| 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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| Description Source | Website | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Genre | Other | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Further Information | Presented as part of the Liveworks Free Performance Program 2015. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event Status | Completed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Data Set | AusStage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event Identifier | 140921 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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