CREATIVE DEVELOPMENTS 2019

Metro Arts’ Creative Development program allows artists to experiment with new ideas, new forms, new collaborations and new ways of working. Artists receive studio or theatre space, artist fees, creative and producing mentorship, and the freedom to focus on process rather than outcome; to follow their curiosity wherever it leads.

In 2019, Metro Arts supported the following projects.

THE BUNKER PROJECT

The Bunker Project’ is a new performance work by two of Metro Arts’ Produced Artsits; choreographer Lisa Wilson and audio-visual artist Nathan Sibthorpe.

Boyle and Waters in LEOTARD

A timely exploration of the performance of woman via lashings of lycra.

WHITE WOMAN

White Woman is a contemporary dance work exploring the broadly held dichotomy of women as inferior and white as superior.

SSHIFTT

Shapeshifting has been happening since the beginning of time. Since the dreamtime. Is it just stories from the past that have no place today? If you are shapeshifting, how do know what your “real” identity is and where would you go?

IN THE DARK

Come. Take night-time hours as your own.  Uncover stories about women and the spaces we inhabit. Explore the projections, imaginings and fantasies by which we are limited and defined.

THE UNTOUCHED REMAINS

Inspired by a sequence of murders committed in Sydney between the 70’s and 90’s THE UNTOUCHED REMAINS investigates Australia’s hidden history of gay hate crimes.

HURRICANE

We are living in the end times. Catastrophic capitalism and climate change collide. The ground will shake.