Phillip Adams creates new work for Proximity

In October, the Proximity Festival is back with a bold new program of one-on-one experiences at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. 

Proximity will unite 12 emergent and established practitioners who aren’t afraid to take risks in very intimate ways. They are some of the most exciting voices in contemporary practice – Phillip Adams, Jo Bannon, Tom Blake, Leon Ewing, Jackson Eaton, Chloe Flockart, Caroline Garcia, Mish Grigor, Emily Parsons-Lord, Mei Saraswati, Brett Smith and Malcolm Whittaker.

For Proximity, Adams, the artistic director of BalletLab, develops an immersive one-on-one performative exploration of Tomorrow, titled After; re-contextualised for a gallery intervention. 

After is an “alien abduction encounter, a participatory and transformative zone that generates intensified energy.” It will lead participants through an alien–like interaction with materials, film and sound. This stark one-to-one performance (meant for adult audiences) is a physical and architectural transformation, creating a platform for surrender, escapism and referencing the Hollywood machine to provoke behaviors and question beliefs. After is the next “landing site” encounter with Tomorrow.

In the lead up, Adams will participate in a two-week lab at AGWA, which will be led by international guest provocateur Helen Cole of In Between Time, who is one of the top artistic directors in the U.K.

For more information and to learn about the other 2015 Proximity artists, visit http://proximityfestival.com.

Photo: Landing Site #3 from the Tomorrow project by Phillip Adams and Matthew Bird. Photo by Igor Sapina.