Little Operations

Our 2019 Little Operations features elements from a new work in development, All that you hear is all that is heard, a site specific work composed and presented by The Letter String Quartet and curated by emerging curator Rachael Paintin.

Our next Little Operations will feature elements from a new work in development, The Lost Art of Listening, a work for prepared piano and smartphones by musician/composer Hilary Kleinig.

This event is a private, stage one development showing of a new work by composer and artist Dylan Sheridan as part of Salamanca Arts Centre’s annual HYPE program and Chamber Made’s Little Operations program. 

Conservatory Conservatory is a performance-ritual addressing plant-life. It takes place in the Fitzroy Conservatory, here re-imagined as The Embassy of Flowers. The performance considers how forms of non-human life may have something to say, even though it is unlikely that humans will ever figure out what that ‘something’ is. Here, in a spirit of mutual-mystification, humans indicate their respect for plant-life, and flowers graciously receive the diplomatic gestures of the humans.

“Just like Sputnik, global warming has stigmatised the sky: what used to be a moving star became a delivery system; what used to be the weather is now a vengeful climate.”

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The first Little Operations event for 2015 presents The Perfect Human, a new work in development by Emerging Artist-in-Residence Aviva Endean in collaboration with two of Melbourne’s most adventurous vocalists, Carolyn Connors and Jenny Barnes.