105: INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE CREATIVELY MALADJUSTED
[July 2018, Santarcangelo Festival, Italy]
CREATION/TEXT/PERFORMANCE: Nana Biluš Abaffy
PERFORMANCE: Milo Love + Geoffrey Watson
105 is a dance for three in one hundred and something movements. It is about the worship of a shoulder, and the disappearance and then reappearance of that shoulder. And then that wrist. It is about how similar the dead look to the sleeping. And about crime scene dioramas and biblical triptychs coming in and out of focus. In this experimental choreographic work, Zagreb born Melbourne based artist Nana Biluš Abaffy creates an embodied mental universe in which the movement and collapse of psychic desire is traced between three dancers, an audience, and an almost touchable vision.
Producer: Roslyn Helper/Underbelly Arts
Duration 80 minutes
Commissioned by Santarcangelo Festival. An iteration of this work was originally commissioned by Underbelly Arts Lab and Festival. It has been supported by Melbourne Festival of Live Art; Phillip Adams BalletLab / Temperance Hall; the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria; and Zagreb Dance Center.
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“… very impressed by the intensity of Nana's talent. One of the most valuable events in the professional life of a curator is when you see the work that is so innovative that it is still in its pre-figurative state, not fitting into any of existing trends or formats. I believe that Nana is such a pre-trend setter, an early sign of an artistic approach that might become a trademark of the new generation of artists. It is characterized by intensity and fragility of performative presence; open and fluid format of the work that allows for indefinite number of variations; and refusal to produce formalized statements in favor of communicating through mechanisms of affect and empathy. The work draws on a wide range of influences, from philosophical texts to the post-internet wildness of imagery; and it feels like an embodiment of newness. ”
[Eva Neklyaeva, Curator for Santarcangelo Festival]
104: INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE CREATIVELY MALADJUSTED
[March 2018, BalletLab, Melbourne Festival of Live Art]
CREATION/TEXT/PERFORMANCE: Nana Biluš Abaffy
PERFORMANCE: Milo Love + Geoffrey Watson
One hundred and four is a dance for three in one hundred movements. Using a book of verses to guide their decisions in real time, the performers negotiate between determined content and unknown structures, each writing and unwriting the performance from within. The work deviantly toys with conflicting states of play, trust, disobedience, violence, love and fear, manifesting a collective devotion to the task of performance and the virile pursuit of an almost touchable vision.
It is about the worship of a shoulder, and the disappearance and then reappearance of that shoulder. And then that wrist. It is about how similar the dead look to the sleeping. And about crime scene dioramas. (We believe also that it might be connected to former East Bloc fashion model Mrs Melanija née Knavs Trump, and we believe it firmly).
Light: Jai Leeworthy
Duration 60 minutes
[March 2018, BalletLab, Melbourne Festival of Live Art]
CREATION/TEXT/PERFORMANCE: Nana Biluš Abaffy
PERFORMANCE: Milo Love + Geoffrey Watson
One hundred and four is a dance for three in one hundred movements. Using a book of verses to guide their decisions in real time, the performers negotiate between determined content and unknown structures, each writing and unwriting the performance from within. The work deviantly toys with conflicting states of play, trust, disobedience, violence, love and fear, manifesting a collective devotion to the task of performance and the virile pursuit of an almost touchable vision.
It is about the worship of a shoulder, and the disappearance and then reappearance of that shoulder. And then that wrist. It is about how similar the dead look to the sleeping. And about crime scene dioramas. (We believe also that it might be connected to former East Bloc fashion model Mrs Melanija née Knavs Trump, and we believe it firmly).
Light: Jai Leeworthy
Duration 60 minutes
one hundred and three: INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE CREATIVELY MALADJUSTED
[October 2017, Women's Prison, Underbelly Arts Festival]
CREATION/TEXT/PERFORMANCE: Nana Biluš Abaffy
PERFORMANCE: Milo Love + Geoffrey Watson.. with Eugene Choi, Marcus Whale & Anubis
Part two of the WikiHow on How to Drop Out of Society is about how to survive in the woods. To this we say no. We don’t want to live in the woods right now, and, furthermore, we don’t want to learn, in part three, about how to dig our own animal traps and toilet – what we really want is to stay right here and build our own society.
Join the International Society for the Creatively Maladjusted as they begin preparations for an actionable blueprint for a fully functional new counter society. (Only sensitive people are allowed in.) The entry process will be conducted through a highly competitive talent quest and hierarchical competition for who has the best emotion.
Duration 60 minutes
[October 2017, Women's Prison, Underbelly Arts Festival]
CREATION/TEXT/PERFORMANCE: Nana Biluš Abaffy
PERFORMANCE: Milo Love + Geoffrey Watson.. with Eugene Choi, Marcus Whale & Anubis
Part two of the WikiHow on How to Drop Out of Society is about how to survive in the woods. To this we say no. We don’t want to live in the woods right now, and, furthermore, we don’t want to learn, in part three, about how to dig our own animal traps and toilet – what we really want is to stay right here and build our own society.
Join the International Society for the Creatively Maladjusted as they begin preparations for an actionable blueprint for a fully functional new counter society. (Only sensitive people are allowed in.) The entry process will be conducted through a highly competitive talent quest and hierarchical competition for who has the best emotion.
Duration 60 minutes
