luke Craven
It is my hope that the performance creates an insight into the fragility of our own safety and the humanity we find in times of great threat.
They come for them at night
Showing of a work development This work, will explore what a home is and will delve into the comforts of food and the familiar, as a nurturer and nourishment. Ultimately, it’s about leaving and those left behind. In my work, the audience is invited to jump down the imagination hole and create their own unique […]