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SUMMARY:Humanities by Laxlan Petras & the Australian Art Orchestra
DESCRIPTION:An evening of music\, dance & opera. AAO live sets\, sunset interlude & the Australian premiere of Laxlan Petras’ Humanities. \nTarraWarra Museum of Art is delighted to present the Australian premiere of Humanities\, an experimental opera by Melbourne-born\, Berlin-based Laxlan Petras\, along with a new suite of specially created compositions by the Australian Art Orchestra. \nThroughout the evening\, audiences will encounter live performance across the site\, encouraging an embodied sensorial response to music and dance. \nPart I: Music in the Museum \nCommencing at 4pm\, the Australian Art Orchestra (AAO) will perform an improvised set of music under Artistic Director Aaron Choulai’s SonoKinetic Conducting framework in response to artworks in the exhibition\, Rose Nolan: Breathing Helps at the TarraWarra Museum of Art. \nPart II: Sunset Interlude \nAudiences will then be invited to experience the last sunset of Winter ‘standard time’ with complimentary refreshments overlooking Wurundjeri Country. TarraWarra’s unique architecture will then be activated by a series of solo performances by AAO musicians who will create live improvised responses to the TarraWarra Museum’s public spaces and sculptures. \nPart III: Humanities \nAs the sun sets visitors will then be invited into the Eva and Marc Besen Centre for the Australian Premiere of Melbourne-born Berlin-based Laxlan Petras’ new experimental opera and performance work Humanities. \nHumanities is a collaborative live performance originally conceived by artists Laxlan Petras\, Yasmin Saleh and Amber Fasquelle that premiered at Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London in August 2025. The piece combines opera with spatial installation elements. Saleh performs solo wearing an amplified suit of mirrors\, with trained and untrained vocal performances accompanying her. Performed in-the-round\, Humanities consists of a sequence of charged encounters—live tableaux where bodies hesitate between control and passivity\, intimacy and estrangement. Throughout the performance\, the question of what constitutes ‘the human’ is neither affirmed nor dissolved but held open in fragile suspension\, as performers oscillate between embodiment and image\, between agency and exposure. \nCost: $35 \nBus: $10 (pre-book your return bus from Federation Square to TarraWarra) \nComplimentary refreshments are included \nLaxlan Petras\, Yasmin Saleh\, and Amber Fasquelle\nHumanities is an experimental operatic project by German-based artists Laxlan Petras\, Amber Fasquelle and Yasmin Saleh. Its first iteration was shown at Berlin Atonal’s Universal Metabolism exhibition in August\, 2023. The trio worked together on a new iteration for ICA London which premiered August\, 2025. \nPetras’ work is rooted in his biography and his practice embraces an array of media that provide space for intimacy\, desire and identity. Fasquelle is an interdisciplinary vocal artist\, performing in opera houses as well as contemporary contexts. She explores characters and musical history through site-specific interventions with the voice. Saleh is an actor\, activist and television producer advocating for diversity\, mental health and disability rights. She has performed in film\, opera\, television and musical theatre for several companies in Europe and abroad. Collectively\, their practices look at both mundane and transcendental forms of human coexistence. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nSat\, 4 Oct 2025 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM AEST. Doors at 3:45pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nTarraWarra Museum of Art\, 313 Healesville-Yarra Glen Road Healesville\, VIC 3777 \nTICKETS: $20 – $35
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/humanities-by-laxlan-petras-the-australian-art-orchestra/
LOCATION:TarraWarra Museum of Art\, 313 Healesville-Yarra Glen Road\, Healesville\, Victoria\, 3777
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