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Where can independant artistsvoice their inner spirit withoutcompromise? MAP Morelandbegins its inaugural festival atSiteworks, Bruswick.

MAP’s platform is uncomplicated,inclusive; embraces mix-displines,and importally, steps outside thedemands of commoditization -going beyond the need toposition themselves to yield tomarketing and selling mechanism.Or even predetermind selectioncriterior of the dominantinstitutions, hense reclaiming thevigor and engegy in beingunique,. This platform is yours.

Thank you artists for expressingyour desire to show your creativity,to knit collaborative community offriendship and inter-support.

MAP embodies a very wide rangeof audience. No one can help butrecognise the returning to thebasic drive of why are artists andwhy we do what we do – back tothe original genesis of creativeimpulse.

Tony Yap Artistic DirectorTakashi Takiguchi Producer

map moreland: house-body

In this space the artists are not somuch interpreting narrative, butrather, tracing trajectories tomake perceptible what they cando. Here in this spacio-temporalevent, lines of narrative mayemerge from undertones createdwhen the artists map orcartograph their nomadicpassages. This is done usingdance, sound, vision andmovement without biases offormal language.

MAP Festival began in 2008 inMalaysia as the Melaka Arts andPerformance Festival. Over thelast decade, the model of site-

MAP Moreland begins its firstfestival at Siteworks in Brunswick.The theme is on the ancientGreek concept of Arachne’sTwine.

MAP Moreland will inhabit themain two-story ‘house’ atSiteworks. Artists perform andinstall their work within thelabyrinth of rooms like nookswithin 'a house-body', Arachne’sTwine relates to the creation of anetwork as in the weaving of aweb. Every artist’s work willrepresent a kind of thread in aspider’s web that exists in a ‘nook’or a room.

specific performances have co-inspired sister festivals with ArtsIsland Festival & Pelem ArtsFestival (Indonesia), BandungInternational Arts Festival(Indonesia), MAP Delhi (India),MAP Rainbow (Regional Victoria,Australia), Buffalo Fields Festival(Bangkok, Thailand), andMelbourne’s own MappingMelbourne. All these festivalsbegan with site-specificity andhave created platforms forindependent artists fromdifferent disciplines, cultures andlevels of accomplishments topresent works in individual,collaborative and alwaysexperimental creative practice.

MAP Moreland acknowledges the

Wurundjeri people of the Kulin

nation, the traditional owners/

custodians of the land on which

we meet. We pay our respects to

the Elders past and present.

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Kathleen GonzalezKathleen Gonzalez is a Melbourne basedColombian experimental artist, ethnodancewriter, dance maker and performer, culturalproducer, artistic director of Tunjos y CantarosEthnologic Dance Company. Kathleen's practicecombines multicultural, multispiritual and globalancestral origins, investigated through dancelaboratories and ritualistic experiencesconnecting the inner and outer self. Kathleen’swork explores the space between the rationalityof the physical senses and the mystery of psychicand mythical lands, combining unusual,experimental, creative and inspirational newperformance processes. She has named theconcept Ethnodanceology Art.

N I M M A M K I N– Transmigrating The Soul

– Installation / Dance (20 mins)Substantial form of eternal wisdom. Wereunite ourselves with our original patterns. Adepiction of the whole human race. Thelanguage of the mystic arts is as old ascivilisations. It's about our astral projection.Everything is from the same energy. Spirit is thedestination. Silence the ego and natural talentsarise.

Outer Courtyard, 5pm openingperformance

Kiki Ando& Ayako FujiiKiki Ando and Ayako Fujii are Japaneseperformers currently based in Melbourne.Kiki’s practice is influenced by traditionaland contemporary Japanese forms ofdance and is currently exploring Javanese“secrete spirit” movement dance. Ayako Fujii is a multi instrumentalist,composer andarranger from Osaka since 1995.She has been performing traditionalJapanese instruments like Shinobue Flute,Taiko Drums and Sanshin Banjo in severalgroups including A.YA. Ayako has alsobeen collaborating with Butoh dancerssince 2015. Kiki and Ayako collaborating inMelaka Festival 2016 in Malaysia

DANSYARI-断捨離– Multi-mediums (30 mins)his new year is the time to be rid of the“old” making room for new space, timeand allowing new flows in energy. SweetBeens duo is a collaboration of dance byKiki Ando and traditional Japanese musicperformed by Ayako.

