Over 31 summer nights from 15 January to 14 February 2021, Melbourne’s largest presentation of contemporary art and design sets the scene for Triennial EXTRA – a festival of performance, music, food and bars, and late-night access to NGV Triennial 2020 every night until 9pm. Free entry.
12pm–3pm
DJ
Location
Grollo Equiset Garden
Ground Level
3pm–6pm
DJ
Location
NGV Forecourt
3pm–6pm
DJ
Location
Grollo Equiset Garden
Ground Level
5.45pm–7:15pm
Public Service – Cruising the Cafeteria
In response to Boudoir Babylon by Adam Nathaniel Furman + Sibling Architecture, and provocation from A Single Voice by Susan Philipsz, Luke George with collaborators Alexander Powers and Sarah Aiken, invoke the chorus performer from mid-20th century American film spectacles of flamboyant dance fantasies, crooning songsters and liberated camera movements. A singular body is isolated from the choreography en masse, their movements and labour deconstructed through a deliberately slow re-embodiment. Playfully orbiting, climbing and tumbling down the technicolour tiers of edible forms, the performer cruises the salon’s catwalks and peepholes – a serenade in service to the mass.
Location
Boudoir Babylon
Gallery Kitchen
Ground Level
6pm–6.10pm
嶋田会希 – ELLE SHIMADA
Presented by Afro Hub
Through a unique combination of violin and electronic instruments, 嶋田会希–Elle Shimada performs a series of original cinematic compositions to create an other-worldly atmosphere surrounding Stewart Haygarth’s Optical (tinted).
嶋田会希–Elle Shimada is a violinist, producer, curator, DJ and multi-instrumentalist from Tokyo based in Melbourne. Fluidly fusing Tokyo’s futuristic underground scene, London and Detroit House, LA Hip Hop, Melbourne mellow-jazz and sacred spirit’s songs somewhere deep in the mountains, Shimada’s productions and live sets are a kinetic succession of dance beats and abstract compositions.
Location
Optical (tinted)
Gallery 15C, Level 2
6pm–7pm
In response to Venus 2018-2020, Moon in Aries parallels Koons’ experimentation with the mirror—offering a matte contrast. Nodding quietly to the artist’s use of materials, reflection, and references from art history to commercial kitsch, two dancers ritualistically enter, pause, then exit the space in an immanent, feminine transit. Conceived by Hamish McIntosh and performed by Valentina Dillon and Emily Laursen, this hour long embrace invites the audience’s gaze as if their bodies, like the Venus herself, were mirrored and brilliant.
Location
Venus Exhibition Space
Gallery 1
Ground Level
This work is part of a series of choreographed responses to works within the NGV Triennial as part of Triennial EXTRA, developed by Victorian College of the Arts post-graduate research students and performed by students from the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) at the University of Melbourne. The University of Melbourne is the proud Research Partner of the NGV Triennial.
6pm–8pm
In response to If I die, please delete my Soundcloud by Natasha Matila-Smith, Hamish McIntosh presents a durational response that alludes to Matila-Smith’s own hidden, tender figure and references Michel Fokine’s 1911 ballet, Le Spectre de la rose, both pieces addressing a fantasy of nearness in a (socially) distant world.
Location
If I die, please delete my Soundcloud Exhibition Space
Gallery 30
Level 3
This work is part of a series of choreographed responses to works within the NGV Triennial as part of Triennial EXTRA, developed by Victorian College of the Arts post-graduate research students and performed by students from the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) at the University of Melbourne. The University of Melbourne is the proud Research Partner of the NGV Triennial.
6pm–8pm
Through the exploration of Noh theatre, Lucent draws upon a common nexus with Cerith Wyn Evans’ C=O=D=A, where performing bodies are organised in a unified processual site of perception, encompassing their interiority and the entirety of the space. Dancers connect the vectors and complex forms of the white neon sculpture creating an arc of movement with their bodies. Choreographed by Naree Vachananda and performed by Caitlin Mewett and Anna Tolotchkov.
Location
C=O=D=A Exhibition Space
Gallery 22A
Level 2
This work is part of a series of choreographed responses to works within the NGV Triennial as part of Triennial EXTRA, developed by Victorian College of the Arts post-graduate research students and performed by students from the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) at the University of Melbourne. The University of Melbourne is the proud Research Partner of the NGV Triennial.
