Throughout the festival we invite you to join us in play – create glowing sculptures, make music with the springs and add memories to the walls.
Do you have what it takes to survive a disturbance on the dance-floor? Join KSCA’s Imogen Semmler in the disco of ecological succession.
Act 1 - Bringing Together, a tea gathering. An everyday act of gathering and coming together to connect for afternoon tea.
Do you have what it takes to survive a disturbance on the dance-floor? Join KSCA’s Imogen Semmler in the disco of ecological succession.
Tour the ‘Far East’ Festival Precinct of installations and artists works
Do you have what it takes to survive a disturbance on the dance-floor? Join KSCA’s Imogen Semmler in the disco of ecological succession.
Welcome To Country by Emma Syme and Peter Swain / Dance Performance by Jo Clancy and Local Wiradjuri Dance Group. Opening of the ‘Wirimbili’ Exhibition Curated by Leanne Wicks
Exhibition of works by local artists
Join us on a creative investigation into the way sound and light transforms and transcends our memories and the way our bodies move in this post industrial world.
Act 2 - Confessions of the heart. In this act, I ask participants to confess a single sorrow of their heart.
Do you have what it takes to survive a disturbance on the dance-floor? Join KSCA’s Imogen Semmler in the disco of ecological succession.
This panel unpacks the art-speak buzz term ‘socially engaged practice’ by discussing Cementa’s vital contributions in this space.
Tour ‘Kandos Central’ and ’ Way Up North’ Festival Precincts of installations and artists works
Do you have what it takes to survive a disturbance on the dance-floor? Join KSCA’s Imogen Semmler in the disco of ecological succession.
Throughout the festival we invite you to join us in play – create glowing sculptures, make music with the springs and add memories to the walls.
Act 2 - Confessions of the heart. In this act, I ask participants to confess a single sorrow of their heart.
Tour the ‘Breezy Southeasterly’ Festival Precinct of installations and artists works
Do you have what it takes to survive a disturbance on the dance-floor? Join KSCA’s Imogen Semmler in the disco of ecological succession.
Djon Mundine will create a red ochre life size body print on the inside striped wall of Kandos Aboriginal Centre
Live performance of wiiny-dha waganha nan-girra - we make fire and dance together - a window in to Wiradjuri cultural exchange and sharing at Ganguddy.
A party (event) invoking the regional tradition of the debutante ball - with an emphasis on the double meaning of ‘coming out’ in society. Register for Free Entry https://events.humanitix.com/the-cementa-debutante-ball
Scrum is a mobile sculpture of bodies. Bodies in formation, conflict, collaboration. Will there be winners? Will there be losers? Only Scrum has the answers.
Performance Night is a riotous showcase of live work and music by artists hailing from Sydney and the regions.
White Knuckle Fever is Sydney’s only two-piece psycho-blues-a-billy hyper energy assault. Leaving cities drenched in sweat across Australia. Celia Curtis (Circus Bizarre) and 3k Short (Machine Gun Fellatio) are hotter than Hades
Amateur hour variety variations and jumpin’ jack jams for the concrete non-blondes of Kandos.
Do you have what it takes to survive a disturbance on the dance-floor? Join KSCA’s Imogen Semmler in the disco of ecological succession.
Act 3 - Binding words and stories. Participants will create Butaricas - a branch that is decorated in coloured wood shavings or paper and sometimes fruit.
Tour the ‘Go West’ Festival Precinct of installations and artists works
Kids art activities run by Felicity Cavanough and Mid-Western Regional Council
How does water shape landscape? Join this workshop with KSCA’s Laura Fisher to create a surprising land sculpture with a story to tell.
Hear from C24 artists as they share their experiences and methodologies for responding to and engaging with local sites, stories and communities.
Do you have what it takes to survive a disturbance on the dance-floor? Join KSCA’s Imogen Semmler in the disco of ecological succession.
Lauren invites you to join her and Uncle Peter as they reclaim slow time and their family’s cultural memory of this land.
Act 3 - Binding words and stories. Participants will create Butaricas - a branch that is decorated in coloured wood shavings or paper and sometimes fruit.
