shian law

"Personal Mythologies is a large scale performative dance installation. This ever-evolving environment invites the individual to inscribe their own personal manifesto onto the shape and form of the work.

Perceptions of time and space shift amid the shared kinaesthetic experience as together, we chart the territory between authorship and spectatorship."

Personal Mythologies is my third full-length work, premiering in Next Wave Festival 2014 at Arts House North Melbourne Town Hall. It has been one year and four months in the making with long-standing collaborators Duane Morrison (sound), Matthew Adey (set/light) and mentor Jo Lloyd. I have been working with visual artists Lucy Farmer, Jenny Hector and Andrew Treloar as the performers, all of whom have no formal training in dance. It is an incredibly challenging and humbling process to be working with this group of highly dedicated, intelligent and supportive artists, to ask the difficult questions about dance, choreography and performance. And there is also a timely question for myself: how do I inscribe my own authorship?

It is my most ambitious project to date, featuring new collaboration with Melbourne based luxury brand Lui Hon for the performers' outfit. Matthew Adey is creating a total immersive landscape consisting of suspended sculptures, objects and beautiful lighting. Duane Morrison will perform electronic score live whilst James Andrews will be his sidekick to operate a multi-channel soundscape.

Last but not least, every audience members will play a part in this total choreographic performance.

Personal Mythologies will premiere in Next Wave Festival 2014, having undergone four developments with part government funding, my own saving, personal loan from banks (yes, there is more than one bank), and the generous goodwill from the trusted project partners and collaborators. The amount of money raised through Pozible campaign will see the project in its fullest vision:

The fund will help to fully realise the visual aesthetics and production design

1.The cost of material and the sub-contracted builder to create the design by Matthew Adey.
2. The hiring fee for the extra lights which North Melbourne Town Hall does not have in stock.
3.The hiring fee for the extra PA system to realise the multi-channel soundscape designed by Duane Morrison

The extra fund will also remunerate the hard work by volunteering crew and the performers

1.Stage/production manager/PA/life coach James Andrews.
2.The extra rehearsals and time generously donated by the performers.

Personal Mythologies has confirmed all its funding and presentation partners, scheduled to premiere from 1st-11th May 2014. It is now crucial to finance the last stage of the creative development at the fullest capacity.