TRANCEPLANT

ARTISTS

DESCRIPTION

1994 In the then disused New Farm Power House Brisbane – local artist collective Omniscient collective presented TRANCEPLANT – a large scale experimental performance & installation theatre culminating in a 10 night season of up to 100 performers per night. Omniscient Gallery was created by Andy Forbes and Steve Cantwell in Auchenflower 1990 it went on to include Richard Mansfield and James Dabrowski as collaborating directors of the artist run space and moved to the Moreton Rubber Works building in Woolloongabba and then onto Brisbane Powerhouse the footage that you often see posted was shot by David Barker and Dave Granato and edited by Andy Forbes and David Barker.

DATE

1994

RELATIONSHIPS

Performance, Video, 16 mm film

QUOTES

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https://brisbanepowerhouse.org/whats-on/event/tranceplant

Brisbane, 1994 – a group of Brisbane artists take over the derelict New Farm Powerhouse to present TRANCEPLANT, a large scale performance and installation event culminating in a ten-night season of up to one hundred performers per night.

Twenty-six years on, we invite original producers and participants Andy Forbes (multidisciplinary artist), Richard Mansfield, James Dabrowksi, Jay Younger (artist/curator), Anthony Babicci (stage designer/scenic artist) and Kiley Gaffney (artist/performer) back to Brisbane Powerhouse for an extraordinary Writers+Ideas event hosted by ABC Radio’s Rebecca Levingston.

This event will also feature a unique opening multimedia performance featuring two of TRANCEPLANT’s original artists, performer/singer Andy McDonell and Ben Ely (Regurgitator).

Don’t miss your chance to experience the phenomenon that was TRANCEPLANT and unpack the broader story of Brisbane’s cultural revolution set against the industrial decay of the ‘New Farm Powerhouse’.

Image: ANIMAL PORN/everybody’s sex fever by Anthony Babicci (pictured), photographer unknown.