Lighter than heavy and darker than light, In the pursuit of repetition (fame and squalor) is an underground dance, visual and performance work.

Adelaide based Artists Kel Mocilnik and Alison Currie are heading to Melbourne to camp out underneath Federation Square for the nine days of the 2012 Next Wave Festival. Our accommodation is covered, but we still need to fuel a van with all our equipment to get to from Adelaide to Melbourne and, employ some extra support staff on location in Melbourne. Please help us to realize this exciting and challenging new work!

Video from development 2011 

In the pursuit of repetition (fame and squalor) explores themes of vagrancy, poverty, time, equality, cycles, sexism, and nationalism. The work uses repetition to create suspension and tension. In this repetition, the short and long of it are all seemingly the same and variation is magnified. Audiences view the performers through several different filters of light, proximity and the effect of their own comfort physically and psychologically.

In the pursuit of repetition (fame and squalor) will be the first residency of its kind in Slot 9 the underground ‘trench space’ underneath Federation Square. Slot 9 sits alongside Melbourne’s most iconic train station, Flinders St. The sounds of the trains heard through the walls will be used to highlight, cue and direct sections of performance.

Through the support of the Next Wave Kickstart Program, we have so far, developed the work through a series of intensives at Headquarters Studio, Richmond SA and in the Adelaide Festival Centre rehearsal room. In addition to this, we will live onsite for a week in April to further develop our ideas, working with the specificities of the space as inspiration and a practical means of creation.

In the pursuit of repetition (fame and squalor)is physically and psychologically our most challenging project to date. We hope you will be as enthused about this project as we are, and we thank you in advance for your support!

Kel Mocilnik is a Graduate of Adelaide Centre for the Arts with a BA in Visual Art (2007). Majoring in Painting, which remains as a basis for his practice, his work has expanded to include elements of performance, sculpture, photography and drawing, with work shown in galleries, theatres and site-specific public locations. In 2011 Kel exhibited new painting and sculpture installation works at the Australian Experimental Art Foundation and Format. The upcoming performance in will be part of this series entitled In the pursuit of repletion.

http://thethousands.com.au/adelaide/look/kel-mocilnik-steph-crase/

“…takes repetition to the extreme…” - Lauren Sutter, dBMagazine(regarding Kel’s work in group show Cognocenti with sauce 2007)

Alison Currie is a dance maker and performer. Alison works with sculpture in dance and has collaborated with artists across many mediums. She has worked as a dancer and rehearsal director in the USA, UK, and China. Alison was choreographer for Bedroom Dancing awarded Outstanding Achievement in Youth and Community Dance 2010 Australian Dance Awards. Her first major work 42a toured nationally in 2010. In 2011 she performed Solo as part of Return to Sender at performance space Sydney.

“a fascinating piece in concept and realisation.” – Jill Sykes, Sydney Morning Herald 25th November 2011 (regarding Solo)

“Alison Currie blends, shoves and tears down walls to bring her audience an involving experiment in art and choreography.” - Paul Cotton City Search 2008 (regarding 42a)

http://alisoncurrie.com/

Thank you Kite ensemble, Zaimon Vilmanis, Stephen Sheehan, Annemarie Kohn, Sam Rodgers, Benjamin Liew, Gemma Falk, Vivienne Rogis and everyone who has supported us in this endeavor silently on here and in other ways.