TEMPORARY TITLE

Kaldor Public Art Projects
Carriage Works 2015

Created by: Xavier Le Roy & Scarlet Yu

In collaboration with: Natalie Abbott, Christine Babinskas, Geraldine Balcazar, Georgia Bettens, Eugene Choi, Matthew Day, Lauren Eiko, Peter Fraser, Ryuichi Fujimura, Alice Heyward, Becky Hilton, David Huggins, Marcus McKenzie, Kathryn Puie, Amaara Raheem, Darcy Wallace, Adam Warburton and Ivey Wawn.  

Temporary Title, 2015, experiments with the process of pattern recognition, exploring forms which are not quite distinguishable as human - yet not completely anything else - and the idea of movement as a continuous process of transformation. The performers transition between strange and familiar forms and formations, challenging our perceptions of the human body and its capacity for physical expression and representation. The piece does not utilise props or costumes and the performers are naked throughout the exhibition. This neutrality allows the transitory movements and conversations to remain the core of the visitor’s experience. 

Photos: Zan Wimberley and Peter Greig, courtesy Kaldor Public Art Projects. 

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.