Entrance courtyard, 7pm

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Cobie Orger, LouiseLavarack, Andre Solano& John Kostaras Cobie Orger, Louise Lavarack, AndreSolano and John Kostaras have worked invarious configurations over the yearsexploring music, dance, performance,sculpture, and installation. They areinterested in the dialogue that occurswithin artistic collaboration and theconsequent trajectories, methodologiesand forms that emerge.

An invisiblethread– Installation/visual art (durational)

Through sound and sculptural elements,An Invisible Thread interlaces an ordinaryarchitectural space with traces andinstances, images and memories. Twoperformers adjust, disturb and configurean array of coloured wooden battens.Ephemeral structures grow and reduce inresponse to the shifting lush soundscapesspun by two musicians. Morphing formscoil through the space, moving awayfrom and towards the force of sound thatbinds them.

L1 Foyer, 5.30pm Durational

Domenico de ClarioDomenico is an interdisciplinary artist, academic,writer and musician. He was born in Trieste, Italy.He studied architecture and town planning atMelbourne University, painting at Milan’sAccademia di Belle Arti di Brera and lithography atthe Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino. In 1998 hewas awarded an MA and in 2001 a PhD inperformance studies from Melbourne’s VictoriaUniversity. Since 1966 Domenico has presentedmore than 300 solo and group exhibitions,installations and performances and has published anumber of books and CDs. His work is representedin major public and private collections both inAustralia and worldwide.

moving out P1 + P2– Music and movements (2 x 30 mins)

How do we move out of the home ground? Outof the safety of the known and familiar?Domenico is mobile in his musically equipt vanoffering italian poems an improvised sound.

Ready, and moving out.

P1 with Brendan O’Connor & Tony Yap

P2 with all artists in a final webbing.

Inner Courtyard

P1 6-6.30

P2 7.30-8pm (Group Finale)

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Anna White& Yvette GrantBIOGRAPHY - artist/sYvette Grant is a teacher, writer, creatorand performer, and a lifelong dancer. Shehas a background in Classical Ballet andpursued her passion for dancing Tango inBuenos Aires for four years. She recentlystudied Art and Community Engagementat The University of Melbourne, and hercurrent explorations are in improvisedperformance.

Anna White works across the mediums ofperformance, photography and painting.She has practiced as an abstract painter fordecades, working intuitively with chanceand improvisation. Participation in a Butohworkshop in 2016 provided the catalyst toexplore these themes using the body andmovement and rekindled a long-heldpassion for dance.

TWO– Dance (15 mins)Midway on our life's journey I foundmyself in dark woods, the right road lost.To tell about those woods is hard, sotangled, rough and savage that thinkingof it now I feel the old fear rising - deathis hardly more bitter.” Dante's DivineComedy

Bottom Verandah, 6.30pm

Myfanwy Hunter &Jonathan SinatraSound+visual artist Myfanwy Huntercollaborates with dancers, theatre makersand contemporary music ensembles on viola,fretless bass guitar, vocal adaptors, andmicro sound generators to create immersiveinteractive sound works.www.myfanwyhunter.com

Jonathan Sinatra – contemporary dancerwith Russell Dumas’ Dance Exchange.Currently undertaking a residency throughthe City of Yarra’s ‘Room to Create’ programto expand his dance and photographicpractice.www.instagram.com/jonathan_sinatra

Inflatable Situation– Multi-medium (durational)A room. Small. Tall. Amplified quiet. Deflatingskins. Transgressing borders. Exchanges inmass, movement and economy. Disruptedusage. Inflated feeds. Conflated lives. We havea situation. Where will the rest of us rest?Hunter with sound and Sinatra with the bodywill work with the physics, political, physicaland phenomenological of a room withinSiteworks with a rise, a fall, a rise, a fall over aone hour durational period.

