The sixth edition of Liveworks’ beloved queer performance and party extravaganza, Day for Night is set to take audiences on an epic journey through queer space and time. This year’s event brings together a host of phenomenal queer artists, performers, DJs, musicians and lovers. In a collision of club culture, contemporary art and new performance, Australia’s brightest and best queer artists create new works, then reinvent and re-figure them for the glittering unfurling of Sydney’s spectacular day to night party.
Day for Night presents a series of performances that create alternative forms of community and expand our ideas about what queer spaces can look and sound like. Often taking shape as quiet, playful or ritualistic interactions between performers and audience members, the artists generously offer up new visions of community, before taking a deep breath and diving into the party.
Day For Night 2019 highlights include:
Opening this year's event is a very special collaboration between Sydney music powerhouses Stereogamous, Nick Wales, Alyx Dennison, Ngaiire and extraordinary local community choir Inner West Voices. Greet the dawn of a new queer day (and night) with dreamy synth soundscapes and choral vocals that build into a climactic performance of Under the Milky Way—the acclaimed Church cover that has been setting queer dancefloors ablaze across Sydney this spring.The stage will then be set for soul favourite Ngaiire to join the choir to perform her hit Fall Into Your Arms.
Iconic Sydney performer Betty Grumble will perform her collaborative performance and installation The Unshame Machine in its entirety as part of Day For Night. A deep-squat disco of experimental bodily becoming, storytelling, sharing and sex, Betty Grumble's pussy printing party notes the histories of fellow printmakers, c*nt-loving science tunes, and says “F*%k the shame machine—power to the pussy”.
Celebrated club music producer and composer Nina Buchanan creates an immersive sound environment for community gathering with her exquisite new music performance Higher. Created through a Performance Space & Mardi Gras Stephen Cummins Residency earlier this year, this surround-sound composition invites audiences to lie down and surrender to an intuitive, contemplative and deeply grounded experience of queerness, celebrating the power of vulnerability and care. Using arpeggiated synths, ambient textures and melodic composition with the dynamics of quadraphonic sound, Higher is complex and layered. It carves out space for quiet queer existence, resistance, healing, and collective celebration.
Adelaide’s artist collective and electronic music group GIRL present MASConfessional – a performance in two parts. MASConfessional begins with the artists inviting audience members to contribute their thoughts, fears and fantasies about masculinity through a series of recorded conversations. These voiced responses will be collected throughout the day before being whipped and spun into sonic interludes that will be played between songs from their debut album ‘Masc’ in a special live music performance at the party. Expect gimp apparition realness, a human mirror ball, killer heels, killer pins, cutting edge sound-responsive projection, on-stage costume changes, throbbing beats, celebration, sadness and a banshee scream in a pear tree.
Sydney singer-songwriter and artist Zaya Barroso presents Transit; a range of dramatic, supernatural and cathartic performance vignettes. Zaya’s looped musical compositions and autobiographical performance accompany her epic vocals, inviting the audience in to an intimate portrayal of Zaya’s experiences of resilience against trans haters, and those who exploit power. Transit celebrates life as it is whilst creating and staging art in the moment, within the everyday.
Multidisciplinary artist and member of Auckland’s LGBTQI+ Pacific Arts Collective FAFSWAG Jermaine Dean invites festival-goers to step inside an immersive live photo shoot and witness his participatory process unfold in real time, as he creates dreamy imagery in a makeshift set. Gain insight into his collaborative photographic process using artists, audiences, props and the party itself, through a fantastical lens of pixellation, distortion and manipulation.
Jermaine Dean, Julian Chote and Jaimie Waititi’s Th3 Order—traveling from Aotearoa-New Zealand to present in Australia for the first time—bring us The Lion, The Lady pouring Water and The Lady with Wheat looking West, an unfolding series of performance episodes. Th3 Order is a gathering of three individuals resonating on the edges and in-betweens of spaces; never converging to unite as one but uniting in differences. Bringing Maori and Pacific perspectives into the queer cosmology, Th3 Order is a trio of collected mess resulting in a chaos of personality, colour and body.
Sydney-based poet and performance artist Samia Sayed will offer a durational performance inviting Day for Night’s audience to engage with an offering of tea and food, accompanied with poetry and story-telling.
Soft Core Bondage Faeries—an artist collective including Harrison Pickering, Vishmi Helarante and Miranda Macpherson—seeks to create disruption and recombination, enveloping Day for Night audiences in a cumulative web of, well, soft-core bondage. Through this playful and social performance, the artists flirt with unspoken social dynamics that play out in public gathering spaces. Through soft-core bondage and breakage, a chorus of connective-plasma-faeries and gift giving creates new social scenarios by physically tying people together, or initiating shared activities of platonic intimacy.
Iconic Sydney legends Stereogamous once again bring the music and epic party for the duration of Day For Night. The musical equivalent of Mardis Gras that runs all year, Paul Mac and Jonny Seymour create maximum dance floor joy. Working with and around artists to turn out sonic scores by day and colourful tracks by night, Stereogamous guarantee the ultimate Day For Night experience.
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