Publication launch and archival project
Join us for the launch of the special edition of Critical Dialogues celebrating 20 years of Critical Path. Edited by Ira Ferris.
The publication launch is accompanied by the archival project “Vignettes flickers fades”, including a sound montage created with musician and sound artist Alexandra Spence. The launch will include:
- Conversation between Ira Ferris and Tammi Gissell on experimental approaches to archiving in a dance context
- Music performance “Vignettes flickers fades” by Alexandra Spence
- Dance performance “How can I remember what I have forgotten” by Ryuichi Fujimura
- A birthday cake!
The 16th edition of Critical Dialogues features texts by Nikki Heywood, Gail Priest, Tammi Gissell, Lizzie Thomson, WeiZen Ho, Julie-Anne Long, Agnès Michelet, Alexandra Harrison, Vicki Van Hout, Sophie Travers and Claire Hicks.
Weaved through the edition is Ira Ferris’ experimental archive project “Vignettes flickers fades” which collages voices of eleven Critical Path artists into a collective body, paying equal attention to that which is remembered and that which is forgotten or transformed into an utterance.
The “Vignettes” focus on multi-sensory memories, to reflect not only the significant moments in Critical Path programs and activities, but to invoke sounds, smells, colours of the heritage building, its water-based location and porous features that imbue creative processes. As such, the “Vignettes” are an archive and a map of the Drill Hall (the building) – a space carrier of Critical Path.
Artists featured in the “Vignettes” are: Patricia Wood, Angela Goh, Rhiannon Newton, Lizzie Thomson, Vicki Van Hout, Linda Luke, Martin del Amo, Nikki Heywood, Ryuichi Fujimura, Victoria Hunt and Jane McKernan.
Join us to pick up your own copy of Critical Dialogues #16 and access the sound montage “Vignettes flickers fades”.
DATE
SUNDAY 16 NOVEMBER
11AM-1PM
LOCATION
THE DRILL HALL, CRITICAL PATH
1C NEW BEACH ROAD, DARLING POINT, NSW, 2027
GADIGAL & BIRRABIRRAGAL COUNTRY
FREE EVENT
BOOK TICKETS HERE
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Ira Ferris is a dance and multimedia artist and writer, currently a PhD candidate at UNSW Art & Design, exploring “Affective Archives: Translating the phenomenological experience of site and time-specific dance performances through haptic and poetic methods of audio-visual media.
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The production of this issue of Critical Dialogues and the “Vignettes flickers fades” project are proudly supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW, the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, and the Woollahra Municipal Council’s Cultural Grants Program.
IMAGE CREDIT: Mitchell Christie, Experimental Choreographic Lab Showing, 2025, at the Drill Hall, Critical Path, in partnership with Performance Space, photo by Liz Ham.
IMAGE ID: An image of coloured dice scattered on a black floor. There are many small towers of dice, each with 6 or 7 dice balancing on top of each other.
Images of the Drill Hall by Ira Ferris