Sweat Season 2019
Sweat Season carves out space for the creation of enmeshed experiences specific to the local place, environment and people of Garrmalang/Darwin
Sweat Season 2019 was held on November 30. It involved 35 artists, experimented in 7 different locations, and began as it ended, with our sweaty bodies buoyed in the water.
Sweat Season 2019
The inaugural Sweat Season was held on November 30, 2019. It was a full day of sweaty, surprising, durational rituals to sink your teeth into.
A SWIM with a welcome, movement, and underwater music.
Artists: Tony Lee, Gary Lang, James Mangohig and Jess Devereux.
Location: Parap Pool.
Larrakia Man Tony Lee will welcome you to sweat season. Next, a precipitous dance work by Larrakia choreographer Gary Lang, an underwater listening event by James Mangohig, and a durational duet between Jess Devereux and her giant ice-block.
A MARKET where your cutlery reads you a poem
Artists: Cj Fraser-Bell and Britt Guy.
Location: Rapid Creek Market.
Placed about the markets, this installation is ongoing but not permanent - arrive early to avoid missing out.
A GARDEN with a planting ritual at Lakeside Drive Community Garden
Artists: Amina McConvell and Alicia Scobie.
Locations: Lakeside Drive Community Garden.
Bring the family to make murals and marks with us in the Garden. Contribute to an artwork that will bring luck to the garden, and another that will be buried, 12 months in the making. Traditional rain dance will be performed by Thai Dance Group.
A COLD DRINK with a painting and a story at the pub
Artist: Shaun Lee.
Locations: Lucky Bat Cafe.
Join Larrakia Street Artist Hafleg as he live paints on a wall in the Lucky Bat courtyard and tells stories and answers your questions about the Sweaty Season. Enjoy over a cool beverage, it’s beer o’clock.
A NAP in a place full of strangers.
Artists: Haneen Martin and Tamara Howie.
Location: Nightcliff Foreshore, Windsurfers Corner.
Take a nap, read a note, write a love letter, drown your worries, and see what happens when you take a long, long time to make something.
A PROMENADE, a solitary evening walk, together
Artists: Lee Harrop and Kelly Beneforti.
Location: Nightcliff Beach.
Artist Lee Harrop invites you to Token, an easily overlooked temporary exhibition that’s there one minute, gone the next. Dancer Kelly Beneforti with collaborator Anokai Susi will allow us to glimpse a wave dance out of time, from afar, over and over.
A PARTY where the humidity finally gets to us.
Artists: Matthew Van Roden, Tarzan Jungle Queen, Ciella Williams, Jenelle Saunders and more.
Location: East Point Reserve.
A night to remember! Kicked off with dance by Darwin’s cultural groups including Kultura Dance Collective (the kids will love!), followed by music to move to, projected ode’s to the moon, mad sweaty priestesses and a performing mango slushy. Bar and beats onsite as we sweat into the evening.
Images by Jess Devereux and Paz Tassone.