How are we digesting the past? Had a gutful of the present? And how’s your appetite for the future? Performance art is always in a dialogue with the body, but in this workshop we’re going deep into the ways we hold – and process – the world and its stories through our bodies.
ACE’s exhibition, Anarchive: Gut-feeling, explores the guts of the post-object art archive, raking over the entrails of experimental art practice as it has taken place in South Australia (and beyond). In this workshop, we’ll chew over ideas together, using our bodies to explore and manifest expressions of the rhythmic passage of time; living with hunger, thirst and cravings; the praxis of taste-making; and states of satiety vs gusto. Open to artists working with, or curious about, the possibilities of performance, this workshop is a safe space for creative investigation and communal conversation.
You’re welcome to bring along performance ideas you’re still digesting for us to process with care and support, together as a group. The workshop offers optional opportunities for artists at any stage of their careers to develop performance ideas with the potential to present them at the major symposium event, Anarchive: Digesting the World, at ACE on Saturday 23 May.
The Anarchive project invites lively conversation with a radical past. Across ACE and FUMA, twelve new artist commissions are presented, alongside works from South Australia’s extraordinary history as an epicentre of “post-object” art practice. A special edition of Artlink acts as an extended reader – bringing a critical eye to experimental art then and now.
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Feature Image: Sasha Grbich, Oriana Julie, Jazmine Deng and Tayer activate from Kimberly Gray’s 1976 performance ‘Sweater’ in 2025 as part of ‘Push/Pull’, ACE, 2025.
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