P:P4 Collective
They/them
Oliver James Damian is a Meisner actor and a performance artist with a Filipino-Vietnamese background. Raised as Catholic Tagalog Filipino, educated by Religious of the Virgin Mary nuns in childhood and Jesuit priests at university, he explores meaning in stories imbued with mirth and pathos. Oliver tries to live each moment in serious play, to act what has never been acted before.
Emily Eather is an interdisciplinary artist based in rural NSW. Emily’s practice is centred around the invisible forces which flow throughout our lives. Through performative rituals, Emily uses multiple mediums and tools made from foraged materials and her body to deepen connection to the land she is on. She investigates her relationship to land through movement, chanting, drawing and sculpture.
Peter Farrar is perhaps best known as a saxophonist working in the realms of improvised/experimental/jazz/stylefree music. He is a core member of the seminal large scale improvising group Splinter Orchestra, and also co-founded the group Prophets - a collective focused on diy creativity through masks, and improvised communal music. Peter released his solo saxophone album Avocado in 2016, as well as many other solo projects on the 8trackandfield bandcamp site. Most recently, Peter's experimental music focus has shifted towards the use of hotplates and of water heating/cooling to produce sounds, creating miniature pressure systems ("weather systems" as Jim Denley describes it).
Ryuichi Fujimura is an independent dance artist based in Sydney. Since the mid 1990’s, he has studied contemporary dance technique as well as improvisation and choreography in Australia and overseas. Over the last two decades, he has enjoyed dancing, performing, creating and collaborating with other artists of various disciplines.
Phillip Mills has worked across a variety of performance platforms. He started training in the Huang Sheng Shyan Taichi in the mid seventies; contemporary dance approaches including Erik Hawkins technique, Contact Improvisation, and Body Weather from 1989 where he was introduced to its methodology and philosophy by Tess De Quincey. He has worked as a performer in Theatre Kantanka, Alan Schacher's Bland project and SkelterShelter film work. He has participated in earlier iterations of Performature : Performateur as well as SoundBitesBody, a sound and movement improvisatory series initiated by WeiZen across The Blue Mountains properties.
Juliet Sato is a dance artist based on Gadigal Land. She graduated from Transit Dance in 2019. Juliet co-choreographed twice with Meghan Bassett creating i'm a plant and paint in our toes, paint up your nose. In 2020 she moved to Sydney and contributed as a dancer to two of Dirty Feet's choreographic labs working with Alice Weber and Audrey Burden. In 2021 Juliet continued research with Alice Weber for her work Dream Cellscapes performing the work at Cement Fondu. Juliet is currently a member of Dance Makers Collective’s youth company Future Makers. In her own practice she is interested in the reach between entities in reality, and across space and time.
Guest 'Bewilderers':
Laura Altman, Sue Callanan, Lian Loke, Margaret Roberts, Shota Matsumura and Alan Schacher.
Artist Phillip Mills and Participants, Performature : Performateur 1, 2019, Performance Structured Improvisation, Public Space Leichardt; Articulate project space residency; Photo credit: Marie Ngai-King