Talking about death is difficult. And yet not talking about death can sometimes be more difficult. In her film, A shared space, Schwenk approaches the subject side-on by showing us death from the perspective of… Read More »A shared space
Sometimes awful things have their own kind of beauty is a project that tells stories about prisoners and people who were committed in mental asylums, in a beautifully simple, yet powerful way. These works consider… Read More »Sometimes awful things have their own kind of beauty
birds and clouds from one life to another by Sylvia Schwenk and Nikola Dicke references Bertolt Brecht’s poem The Lovers, that centres on the lives of a flock of cranes. In this art event, which… Read More »Birds and clouds from one life to another
In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people, which takes its name from a quote by famed mime artist Marcel Marceau, Schwenk re-stages one of the most famous of all visual gags.… Read More »In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people
In slow-moving traffic in down-town Sydney, Australia, five teams of color-coded performers rolled car wheels in sets of four through city streets as though the car body had disappeared. This performance called Life takes place… Read More »Life takes place on foot
Imagine what your life would be like if you were imprisoned. Not the fictionalized prison you’re shown on TV, but a real prison, a prison of the everyday. A prison of the minutia. A space… Read More »five prison stories
Schwenk’s film is a work of images from an abandoned asylum for the mentally insane that is set to haunting music and sound. The film does not directly talk about the institution that was used… Read More »but of the drip, drip, they know nothing
Anja’s reality is a text-based work about Anja, (not her real name). Anja is a sex worker who offers drive-thru sex in the evenings in a designated Zone for sex work. In the Zone men… Read More »Anja’s reality
X Performances utilises public space as a place of dialogue and negotiation. The public road is a space circumscribed by a social compact that determines interaction. But where the rules of the road are thought… Read More »X Performances
Remember the importance of SELF is a project which seeks to remind us that each of us is important. And that who we are is more important than the gap which exists between the life… Read More »Remember the importance of SELF
