Michaela Davies
UPCOMING EVENTS
by Michael Shirrefs
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/creativeinstinct/out-there-with-mofo/3794966
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Arts and Culture Review: Compositions for Involuntary Strings
December 7, 2013
“... the whole process became both more fascinating and disturbing when it was revealed that at least one of the performers had, prior to the piece, never touched a violin before…”
http://qmunicatemagazine.com/2013/12/07/arts-and-culture-review-compositions-for-involuntary-strings/#more-2269
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September 20, 2013
In Profile: Michaela Davies on agency, obstruction and electric muscle stimulation—Game On!
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POLYSONICS
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/soundquality/sqy-28-06/4720872
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by Janine Marshman
“...Performers have no interaction with their instruments that isn't dictated by the seismic data, turning the quartet into a horrifyingly beautiful ensemble comprised of human marionettes…”
www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/article/mona-foma-2012-hobart-embraces-australian-new-music
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Das Menschen Klavier
MAAS LATES: DESIGN FUTURES
6-9pm. Thursday 21 August, 2014
Powerhouse Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney
MCA ART BAR
Curated by Gail Priest for Sonic Social
7pm. Friday 27 July, 2014
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Gail Priest curates the next ARTBAR experimenting with sound that seduces and repels, often at the same time.
Performance Space | SONIC SOCIAL: DUTY
2pm. Saturday June 21 & Sunday June 22, 2014
MCA Level 2 Galleries Sydney
DUTY is a new work from Michaela Davies commissioned for Sonic Social, composed for fourteen hand bells.
MUSICAL ALASKA no. 17: Involuntary Muscle, feat. Jane Sheldon | Michaela Davies
5pm. Sunday, May 25, 2014 Alaska Projects, Sydney.
Jane Sheldon performing new works for voice, and Michaela Davies' Involuntary Duet for Bass and Violin.
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Jon Heilbron (Bass, Electronics) & Michaela Davies (Violin, Electronics)
BAR OPEN 317 Brunswick street, Fitzroy, Victoria
Sound Ideas
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
8:30pm - Heilbron/Davies
9:45pm - McAuliffe/Brown
Conduit Arts, 83 Brunswick street, Fitzroy, Victoria
Involuntary Duet for Bass and Violin
Melbourne Now
Community Hall, National Gallery of Victoria
Sunday, March 2, 2014
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/programs/public-programs/mn-project-involuntary-duet-for-bass-and-violin
Electroscape: the here and now of digital art
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
AGNSW Contempo 107 Projects, Sydney. www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/electroscape
DISRUPT
Friday, December 13, 9am-3pm
Advertisers use disruption everyday to deliver their message. But what if you had the power to disrupt them as they are trying to go about their day?http://disruptad2.herokuapp.com
Attention is a Scarce Resource
SEAM 2012 Symposium
Sunday, November 17 at 7:30pm
An anthropological look at the impact of mediated interruption on the everyday, a dinner party is subject to the whims of invisible forces.
Critical Path, Sydney.
GAME ON. Damien Minton Gallery. Performance: Thursday 15th November 6-8pm. Exhibition continues Wed-Sat 11am-6pm until Nov 16
Both installation and experiment, the work explores violence in modern entertainment & the ethical challenges faced by society as technology advances to a point where the level of realism in ‘games’ becomes indistinguishable from reality.
INVOLUNTARY DUET: EMS string duo by Michaela Davies. Michaela Davies, violin, electric shock/Clayton Thomas, double bass, electric shock.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 8:00pm
Liebig12, Berlin
When the room goes dark: a night of readings and performances
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 at 6pm
ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry Berlin
Closing Reception of “Many Worlds”
Sunday, April 7, 2013 at 5:00pm until 8:00pm
As a sonic pairing to Cartwright's paintings, Sydney Australia based sound and performance artist Michaela Davies, will be giving the state-side premier of a new electro muscle composition.
Associated Gallery in Brooklyn, New York
POLYSONICS
Compositions for Involuntary Strings
19TH International Symposium on Electronic Art
Saturday, June 15, 2013 at 7pm
ABC Studio 22 in Sydney, Australia
The Composers-John Cage Centenary Celebration. Musicircus
Untitled in Gm for Involuntary String Quartet
Saturday, November 3, 2012 at 1:30pm
Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia
Dimanche Rouge #21 Paris-Australia
Sunday, November 18, 2012 at (Paris) 9am, (Sydney) 7pm (Tape Projects, Melbourne) 7pm
Michaela Davies and Sam Pettigrew
Deanne Butterworth & Michael Munson
T. R. Carter and Arie Rain Glorie
Hannah Beth Rasin
Scratch Ensemble
Diamond Mouth Surprise and Stadiums & Shrines
Saturday, August 18, 2012 at 8:00pm at LA SALA Pressed And, Dan Magers, In India, Kate Brandt, Michaela Davies
Diamond Mouth Surprise in Brooklyn, New York
MONA FOMA 2012
Friday, January 20, 2012 at 4pm
Michaela Davies
WHILE ROME BURNS
Michaela takes our planets seismic activity and converts it into electricity, which prompts a puppet-like response form the performers’ bodies. PWI Stage 2 in Hobart, Tasmania
Underbelly Arts Festival
Saturday/Sunday, August 3/4, at 12:00pm until 6:00pm
This installation replaces avatars with real people to deliver a punchy message on the spectacle of violence in modern entertainment…just try and disassociate yourself from this bloodless sport.
