Memetica
Memetica
Giant Puppets - Installations + Spectacles Typically in the form of giant-scale theatrical interventions and site-specific spectacles.
Memetica uses the my uniquely customised designs to imagine new worlds and their inhabitants to construct impossibly real fictions and to engineer wonder as a shared experience. For more info on projects visit my website.
09/10/2023
Date: 14 & 15 October
Time: 10am-5pm
Cost: $50
Lunch included (vegetarian and meat option available)
Location: CO.AS.IT, 199 Faraday Street Carlton
Enrol here:
https://www.coasit.com.au/scraps
Scraps is been funded by the of Melbourne and in partnership with Co.As.It.
05/10/2023
Learn Italian and create art at the same time!
Join the team from Memetica in creating reef-like puppets while learning Italian. No prior knowledge required.
For more information https://loom.ly/ydRp-cA
30/03/2023
Willum Warrain's Deadly Totems mingling with the crowds at the Balnarring Ngargee community festival in the Mornington Peninsula. It was such a pleasure to see the outcome of the Deadly Totems project taking life on its own with great performances by Justine and Kerralee to the delight of the crowds.
Check out this clip for background information of how these creature came into being https://vimeo.com/789342421
26/03/2023
Thank you Wynnum Fringe to have allowed Memetica to release its wild Bush Turkey while the Sunrise show was on with Garry Starr , Sam Mac and Tom Oliver !
23/11/2022
We’re live on Sunrise with Sam Mac all morning if you’re near your TV box and in Australia!
Garry Starr Memetica Tom Oliver Channel 7 🎉🎪🎡⚡️
The videoclip of Memetica's project with Willum Warrain Aboriginal Association is out! watch the full video of the Deadly Totem project https://vimeo.com/770058019. Once again, a great thank you to Willum Warrain for welcoming Memetica and to all the people that make this possible by contributing with their creativity, time and support for this great and rewarding experience!
http://memetica.com.au/memetica-workshops/deadly-totems/
09/09/2022
Tonight Memetica's Cassowary had its opera debut at the in Alteouise DeVaughn's production of The Magic Flute for A Night at the Opera. Sept 9 to 11 at the Clink theatre in Port Douglas. Thank you to Alteouise DeVaughn and Idris Alkamraikhi for making this possible!
The Cassowary was created with the support of Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government initiative.
All is ready for tomorrow show Yana Daadigan at Willum Warrain Aboriginal Association tomorrow. It's been a great journey and I am looking forward to share to the wider community the story and the creature we have created over the intensive three weeks workshop. Come along for the gathering from 11:00 am this Saturday Sept 10. Enjoy the free bbq and a lough along the big local Kookaburra!
11/01/2021
Want to be one of the very first humans to meet an exciting new mutant species of reef creatures?
Memetica is looking for a test audience for our kids show 'Arrival: The Reeflings' - Friday 15th, 11.45am-12.45pm, at Abbotsford Convent. Kids age 5-11 are especially welcome to share their thoughts!!
Bookings essential - comment on this post or send us a private message for more info and booking link.
07/01/2021
Something is hatching at Abbotsford Convent...
This January, come and meet The Reeflings - mysterious mutant creatures who have voyaged from coral reefs to set up a new home on land.
Memetica's latest work is a participatory promenade performance for kids age 5-11, and their adults. Free, but bookings essential. More info here: abbotsfordconvent.com.au/event/arrival-the-reeflings/
09/10/2020
A Message from the Future II: The Years of Repair Do we have a right to be hopeful? With political and ecological fires raging all around, is it irresponsible to imagine a future world radically better than ...
06/05/2020
You know that feeling when you have the perfect word to express what you mean, and there is no equivalent translation? For Want of a Better Word is a multimedia project reflecting on language, and the unique and poignant words that exist across cultures.
The project invites culturally and linguistically diverse Maribyrnong residents to contribute to a dictionary of ‘better words’.
Participants of all ages will join Memetica's artist Daniele Poidomani in conversational online workshops. If you are interested in participating and can attend two 1hr-long workshops in the last two weeks of May, email [email protected] or go to forwantofabetterword.com
to register and for more information by Friday 22 May.
Join as an individual, a family or household group.
email: [email protected]
website: https://www.forwantofabetterword.com
This project is supported by City of Maribyrnong
03/05/2020
I'm excited to announce the City of Maribyrnong has granted support for the creation of my new project "For Want of a Better Word".
Every language has words that are absent from other languages, yet express social, emotional, and physical concepts common across cultures. For Want of a Better Word will invite the culturally and linguistically diverse community of Maribyrnong to workshop a “dictionary” of “better words”, expressing universal experiences of life, which have the potential to enrich the Australian vocabulary.
The Together Apart Rapid Relief Fund is supporting innovative artwork through digital platforms in these times of isolation. Memetica's project will gather individuals, families, and housemates of all ages for online sessions to find and share all the "better words" already present in our diverse community but not known by all... yet!
03/01/2020
03/01/2020
Join us at the iconic Welcome Ceremony at 8pm tonight. Jinibara Custodians and Woodfordian Elders welcome us all home in song and ceremony, and we've got a new generation of giant puppets for you to meet.
03/12/2019
Skeeters back at DSR Festival for the second year. Always a pleasure. Thanks to DSR for letting us be part of the fun!
03/12/2019
Creating The Naming Project for the Tablelands Folk Festival was very rewarding. The concept of bringing a new set of signage to the town of Yungaburra was born upon the first conversation I had with Uncle Laurie Padmore, Elder of the Dulgubarra Yidinji .
The initial idea of translating the current set of street signs expanded into adding altogether new signs to the town and name places that are not yet part of the local set of signage but are of significance within the Dulgubarra people's culture.
The new Yidinji language signage point to geographical and historical locations. From the sacred sites submerged by the making of the artificial lake Tinaroo, to spectacular natural features already important to traditional owners. From the neighbouring traditional peoples of the Dulgubarra to locations which have witnessed some of the most tragic and sad events in the history of these territories.
The Naming Project was created in the hope that in the future, the older local traditional culture will become as visible as the newer one is now. For the two cultures to coexist and tell the full rich story of the area of what is now known as Yungaburra, itself an adaptation of the original word Janggaburru, the Yidinji word for the local Queensland Silver Ash tree.
Check http://memetica.com.au/janggaburru to listen to the pronunciation of all the new signs that have been installed during the festival and for more details about the whole project.
02/11/2019
Fanaticus 2019 Highlights- presented by Sydney Road Community School and Rawcus A wild and playful collision of basketball and theatre. Presented by Sydney Road Community School in partnership with Rawcus. Over two terms Rawcus and SRCS explored…
25/09/2019
20/09/2019
Memetica's Elders for School Strike 4 Climate
15/09/2019
Skeeters love Fanaticus!!
Skeeters say thanks to Nilgun for inviting us to play Fanaticus with Rawcus and Sydney Road Community School. They're cool!!
17/04/2019
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