PERFORMANCE MONTHLY

As part of their Depot program Firstdraft Gallery will host Performance Monthly. This collaboration will allow Performance Month 2013 to run as a regular event , providing a opportunity for performance artists to exhibit and collaborate on a regular basis with the support of Firstdraft Gallery. Performance Monthly will open Friday the 5th of May 2013, 7-10pm. with work by Kusum Normoyle and Jim Shirlaw.

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For the launch of Performance month at Firstdraft Depot gallery, Kusum Normoyle will present a new performance work featuring augmented reality 3d models that sympathise with sound performance in real time. This performance will present an area of new work and research for the artist.

Kusum Normoyle is an artist and musician working in the area of extended vocal techniques and noise for both performance and installation. She has presented at numerous events and exhibitions including ARTSPACE (SYD), ISSUE Project Room (NYC), Superdeluxe at Artspace for the 17^th Biennale of Sydney, Liquid Architecture, N.K (BLN), UrBANGUILD (JPN), Lines of Flight Festival in Port Chalmers (NZ), and the 29th Biennial of Graphic Arts in Slovenia, Dunedin Public Art Gallery (NZ) and others.

Skipping through the sombre schooling week, Correctional Facility jumps straight to the volatile, heat-damaged final class of Friday afternoon. A tale of sworn foes battling for the failure of one another in the eyes of the report card, spoken with three mouths through one head. In various roles, Jim Shirlaw takes on the subject of eternal-detention, his young inexperienced law-bearer as well as the enigmatic assessor and narrator, sent from an anonymous educational body. It's career vs candor for a one and a half hour battle between generations, authority and a spotlight on the subjective freefall between two opposites arguing on what makes good art and who makes bad art.