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Contributor	Edward Scheer
Gender	Male
Functions	Reviewer
Events	Date Function Contributor Organisation
	Liveworks Conversations: Wade Marynowsky & Ed Sheer, Carriageworks, Eveleigh, NSW, 31 October 2015 Performance Space: Politics and Culture, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 5 November 2004 The Wounds of Society, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 18 September 2004 Technologies of Magic: Ghosts and Their Machines, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW, 18 July 2001 Performing Hitch, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 25 March 2000 Triple Alice Shake-Down, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 19 March 2000
	Speaker Liveworks Conversations: Wade Marynowsky & Ed Sheer, Carriageworks, Eveleigh, NSW, 31 October 2015 Performance Space: Politics and Culture, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 5 November 2004 The Wounds of Society, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 18 September 2004 Technologies of Magic: Ghosts and Their Machines, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW, 18 July 2001 Performing Hitch, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 25 March 2000 Triple Alice Shake-Down, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 19 March 2000
	Ross Gibson - Speaker Performance Space: Politics and Culture, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 5 November 2004 The Wounds of Society, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 18 September 2004 Jane Goodall - Speaker Performance Space: Politics and Culture, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 5 November 2004 Performing Hitch, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 25 March 2000 Ian Maxwell - Speaker Performance Space: Politics and Culture, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 5 November 2004 Triple Alice Shake-Down, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 19 March 2000 John Potts - Speaker Technologies of Magic: Ghosts and Their Machines, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW, 18 July 2001 Performing Hitch, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 25 March 2000 John Baylis - Speaker Performance Space: Politics and Culture, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 5 November 2004 Dawn Casey - Speaker Performance Space: Politics and Culture, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 5 November 2004 Simon During - Speaker Technologies of Magic: Ghosts and Their Machines, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW, 18 July 2001 Paul Dwyer - Speaker The Wounds of Society, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 18 September 2004 Robyn Ferrell - Speaker Technologies of Magic: Ghosts and Their Machines, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW, 18 July 2001 Brian Fuata - Speaker The Wounds of Society, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 18 September 2004 Keith Gallasch - Speaker Performance Space: Politics and Culture, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 5 November 2004 John Gillies - Speaker The Wounds of Society, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 18 September 2004 Clare Grant - Speaker Performing Hitch, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 25 March 2000 Annette Hamilton - Speaker Technologies of Magic: Ghosts and Their Machines, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW, 18 July 2001 Martin Harrison - Speaker Triple Alice Shake-Down, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 19 March 2000 Lisa Havilah - Speaker The Wounds of Society, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 18 September 2004 Gordon Hookey - Speaker The Wounds of Society, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 18 September 2004 Nigel Kellaway - Speaker Performing Hitch, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 25 March 2000 Julie-Anne Long - Speaker Performance Space: Politics and Culture, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 5 November 2004 Victoria Lynn - Speaker Performance Space: Politics and Culture, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 5 November 2004 Wade Marynowsky - Speaker Liveworks Conversations: Wade Marynowsky & Ed Sheer, Carriageworks, Eveleigh, NSW, 31 October 2015 Gay McAuley - Speaker Triple Alice Shake-Down, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 19 March 2000 Fiona McGregor - Speaker The Wounds of Society, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 18 September 2004 Sarah Miller - Speaker Performance Space: Politics and Culture, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 5 November 2004 Rachel Moore - Speaker Technologies of Magic: Ghosts and Their Machines, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW, 18 July 2001 Stephen Muecke - Speaker Technologies of Magic: Ghosts and Their Machines, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW, 18 July 2001 Mike Mullins - Speaker Performance Space: Politics and Culture, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 5 November 2004 Caitlin Newton-Broad - Speaker Performing Hitch, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 25 March 2000 Marian Pastor-Roces - Speaker Performance Space: Politics and Culture, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 5 November 2004 Debra Petrovich - Convenor The Wounds of Society, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 18 September 2004 Gail Priest - Speaker Performing Hitch, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 25 March 2000 Simon Rees - Speaker Performing Hitch, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 25 March 2000 Christopher Ryan - Speaker The Wounds of Society, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 18 September 2004 Peter