This
is a no-frills, easy-access page to key files regarding The Migrant Project.
Selections
from 2007 Media Coverage for This City is a Body:
SX Editorial
MX Preview - Karina Dunger
InnerWestern Courier Preview - Rashell Habib
Drum Media Interview - Jack Tregonig
Fairfield City Champion Community Preview - Anita Maglicic & Domenica Acitelli
Selections
from Media Coverage 2006 (not included: various radio stations, street
press, web press)
Grounded: India
Link Review - Avijit Sarkar | Sydney
Morning Herald Preview - Clare Morgan | Mahesh's
Letter
Drifting: Canberra
Times Preview - Phillip O'Brien
Standing: Sydney
Morning Herald Preview - Benito Di Fonzo
Logos:
The Migrant Project |CuriousWorks
Sample
Publicity Shots (low-res): 1
| 2 | 3
| 4 | 5
(courtesy of Steve Papadakis)
Past Performance Publicity (low-res): Grounded
| Standing
For high resolution images, contact
us.
Read through the Migrant Project Diary || Watch some of our previous work
Artist
Biographies (144
KB) of those involved thusfar in the project (list of names further down
the page).
Migrant
Project Collaborators, 2005-2007 (alphabetical order):
Iqbal
Barkat - Marcia Beckett - Mick Boraso - Paul Cordeiro - Joel Corpuz - Katy
Cuthbert - Pat Davidson -
Robin Dixon - Barbra Drummond - Aimee Falzon - Stuart Gibson - Jane
Grimley - Habib Hayek - Kishan Jeyendran - Christina Kenny - Phillip Lawson
- Gary Lo - Elias Nohra - Steven Papadakis - Glen Purdham- Mahesh Radhakrishnan- Hazem Shammas
- Kate Shanahan- Shakthidharan - Jasmin Lee Sheppard - Rebecca Sng - Latai Taumoepeau -
Miles Thomas - James
West - Jenni White
Luxuries:
1.
Download The Migrant Project Summary PDF (high-res
5.8MB /low-res
2MB)
2. Download the CuriousWorks Charter (one
page, 476 KB)
(for more information, visit the
CuriousWorks website)
3. The high-resolution, lengthy & gorgeous Migrant
Project 2006 Booklet, 37.2MB
4. Our first and prettiest Migrant
Project 2005 Booklet, for the web - 1.1MB
THIS CITY IS A BODY
Performance at Hyde Park Barracks Museum, 8pm Fri 25th & Sat 26th May, Tues 29th - Fri 1st June
Conference at The Mint, 1-4pm Sunday 27th May
Queens Square, Macquarie Street, Sydney
Media Release (text version below)
MEDIA RELEASE – MONDAY 7TH MAY 2007 - EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY
THIS CITY IS A BODY
Queens Square, Macquarie Street, Sydney
Performance Season at Hyde Park Barracks Museum
8pm, Friday 25th & Saturday 26th May || Tuesday 29th May - Friday 1st June
Conference at The Mint || 1-4pm, Sunday 27th May
Register through info@curiousworks.com.au
“Spinning outside the artistic - and racial - boundaries.” Sydney Morning Herald, 2006
THIS CITY IS A BODY explores Sydney as a city built upon a history of migration. Questioning the country’s supposed value debates and culture wars, this provoking show focuses not on ways of owning the city, but belonging to it.
30 local artists with cultural and artistic ancestries from across the globe have come together to bring theatre, dance, music and film into one space - promising the show’s intimate audiences an innovative and eye-opening experience.
This one-off performance season inhabits one of Sydney’s oldest and most beautiful buildings: the Hyde Park Barracks Museum. An immigration depot and an asylum for the old and infirm long before it became a museum, tales from the building itself will combine with stories from across the city to build the narrative of the show.
THIS CITY IS A BODY heralds the end of The Migrant Project - a multi-faceted arts initiative that has developed a series of performances, films and conferences over the last two years, exploring the oft-forgotten exchange between this city’s earliest inhabitants and all those who’ve travelled here since.
A special conference will be held at The Mint as part of the season, bringing together various cultures and generations of Sydneysiders to discuss ways of sharing our city. The conference will house an exhibition of harmonious cities, constructed by Australian school groups. Long-time Sydney writer and new media artist, Ross Gibson, will speak. Representatives of the Gadigal people and Sydney’s diverse faith communities will lead interactive workshops.
In THIS CITY IS A BODY, an Irish refugee crawls under the surface of the city’s institutions. An Australian-Asian woman reflects on assimilating as a child, only in her adulthood realising she had a choice. A young man violently exposes the racism directed at his community by exposing the racism within it. And in the midst of a citizenship ceremony, John Howard reflects on his party’s 10 years in power by telling migrants, “When you come to this country, be Australian.”
Casting Sydney as a body that has borne the scars of many, different migratory experiences, THIS CITY IS A BODYpulls together a collection of untold yet unusually connected stories that merge to help the city stand up.
“Managed to successfully blend various forms of art and media to give a new meaning to visual imagery... Underlined a paradigm that I have believed in all my life – the fact that although the performing and fine arts have no distinct language, yet they remain the most potent forces that can bring about awakening, peace, tolerance and compassion in the world.” Avijit Sarkar, India Link, 2006 (a sample of the community response)
THIS CITY IS A BODY
Media Enquiries: Shakthi – shakthi@curiousworks.com.au - 0411 668 278
More Information: http://www.curiousworks.com.au & http://migrantproject.com.au/media.html
Bookings: http://www.curiousworks.com.au/themigrantproject.html
(02) 9357 5457 for special requirements or phone bookings
