 
Joan La Barbara
Joan La Barbara
Joan La Barbara presents works exploring the colour spectrum of a single pitch resonating in her skull, an evocation of bird song and circular singing.
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Joan La Barbara presents works exploring the colour spectrum of a single pitch resonating in her skull, an evocation of bird song and circular singing.
 
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
 
Copying without Copying is 3 evenings of events that are about what happens when we speak, or when we hear someone speak on our behalf, when we share a collective moment of hearing and maybe understanding.
 
Personal Spaces: inversion of a territorial bell, confusing the realms between rehearsal and performance, public and private space.
 
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
 
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
 
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
 
How do we gesture to the invisible, the trans or the obscure? A performative conversation between boychild and Fernando, a sharing of gestures, and a bodily back and forth between mathematician and dance artist.
 
A rare live performance which, although not a full installation, made use of the unique acoustic and spatial properties of the Arches to rattle the audience and help it locate its third ear.
 
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Sunday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
 
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an abandoned oil tanker on Hoy.
 
First in a series of workshops for workers and non-workers who care. Does work that asks us to be attentive to the needs of others force us to sell our capacity for kindness?