Agile Chambers
Tickets
Free admission
No bookings required
Dates
Tuesday 6 December – Saturday 10 December
Tuesday opening: 6pm – 8pm
Wednesday to Friday: 11am – 6pm
Saturday: 12pm – 5pm
Venue
RMIT Design Hub
Project Rooms 1 & 2,
Level 2,
Building 100, Corner Victoria and Swanston Streets, Carlton, 3053
Agile Chambers is a week of open research labs and performances. Artists from Chamber Made Opera and researchers from RMIT University are investigating the relationship between live performance and digital artworks and the week will consist of performances, research panel discussions and keynote presentations at RMIT Design Hub.
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GENERAL ADMISSION
Wednesday 7 December – Friday 9 December: 11am – 6pm
Saturday 10 December: 12noon – 5pm
SPECIAL EVENTS
Tuesday 6 December
6pm – 8pm: Opening night launch
Wednesday 7 December
11am – 6pm: Turbulence Open Working Lab
12.30pm – 2pm: Lunch time performance of Turbulence followed by artist talk
Thursday 8 December
9.30 am – 6.00 pm: Micro Lab (not open to the public)
12.30pm – 2.00 pm: Lunch time keynote presentation (Tim Stitz, Creative Director, Chamber Made Opera in conversation with Associate Professor Lawrence Harvey and Research Associate Margaret Trail)
Friday 9 December
11am – 6pm: Permission to Speak Open Working Lab
12.30 – 1.30 pm: Lunch time artist talk
This program is part of a three year Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project between RMIT University and Chamber Made Opera in collaboration with the Australia Council for the Arts and Fed Square investigating ways the intimacy of live performance can be preserved across digital media.
Agile Chambers is supported by the Australian Research Council and SIAL Sound Studios through the Agile Opera Project.
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Created and performed by
Erkki Veltheim, Sabina Maselli, Natasha Anderson and Anthony PaterasDramaturgical assistance
Jude AndersonProduction management / audio
Byron ScullinLighting design
Jenny Hector
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Concept, direction, text / libretto
Tamara SaulwickComposition, libretto, instrument design
Kate NealSound design
Jethro WoodwardPerformers
Georgie Darvidis, Edward Fairlie, Josh Kyle and Gian Slater
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Composition
Juliana HodkinsonLibretto
Cynthia TroupDirection
David YoungSound design
Jethro WoodwardSound engineer/operator
Steph O'HaraPerformer (Mother)
Deborah KayserPerformer (Daughter)
Anneli BjorasenFilm producers
David Young and Juliana HodkinsonCinematography and editing
Peter Humble
>> CAPTIVES OF THE CITY
Written by
Sarah Krieger with Ben GrantDirection
Sarah KrieglerComposition
David YoungAnimation & digital puppetry design
Dave JonesSound design & musical direction
Jethro WoodwardMaker/Designer/Puppetry
Jacob Williams
>> THE BOX
Concept, Music, Space, Object
Fritz Hauser with Boa BaumannLibretto
Willoh S. WeilandSoprano
Deborah KayserPercussion
Eugene Ughetti, Matthias Schack-Arnott & Leah Scholes