Nemeton

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Event Nemeton
Venue Carriageworks, Eveleigh, NSW
Umbrella Event Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art 2015
First Date 28 October 2015
Last Date 1 November 2015
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description In this space, Nemeton is a durational performative installation where ropes, rocks and human bodies form an allegorical tableau with a tree as the central motif. The entire work is a cyclical process performed over seven days, with a making during the day and a transformation during the evening.
Each evening a person is brought into this consecrated space to be ritually bound into the roots of the tree, in order to collect, absorb and transmit part of their ineffable life force, to be transformed and subsumed into the installation. During this process each of these people transform their pa
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Primary Genre Other
Secondary Genre Performance
Installation
Durational
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Ricky Abbonizio Performer
Deborah Dubois Performer
Betty McKew Performer
George Paramananthan Performer
Emma Price Performer
Richard Savvy Performer
Jennifer Stanley Performer
Garth Knight Visual Artist
Further Information Presented as part of the Liveworks Free Performance Program 2015.
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Performance Space Database
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 140921