Let Me Tell You is an almanac of the first decade of Adhocracy and its impact: cultural and personal.
It is also a glimpse to how we – this community of artists, audiences, curators – might imagine ourselves and our world ahead.
Jane and Jessica are writers. Jane was born in Adelaide and started attending Adhocracy in 2010. Jessica moved to Adelaide in 2018; this will be her first time attending. They will bring their disparate experiences of Adhocracy together to create an imperfect production. Let Me Tell You will be scrappy; mixing genres and perspectives; it will sometimes be edited and it will sometimes be raw. It will be much like Adhocracy itself.
The project will include commissioned responses alongside many others garnered throughout this year’s Adhocracy event; poetic, textual and other responses from Jessica and Jane will be offered each evening. And after, Let Me Tell You will transform from a live, immediate response into a curated object/platform.
Let Me Tell You was commissioned for Adhocracy 2019.
View the full program here.
Vitalstatistix
Vitalstatistix is a South Australian arts organisation based in Port Adelaide. We are a vibrant home on the Port River for Australian artists who are changing the world through contemporary culture, art, performance and progressive commentary.
We support the development and presentation of live, multidisciplinary artworks and we promote artistic practices that experiment with ideas, forms and engagement.
We aim to provide a leading site for big ideas and intimate experiences, for long-term creative development and hothouse intensity, as an artist-centred organisation advancing the future of contemporary art and community life in South Australia.
Each year Vitalstatistix offers a program of performance, residencies, projects, events, exhibitions, festival experiences, collaborations with like-minded makers and presenters, and initiatives for South Australian artists. Vitalstatistix is a feminist organisation and has a proud and continuing tradition of supporting women artists.
Seeing the creative process of artists, and participating in experimentation and social investigation, is a hallmark of Vitalstatistix. Our heritage-listed home the Waterside Workers Hall and location in Port Adelaide is sublimely suited to this endeavour, and it is a unique offer that the organisation makes to both artists and audiences of art.