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"Feather Star" 2025

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Alicia Frankovich

Born 1980, Tauranga, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne, Victoria. Pronouns: she/her.

 

"Feather Star" 2025

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Commissioned by The University of Queensland Art Museum and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA).

 

Feather Star is a choreographic commission by Alicia Frankovich that explores human and non-human entanglements, attuning a myriad of bodies to the beauty and diversity of interdependent ecological systems. Frankovich seeks out new images and imaginaries in the age of the Capitalocene—an epoch defined by extraction and overconsumption—to find alternative ways of living and being in the world.

 

Derived from a child’s existential questions, Feather Star is a movement work that unfolds through a relational exchange between performers (trained and untrained) into choreographic knowledge-making, vocal utterances, and sound. Motifs are drawn from the microscopic realms of symbiotic bacteria to the motions of underwater creatures, and the interplanetary escapism of Big Tech. By enlisting performers to layer and embody imagery, Feather Star figures possible modes of queer world-building and resistance in the context of climate collapse.

 

 

Performers: Deanne Butterworth, MaggZ, Daniel R Marks, Molly McKenzie, Enzo Nazario, Bea Rubio-Gabriel, Gemma Sattler. Production Assistant: Ruth Höflich. Music: Igor Kłaczyński. Sound Technician: James Clark.

 

Performances: Friday, 28th of February, 1pm and Saturday the 1st of March, 3pm. Tickets available via the UQ Art Museum website.

 

 

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

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