Correspondence

Future Makers presents Correspondence, a site-specific performance created by multidisciplinary artist Nadia Odlum at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

This project formed part of Nadia Odlum’s Kaldor Studio commission, an education initiative by Kaldor Public Art Projects that engaged contemporary Australian artists to explore the Kaldor Public Art Projects archives in new and experimental ways.

Over the course of two months the dancers worked with Odlum to explore the exhibition ‘Making Art Public: 50 years of Kaldor Public Art Projects’, as well as the project’s online archives. In particular, the group sought out elements from the archives that could be interpreted as ‘instructions’ for movement. This research was coupled with discussions around movement in public space, and the implicit or explicit restrictions that are placed upon the public body.

Sparking from this the group developed a set of nine text scores. These acted as the choreographic framework for the performance, which was improvised over the course of one hour at the Art Gallery of NSW on the 12th of February 2020.

This piece was developed on Darug land and performed on Gadigal land. We pay respect to Elders past present and emerging.

Performances

Art Gallery of New South Wales as part of ‘Making Art Public: 50 Years of Kaldor Public Art Projects’, February 2020

Credits

Director and Co-Creator: Nadia Odlum

Rehearsal Director: Emma Harrison

Co-creators and Performers: Sarah Goroch, Beryl La, Bedelia Lowrencev, Jessica Kuit, Cinzia Marrocco, Matina McAneney, Monica Moreno, Christopher Wade and Ella Watson-Heath

All images courtesy of Document Photography