6pm–9pm
DJ
Location
Grollo Equiset Garden
Ground Level
6pm–9pm
DJ
Location
NGV Forecourt
6.20pm–6.30pm
嶋田会希 – ELLE SHIMADA
Presented by Afro Hub
Through a unique combination of violin and electronic instruments, 嶋田会希–Elle Shimada performs a series of original cinematic compositions to create an other-worldly atmosphere surrounding Stewart Haygarth’s Optical (tinted).
嶋田会希–Elle Shimada is a violinist, producer, curator, DJ and multi-instrumentalist from Tokyo based in Melbourne. Fluidly fusing Tokyo’s futuristic underground scene, London and Detroit House, LA Hip Hop, Melbourne mellow-jazz and sacred spirit’s songs somewhere deep in the mountains, Shimada’s productions and live sets are a kinetic succession of dance beats and abstract compositions.
Location
Optical (tinted)
Gallery 15C, Level 2
6.30pm–7pm
Informed by a multi-species dialogue with aquatic life, a solo performer dances on the edge of the visible. Disappearing and re-appearing, metamorphosing with the shifting patterns of Tromarama’s Solaris, she cuts between shapes and crystallizing moments of connection with diverse life forms. Choreographed by Professor Carol Brown and performed by Gabrielle Fallon.
Location
Solaris Exhibition Space
Gallery 16C
Level 2
This work is part of a series of choreographed responses to works within the NGV Triennial as part of Triennial EXTRA, developed by Victorian College of the Arts post-graduate research students and performed by students from the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) at the University of Melbourne. The University of Melbourne is the proud Research Partner of the NGV Triennial.
6.30pm–7.15pm
‘She started to float into the sky because of the overdose. Although he wanted to shoot her in order to prevent her from floating further, he could not bear to aim the arrow at her. She kept on floating until she landed on the moon.’
Inspired by the myth of the Chinese moon goddess Chang’e, encounter Scotty So’s performance of As She Floats across the Ground Floor of NGV International during Triennial EXTRA. Dressed in a holographic Tang dynasty style Hanfu and hair and makeup of the traditional image of the moon goddess, Scotty So silently lipsyncs her story in Chinese Opera as an offering to the spirits of the space.
Location
Ground Level
7pm–7.10pm
嶋田会希 – ELLE SHIMADA
Presented by Afro Hub
Through a unique combination of violin and electronic instruments, 嶋田会希–Elle Shimada performs a series of original cinematic compositions to create an other-worldly atmosphere surrounding Stewart Haygarth’s Optical (tinted).
嶋田会希–Elle Shimada is a violinist, producer, curator, DJ and multi-instrumentalist from Tokyo based in Melbourne. Fluidly fusing Tokyo’s futuristic underground scene, London and Detroit House, LA Hip Hop, Melbourne mellow-jazz and sacred spirit’s songs somewhere deep in the mountains, Shimada’s productions and live sets are a kinetic succession of dance beats and abstract compositions.
Location
Optical (tinted)
Gallery 15C, Level 2
7pm–7.30pm
Spotlight on Shadows initiates conversations between Kathak, one of the eight major forms of Indian classical dance and Salon Et Lumiere, a digital recreation of the great Salon Hang, negotiating space-making in-between the light and shadows and the story of one frame reaching out to the other. Choreographed by Shinjita Roy and performed by Sarah Kosoof, Aimee Raitman, Freya Humphery and Amelia O’Leary.
Location
Salon Et Lumiere Exhibition Space
Gallery 16B
Level 2
This work is part of a series of choreographed responses to works within the NGV Triennial as part of Triennial EXTRA, developed by Victorian College of the Arts post-graduate research students and performed by students from the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) at the University of Melbourne. The University of Melbourne is the proud Research Partner of the NGV Triennial.
7pm–8.45pm
Blak Metal
Last seen in 2019 disrupting the artist talk of their corporeal host Steven Rhall, Blak Metal resurfaces for a suite of six performances. Communing with their distant cousin Air Dancer as Black Body (as interned within the NGV Triennial) Blak Metal is expected to do a range of gestures, or possibly none at all. Bring your credit card.