L1 Back Room 5.30pm Durational

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Gretel Taylor Gretel Taylor has evolved a site-responsiveperformance practice exploringrelationships between place, body andidentity. Historical, ecological, cultural andsocial contexts inform her work, whichdraws upon dance improvisation, live artand Body Weather. In addition to her solopractice, Gretel is a core artist ofEnvironmental Performance Authority(EPA).Gretel completed a practice-based PhD in2009 and has taught Performance atVictoria University, RMIT and Monash. In2018 she curated performative exhibitionForce of Nature at Yarra Ranges RegionalMuseum. She is currently co-directingDancing Between Two Worlds with ShaunMcLeod and Indian Australian artists inMelbourne's west.

Hearth – Video (durational)Working with and against notions ofdomesticity and the politics of privatespace, Gretel Taylor etches an uncannypresence of woman in the home.

GL Kitchen, 6 pm

Reuben Lewis& Emily BennetReuben Lewis, from the popping psychedelicjazz collective, I Hold the Lion’s Paw, andEmily Bennett, from the landscapingsurrealist improvised trio, Great rack andempty club reverb, clash in the meta-namedduo, I Hold The Great Rack. Lewis hustleson trumpet through an outboard of effectpedals as Bennett speaks her mind via anoutdated Korg multi-effects rack.

I Hold theGreat Rack– Music (30 mons)

"Reuben, I think we were flirting or maybe itwas just me flirting with you? Ah well, ahwell, ah well. Ah well it’s all for thepromotion of my band.

And, you know, any press is good press andany mess is good stress. It’s all good.

No worries. I’ve forgotten already what youeven said. Nah. It’s in the past, it’s whatever.

Oh, dont even worry about it."

Reuben Lewis & Emily Bennet - trumpet,vocals & electronics

GL Kitchen, 5.15 pm

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Helen Suzanne Smith& Fiona HillHelen is a physical theatre performer,teacher and director whose maininfluences have been Butoh, an avant-garde genre of dance theatre from Japan;Suzuki actor training, also from Japan;Viewpoints originating from the US, andmore recently, Kathakali, an ancienttraditional form of Indian dance theatre.Helen was first introduced to the world ofPhysical Theatre, through Brisbane-basedcompany, Zen Zen Zo with whom she hastrained, performed nationally andinternationally since 1993. Helen relocatedto Melbourne in 2010 to pursue a Mastersin Theatre Research at Monash University. She is most at home when she is exploringinnovative combinations of her practice.

Imago– Dance (20 mins)A good friend, with keen insight,fortuitously invited me to an experimentalmusic gig at Testing Ground at theweekend, where I met and heard thishaunting and captivating compositioncreated by Fiona Hill. Described asElectroacoustic, her compositionalpractice creates scores that "occupy anexperimental, freethinking yet universallybeautiful place". With sound, body, timeand space, together we give voice to thesilenced.

GL Rm1 6.15m

James CurtinYears of erratic spoken word and storytellingin the Melbourne scene, slowly degradinginto gothic physical theatre. Butoh outfestival 18', The Body Speaks, Oil man atenvironmental fundraisers. Oussou SpokenWord Host 15'-17'. Honours in philosophyfrom Melb uni, thesis on the physicalboundaries of human cognition. In search ofthe Beige.

Drills– Physical theatre /Music (Durational)A pathetic masculine body, covered in trash,fake money and muck. Swimming in a seaof cheap advertising jingles. Smart phoneimposed hostile self surveillance. Searchingfor a way out, the body knows only to godeeper into the breathless material. 'There isno such thing as ethical consumption underlate capitalism' DRILLS into the breathlessbody, alone, inauthentic and ashamed.Long ago lost, the thread of instinct andfaith. Unending sacrifice in the evasion thatwe are utterly lost.

