Opening performance
Saturday 7 November, from 2 pm
Stockroom, Kyneton
Exhibition runs 7–15 November
PERFORMPRINT
Live Art & Experimental Printmaking
with guest artist Stelarc
For nine days, the PERFORMPRINT crew is filling all of Stockroom, Kyneton, with the prints and the performance that makes them. Opening night is live: skateboards, steam rollers, rolling pins, block ink, body printing, noise and spoken word. Big immersive prints made in front of you, and you're part of it.
STELARC, SKY, JANSET SELBAS, PETER STAMM, NICHOLAS IVES, ALEX GIBSON, JOEL GAILER, JENNY MAI HALL, ANNE SCOTT WILSON
This performance is free to attend
Come up for lunch. Wander Kyneton. See some art. Then watch the crew cover the place in ink.
Come early. Stay late.
Get ink on your shoes.
Performprint is a collective of Melbourne based artists.
Development and expansion of our live performances practice has been consistent in Australia since its inception in 2012.
Performprint emerged from the community print studio and locates this shared experience as a site of performance and collaboration, therefore printmaking is the vehicle and starting point for audience engagement and participation through performance. We are a multi-discipline collective at the junction where fine art practice meets experimental music/sound art and spoken word.
Over the past 14 years Performprint has morphed and expanded to include sound art collaborations and ongoing artistic experimentation within the traditional context of printmaking. During performances we make large scale immersive prints using, block printing, music, spoken word, skateboards, steam rollers, rolling pins, body printing and branding. Performprint blends theories on copy-based technologies through print informed works and ideas of future and current human and political scenarios; and turns this into live durational performance work. These durational performances can be as long as 12 hours.
Notable past performances are: Fremantle Art Centre, 2012, FOLA, Melbourne, 2014, The Sydney Contemporary Art Fair 2019, Mecha Festival of Experimental Art 2019. Performprint has been shortlisted for the Burnie Print Prize and Freemantle Print Award. Internationally we have performed at the China Art Academy in Hangzhou in 2016, Impact 9 (printmaking symposium in Hong Kong) in 2021, Tenjinyama art studio, Japan in 2023.
Closing performance
Saturday 14 November, from 3 pm
Stelarc
