“Though clearly human, the three bodies that pant and stretch and slap their limbs to ground are strangely surreal, clad from head to toe in rustling blue coveralls. Even their bare hands seem alien, moving like coral polyps in changing sea currents. A squeaking, thudding music is created by the squirming figures as they move - recognisable as dancers one minute, and morphing into puffy pseudo-larvae the next. Suspended between the tangible and the uncertain, Tim Darbyshire's new work takes what's 'concrete' and twists it into shapes both recognisable and deeply unfamiliar...”
Thus is the description of Tim Darbyshire’s More or Less Concrete, which premieres at the North Melbourne Town Hall on April 18.
A former Queensland University of Technology graduate, Darbyshire has studied and performed around the world before settling in Melbourne, where he has since fulfilled a Housemate Residency at Dancehouse, a Lucy Guerin Space Residency and a Maximised Residency at Chunky Move. He has been commissioned to create works for Lucy Guerin’s Pieces for Small Spaces program and for the Campbelltown Arts Centre in Sydney.
See his latest creation at Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall
Wed 18 – Sun 22 Apr 2012
Bookings: artshouse.com.au