Walk the land with KSCA’s Peter Swain as he interweaves patterns of disturbance and succession into our common paths, journeys and stories.
Tour ‘Down South’ Festival Precinct of installations and artists works
Do you have what it takes to survive a disturbance on the dance-floor? Join KSCA’s Imogen Semmler in the disco of ecological succession.
Throughout the festival we invite you to join us in play – create glowing sculptures, make music with the springs and add memories to the walls.
Exposure investigates the body under duress. Elemental effects, natural materials and debris are all reconfigured in the design of this work to develop a physical terrain that the performers encounter and endure.
Sound Night, an institution within the festival, will be unique this year as we explore both sonic and physical terrains inside and outside the venue.
‘Sound Track’, a collaborative and site specific sound work, includes elements of performance, sound, sculpture and installation. The work invites the audience to share the landscape and process of improvisation.
Join us for the announcement of the award-winners who recreated the mystery museum artifact for Josie Cavallaro’s Playback Kandos Museum. Experience the captivating interpretive dance performance choreographed for Playback by Susan Barling.
An evolving soundscape will unfold, the resonance of post industrial noise transformed into a mesmerising hush of harmonic vocal synthesis through the artist’s reimagining of place.
Act 4 - Acceptance. In this act, I will perform a connection to ancestors and land by placing the Butarica offerings around the line of trees and laying down as a ritual of acceptance
How does water shape landscape? Join this workshop with KSCA’s Laura Fisher to create a surprising land sculpture with a story to tell.
The community memorial Picnic Among Friends offers new ways to gather to remember those we love who are no longer living. To come together into a safe and communal space in which we can bring creative and personal expression to love, loss and remembering.
Do you have what it takes to survive a disturbance on the dance-floor? Join KSCA’s Imogen Semmler in the disco of ecological succession.
Throughout the festival we invite you to join us in play – create glowing sculptures, make music with the springs and add memories to the walls.
Closing Ceremony by Emma Syme and Peter Swain. Thanking all attendees, artists and performers and providing a Ceremony to assure them safe passage home from Dabee Wiradjuri Country
From 19–22 September, Cementa returns to Kandos with all the wonder and weirdness that make our festival what it is. This time under the guidance of Lead Curator Daniel Mudie Cunningham and First Nations Curator Jo Albany, Cementa24 will bring the town to life for four days of art that is fun and strange, beautiful and perplexing. And most of all, given in a spirit of generosity from shared points of connection between the artists and the people of Kandos.
Here’s just a taste of what to you can expect. Traditional Custodian Lauren Swain will be serving a lovely cup of Reclaim, connecting Culture and Country through slow time. Vanessa Berry’s Kandos Visitor’s Map delicately delineates local stories through written and drawn impressions of Kandos. Have your aura photographed by Kate Mitchell, and then join Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation in Disturbance, interrupting the ecology of the nearby paddock in a series of games and activities that disrupt and reveal the functioning of its natural order.
Branch Nebula teams up with Latia Taumoepeau to present Exposure, a new work performing the implications of climate precarity. Gabrielle Bates will treat us all to an Art Scrum, Georgia Banks will host a gender diverse Debutante Ball, Djon Mundine will throw himself against a wall, and Doug Heslop will fill the Kandos Hotel’s monumental bird cage with a creature called “Bubba”.
More than 50 artists present more than 40 artworks in 20 venues across Kandos. Bookended with Opening and Closing Ceremonies at the North East Wiradjuri Cultural Centre, Cementa24 also sees the return of the Cementa Salon at WAYOUT as a showcase for local artists; Performance Night as a raucous evening of anarchy, this time co-presented by Performance Space with artists from across regional and metropolitan NSW; and Sound Night as a sonic hotbed of experimentation, this time with Noise Xhurxh taking the program outside to the golfing green.
We wish we could gush at you about all of the artworks in the festival, but you’ll just have to come up to Kandos for that. Our team is working at full steam and the artists are all prepped and ready to converge for four unforgettable days of contemporary art and community in one of the best little towns in regional NSW.