ART, IMAGINATION AND SPECTACLE: PERFORMANCE SPACE ANNOUNCES 2025 LIVEWORKS FESTIVAL LINE-UP
OUR WORLD, BUT NOT AS WE KNOW IT
Venue: Carriageworks
Address: 245 Wilson St, Eveleigh NSW 2015
Date: 22 – 26 October
Ticket: Tickets starting from $25
Web: https://carriageworks.com.au/events/liveworks-festival/
EMail: boxoffice@carriageworks.com.au
Call: +61 2 8571 9100
Address: 245 Wilson St, Eveleigh NSW 2015
Date: 22 – 26 October
Ticket: Tickets starting from $25
Web: https://carriageworks.com.au/events/liveworks-festival/
EMail: boxoffice@carriageworks.com.au
Call: +61 2 8571 9100
Request Image Contact: kabukupr@kabukupr.com.au
Performance Space is thrilled to unveil the 2025 Liveworks Festival program, a jam-packed, five-day celebration of new, experimental and genre-defying art and performance from across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region, at Carriageworks from 22nd to 26th October 2025.
Featuring a massive line-up of never-before-seen works, including seven Australian premieres, and artists from Australia, Aotearoa, Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong and Japan, the 2025 Festival is a bold melange of dance, sound art, theatre, installation and queer stories.
This year’s artists are concocting new ways to relate, summoning the power of the chance encounter, the new crush, through acts of translation, technological mediations, political agitation, queer rumination and a little bit of role-play.
Performance Space’s Artistic Director, Kate Britton, said “It has been an inspirational, exciting and brain-tickling 18 months of conversation and planning to bring this year’s Liveworks to life and I cannot wait to share it. I have fallen in love with each and every one of these works, which range from the silly to the sublime. Liveworks 2025 is a protest, a portal and a party. Come for the genre-bending, mind-blowing and heart-warming performances, stay for the post-show foyer chat with Sydney’s most radical art lovers.”
DISSENT (22 – 26 Oct) – Mãori storyteller Daley Rangi, presents a joyful and irreverent excavation of everyday resistance, inspired by roleplaying games old and new.
WORKING CLASS CLOWN (22– 26 Oct) – Fresh from its sold-out debut at Biennale of Sydney last year, Samoan (Toamua)/Australian writer, and performer Tommy Misa, brings his one-person exploration of the transcultural figure of the ‘town fool’ to the stage.
THE QUEER WOODCHOP (22 – 26 Oct) – Sharpen your conceptual art axeheads, snag a showbag, and barrack on local stars, as Pony Express hack away at lumbered binaries in this sly yet sincere subversion of an Aussie sporting spectacle.
LONG SENTENCES (22 – 26 Oct) – Time-travel with choreographer Rhiannon Newton as she invites audiences to feel the chorus of bodies, times, and actions writing our shared present.
두물머리 DUMULMEORI (WHERE TWO RIVERS MEET) (22 – 24 Oct) – Join four Australian and Korean choreographer-performers; Alisdair Macindoe and Michelle Heaven (Melbourne), Haneul Jung (Seoul), and Chosul Kim (Daegu) for an electrifying bill of contemporary dance, curated by Brendan O’Connell.
BREATHING ARCHIVE (22 – 25 Oct) – Renowned photographer, Jamie James, takes audiences on a no-holds-barred trip down memory lane, chronicling the queer and kink performance cultures of 1990s Sydney.
WHO CARES?! (23 – 24 Oct) – Genderfluid, Mãori trickster Kori Miles uses breath, sound and movement to summon the energies of protest, resistance and transformation.
STICKY HANDS, STITCHED MOUNTAINS (23- 25 Oct) – A transnational collision of folklore, oral history, culture and gender identity by Japanese dance artist, Nanako Matsumoto, and Taiwanese visual artist, Ciwas Tahos.
GROUND ON GROUND (24 – 25 Oct) – Liveworks 2024 favourites Emily Parsons-Lord, Shan Turner-Carroll and Evelyn Ida Morris join forces with Hong-Kong-based artists including Taurin Barrera, Lazarus Chan Long Fung, and Vvzela Kook, for a shimmering eclipse, where sun and moon engage in a mysterious duet.
BRIGID (25 – 26 Oct) – Encounter buried and imagined worlds, as Alice Heyward presents a dance and sound performance inspired by the pre-Christian goddess of fire and wellsprings, Brigid.
