FELTspace are excited to be presenting six diverse, live artworks at FELTlive - an event focused on cultivating a space for South Australian artists and enthusiasts to engage with performance art.
The one-night event will showcase six dynamic and diverse artworks from Adam & Steve, Alycia Bennett, Andrea Illés (Naarm), Hen Vaughan, Jingwei Bu and Stephen Atkinson.
This is a free event made possible through the support of Arts SA.
THE ARTISTS
Hen Vaughan (@flaneuxe) is a writer and artist. Weaving experimental writing and live art, they are curious about the politics and poetics of in/visible illness, embodied experiences of wearable technology, and relationships between the body and written text. This performance explores the cyborg body’s capacity to generate and perform with text as a type of wearable technology. By writing on the body, the skin/surface becomes a manuscript to be deciphered, annotated, edited and erased.
Marginalia refers to ‘marginal notes and embellishments’ found in books and manuscripts, and the liminal margins of the body complicated by connections with medical prosthetics.
Alycia Bennett (@alyciabennettart) is a multi-displinary artist and graduate of Adelaide Central School of Art. Their works spans across social practice, relational performance, tapestries, installation, sculpture, video and sound. Doom Scroll is a new experimental sound/noise performance work, using spoken word, analogue synthesisers, sampling, internet tropes and video projection, analysing a late stage capitalist world. The flesh body sits life-locked to the comforts of a relaxing fireplace, 10 hours on repeat for stress relief in 4K.
Contemporary artist duo Adam & Steve (@adamsteveadamsteve) collaborate on work that charts the boundaries between performance art, sculpture, ritual, and emotion. Adam’s background in painting, combined with Steve’s interest in the Duchampian tradition, have allowed the duo to develop a unique artistic language that references both the body and the mind. Their latest work, Shivering Blankets (Movement, Emotion, Energy), epitomises their ongoing exploration of emotional intensity and human connection. It offers an experience that hovers between the sacred and the absurd, where the act of shivering becomes a symbolic gesture—a quiet, enduring homage to the mysteries that linger just out of reach, hidden behind the shimmering veil.
Stephen Atkinson (@stacko0) is currently Program Director of Contemporary Art at the University of South Australia where he teaches printmaking, art history and theory, and studio projects on sound, psychogeography, everyday materials, eco-humanities and forensic aesthetics, all of which also preoccupy his sporadic practice as artist, writer and musician.
Andrea Illés (@_purple_stars_expleting_) is a Naarm-based performance artist whose auto portraits explore the relational chasm between self and other. Merging dance, text, sound, and video, her enquiry emerges from the agony and euphoria she feels in connection and being perceived. Often working with states of overwhelm, she’s interested in the possibilities that can be found in intense experience.
Chinese- Australian visual artist Jingwei Bu (@jingwei_bu) works across media and disciplines to explore the notion of time through duration-based artwork. Her practice is imbued by ritual and repetition and influenced by Buddhist Chan and Taoist philosophy. In The Bouncing Piece, she uses the simple act of bouncing two ping pong balls to explore complex themes related to human experience. Chaos, control, chance, unpredictability, convene into a futile effort to control the dynamic nature of interactions.