POOR OPERA(TIONS) / PARA OPER (IA)
(2022-)
PACT CENTRE; Cité Internationale des Arts; CASHMERE Radio; Critical Path
POOR/PARA OPERA(TIONS) is an exploratory ‘poor’
opera project concerned with making ‘cheap performances within one’s means’ across the three ecologies. The first iteration B(Z)LOOM ANONYMOU$ was performed as part of Liquid Architecture’s MONO-POLY; the second iteration THE MARINE ROOM, was performed and developed at PACT Centre with mentorship from choreographer Martin Del Amo. Documentation by Jeremy Elphick.
(UNDER)
SCORING THE COMMONS (2021-)
Gosford Regional Gallery; University of Helsinki; World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, Avant Project (Poland)
Ongoing sonic research and performance activity exploring the relationship between shared lives and livelihoods across working-class social spaces derealised by precarity, and development working with local ensembles, brassbands, community volunteers and interviews with youth in the regions. Videography by Jeremy Elphick.
underscoringthecommons.com
underscoringthecommons.com
CLASS ACTION$ COLLECTIVE (2022-)
Carriageworks, CEMENTA Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Ethics Centre
https://carriageworks.com.au/events/sleeplessness-2022/
Collective comprised of: Gadigal/Bidgigal/Yuin Elder, Rhonda Dixon-Grovenor, Kaz Therese, James Hazel
(concerned with intersecting, lived experiences of poverty - across micro-geographies in an era of radical change) with a host of collaborators to articulate what ‘class’ means within the contemporary world.
(concerned with intersecting, lived experiences of poverty - across micro-geographies in an era of radical change) with a host of collaborators to articulate what ‘class’ means within the contemporary world.
PRE(CARE)IOUS SCORES (2020-)
Livedreams/Performance Space, ADSR ZINE, RTM.FM, Radiophrenia (Glasgow)Precareious scores explores classed/trauma’d embodiments through working-class vocality text, voice and utterance
i. hidden injuries (for voice and fixed media)
ii. transposing aspiration (for voice and field recordings
ATMOSPHERES ~ HETEROPHONIES
(2023)
CRITICAL PATH REGIONAL FELLOWSHIP
https://criticalpath.org.au/resources/reflections-with-regional-fellows-kristina-chan/
Choreographer Kristina Chan (Biripi Country) @chankristina; composer, artist, researcher, and dramaturgist James Hazel @poor_opera_para_operaia ; and dancer, choreographer Sophia Ndaba @sophiandaba investigate-speculate what it could mean to collaborate affectively via dance and sound in a way that acknowledges a ‘pluriversal' conception of the world - ‘troubling’ human-orientated ways of conceiving of communicating-relating.