ROARAWAR FEARTATA UNDERBELLY ARTS FESTIVAL PROPOSAL APPLICATION Working Title: There Is No Place Like Home Name of Artists

and Collective: ROARAWAR FEARTATA features principal co-founders Benjamin Cittadini and Craig Peade with Georgie Read and Brigid Jackson. About the Group: ROARAWAR FERTATA is a performance based collective. Our inaugural live performance art installation was Intensive Job Making Assistance. Performed outside the front of Footscray Centrelink in 2003 as a part of the Big West Festival, this collaboration as Victoria University Performance Studies under-graduate students became the fundament to our process of engaging and interacting with audiences as participants within the practice of art itself. Often we incorporate the performative aspects of identity within public spaces in response to our site-specific works. A series of performative residencies Loose Connections have been conducted in Frankston as part of the White Street Project in 2005 and Dandenong in 2009. Recently we were invited to contribute to Public Assemblys Lynda Roberts project, the Interventionist Guide to Melbourne as well as performing with Jill Orr, Stelarc and Domenico DiClario at Federation Square as a part of Karen Caseys Global Mind Project. In March 2010, ROARAWAR FERTATA launched The Dandenong Book of Prayer as an outcome of their Dandenong Loose Connections residency and were also recipients of limited Performance Space research funding and two University of New South Wales residencies secured for I Luv Amanda Crowe 4Eva. This was presented as a work-in-progress performance lecture at Carriageworks LIVEWORKS Festival. This year we were invited to perform O M F G R O FL O L B T W (Happy Fucking Birthday God) at Gerturdes Contemporary Art Spaces as a part of a series of performances curated by Dylan Martorell. And currently, we are full-time artists-inresidence from March to May at the Collingwood Housing Estate as part of the Aura Project. Key Contact: Craig PEADE Telephone 0431 622 875 Email c_peade@yahoo.com.au Project Description: We propose a live performance art installation or museum as a work-in-progress to be showcased at the Underbelly Arts Festival. We will respond to the specific site of Cockatoo Island in relation to its history within a dialogue with each of our own respective pasts, presents and projections of the future. The tropes of

domesticity, home, comfort, shelter and their anti-theses will also feature and inform our proposed responses. We will develop and build upon the collaborative foundation we have already constructed together by experimenting with audio-visual recordings documenting our experiences and responses to the site. This will contribute to a museum of collected artifacts and musings or meditations self-reflectively contemplating our research data and its processes. The project will contribute to our approaches to other specific sites within our future practice and the possibility of its potential reconfiguration for installing the performance presentation elsewhere. The project will tentatively develop from a strategy of rigorous and intensive research of the sites history and psycho-geography in dialogue with our own individual experiences and responses in conjunction with the geo-physical and cultural psyche of Sydney and the nation as a collective. These will be collated and undergo a collaborative editing process whilst devising the means of presentation together for an audience to experience and interact within an intimate encounter. The intended outcomes for the Festival and beyond are the presentation of a live performance art installation or museum. The artifacts exhibited and audio-visual recordings documenting our experiences and responses will be embellished with abstract or spectral tableaus within a structured score of choreography and improvisation. Comprised of gestures or gestural and pedestrian movements, these will articulate manifestations of a concealed or latent sub-conscious experienced as a living past history. These ritualistic hauntings will enact a dream-landscape for the literal present to engage and implicate audiences within our own surreal or uncanny alienation as if returning to familiar yet estranged memories of territories remembered. It is intended that these remembrances will evoke an atmospheric ambience of other-worldliness. Peoples Project Roles: We are all collaborative performers with Craig as key contact, Ben as phantom director-dramaturge and Brigid and Georgie principal choreographers of movement and property managers. Materials/Equipment: We might require projectors and lights. These resources will most likely be sourced ourselves depending upon in-kind support and availability from University of New South Wales and our other Sydney networks. Principally, we need help in assisting with the providing of funds for financial expenses and fees incurred. Time Spent Allocated: We intend spending as much time researching and experimenting as possible! Underbelly Arts Justification: We have a desire to negotiate our aesthetic antagonisms and collaborative practice further within the Sydney art scene and capitalize and extend upon the networks forged from last years LIVEWORKS Festival for

Performance Space at Carriageworks in 2010. Simultaneously, we also intend on developing audio-visual recordings to document our experiences, processes and responses to the specific site of Cockatoo Island. In doing so, the project will contribute to our cache of ethnographic and anthropological research data to be drawn upon and inform our future live performance art installation practice. About Each One of Us Performers: Georgia Read is interested in exploring ephemera [presencing, residue, memory]. Her primary focus is on audience/spectator relationship, object, body and space/site. Touch [texture/perception/tactility] is her dominant sense for making work. She studied honours in solo performance making at UNSW. She did a post-graduate diploma in Performance Creation (animateuring) at Victorian College of Arts. Concepts and practices in dance and choreography heavily inspire her practice. Brigid Jackson is a performer and performance maker who works in live art, dance, performance art and photography. She completed her bachelor of performing arts at Victoria University of Technology in 2004. Her graduating piece The Palace of Wasted Footsteps was selected for the graduate showcase at Dancehouse later that year. In 2006 Brigid worked on an ensemble project directed by Leisa Shelton inspired by Angela Carters re writing of Blue Beard. In 2007 she completed a diploma in Animaturing at the Victorian Collage of the Arts where she received the Barbara Manning scholarship. During the course of the year she began work on an on-going project Sleep Sound and directed In Spite of the Skin. She also began an on-going collaboration with Georgie Read, creating the sight specific Bridge Walk and other short works. In 2008 Brigid created a new solo work directed by Adena Jacobs, This is For You was funded by The City of Melbourne and was performed at La Mama. It was nominated for five Green Room Awards winning Best Female Performer in independent Theatre. In 2009 Brigid began work on a new solo Into/out of me working with Georgie Read in a two-week residency at Performance Space Sydney. Most recently she performed Into/Out of Me in 2010 as part of Performance Spaces LIVEWORKS Festival at Carriageworks as well as collaborating with ROARAWAR FEARTATA for I LuvAmanda Crowe 4Eva and performing This Is Of The Other at La Mama Theatre in March this year. Support Material: http://www.benjamincittadini.blogspot.com http://www.rfcollective.blogspot.com http://www.whitestreetproject.org/node/20 http://www.brigidjackson.blogspot.com

2011 Underbelly Arts Source: Georgie Read