Everyday Freedoms

They Gather

Durational performance | 2019


Everyday Freedoms is a durational work that looks at our need for freedom, and where, when and how this exists and is expressed. Engaging deliberate & incidental audiences in public spaces, ‘Everyday Freedoms’ proposes states of being while questioning ideas about value, systems, and freedoms. It is an exploration of physical and intangible containment, of boundaries between collective responsibility and the individual as well as shifting needs. First performed in abandoned shopfronts at Valley Metro train station shopping centre in Brisbane, AU.

“I could have watched variations and developments within the entire work all day – for hours”

Audience member

The piece is part of ‘They Gather’, an ongoing international collaborative, multimodal, interdisciplinary project, creating ‘gatherings’ of people, action, movement, and sound. ‘They Gather’ consists of a growing series of independent but interrelated performances (modules) that explore the boundaries between audience, participant and performer, creating dialogue with environments, societies, politics, histories and speculative futurologies. The project aims to empower and open dialogues around the complexities and polarities of contemporary living.

For more information on ‘They Gather’ see here.

Description

Durational interdisciplinary performance

Duration

3+ hours

Credits

Co-creators / Directors / Choreographers: Bridget Fiske & Joseph Lau

Co-creators / Sound Artists / Composers: Stelios Manousakis & Stephanie Pan

Collaborating Performers: Charles Ball, Chloe Lanham & Kristian Santic

Created for Supercell Festival Of Contemporary Dance, Brisbane.

Co-produced by: Bridget Fiske & Co with Joseph Lau (Jau Artist), Stichting Modulus, Supercell Festival of Contemporary Dance Brisbane and

Australian Producer: En Rui Foo

Video by: Bridget Fiske, Nadia Milford and Sammie Williams

Performed at The Valley Metro, Brisbane, Australia

Supported by: Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, Performing Arts Fund NL, Supercell Festival of Contemporary Dance, MAD Dance House, Rio Rhythmics Latin Dance Academy, Drum Furniture