When
Sat 29 October 2022, 12:00am – Sun 30 October 2022, 7:00am
Location
MOCA and surrounding streets
Haymarket, Sydney
Download the Program Booklet here.
4A/24 programs are FREE except Queer Haymarket Tour ($25/pa). Buy tix here.
To wrap up Art in the Heart of Haymarket, 4A presents a massive program of performance featuring dozens of works and over 50 artists, spanning live music, DJ sets, intimate one-on-one performance, dance, and theatre, across the entire weekend… from 11am Saturday to 6pm Sunday.
4A features south Asian performance makers in amongst TextaQueen: Bollywouldn’t exhibition. We’re also partnering with our neighbours, the Museum of Chinese in Australia (MOCA) to activate their building with a great line-up of artists of diverse backgrounds and artforms. And we’re spilling outside to inhabit and activate the streets of Haymarket.
Program
BINDI BOSSES
A performance integrating the under-represented style of Kuthu with Hip Hop grooves and expressions of First Nations solidarity, followed by a dance workshop.
Nitin Vengurlekar
Surreal commentary, poetry, rants & carnival barking
Intimate Performances: General Tso’s chicken | Telepathic Drawings | Black Opal Tarot | Metaverse Nails
WeiZen Ho & P:P4 Collective
Intimate Performances: Telepathic Drawings | Potluck Party | Ate Indai’s speed dates | Metaverse Nails
Destructive Steps Dance
A fresh new dance work commissioned by 4A for this event.
माँ की रसोई Maa Ki Rasoi (My Mother’s Kitchen), Pratha Nagpal & Madhullikaa Singh
Maa Ki Rasoi unpacks the intergenerational lived experiences of immigrant mothers and their children. Commissioned by Shopfront Arts Co-op.
Queer Haymarket Tour
Urban Kali, by Rakini Devi
A protest against global injustices, and ultimately an offering to Kali from a deep and personal reflective space: the body, as site and artistic material, is experienced as a conduit for transformation through ritual, and dance.
Anthi, featuring Anandavalli, directed by Iqbal Barkat, with Q&A
Anthi, Tamil for twilight, places ancient South Asian dance and music in a contemporary Australian setting where a cataclysm far greater than the Covid-19 pandemic is emerging.
Kaali Kavuthuvam Anandavalli & Aruthy Kumanan
A special choreographic composition in praise of Goddess Kaali in temple rituals.
Meditation
Chai Bar by Chai Walli
माँ की रसोई Maa Ki Rasoi (My Mother’s Kitchen), Pratha Nagpal & Madhullikaa Singh
Maa Ki Rasoi unpacks the intergenerational lived experiences of immigrant mothers and their children. Commissioned by Shopfront Arts Co-op.
Anthi, featuring Anandavalli, directed by Iqbal Barkat
Anthi, Tamil for twilight, places ancient South Asian dance and music in a contemporary Australian setting where a cataclysm far greater than the Covid-19 pandemic is emerging.
Kaali Kavuthuvam Anandavalli & Aruthy Kumanan
A special choreographic composition in praise of Goddess Kaali in temple rituals.
Destructive Steps Dance
A fresh new dance work commissioned by 4A for this event.
Timetable
Associated Event Series
Art in the Heart of Haymarket
Set in one of Sydney’s most dynamic precincts, Art in the Heart of Haymarket is a new festival that will celebrate Asian arts and culture through a pulsating program of new music, performance, and visual art.
Upcoming Events
Bollywouldn’t Preview: To accept and receive fruits and water
Exhibition Opening
Friday, 21 October 2022, 7:00am
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
TextaQueen In-conversation and Book Launch | Presented by 4A and VAULT magazine
Talk
Wednesday, 7 December 2022, 7:00am
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
Meet Me At 4A: ℑ𝔪𝔭𝔬𝔰𝔰𝔦𝔟𝔩𝔢 𝔇𝔢𝔰𝔦𝔯𝔢𝔰
Performance
Thursday, 8 December 2022, 7:00am
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art