PACT Centre for Emerging Artists to Present AFTERGLOW

From 17 to 27 June, PACT centre for emerging artists will present Afterglow - a double-bill of new solo works from two of Sydney's best emerging performance-makers, Ryan McGoldrick and Cloé Fournier.

The two week season will commence with the intermedia performance The Great Speckled Bird by Ryan McGoldrick. Exploring how myths are written and the digital age, the production will combine performance, digital animation, wildlife documentation and live audio composition.

The second week will feature Cloé Fournier's dance-theatre performance Dining [Uns]-Table, an exploration of dark relationships through an intimate and sometimes confronting, ambient world. With deep themes of failed familial bonds and associated psychological and emotional effects, Dining [Uns]-Table incorporates charismatic movement, dark humour and striking media art.

Through interactive technology and personal conjecture, the two works explore similar thematic ideas of family, memory and the stories we tell ourselves.

Katrina Douglas, PACT Artistic Director/CEO said, "We are delighted to be presenting these high calibre works in PACT's 2015 program AFTERGLOW. The Great Speckled Bird is the culmination of Ryan McGoldrick's year-long creative development process as one of PACT's inaugural Artist-in-Residence Program in 2014. Similarly Cloé Fournier's Dining [Uns]-Table has undergone creative development showings at Adelaide Fringe and 505 before coming to PACT. Both works reflect the experimental practice and rigour of these two exciting emerging artists."

THE GREAT SPECKLED BIRDBY RYAN MCGOLDRICK17 - 20 JUNE 2015

The Great Speckled Bird is a new intermedia work about how we write myths, the stories that tell us how we got here - a few minutes or millennia ago.

It investigates the co-creativity and co-authorship of myth between the artist and the ubiquitous digital interfaces that permeate our lived experience and personal histories. The artist stands before the audience, unsatisfied with the Big Bang, and sets out to write a new myth for the digital age. What unfolds is in fact a deeply human story about memory and the uncontrollable ruptures of contemporary storytelling.

The Great Speckled Bird is an epic new myth combining performance, digital animation, wildlife documentation and live audio composition.

DINING [UNS]-TABLEBY CLOÉ FOURNIER24 - 27 JUNE 2015

Dining [Uns]-Table by Cloé Fournier is a new solo work exploring dark relationships through an intimate and sometimes confronting, ambient world.

With its deep themes of failed familial bonds and associated psychological and emotional effects, Dining [Uns]-Table uses charismatic movement, dark humour and striking media art. By distorting the personal with the universal, Dining [Uns]-Table draws you into a not-to-be missed experience of dance-theatre.

PACT centre for emerging artists is thrilled to be presenting Cloé Fournier's first major solo work through its AFTERGLOW program. Previously, Dining [Uns]-Table has been supported by Ausdance NSW, Bundanon Trust, Eramboo Artist Environment, and FORM Dance Projects. Earlier development performances of Dining [Uns]-Table have been presented at the Bakehouse Theatre (Adelaide Fringe) and the Old 505 (Freshworks Season).