Temporary title, 2015

xavier le roy & scarlet yu

Kaldor Public Art Projects in collaboration with Carriageworks presents French choreographer and artist Xavier Le Roy. This three-part project saw Le Roy work with artistic collaborator Scarlet Yu, and 18 Australian performers to create a groundbreaking new work Temporary Title, 2015. For the first time the public were invited to experience the creative development of a Kaldor Public Art Project through a series of open rehearsals. In addition, Le Roy performed his seminal solo work Self Unfinished (1998) for the first time in Australia.

I have been performing in Temporary Title, 2015 by Xavier Le Roy and Scarlet Yu since it was first commissioned as the 31st Kaldor Public Art Project, November 2015, Carriageworks, Sydney. Temporary Title, 2015 is an exhibition where visitors enter and leave at will. That situation is made with performers forming and deforming groups or assemblies while composing a landscape in perpetual transformation. The performer’s actions and presences oscillate between  recognizable and unrecognizable appearances which characteristics could be sculptural, animal, vegetal, mechanical and, sometimes, they approach the public to engage in conversations.

Taking up some of the materials developed for low pieces this work questions the dividing lines between human / inhuman, object / subject, transformation / transition / modification. At first sight, it can appear as something external to contemplate, but, the duration of the visit make it become a landscape in which we find ourselves, a situation to live, a space where our perception can be faster than the actions, otherwise says, a situation where maybe, time can wait.

I am part of an ongoing group of eighteen performers working mainly in Europe in this ongoing collaboration.