RMIT School of Art is thrilled to see so many staff, students and alumni featured in the NGV exhibition Melbourne Now.

Today we feature sessional lecturer Alicia Frankovich.

Born in Aotearoa/New Zealand and currently based in Naarm/Melbourne, Alicia Frankovich is an artist working across sculpture, performance, video, photography and the format of the exhibition itself. Her work engages living human and non-human entities to reveal the limits of how we understand notions of nature.

For Melbourne Now, Frankovich presents a new live work that explores our current climate emergency from queer and wild perspectives. Rich in World/Poor in World comprises scenes that describe our current experience, suggesting possible futures while engaging with our present, through utopian and dystopian affect. In her choreographies, difference is celebrated using movement and gesture with a corps of both trained and untrained dancers. The work moves from a contemporary re-imagining of Noah’s Ark to a toddler’s play area, to a stampede, crowd or swarm. Through Rich in World/Poor in World we experience the artist’s speculations, and the possibilities — and impossibilities — of maintaining human life here on Earth.

Alicia Frankovich: Rich in World/Poor in World
Melbourne Now Performance Program

Saturday 1 April, 2pm
Saturday 8 April, 2pm
Saturday 15 April, 2pm
Saturday 22 April, 2pm

Free entry
Booking is not required

The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square
Community Hall
Ground Level

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