Adjacent to this formal participatory performance, Amulet Body, are weekly one-to-one street divination performance sessions held on 17, 24 Feb, 2, 9, 16, 23 Mar from 11.30am to 2.30pm. I encourage you to attend the final street divination and performance session; at least the last 30 minutes at 2pm, Thomas Street in Haymarket.
We will then segue into 4A Centre for Amulet Body to unfold. This performance-installation opens and ends the group exhibition Year of the Dragon curated by Con Gerakaris. Amulet Body deconstructs and reimagines systems of divination and sacred-word protection. The work synthesises material symbolism, the body and participatory choreographic methods to expand and loosen the imaginative space, thus creating a dynamistic environment. The machinations of divination is exposed, suggesting such rituals are not about certainty but rather exist as a system of techniques and randomisation, responding to physical and spiritual patterns in the world.
Ritual assistants Ryuichi Fujimura and Phillip Mills. Costume by Jennifer H Chua and Tania Castaing.
