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Michaela Davies

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MUSIC BOX PHASE

Task #14:  Music Box Phase.

Equipment:  Two identical hand crank music boxes.

‘OF LIBERTY OR DEATH’

Waltzing Matilda has been appropriated by many Australians as a ballad of the fair go, with an absence of knowledge of the history behind it.

READ OR DEAD

An investigation of the body as sculptural object, and absurd self-portrait of the artists...

SUCKER PUNCH

Power is always performed. These performances are enabled by the acceptance of individual agency in complex systems...

DOWN DOWN BABY

A distorted realisation of a classic children's clapping game, Down Down Baby explores musical exchange through oral and kinetic practices

YOU FIGHT LIKE A GIRL

Shame incorporates the gaze of the other, and ruptures the spontaneous and unreflected performance of the primordial bodily self.

TAMMY BRENNAN VERSES EUROPE

TAMMY: 0

EUROPE: 1

THE ACT OF FRAMING

The work ... suggests to us that we think of it in terms of the space which it claims, a textual space, a discursive space-act...

OBSTRUCTED RECITALS

Each performer wrestles to play through an imposed obstruction, to emphasize the way struggle, and even failure, shapes a performance

YAWNING ROOM

This participatory audio/video installation aims to induce a shared moment of art viewing lassitude