Makeshift Workshop: Pseudo Performance
Harrison Hall, Sam Mcgilp and special guests
Presented by Arts House as part of BLEED
Monday 23 – Wednesday 25 September 2024
10.00am – 4.00pm
Applications are now closed.
Access notes
This workshop will involve hour long periods of listening, talking and watching video content, alongside more hands-on interactive moments experimenting with technologies. You are welcome to sit, stand or move around the space throughout the workshop. A range of supportive seating is available.
Auslan and Audio Describer Guides on request – please include in your EOI.
An Access Guide will be available prior to the workshop.
Arts House
North Melbourne Town Hall
521 Queensberry St,
North Melbourne
Hosted by Harrison Hall and Sam Mcgilp, this Makeshift workshop will share practical methodologies for collaboratively devising interdisciplinary new media art and performance work.
Makeshift Workshop: Pseudo Performance is for makers, performers and artists wanting to explore incorporating technology into their performances, or performance into their digital work.
Taking place over three days at Arts House, the workshop will include daily group led movement and somatic based warmups, and workshops sessions that examine different technologies that Harrison and Sam have integrated into their last five years of creations including:
- Real-time, experimental and AI approaches to motion-capture
- Live-video compositing and volumetric capture
- Facial tracking
- Multi-stream live video
The workshop will be an opportunity to:
- Share practical tools for collaboratively making tech / artwork
- Build peer connections between digital and performance artists
- Start to make a community of practice in this hybrid field
- Apply these thoughts and relationships to artists’ own work
In the final day the workshop will become a space for experimentation, providing participants opportunity to explore how these technologies could be integrated into their own works and practices.
You will come away with:
- Conceptual and methodological frameworks for using tech in performance
- Insight into best-practice working methods in each other’s fields
- Broad understanding of how to use the tech systems that we built for recent work
- New peer relationships
Who it is for
The workshop welcomes artists with practices in any mode of contemporary performance, as well as any mode of new media art, who are interested in collaborating to make works that would not be possible alone, to experiment and contribute to a community of shared knowledge.
While no specific prior technical or performance skills are necessary, this workshop is specifically geared towards those with an interest in collaboration and contemporary multi-disciplinary practice between performance and technology.
How to apply
This Makeshift Workshop can support up to 12 participants. All participants are provided with a $100 daily honorarium and lunch.
Lead Makeshift artists determine the application and selection process for participating artists.
About the facilitators
His most recent work includes collaborating on Lu Yang’s Doku, first at ACMI and then most recently at the Sydney Opera House as well as leading Body Crysis, alongside NAXS Future, presented at the Substation in 2022 and Carriageworks in 2023. He was an invited artist at the Taipei Performing Art Centre's ADAM artist Lab and is a recipient of the Chloe Munro AO Fellowship. Harrison is also a founder of experimental digital arts studio PSEUDO.
Dr Sam Mcgilp is a new media artist based on Wurundjeri country in Naarm. He creates collaborative modes of making with performers through playful experiments that expand the potential dramaturgies of live performance.
Sam’s body of work includes performance (Running Machine - Arts House - 2022), hybrid digital/performance works (STACK - Zerospace New York 2024), (Triplet State -ACC Korea and DAC Taipei - 2023, Body Crysis – ACMI - 2023 and The Substation – 2022) and films (Body Pipelines - Sydney Opera House - 2023, Bonanza! - Chunky Move - MIFF 2021).
Sam has worked extensively in collaborative contexts including with Harrison Hall, NAXS Future (Taiwan), Lu Yang (China), and Kazuhiko Hiwa and Makoto Uemura (Japan).
Presented by Arts House as part of BLEED
Monday 23 – Wednesday 25 September 2024
10.00am – 4.00pm
Applications are now closed.
Access notes
This workshop will involve hour long periods of listening, talking and watching video content, alongside more hands-on interactive moments experimenting with technologies. You are welcome to sit, stand or move around the space throughout the workshop. A range of supportive seating is available.
Auslan and Audio Describer Guides on request – please include in your EOI.
An Access Guide will be available prior to the workshop.
Arts House
North Melbourne Town Hall
521 Queensberry St,
North Melbourne
Image credit: Body Crysis, Photo by Jordan Munns
Image description: Three dancers are suspended from the ceiling performing movement in front of a large screen filled with 3D animated avatars.