Archie Barry - Saturday 5 March, 10am - 2pm
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Through a series of guided sequential exercises we will use our voices to communicate affect without words through groaning, sighing, growling, humming and singing. We will practice unlearning language and encountering vocal dexterity to repair and release a spectrum of voices within.


Jo lloyd - Saturday 19 March, 10am - 2pm
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Word dance - a physical session attending to ways of involving words, both non verbally and verbally, whilst dancing. Attempting to identify, then erase the use of words from the dance, to find what stimulates or glitches for each individual.


Steven Rhall - Saturday 23 April, 10am - 2pm
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Workshop participants will explore the potential in performative practice within the context of exhibition and art framing devices including and extending outwards from both the artist and public body. This workshop explores ideas of traditional exhibition modalities and aims to shift associated bodies in response to various locations of power and agency.


Lilian Steiner - Saturday 7 May, 10 - 2pm
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In this workshop we’ll activate our imaginations as a process for accessing an improvised dance/choreography. We’ll believe in what’s not tangibly there, in order to produce convincing contributions to the space we occupy and for the eyes who watch us.

Artist Bios

Archie Barry

Born and raised along the ocean harbour and coastal regions of the Eora Nation/Sydney in 1990, Archie Barry is an artist whose practice spans performance, video, music production and writing. Their work takes form as autobiographical, somatic and process led, cultivating a genealogy of personas based on personal histories of power and mortality. Moments of intense connection with audiences are created through disquieting bodily gestures, doubled voices, de-formed and re-formed language. Barry’s work has been presented in a range of solo and group settings including The National Gallery of Victoria, The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art and Contemporary Art Tasmania amongst other spaces. They have given performance lectures and artist talks at The Centre for Contemporary Photography, The National Gallery of Victoria, Parsons and The New School, Minneapolis College of Art and Design and Monash University Museum of Art.


Jo Lloyd

Jo Lloyd is a Melbourne dance artist working with choreography as a social encounter, revealing behaviour over various durations and contexts. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Jo has presented work in Japan, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Dance Massive, Liveworks, Mona Foma and the MCA. Recent works include; Archive the archive for the NGA, the award winning OVERTURE, Melbourne Festival 2019, DOUBLE DOUBLE with Deanne Butterworth, Tina Havelock Stevens and Evelyn Morris, CUTOUT at ACCA and Confusion for Three (Arts House and PICA). Jo has worked extensively with Choreographers Shelley Lasica, Sandra Parker and Gideon Obarzanek, and collaborated with artists; David Rosetzky, Stephen Bram, Alicia Frankovich, Nicola Gunn, Speak Percussion and Liza Lim, Ranters Theatre and Back to Back Theatre. In 2016 Jo was Resident Director of Lucy Guerin Inc and in 2018 received an Australia Council Fellowship. Jo is resident artist at The Substation.


Lilian Steiner

Lilian Steiner is a choreographer and dancer/performer whose practice champions the deep intelligence of the body in movement and its unique ability to reveal and comment on the complexities of contemporary humanity. Her interests extend into visual arts and experimental sound practices where the body is the base for questioning and expression.

Lilian’s choreographic work has been presented in Australia, France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain and Hong Kong. She is a long-term performer-collaborator with Lucy Guerin Inc. and has worked on numerous projects with choreographers Phillip Adams, Shelley Lasica, Melanie Lane, Brooke Stamp and Rebecca Jensen amongst others. She frequently collaborates with artists working with sculpture, film and experimental sound performance.
www.liliansteiner.com


Steven Rhall

Steven Rhall is a post-conceptual artist operating from a First Nation, white-passing, queer, cis male positionality, geographically located on neighbouring Woiwurrung and Wathaurung lands. Rhall’s cultural background consists of Taungurung and colonial heritages – a state endemic to living in a colonised society – but goes by Taungurung when asked. His alter-ego Blak Metal is less defined and uses they/them pronouns.

Rhall’s art practice finds expression in ideas of institutional critique, interrogating modes of representation, classification and hierarchy both within and external to the art world(s). He works across various forms and interventions, including installation, performance, process-led methodologies, curatorial projects, sculpture, and art within the public realm. Many of his projects propose, explore and critique the exchange of economic and cultural capital found in the matrix of relations and intersections of First Nation art production, presentation, and encounter


Zoë Bastin

Zoë Bastin (b. 1992) is an artist, curator, sometimes writer and self-described rat-bag. As an artist who makes performances, sculptures, videos, photos and runs a radio show she’s fascinated by the porousness of the body, where it starts and ends and how culture inscribes ideas of gender and sexuality onto our physical form.

Bastin recently completed her PhD at RMIT University, where she was researching gender by transforming patriarchal hierarchies in bodies and objects. Bastin has previously exhibited and performed at Bus Projects, The Substation, Wyndham City Council, SEVENTH Gallery, MADA Gallery at Monash University, Testing Grounds, School of Art Gallery RMIT University, Tinning St Presents, c3 Gallery and BLINDSIDE.