Helen Grogan, SPECIFIC IN-BETWEEN (The choreographic negotiated in six parts)
PART 1. You are already doing it (choreographing social and public space)
PERFORMANCE, 3:00PM, GALLERY 1, SATURDAY 18 OCTOBER
For PART 1 of SPECIFIC IN-BETWEEN (the choreographic negotiated in six parts) Wrong Solo (Agatha-Gothe Snape and Brian Fuata) perform their work Cruising within the Framed Movements exhibition and the broader ACCA site. Everyone is invited. Everyone is implicated. Everything that may occur on this evening is Cruising.
ABOUT WRONG SOLO (TO BE READ BY AN OTHER)
THIS WORK HAS BEEN MADE IN A NUMBER OF SPACES AND CONTEXTS
INCLUDING EVANS ST ROZELLE, THE CAC GALLERIES AND
RESIDENCIES, MT ANNAN BOTANIC GARDENS, THE MCA, THE MALLS OF
INGLEBURN, CAMDEN, MCARTHUR SQUARE AND BONDI JUNCTION,
FRASERS STUDIOS AND BUNDANON.
THIS WORK EXISTS IN ALL THESE PLACES. RIGHT NOW, IT ALSO EXISTS
HERE IN THE FOYER AND LATER IN THE THEATRE. THIS WORK IS NOT
SITE-SPECIFIC, BUT IT IS IN FACT SPECIFIC TO THIS MOMENT.
WE DIDN’T REALISE THIS SHOWING WAS GOING TO HAPPEN, AND IN
FACT IT’S NOT.
THIS IS NOT A SHOWING OR A WORK IN PROGRESS. THIS IS NOT A
TEST. THIS WON’T BE A CLUMSY PUTTING TOGETHER OF A WHOLE
RANGE OF IDEAS, PRACTICES AND EXPERIENCES NOR WILL IT BE A
CONFUSED CONVOLUTED REPRESENTATION OF THE SPACES BETWEEN
VISUAL ARTS, THEATRE AND DANCE. THIS IS NOT THE RESULT OF A
FRUITY COLLABORATION BETWEEN DEAR FRIENDS.
THIS IS NOT A SHOWING BECAUSE THIS IS IT, AND WHATEVER IT IS, IT
IS ALL THERE IS.
AND BEFORE WE CONSIDER WHETHER WHAT IM SAYING IS TRUE,
BEFORE WE SEE ALL THIS FOR WHAT WE KNOW IT IS, STOP.
BECAUSE IT JUST DOESN’T MATTER, BECAUSE BY NOW IT’S ALREADY
HAPPENING. IT ALREADY IS.
THERE IS NOTHING MORE THAN THIS.
You are already doing it (choreographing social and public space)
ONLINE CONTRIBUTIONS
Cruising Instructional Poster 1
PARTICIPANTS AND PRACTICES
WRONG SOLO
Wrong Solo is Brian Fuata and Agatha Gothe-Snape (with the occasional additions of Sarah Rodigari, Lizzie Thomson and Shane Haseman). Wrong Solo present work in galleries, private and public spaces for known and unknown audiences. Their work draws on a shared history of performance training in the late 1990’s, an interest in text and its articulation, and the slippery space between “big P” and “little p” performance and the various framing mechanisms and conventions which we rely upon to understand what is being performed. Wrong Solo has exhibited in a variety of institutions including the MCA, ACCA, the AGNSW, PICA and QUT.
BRIAN FUATA
Born Wellington, New Zealand, 1978. Brian Fuata is a Sydney based performance artist and writer, who has performed and exhibited extensively in Australia since 1999. Fuata works both independently and in Wrong Solo, a performance-orientated art collective (including also Agatha Gothe-Snape and Shane Haseman).
Fuata’s work often exhibits an immediate and spontaneous quality, with actions and dialogue created in situ. At other times pre-prepared dialogue and text based ‘scripts’ (often generated from email correspondence) are deployed alongside low production audio-visual elements and ‘at hand’ scenery. Fuata’s work explores themes of death, ritual and sacral art, narcissism (especially that of the contemporary artist), the risk of failure, and the limits and fault lines of language. These themes are often filtered through severe parody juxtaposed against underlying traits of melancholia, delivered with a removed dead-pan humour.
AGATHA GOTHE-SNAPE
Agatha Gothe-Snape is an artist living in Melbourne and Sydney.