The performance moved through Randwick at sunset into twilight, stopping at three locations across UNSW and the hospital precinct.
Led by a group of dancers and held together with members of the NSW Collegium Musicum Choir and NIDA students and alumni, the performance guided audiences on a journey of orchestrated harmonies.
Movement and song animated a series of fabric sculptures, which provided a connective thread between the performers and the broader community.
When Do I Breathe? is the result of a year-long engagement with local communities by the artist, offering an artistic response to the value of care in our society and collective action as a form of resistance.
This initiative followed the 24-Hour Tea Break event held for front-line health workers earlier in the year and was funded by Transport for NSW’s Safer Cities program.
Safer Cities is investing in sites statewide to help improve perceptions of safety in our cities and towns, particularly for women, girls and gender diverse people.
A series of Randwick initiatives proudly funded by the NSW Government in association with Transport for NSW and Create NSW will transform and uplift our streets and also enable Night Time Masterplanning in support of more equitable experience across the site for night shift workers and women and girls moving through campus spaces after dark.
ARTWORK CREDITS:
Lead artist: Lauren Brincat
Choreographer: Charmene Yap
Composer: Evelyn Ida Morris
UNSW Choral Director: Sonia Maddock
Dancers: Jasmin Lancaster, Loulou Mitsis, Koko Mukaai, Angus Onley and Sam Osborn
Actors: Este Breytenbach, Jessica Carter, Lewis Defina, Lucy Dunning, Lillianne Lord, Connor Reilly, and Keenan Walker
Choir: UNSW Collegium Musicum Choir
Percussionist: Chloe Kim
Studio Producer: Sophie Willison
Studio Fabricator: Lisa Dwyer
Hat Fabricator: Bronwyn Shooks Millinery
Design: Studio Libro
Cinematographer: Gotaro Uematsu
Photographer: Zan Wimberley
Co-curators: Sophie Forbat and Zoe Theodore
Image credit: Lauren Brincat, When Do I Breathe? 2024. Performer: Jasmin Lancaster. Photographer: Zan Wimberley. Courtesy of the artist.