Now in its 42nd year, Performance Space is Australia’s leading organisation for the development and presentation of experimental art, pushing the boundaries of what art is, what it can do, and who it is for.
Liveworks, Performance Space’s biennial festival of live art, draws artists and audiences from around the world to experience the future of performance, dance, sound, music, installation and experimentation.
Featuring a massive line-up of never-before-seen works, including seven Australian premieres, and artists from Australia, Aotearoa, Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong and Japan, the 2025 Festival is a bold melange of dance, sound art, theatre, installation and queer stories.
This year’s artists are concocting new ways to relate, summoning the power of the chance encounter, the new crush, through acts of translation, technological mediations, political agitation, queer rumination and a little bit of role-play.
Performance Space’s Artistic Director, Kate Britton, said “It has been an inspirational, exciting and brain-tickling 18 months of conversation and planning to bring this year’s Liveworks to life and I cannot wait to share it. I have fallen in love with each and every one of these works, which range from the silly to the sublime. Liveworks 2025 is a protest, a portal and a party. Come for the genre-bending, mind-blowing and heart-warming performances, stay for the post-show foyer chat with Sydney’s most radical art lovers.”
Highlights from the 2025 Liveworks Festival program include:
I REMEMBER WHAT THE MACHINE REMEMBERS WHAT I REMEMBER: 我記得住機器記住我記住的 (22 – 25 Oct) – A cross-cultural artistic team from Australia and Taiwan occupy the slippery spaces between the real and the virtual, meaning and language, body and machine.DISSENT (22 – 26 Oct) – Mãori storyteller Daley Rangi, presents a joyful and irreverent excavation of everyday resistance, inspired by roleplaying games old and new.
WORKING CLASS CLOWN (22– 26 Oct) – Fresh from its sold-out debut at Biennale of Sydney last year, Samoan (Toamua)/Australian writer, and performer Tommy Misa, brings his one-person exploration of the transcultural figure of the ‘town fool’ to the stage.
THE QUEER WOODCHOP (22 – 26 Oct) – Sharpen your conceptual art axeheads, snag a showbag, and barrack on local stars, as Pony Express hack away at lumbered binaries in this sly yet sincere subversion of an Aussie sporting spectacle.
LONG SENTENCES (22 – 26 Oct) – Time-travel with choreographer Rhiannon Newton as she invites audiences to feel the chorus of bodies, times, and actions writing our shared present.
두물머리 DUMULMEORI (WHERE TWO RIVERS MEET) (22 – 24 Oct) – Join four Australian and Korean choreographer-performers; Alisdair Macindoe and Michelle Heaven (Melbourne), Haneul Jung (Seoul), and Chosul Kim (Daegu) for an electrifying bill of contemporary dance, curated by Brendan O’Connell.
BREATHING ARCHIVE (22 – 25 Oct) – Renowned photographer, Jamie James, takes audiences on a no-holds-barred trip down memory lane, chronicling the queer and kink performance cultures of 1990s Sydney.
WHO CARES?! (23 – 24 Oct) – Genderfluid, Mãori trickster Kori Miles uses breath, sound and movement to summon the energies of protest, resistance and transformation.
STICKY HANDS, STITCHED MOUNTAINS (23- 25 Oct) – A transnational collision of folklore, oral history, culture and gender identity by Japanese dance artist, Nanako Matsumoto, and Taiwanese visual artist, Ciwas Tahos.
GROUND ON GROUND (24 – 25 Oct) – Liveworks 2024 favourites Emily Parsons-Lord, Shan Turner-Carroll and Evelyn Ida Morris join forces with Hong-Kong-based artists including Taurin Barrera, Lazarus Chan Long Fung, and Vvzela Kook, for a shimmering eclipse, where sun and moon engage in a mysterious duet.
BRIGID (25 – 26 Oct) – Encounter buried and imagined worlds, as Alice Heyward presents a dance and sound performance inspired by the pre-Christian goddess of fire and wellsprings, Brigid.
Now in its 42nd year, Performance Space is Australia’s leading organisation for the development and presentation of experimental art, pushing the boundaries of what art is, what it can do, and who it is for.
Liveworks, Performance Space’s biennial festival of live art, draws artists and audiences from around the world to experience the future of performance, dance, sound, music, installation and experimentation.