Expiration 2022

Expiration 2022 was performed first in the context of Primavera at the MCA in Sydney as a part of the public program, and later developed for MONUMENTAL (working title) at the Art Gallery of NSW in April 2022. MONUMENTAL (working title) was then re-performed in January 2023 as part of Sydney Festival, and with it Expiration 2022.

Expiration 2022 works in three acts: the cave, the edge and the inn. It has been performed first as a solo at the MCA, then as a duet with Niki Verrall at AGNSW. Using memory, we excavate our way through different zones of a gallery space. Sometimes we cross thresholds between internal, near and distant, social worlds and external, immediate, social worlds. Talking sometimes occurs, often as a welcome to a visitor, or as a generative force into the act of dancing again. We invite wind into the gallery, passing through the threshold of the mouth from external to internal to external again through a audible channelling of the lips in a whistle. The work is responsive to the world around it as a kind of metabolising entity; taking in the visual field, ingesting it into the body and pushing it out again through movement and through audible whistles.