QUICK RESPONSE SPACE GRANTS [DEC 2024]

Announcing our Quick Response Space Grant recipient for December 2024 – MaggZ

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Quick Response Space Grants give artists an opportunity to use The Drill Hall without any predetermined outcomes. Critical Path waives the venue hire fees for The Drill Hall for successful recipients during their time in The Drill Hall. 

We are excited to announce our grant recipient for December 2024 – MaggZ.

MaggZ

A multisensory interactive game-performance situated within movement, sound, installation and technology.

SpringCity 30642 is a multisensory interactive game-performance, situated within movement, sound, installation and technology. SpringCity 30642 transforms different spaces into a participatory game-design laboratory, to further investigate the idea of world-building and heterotopia, through a diasporic minority-Chinese lens. As such, to recontextualise localised ancestral practices of Kunming City (Yunnan Province, China), through post-internet lens with body, sound, both physical and digital installation.

@magg._z

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MaggZ is a Naarm-based movement-sound artist, creative director and producer-researcher of Tibetan and Chinese-minority descent. MaggZ is trained in ballet and now specialised in w_acking – a freestyle dance originated in 1970s LA from the Latinix and African American queer community, predominantly involving arm movements. Rooted at the intersection of street dance, site-specific installation and technology, extending into somatic and relational research and community-building with sustainability, MaggZ’s practice is hybrid, timeless, visceral and unapologetic as they constantly outbox themselves. MaggZ’s soundscape is deeply intimate, visceral, tender and penetrative, with the influence of ambient, experimental electronic sound.

MaggZ founded (nexus) in 2024, an experimental community initiative of exchange and interdisciplinary research, cultivating infrastructures to support a culture of innovation, experimentalism and discovery across the creative community. MaggZ is appointed as Young Artistic Directorate at Next Wave in 2023 (Melbourne, Australia), Producer in Residence in 2022 (Melbourne, Australia), and producer / performance art consultant at Collide24 in 2022 (Berlin, Germany). MaggZ is also the recipient of the Young Creative Awards in 2020, nominated four times by the Green Room Awards, as well as the winner 4v4 waacking Waack Inferno Vol.3 in 2023, 2v2 allstyle Destructive Steps, 2v2 allstyle Waack Inferno Vol.2 dance battle in 2022.