Cockatoo Island in Sydney, Australia
Performance Month (Weekender)
Saturday, August 31, 2013 at 1-6pm
Involuntary Duet for violin and bass.
Sam Pettigrew & Michaela Davies
Firstdraft Depot in Sydney, Australia
Sunday, September 8, 2013 at 12:00pm
Anyone you would like to see hop in the ring ? Michaela Davies' work GAME ON sees human boxers, controlled by you. Bouts commence at 2.30pm, and are on the hour until 5.30pm! DING DING DING! GAME ON !
Carriageworks in Sydney, Australia
Sonica 2013: Compositions for Involuntary Strings by Michaela Davies
UK Premiére Saturday, November 2 at 7:30pm Tramway in Glasgow, United Kingdom
http://sonic-a.co.uk/compositions-for-involuntary-strings/
Michaela Davies & Jordon Schranz,
Snakyhunt, Which or Where Wolf,
Hot Date Demonic Sweaters
Friday, October 4, 2013 at 8:00pm
@ Emet in Brooklyn, New York
AFTER JULIA
7.30-10pm. Saturday 9 November, 2014
Eugene Goosens Hall ABC
This concert features 7 newly commissioned works by Australian composers reflecting on the first female Prime Minister of Australia.
PERFORMANCE MONTH #4
12-6pm. Saturday 13 December, 2014
ARTSPACE
Curated by Francesca Heinz & Mark Shorter.
MESMERISM SUMMER FESTIVAL
7.30pm. Friday 20 February, 2015
Judith Wright Centre Of Contemporary Arts
Curated by Luke Jaaniste.
YAWNING ROOM
6-8pm. Wednesday 4th March, 2015
Firstdraft Gallery
This participatory audio/video installation aims to induce involuntary yawning responses in the viewer to create a shared moment of art viewing lassitude.
CONDUCTING THE AMPLIFIED BODY
6pm. SUNDAY 15th March, 2015
ACUD MACHT NEU in Berlin, Germany
a matinee of electrically [de]controlled musicians, with Michaela Davies, Pedro Lopes, Ian Douglas-Moore, Robert Lindenberg, Jonathan Heilbron, curated by Desiree Foerster, and hosted by Chez Mieke
•VeRN∀L • iN_VerS.ion• __>@ VV/LD TØR∇S __inter>VenT.ion
9.30pm. Saturday 21st March, 2015
Torus__porta
113 Stockholm Street, Storefront 1A, Brooklyn, New York 11221
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Recorded live for ABC Classic FM by engineer Steve Fieldhouse and producer/engineer Costa Zouliou on 20 February 2015.
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AFTER JULIA
7.30pm. Monday 20 April, 2015
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
Featuring compositions by:
Michaela Davies, Andrée Greenwell, Cat Hope, Cathy Milliken, Kate Moore, Gail Priest, Thembi Soddell & Laura Jane Lowther
Tim Bruniges and Michaela Davies
6pm. Wednesday March 16, 2016
An improvisation for electrical muscle stimulation, cello and feedback for
Art Month Sydney's Art at Night.
CURRENTS The Santa Fe International New Media Festival 2016 / Opening Weekend
Friday, June 10 6:00 pm-12:00 am
Saturday, June 11 12:00 pm-12:00 am
STATIC + SILENCE opening performance
6pm. Friday May 6, 2016
An improvisation for electrical muscle stimulation, cello and feedback
7pm. Wednesday June 15, 2016
Involuntary Strings
Canon in D Sabotaged
COMPLIANT
ENGINEERING THE FUTURE
V&A DIGITAL DESIGN WEEKEND 2016
curated by Lanfranco Aceti & Irini Papdimitrou
1pm & 3pm. September 24-25, 2016
THE ORT FESTIVAL
8pm. Friday March 5, 2017
Gary Warner | Tim Bruniges & Michaela Davies | Clocks & Clouds (Kraig Grady & Terumi Narushima) with Nathan Edwards, Mark Kennedy & Heather Riley
SPHERE 2017 Via Art will focus on multisensory interactive and participatory artworks to support and complement the Symposium program. Composer and audiovisual experimentalist Dr Robin Fox, artist and musician with a doctorate of psychology Dr Michaela Davies, along with performers from NIDA will deliver world class premiere performances intertwined with the Symposium proceedings.
Dr Rosenberg’s Wunderkammer- performances
2pm. Sunday April 15, 2018
Featuring Jenny Eriksson - viola da gamba / Tommie Andersson - Theorbo (giant lute) / Michaela Davies - interactive muscle and involuntary movement double bass / Jon Rose - strings
4.30pm. Saturday May 19, 2018
Coco Karol, Michaela Davies (AUS), Sxip Shirey / Odeya Nini (L.A.) / Ximena Garnica
Beijing Media Art Biennale
DATA LIFE
September 5, 2018
CAFA museum, Beijing, China
Performances:
CAFA Museum
September 6, 2018
CHAO Art Centre
September 7, 2018
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