Performance Space is thrilled to unveil the 2025 Liveworks Festival program, a jam-packed, five-day celebration of new, experimental and genre-defying art and performance from across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region, at Carriageworks from 22nd to 26th October 2025.
Featuring a massive line-up of never-before-seen works, including seven Australian premieres, and artists from Australia, Aotearoa, Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong and Japan, the 2025 Festival is a bold melange of dance, sound art, theatre, installation and queer stories.
This year’s artists are concocting new ways to relate, summoning the power of the chance encounter, the new crush, through acts of translation, technological mediations, political agitation, queer rumination and a little bit of role-play.
Performance Space’s Artistic Director, Kate Britton, said, “It has been an inspirational, exciting and brain-tickling 18 months of conversation and planning to bring this year’s Liveworks to life and I cannot wait to share it. I have fallen in love with each and every one of these works, which range from the silly to the sublime. Liveworks 2025 is a protest, a portal and a party. Come for the genre-bending, mind-blowing and heart-warming performances, stay for the post-show foyer chat with Sydney’s most radical art lovers.”
Liveworks 2025 brings an exhilarating lineup of dance performances to the stage, showcasing innovative and cross-cultural works.
I remember what the machine remembers what I remember: 我記得住機器記住我記住的 (22–25 Oct) features a cross-cultural Australian-Taiwanese artistic team exploring the fluid boundaries between reality and virtuality, meaning and language, and body and machine.
In Long Sentences (22–26 Oct), choreographer Rhiannon Newton invites audiences on a time-traveling journey, weaving a chorus of bodies, times, and actions to shape our shared present. 두물머리 Dumulmeori (where two rivers meet) (22–24 Oct) unites four choreographer-performers—Alisdair Macindoe and Michelle Heaven from Melbourne, Haneul Jung from Seoul, and Chosul Kim from Daegu—for a dynamic contemporary dance showcase.
Sticky Hands, Stitched Mountains (23–25 Oct) offers a transnational fusion of folklore, oral history, culture, and gender identity through the collaboration of Japanese dance artist Nanako Matsumoto and Taiwanese visual artist Ciwas Tahos. Ground on Ground (24–25 Oct) sees Liveworks 2024 favorites Emily Parsons-Lord, Shan Turner-Carroll, and Evelyn Ida Morris join Hong Kong-based artists Taurin Barrera, Lazarus Chan Long Fung, and Vvzela Kook in a mesmerizing duet of sun and moon.
Finally, Brigid (25–26 Oct), choreographed by Alice Heyward, immerses audiences in buried and imagined worlds through a dance and sound performance inspired by the pre-Christian goddess of fire and wellsprings.
Now in its 42nd year, Performance Space is Australia’s leading organisation for the development and presentation of experimental art, pushing the boundaries of what art is, what it can do, and who it is for.
Liveworks, Performance Space’s biennial festival of live art, draws artists and audiences from around the world to experience the future of performance, dance, sound, music, installation and experimentation.
Further information about the 2025 Festival can be found at https://performancespace.com.au/whats-on
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