PROJECTS: Ira

Interested in ripping-open the Western concept of time and decolonising the body from the tyranny of the clock, I make works that insert a gentler pace into busy social environments, and consider environmental consequences of speed and non-stop production. I have made and collaborated on projects that deal with fatigue, and advocate for boredom and idleness as forms of resistance. My practice is best described as multidisciplinary and it involves movement, text, video-art, sound-collage, conversation… Body and its relationship to time and space, is at the centre of my exploration and engagement with the natural and (wo)man made environments.
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SELECTED PROJECTS

SOFT STRUCTURES: THE ARCHITECTURE OF REST

A durational performance, developed for the BLOT exhibition at Articulate (Sydney). Performed alongside Ryuichi Fujimura and Maddy Menca, on 4 September 2022. The work takes inspiration from my recent experiences at ImpulsTanz IDOCDE symposium ‘The Rest of Art’ and particularly the ‘MA: Pregnant Nothingness’ residency space created by Defne Erdur. Expression ‘the architecture of rest’ came from Carol Brown during the symposium. The work was developed in Sydney, through conversations and experiments with Cynthia Florek. Photos: video footage, Sue Callanan, Beata Geyer, Elia Bosshard.

TEMPORARY ECOSYSTEMS

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A series of site-specific performances, responding to the St Peters’ Town Hall (Sydenham, Sydney) and the surrounds. Project envisioned and curated by Kate Sherman for the 2022 Inner West Fest and performed on 10 April 2022 after a short scores-based development. The project explores the micro and macro inter-relationships. The way the inner effects the outer. The way we connect and disconnect. Performers include: Kit Bylett, Renata Commisso, Ira Ferris, Cynthia Florek, Ryuichi Fujimura, and more… Photos by: Daniel Kukec

STEEL ZONE (VORTEX): What slows you down?

Movement w/ sound installation, developed and presented as part of the Temporary Ecosystems project, curated by Kate Sherman for the 2022 Inner West Festival. Originally presented in the St Peters Town Hall Community Room, on 10 April 2022.

8TH DAY

I am taking part in a hybrid dance multi-channel audio visual work by Lux Eterna. The work was developed through the 2022 March Dance residency, and is a recipient of the Inaugural 2022 March Dance Keir Foundation 'Start-up Commission' and the Australian Council for the Arts project grant. For more about this work, have a listen to Lux’s and mine Eastside Radio conversation.

CHOREOGRAPHING CINEMA

If cinema is made of movement, then cinema is made of dance … A short video-essay made in 2019, to explore and acknowledge the way filmmakers work with dance (knowingly or un-knowingly).

SPACE BODY HABIT (2021)

Co-authored with Elia Bosshard and published through Frontyard in 2021, SPACE BODY HABIT is a comprehensive research into the many ways we perceive, or fail to perceive spaces. The book comprises a series of spatio-somatic and phenomenologically-driven exercises, followed by in-depth discussions on the impact of spaces/places on our day-to-day lives. Available for purchase HERE.

IS TIME REAL?

A multi-media research project on marking and sensing time through the body. Mediums: movement | video | sound | poetry | conversation. Developed as part of the BigCi residency (May - June, 2021). ~ MORE ~

SLEEPING RESIDENCY (2019 - …)

Keep awake, keep awake, artist,
Do not give in to sleep …

**Boris Pasternak**

We sleep around the work we need to do, obligations we have; around the stress of having to wake up because something needs to be done. We don’t know what our natural sleeping rhythms are. What if we prioritised sleep over work, if we worked around sleeping, not the other way around? FIND OUT MORE