Bottom Verandah 5.30pm Durational

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Tony Yap, BrendanO’Connor & ReubenLewisTony Yap, Malaysian born, is anaccomplished dancer, director,choreographer and visual artist. He hasbeen a leading figure in inter-culturaldiscourse and received Asialink residentialgrants to work in Indonesia in 2005, and2008 and a Dance fellowship from theAustralia Council for the Arts. Tony is thefounding Creative Director of MAP Fest.www.tonyyapdance.com

Brendan O’Connor, Ireland born, receivedhis accreditation as a professionalperformer in The Netherlands, and hassince settled in Melbourne. He graduatedin dance at the College of Dance,Monkstown, was accepted to the LabanCentre London and the Fontys DanceAcademy in the Netherlands. A trip toGhana found his interest in strong andpsycho-physical direction in his consequentconnection his work in the slums of NewDelhi. www.brendanoconnordance.com

Reuben Lewis: (see I Hold the Great Rack)www.reubenlewis.com

Kill Ourselves– Dance/ Performance Art (30 mins)This series of Dionysus Molecule – KillOurselves, Brendan and Tony abandon theirbodies and their romantic ideas of makingvisible the invisible or notions of infinite-cum-finite in the creative process. Here is alounge room and two men entwined muchin a web of a commix. What can be in-penetrable in this weave? Reuben is the thirdelement in interweaving his sonic body inthe loungeroom.

GL Rm1, 7 pm

Jeremy Kruckel

Canadian born Visual Artist based inAustralia.

One Sky– Multi-mediums (30 mins)A series of Time Lapse based works underour One Sky projected into the space andonto the Audience

L1, Toilet 5-8pm (durational)

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Dianne DixonDianne is an Australian artist living in therural town of Rainbow in northwestvictoria.Dianne’s creative oeuvre is distinctivelyrural Australian and significant in itscontribution to a diverse and sophisticatedart practice in contemporary Victoria. Hercreative work is fast gaining recognitionalong with new audiences with herleadership and presence as creativecollaborator in the Asian region. Dianne has recently established an artist inresidence program in Rainbow her roleincludes liaison with collaborators likemyself, other urban artists to participate inher art Residency while developinginternational links especially to the Asiancountries. As an artist she is highlyaccomplished and recognized both inAustralia and overseas

Lim Paik YinLim Paik Yin is an interdisciplinary artistworking with photography andperformance. She started choreographingand performing site specific works inMalaysia and Indonesia from 2014 onwards.Currently she is pursing her Masters in Visualand Media Anthropology after 5 yearsworking as a photo researcher in a stockphotography company. Herphotography work has since evolved toincluding her practice in performance. “By using the presence of oneself andtransforming everyday space throughperformance, I can view the self as aseparate entity and thus intervene in myeveryday routine creating a temporalopportunity to express what is unspoken orhidden.”

Bodies andCreatures of Time– Multi-mediums (30 mins)Bodies moving through past, present andfuture

Gl/L1 Staurway, 5.30pm

forgotten self– visual art Mixed media on fabric ... draped on site.

contemplating my forgotten self throdrawing collage... attached to fabric andmy physical presence

GL Corridor

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Christos LinouLinou is a cross-disciplinary artist with threedecades of work in dance, theatre, opera,film and TV. He was awarded a Masters inFine Arts scholarship at MelbourneUniversity, researching durationalperformance. He developed ‘Naked Peel’ a12 hour performance installation andpresented his research at the World DanceAlliance in Singapore and performed it inMelbourne, Amsterdam and Melaka. TheMarina Abramovic Institute in New Yorkrecognised his work as 'Highly original anddeeply personal' and published it on‘IMMATERIAL’ a digital journal fordurational works and screened it at the AsOne Festival in Athens. He has toured oneman shows in Singapore, Paris, Amsterdamand Australia.

