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April
15 - 25
SONG
OF GHOSTS (2004)
Music
Performance - Collaboration between PACT and the Sydney Conservatorium
of Music
The team
of artists investigated the exquisite imagery and language of Homer's
The Iliad and the visual and aural ‘poetics of war' of
more recent times, to create a frictional landscape. Text - spoken,
intoned and sung - physical invasions and war cries, a quartet of saxophonists
and 20 performers occupied the PACT space.
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April
26 - May 30
Performances May 28 & 29, June 2 - 5
Mentorship/Residency
At PACT and Darlinghurst Theatre's In the Raw Program
In
2004 two groups of PACT associated emerging artists, Shagging Julie
and falling32 shared the PACT space to develop a small work to
be presented at PACT for 2 nights (May 28 & 29) and at Darlinghurst
Theatre (June 2 -5).
The
process was diverse - physical improvisation, original text, video,
live music, electro-accoustic sound, architecture, installation...It
was a fantastic experience, and proves once again what a vital resource
PACT is for emerging artists in Sydney
(Gavin
Sladen, Shagging Julie)
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Groundwork, Memories and Letters to the Editor (2004) |
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June 24-27
Skills
Development
Performance
artists Alice Cummins and Nikki
Heywood worked with 14 emerging artists. They focused on the
body in space and used 'the public letter' as their performance text.
They sought out grass roots insights into the contemporary Australian
psyche. This process led to the development of a series of solo performances
with a 2 night showing at PACT.
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 September
16 -18
A
Neighbourhood Project
Dream-on-to-Reality
was a partnership between PACT, Alexandria Park Community School and
Waratah Centre. Up to 20 young participants worked on a video/installation
project, creating five beautiful worlds in the PACT space. They engaged
in a creative process that enabled them to dream and then realize
their dream in an unfamiliar way.
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December
Suspect!
A world of intrigue, gadgets, thrills and spies. A team of cross-disciplinary
artists collaborated with 14 young performance makers. Suspect
was the imPACT Ensemble's major production for the year, tackling
‘the surveillance issue', looking at voyeurism, narcissism,
liberty and security. Performers and the audience occupied a 'watched'
space, surrounded by CCTV cameras and hidden microphones. The work drew
heavily on film-noir with characters creating an atmosphere of slink,
sleeze and suspicion. Underneath this tongue and cheek veneer, was a darker
Orwellian tone, heightened by recent new ‘anti terrorist laws'
in Australia.
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Past Productions 
