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OBSERBAHI:OBSERVE

Year

2022

Location

Brisbane, Australia

Creative director, choreographer and performer - a performative artwork in partnership with QLD Museum for the Beyond the Museum Exhibition (Event Producer)

The framework of a museum establishes a clear distinction between ‘observer’ and ‘the observed’. Interrogating perspective, Observe is a performance artwork that questions this dynamic and gives agency to the object bodies that are positioned for the museum visitor to view one-sidedly. By recognising a similar dynamic in dance performance, we use the discipline in collaboration with visual art to invite the bodies of visitors and performers into a reciprocal dialogue of viewing.  

In activating the viewer, we encourage an understanding of viewer and performer, observer and the observed as an interconnected whole. In this process, we are also situated in a self-reflective space; an important environment to familiarise ourselves with to better understand our own perspectives, experiences and position in the world.  

Buddy Malbasias is currently situated on the Jagera and Turrbal peoples land. He acknowledges the Traditional Owners of this beautiful land on which he lives, creates and plays. He pays his deepest respects and gratitude to all First Nations peoples - in flesh and spirit. Always was, Always will be.

 

© 2023 by Buddy

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