The Endlings is a ritual performance, conjuring space for a collective reckoning of impermanence and universal flux.
The work serves as an honouring of cancelled futures in times of collapse through the hauntology of apex human narratives.
Directed by Al Stark in collaboration with Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal and Aviva Reed, it unfolds in dream-like liminal space where death, release and transcendence are held, shared and revered.
Through movement and embodied ritual, audiences engage a shared experience of witnessing and feeling where fear and loss are re-framed as collective social act rather than performative solitary burden.
Inspired by Mark Fishers notions of hauntology as well as Joanna Macy’s “Work That Reconnects,” the performance offers a guided, physical encounter with loss. It creates space to feel, grieve and reconnect through community, with the cycles that shape life.
Cost
Free
Location
Bundanon Art Museum
Boyd Education Centre Forecourt
170 Riversdale Road
Illaroo NSW 2540
Featuring
Esk studio is a multi-disciplined artist run initiative with a focus on environmental conservation, education and community through an arts lens. We create projects, gathering spaces, and performances that revolve around beauty, poetry, inquiry, play and awareness, in service to the earth and each other.
Al Stark completed his studies at Victoria College of the Arts in 2007. Since then he has maintained a diverse and prolific contemporary arts practice ranging from installation, wall painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing and studio painting. In utilising a diverse range of interrelating mediums Stark has formed a broad visual language that can be applied through an array of different contexts, giving his practice depth and momentum. Currently maintaining an itinerant exhibition and commission based practice, Stark has an extensive list of collectors and clients including Hotel Hotel, Sheraton hotel, Westfield and the National Gallery of Australia.
Aviva Reed is a transdisciplinary visual ecologist. Her practice reframes scientific theories, particularly concepts associated with evolution and ecological categorisations. Her work moves between performance, ritual, lecture, publications and visual art. She explores time, scale and relationship using storytelling, visualisations, soundscapes and conversation.
Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal is a Javanese-Australian director, choreographer, writer, and Body-Mind Centering® somatic movement educator working across contemporary performance, dance theatre, and interdisciplinary arts. Her work explores identity, ancestry, ecology and survival. Holding a Bachelor of Dance (Miami, USA), a Master of Choreography (VCA Melbourne), and a Darmasiswa Scholarship (Yogyakarta Arts University, Java), Jade combines improvisation, somatic practice and physical dramaturgy to create work that moves fluidly between authorship, co-creation, and interpretation. Deeply engaged in First Nations collaboration, regional arts leadership, youth dance and community-centred practice, Jade contributes to contemporary Asian Australian performance discourse and helps shape inclusive futures for dance and interdisciplinary arts.
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