Location
Waterwall
Ground Level
7.30pm–7.50pm
In this newly commissioned work, artist Archie Barry ventriloquises a miniature sculpture of their own head named Blue Dog that looks like a baby, an elder and an alien. In this performance, as in the sociopolitical landscape post 2020, nothing makes sense. Performance is the end of sense and the start of sensing: Blue Dog communicates the separation anxiety of being an animal body inside an institution.
Born Eora Nation/Sydney (Australia) in 1990, Archie Barry is an artist whose practice spans performance, video, music production and writing. Their work takes form as autobiographical, somatic and process-led, circling themes of personhood and embodiment. Barry works to cultivate a genealogy of personas based on personal histories of power and mortality.
Location
Gallery 22B
Level 2
7.30pm–8pm
Informed by a multi-species dialogue with aquatic life, a solo performer dances on the edge of the visible. Disappearing and re-appearing, metamorphosing with the shifting patterns of Tromarama’s Solaris, she cuts between shapes and crystallizing moments of connection with diverse life forms. Choreographed by Professor Carol Brown and performed by Gabrielle Fallon.
Location
Solaris Exhibition Space
Gallery 16C
Level 2
This work is part of a series of choreographed responses to works within the NGV Triennial as part of Triennial EXTRA, developed by Victorian College of the Arts post-graduate research students and performed by students from the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) at the University of Melbourne. The University of Melbourne is the proud Research Partner of the NGV Triennial.
7.30pm–8.30pm
In response to Venus 2018-2020, Moon in Aries parallels Koons’ experimentation with the mirror—offering a matte contrast. Nodding quietly to the artist’s use of materials, reflection, and references from art history to commercial kitsch, two dancers ritualistically enter, pause, then exit the space in an immanent, feminine transit. Conceived by Hamish McIntosh and performed by Valentina Dillon and Emily Laursen, this hour long embrace invites the audience’s gaze as if their bodies, like the Venus herself, were mirrored and brilliant.
Location
Venus Exhibition Space
Gallery 1
Ground Level
This work is part of a series of choreographed responses to works within the NGV Triennial as part of Triennial EXTRA, developed by Victorian College of the Arts post-graduate research students and performed by students from the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) at the University of Melbourne. The University of Melbourne is the proud Research Partner of the NGV Triennial.
8pm–8.20pm
Continuing with his ongoing interest in light as a carrier of information, be it the projected image, shadow play or expanded cinema performance, Emile Zile presents a new performance in the Gothic and Medieval galleries of NGV International for Triennial EXTRA. Referencing the scientific measurement of light and the once-new technology of the candle as a participant in the development of the Western artistic tradition, his new performance takes place in a subdued, dark environment surrounded by five hundred year old devotional wood carvings.
Emile Zile is an artist, filmmaker and performer. Utilising a darkly comical re-use of media broadcasts, communication protocols and online platforms, his work reflects a distributed humanity, a yearning for transcendence and the limits of language. Emile Zile is a PhD candidate at Digital Ethnography Research Centre RMIT and is profiled in Australiana to Zeitgeist: an A to Z of Australian Contemporary Art 2017 Thames & Hudson and Companion to Mobile Media Art 2020 Routledge.
Location
Gallery 13
Level 1
8pm–8.30pm
Spotlight on Shadows initiates conversations between Kathak, one of the eight major forms of Indian classical dance and Salon Et Lumiere, a digital recreation of the great Salon Hang, negotiating space-making in-between the light and shadows and the story of one frame reaching out to the other. Choreographed by Shinjita Roy and performed by Sarah Kosoof, Aimee Raitman, Freya Humphery and Amelia O’Leary.
Location
Salon Et Lumiere Exhibition Space
Gallery 16B
Level 2
This work is part of a series of choreographed responses to works within the NGV Triennial as part of Triennial EXTRA, developed by Victorian College of the Arts post-graduate research students and performed by students from the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) at the University of Melbourne. The University of Melbourne is the proud Research Partner of the NGV Triennial.
8.30pm–9pm
Scarlett So Hung Son is the time-travelling diva persona of Scotty So. End your night at Boudoir Babylon as Scarlett invites you on a journey through time with her sensual lipsync performances to music from the old Shanghai, 60s Hong Kong, instrumental cello pieces of Bach and Saint-Saëns and national treasure Kylie Minogue.
Location
Boudoir Babylon
Gallery Kitchen
Ground Level
