Fabrica’s July Making Space has been awarded to artist collective Antivoid Alliance (Caleb Madden, Grant Cieciura, Luke Pendrell, Yumino Seki & Tiago De Sousa). The group is currently exploring how collaborative art making can produce work that challenges established roles of artist and audience. This residency will develop the group’s ongoing investigation of the social value of art.
Since 2018, the collective has been exploring the intersection between radical politics and performative artmaking. Resisting group hierarchy or formal affiliation, they operate as a shifting configuration of collaborators. Working across moving image, dance, installation, sound and more, the group are driven by the desire to question how and why societies can remain in thrall to political forces that perpetuate inequality.

During the residency Antivoid Alliance intend to build a temporary pavilion within the walls of Fabrica. This space-within-a-space will act as a kind of parallel site, or ‘parasite’. Creatively inspired by the culture, aesthetics, and technical lay-out of the Karaoke room — its special ability to focus moments of consumer desire and fantastic irony — this parasitic pavilion (or paravilion) is intended to facilitate impromptu modes of togetherness and improvised audience performances; public actions which emerge through and beyond the culture of Karaoke to become something else, something more.
Over the four days of their residency Antivoid Alliance will be:

Working with discarded, low-end and ubiquitous industrial materials to build a temporary and shonky Karaoke Pavilion within the space at Fabrica.

Working with sound composition and improvisation using a quadraphonic sound system and other hacked electronic devices

Exploring concepts of alienation, consumer desire, and ironic resonance through choreography and dance — in collaboration with Butoh dance specialist Yumino Seki.

Working on a new participatory performance-installation: experimenting with a modified Karaoke machine and its use by group members, guests and members of the public.
Ultimately, this installation, moving image work, and quad sound composition will be set in constellation with the cultural rituals of the Karaoke room.