Object Obedience– Multi-medium (Durational)This durational performance explores howmotion is activated from the position of thebody being an object of obedience. Itinvestigates how the performer subjectsthemselves through embodimentexperimentation on actions of chance andcausality. A table, panels, boxes and boards,fall and shift in order to subject the body tomove within these parameters over a longperiod of time. The sculptural constructionof objects choreographs the aestheticcomposition of the work, which changesover time

Entrance Varendah, 5.30pm durational

M-C JypstirM-C Jypstir also known as MaCrae ZeeButtaFly came on the way from a smalltropical island known as Mauritius. Notestrange to movement, from a very youngage, continue to embrace the multiculturaland fusional music and art style from herhomeland but also the worldwide forms andexpressions. Social activist by day andBurlesque performer by night. For the pastthree years she has been studying andenjoying different forms and style of danceand movement on this wide spectrum appear,Bharatanatyam, Butoh, experimental dancemovement, Poi, Martial arts, and much more.She does not shy away from experiencingother ritualistic dance movement while shestudies dance movement therapy.

Come In Unity– Dance (20 mins)Come In Unity is a performance dedicated toour mother Earth and her Earthlings. It aimsto raise awareness to the bliss that it is toexpress one's truth; all inclusive andspreading out smalls acts of unconditionalloving in every aspect of experiencing andsynchronising our journeys. Compassionatelymoving forward on the spiral of ourWholeness, the Oneness of our Universe.

L1 Rm2, 6.30pm

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Leisa ProwdLeisa Prowd is a dancer, performance artist& life model based in Melbourne. Herpractice involves explorations from butoh,physical theatre, yoga & burlesque. Leisa performs with two dance theatreensembles - Weave Movement Theatreand Rawcus Theatre Company and hasappeared in several productions with bothcompanies. She has performed inMelbourne, Adelaide and internationally atFestivals in Las Vegas and Berlin.

FGFR3– Dance (15 mins)Rather than being deficient in a protein thataids growth, I received too much. It hasbeen likened to a plant being overwatered.Too much of a good thing is not a goodthing. My performance explores the idea ofreceiving too much of a good thing; beingoverwatered. I exist in this body. I celebratein this body. I mourn in this body - this bodythat received too much of a good thing.

Entrance Courtyard, 5.45pmEbem ToaEbem Toa is from Ecuador and she has degreein mine and pantomime "school of formation inmine and pantomime and Tai Chi Mime"master Pepe Bacas Ecuador ,technique EttenieDecroux (France).She is also a Butoh dancerchoreographer, Creative costume designer fortheatre and dance; Performance designer andvisual artist; Researcher of anthropology danceand ancestral techniques, comedy art, circusand music.

Kay Pacha– Dance / Eco Butoh (20 mins)Kay Pacha is a corehography of fancy danceand magic, thought of the eco dance of themind..... The environment with its radicalchanges have altered the life of animals,plants and all nature. This is a performanceof colours, magic and hopes

Green Courtyard, 6pm

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Nick Davitashvil & Chen YiNick Davitashvili is a cybersecurity geek,environmentalist and musician from Tbilisi,Georgia. He dropped out of music school whenhe was 7, but circled back by playing guitar andbass in ska and punk bands against the backdropof crumbling Soviet regime. After encounteringIndian classical music he was inspired to embarkon an overland pilgrimage from Georgia toVaranasi in India to study tabla with Pt. DhananjayMishra and later sitar at Shahid Parvez Khanacademy of music in Phoenix, Arizona. Recently,he performed ethnically infused non-idiomaticelectro-acoustic music with Reso Kiknadze andrecorded an album with his band Z for Zuluproduced by Dimitri Tikovoi of 140dB (UK).

Yi Chen, originally from Nanning, China, beganher dance journey at Subbody Butoh School andwas influenced by the Javanese traditional andcontemporary dance styles. She also got inspiredby the perspective of multiple indigenous culturesshe has encountered during her travels. She isexperimenting with dance in site-specific contextslike forests, rivers, construction sites, recyclingfacilities and urban settings to discover theessence of native cultures and landscapes. Yibelieves that the dance stage is any place wherethe spirit exists.

Careful with thatfairy– Multi mediums (15 mins)Fairy - A humanoid creature with magical powersand sometimes butterfly wings. Fairies can beany size from the size of a seed to human size.Known to be pranksters, it is best not to get ontheir bad side. Dwarves, leprachauns, satyrs,banshees, nymphs and elves can also beconsidered fairies..