Sculthorpe - Speaker The Wounds of Society, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 18 September 2004 Peter Snow - Speaker Triple Alice Shake-Down, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 19 March 2000 Anthony Steel - Speaker Performance Space: Politics and Culture, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 5 November 2004 Lesley Stern - Speaker Performing Hitch, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 25 March 2000 Amanda Stewart - Speaker The Wounds of Society, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 18 September 2004 Nick Tsoutas - Speaker Performance Space: Politics and Culture, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 5 November 2004 Mari Velonaki - Speaker Performance Space: Politics and Culture, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 5 November 2004 Cathy Vogan - Speaker The Wounds of Society, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 18 September 2004 Geoffrey Weary - Speaker The Wounds of Society, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 18 September 2004 Lee Weng Choy - Speaker Performance Space: Politics and Culture, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 5 November 2004 David Williams - Speaker The Wounds of Society, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 18 September 2004 AñA Wojak - Speaker The Wounds of Society, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 18 September 2004
	The Performance Space Liveworks Conversations: Wade Marynowsky & Ed Sheer, Carriageworks, Eveleigh, NSW, 31 October 2015 Performance Space: Politics and Culture, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 5 November 2004 The Wounds of Society, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 18 September 2004 Technologies of Magic: Ghosts and Their Machines, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW, 18 July 2001 Performing Hitch, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 25 March 2000 Triple Alice Shake-Down, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 19 March 2000 Museum of Contemporary Art Technologies of Magic: Ghosts and Their Machines, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW, 18 July 2001 Performing Hitch, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 25 March 2000 Macquarie University Technologies of Magic: Ghosts and Their Machines, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW, 18 July 2001 The University of Sydney, Performance Studies Triple Alice Shake-Down, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 19 March 2000 University of New South Wales Technologies of Magic: Ghosts and Their Machines, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW, 18 July 2001
Resources	Edward Scheer, 25 Songs On 25 Lines Of Words On Art Statement For Seven Voices And Dance, RealTime Arts, Theatre and Dance Platform, 31, June 1999, 40 Described by Felber as “a music/theatrical installation for seven voices” this work explores the liminal zones at the edges of sculpture, painting, dance, sound art through a playful reinscription of Ad Reinhardt’s 25 Lines Of Words On Art: Statement of 1958 into a late 20th century hybrid aesthetic combining retro fit design invoking both earlier avant gardes and contemporary cutting edge graphics. The audience enters a Futurist mise en scene of huge swinging steel rods with light bulbs at the end of them and 7 steel tubes suspended from the ceiling each broadcasting one of the voices from Elliott Gyger’s composition. But one of the most effective elements is the video projection of Lucy Guerin’s 3 movement pieces which haunt the space silently, interrogating the audience from the floor beneath their feet. The opening of the event featured a live performance from Guerin, one of Australia’s most sought after dancers, whose choreography also echoed elements of the Reinhardt text (#16 verticality and horizontality, rectilinearity, parallelism, stasis). The space (not designed for live arts) was absolutely packed which meant that for most of the performance parts of the audience were unsighted. This resulted in a strange theatre of frustration where members of the audience shrugged their shoulders, huffed and puffed, rolled their eyes, unconsciously entering the piece as they unexpectedly reacquired their bodies in the absence of a line of sight. Reinhardt would have loved it…#24 the completest control for the purest spontaneity. Though all the disparate elements of the work arise from a reading of the Reinhardt text, no attempt has been made to force them into a hokey mimetic relationship. They simply accompany each other and gaze at each other disinterestedly, allowing room for an audience to move, at least in an intellectual sense…The piece is accompanied by a beautifully finished book which features interviews with the artists and reproductions of Felber’s images, stills from Guerin’s dances and the musical scores for the 25 songs with a CD. Credit Suisse (among others) sponsored this piece and you can see where the money went! Thankfully it has been put to good use. Article: Edward Scheer, 25 Songs On 25 Lines Of Words On Art Statement For Seven Voices And Dance, RealTime Arts, Theatre and Dance Platform, 31, June 1999, 40 Article: Edward Scheer, Performance art, life crisis rituals, RealTime Arts, 44, August 2001, 29 Article: Edward Scheer, The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?, The Monthly, June 2006, 62 Journal: Edward Scheer, Helena Grehan, Recompositions: Images of Patrick White in William Yang's my generation , Australasian Drama Studies, 71, October 2017, 157-177 Review: Edward Scheer, Review: Jane Goodall, Artaud and the Gnostic Drama, Australasian Drama Studies, Australasian Drama Studies, c/- Department of English, Univ, 27, October 1995, 177 - 182
Identifier	413082

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