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International Conference | 29 June - 03 July 2005 de Clario : Domenico | Australia performance practice, research and creative communities: three projects
Domenico de Clario has presented performance/installations since the early 1970’s world-wide, and since the late 1990’s he has presented a number of performances projects involving collaborations with his immediate family. In 2001 he was appointed Head of the School of Contemporary Arts at Edith Cowan University in Perth. To contextualise his practice for the purposes of this conference his paper describes two projects he has undertaken since his appointment at ECU, and one he is presenting this coming August at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Arts in Melbourne. He briefly discusses the implications of his research practice on his role as an academic, and how the resulting opportunities have facilitated an inclusive approach to the concept of a creative community. SOCA@ECU seeks to function as a nexus between the art community and the broader context; both the undergraduate courses (including a BA in Contemporary Performance) and the postgraduate courses now offered at SOCA underline an inclusive approach to a contemporary art education. project one: a calvinian architecture fifty-six performances over fifty-six evenings from october 7 until december 1 2001 in fifty-six locations in the laneway running between helen and henry streets northcote australia the subject of each performance is one of the fifty-six stories in Le Citta’ Invisibili written by Italo Calvino and published in 1973 structured in the form of seven groups comprising eight evenings each of the fifty-six performances is lit by one of seven colours corresponding to one of the seven octave notes on each eighth evening i am joined by my parents and my sister each of us ‘reads’ a version of one of the stories we do not ‘read’ these versions simultaneously but rather we improvise in the way four instrumentalists might… project two: breathing for biagio walking (a walk from perth to kellerberrin) november 3 to november 9 2003 and
terminal (breathing for biagio walking) (a 12-hour walk, Asialink Centre, Melbourne University, July 2004) this project commemorates the attempt to walk overland from fremantle to melbourne by one of my fellow migrants to australia on landing in fremantle in July 1956 biagio abandoned the boat journey and inexplicably began an overland trek to melbourne on foot he died a few months later of unknown causes in kalgoorlie breathing for biagio walking november 2003: where do i start? midland that’s where mark drops me off opposite the railway workshops where biagio had walked to carrying a suitcase and then i just start walking trying to carry my suitcase unobtrusively i’m trying to walk as though i’m just going down the next street to deliver something no one knows i’m walking to kellerberrin and even if they knew it would be impossible to explain terminal (breathing for biagio walking) july 2004: the looped figure-8 route I walked continuously for 12 hours yesterday in this building suggests that there is no beginning nor ending to biagio’s journey and that arrivals are inextricably bound with departures yesterday’s walk might be read as a highly compressed version of an action spreading itself out over many lifetimes in which opposing ideas of ascent and descent become increasingly blurred within the dreamlike aspects of the entirety of the movement itself project three: mnemotecture ACCA scheduled for august 2005 a structure is built inside the main exhibition space having the same proportions of the house currently situated in via del bosco no 3 in trieste italy the upstairs room of this house is the birthplace of both myself and my sister and here we lived with my grandparents and parents until our departure for melbourne in 1956 my sister and my parents and i inhabit the room inside the structure and we make a meal each day one person is invited to share this meal with us the ingredients we use are the same we used in trieste the conversation is audible throughout the space
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