GL, Toiet, 5.30pm

Tomoko YamasakiTomoko Yamasaki is a performer, writer, and aqualified shiatsu therapist. She grew up in thefamily cabaret in Nobeoka (Miyazaki), Japan.After her arriving in Melbourne in 1994, begantraining at Women’s Circus to express herselfusing her physical body as English was new toher. She graduated from John Bolton TheatreSchool in 1998. And she has been participatingin Butoh Out since 2004.www.tomokoyamasaki-shiatsu.com

Aftertouch– Dance (30 mins)I can feel you even you are not with me as Ifeel myself. My body is there and here. Idance, I move with you.

I am a shiatsu therapist. My hands (touch),my ears (listen) , my eyes (observe) , my nose(smell) are the tools to get to know (scan) thebody. I need a body of another person for mypractice.

A shiatsu futon mat will be my stage butwithout others body. I will be you and me.

L1, Rm1, 5.45pm

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Mila La Haye is a rootless mover, acrobat,yogi and performer. SHe has been living anomadic life for three years now, drawinginspiration from her travels. He isfascinated by the ties that bind ustogether, the baggage we all carry within,by the force of nature, by shapes andforms, by the power of thoughts and thefeeling of embodiment. Witness her addher unique spice to the grand soup of life.

Lisa Dethridge, Mila LaHae & James Jahree

Lisa Dethridge lectures in Media andCommunication at RMIT and is a memberof Tony Yap Dance Theatre. She hasperformed and exhibited digital art inEurope, USA and Australia. She hasperformed, written and produced mediamaterials for producers including Fox,Warner, Working Title & MTV. She is theauthor of Writing Your Screenplay and ofstage play The War Against Short Trousers(Chapel-off-Chapel, Melbourne.) Digital artexhibitions include Science Museum ofTrinity College Dublin and Pratt Institute ofArts and Engineering, New York. She is amember of recording group ArtificialOrgans whose music is released onDomestica Records, Barcelona

A dancer, performer, artist, musician, poet,and techno-shaman, JaRee James uses hispractices in shamanic trance, ecstaticdance, improvisation, acting, and poetry toconvey meaning into social, personal, andmetaphysical art.Stripping himself of himself, JaRee Jamesembodies fluidity and transparency tobecome the vessel of the artist. Toexperience life on the tremor of theunknown.

Room Mates– Dance (15 mins)Despite the walls between us, we connect topeople we live with on different levels. Thisgroup performance (Lisa Dethridge, KathleenGonzalez, Mila La Hae and James Jahree)explores how even casual physicalconnections can leave subtle invisible tracesof "relation-ship" that permeate daily livewhether we're together or apart..

L1 Rm1, 6pm

Kendra Keller& Tamlyn MageeKendra Keller (aka Lady Longdrop) is amultidisciplinary artist, finding expression forher poetic vision on the page, the stage, inforests and on hillsides, throughout so-calledAustralia and Asia. While best known as a poetand spoken word diva, embodied performance,drawing on training in contemporary Asian andEuropean performance forms, is a growing partof Longdrop’s flow. Delicately weavingpersonal, political and mystical themes, shedodges defences and gets hearts by thegonads. More info: ladylongdrop.com.

Anactoria (Tamlyn Magee) is an electric harpistand vocalist based in the musically exceptionalsmall town of Candelo, NSW. Her work fallsunder an experimental category of folk/pop,and is informed by an intense love ofperformance and an infatuation withvulnerability and honesty. In May 2018 shereleased her debut EP, 'Twentythree', and iscurrently undertaking a Creative DevelopmentFellowship through CreateNSW, which has herbased in Melbourne to develop work for anupcoming album. More info:www.anactoria.com

Refined– Multi-Medium (30 mins)Ladies, lace, fine china, an angel harp, a bit ofsugar, and…I’m forgetting something… Nevermind. How are your investments goingdarling?

Kendra Keller (aka Lady Longdrop) continuesher investigation of Whiteness, colonial-capitalist barbarity, normalcy, niceness andamnesia, in a new experimental collaborationwith dark-angel of the harp, Anactoria (TamlynMagee).

Bottom Verandah 5pm