Performing Mobilities

BACKGROUND: PERFORMING MOBILITIES is a curated program Australian program of 'Fluid States: Performances of Unknowing', a globally distributed performance research project taking place in 15 different locations over 2015. TRACES of movement projects were installed in two galleries to explore and reimagine systems of movement, place and event. PASSAGES of mobile performance projects took to the environs around and between the two galleries. A 4-day dramaturgy of ASSEMBLY events, performances and presentations embedded a community in a generative process of practice research exchange. The program examined the forming, performing and transforming of contemporary conditions through a program of experimental creative works examine dynamic tensions of mobility. CONTRIBUTION: The curated program contributes: (i) a network approach to the generation of creative practice research through interweaving multiple simultaneous roles for individuals across curator, artist, writer and academic, demonstrating creative practices eschewing fixed positions to foster exchange, dialogue and inter-action; (ii) an exemplary assembly of performative modes of creative practice; (iii) a demonstration of how systems of movement in a contemporary mobility paradigm are simultaneously entangling placements and displacements, the near and far, the local, global and glocal; (iv) a generative curatorial platform employing movement-based concerns to test emergent processes in creative practice research; (v) experiential propositions for how human hope activates live enchanting ways of noticing and attending to the problems, pleasures and uneven distributions of PERFORMING MOBILITIES. SIGNIFICANCE: PERFORMING MOBILITIES was competitively selected as the Australian program of 'Fluid States' by Performance Studies international (PSi), the peak body for performance research. It is the focus of an edition of Australasian Drama Studies journal in 2016.