20/07/2026
DIVERSE UNIVERSE PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL 2026 esitleb:
Alan Schacher´i performance workshop
21 Juuli / Teisipäev 12.00 - 14:00
Loovlinnak Suur-Jõe 10/12 Pärnu
Pealkiri: "Body Matter (What’s the matter collaborating with your body?)”.
Palun tooge kaasa mõned materjalid, mida töötoas jagada.
Ärge tooge kaasa hinnalisi ega isiklikke pisiasju, näiteks abielusõrmust!
Tooge kaasa ainult igapäevaseid esemeid.
Lisaks palun tooge kaasa midagi, mille te töötuppa teel leidsite.
Suuremad esemed on paremad.
Tutvustus:
Alan Schacher elab Austraalias Uus-Lõuna-Walesi osariigis The Blue Mountainsis. Ta on etenduskunstnik ja looja, kes töötab kehapõhise praktika ja materjaliinstallatsiooni valdkonnas. Tema huvid ja teemad ulatuvad arhitektuuri, koha olemuse, materiaalsuse ja keha päranditeni. Keskseks teemaks on diasporaa kui globaalne seisund, mis seab kahtluse alla kodumaa mõiste. Tema teosed manavad esile kujuteldavaid ajalugusid ja rituaale koha ja aja kohta, kasutades meetodina materjale, objekte, koostööd ja improvisatsiooni.
ENG:
DIVERSE UNIVERSE PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL 2026 presents:
Alan Schacher Performance Workshop
July 21 / Tuesday 12.00 - 2.00 PM
Loovlinnak, Suur-Jõe 10/12 Pärnu
Title: "Body Matter (What’s the matter collaborating with your body?)"
Please bring a few materials to share in the workshop.
Don’t bring precious or personal tiny things like your wedding ring!
Just bring everyday objects.
Also - in addition - please bring something you found on your way to the workshop.
Larger items are better.
About the artist:
Alan Schacher lives in The Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia. He is a performance artist and creator, working across body-based practice and material installation. His interests and themes extend into architecture, the essence of site, materiality and the body's inheritances. A central concern proposes diaspora as a global condition calling to question notions of home-land. His works conjure imaginary histories and rituals of and for place and time employing materials, objects, collaboration and improvisation as primary methods.
Founder of Sydney’s contemporary performance ensembles Gravity Feed (1992-2004) and Gravity Research Institute (2000-2019) his recent projects in performance art are mostly solo body-centred, participating in live art/performance art festivals across Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Thailand, China, Germany, Taiwan, Bangladesh and New Zealand, Latvia, Finland.
https://alanschacher.net
Alan Schacher An artist whose themes include global human movement, architectural experience and the performativity of public space, his oeuvre is visceral, non-narrative and non-didactic. Offering viewers multiple readings of undercurrents drawn from cultural and diasporic landscapes (both imagined and inherited) the performances can take the form of fictitious ritualised ceremony. They attempt to eke out the essence of site, materials and objects in relation to and with the performer’s body, the situation, and memory of place. He is driven to provoke, employing juxtapositions, contradictions and misfits. Exploiting the roles architecture and the built environment take in framing and containing human activity, he structures it to be be witnessed as performative. His works address a post-holocaust legacy, placing the performer in the role of outsider, impacted by unseen pressures, tasks and rules, creating rituals of and for place and time. He conceives of diaspora as a web, a contemporary and historical global condition calling to question any possibility of home-land. Recent solo performances are pared down, employing everyday materials such as sheets and rolls of paper, shoes, sugar cubes, eggs, spices, coloured water, simple found acoustic props, a bed-sheet or blanket. Using these he provokes relational images that establish the position of the body in culture. This visceral approach to the human condition sets both performer and spectator adrift. Founder of seminal Sydney-based Performance Ensemble Gravity Feed (1992 to 2004) and of Gravity Research Institute (2000-2019). Since 2010 he collaborates with WeiZen Ho in performances that enter the domains of ritual and spirit, investigating processes of transformation and intercultural archetypal transference. Acknowledgements The Blue Mountains in which I live are the traditional lands of the Dharug and Gundungurra peoples.
Thanks to the many friends, family, collaborators, performers, composers, video and photographic artists, technicians, administrators, venue and festival directors, mentors and teachers, who have given me support and sustenance over the years. Notably the photographers and videographers. Without their documentation, enthusiasm and support this archive would not exist. In Australia photographers Heidrun Löhr, Mayu Kanamori, David Brazil, Vsevolod Vlaskine and others….. and videographers: Peter Oldham, Michelle Mahrer, Sean Bacon, Samuel James, and many others. In Malaysia photographers include Steve Chong, Rizduan Rasheed and Chia Soo-Chin.
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