Alicia Frankovich’s Rich In World/ Poor In World, NGV Australia, Melbourne Now 2023

For Melbourne Now 2023, lead artist Alicia 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. This show was performed four Saturdays in April 2023 at the Ian Potter Centre’s Community Hall.

Performers
LJ Connolly-Hiatt, Mara Galagher, Shelley Lasica, Shian Law, Enzo Nazario, Erin O’Rourke, Lana Šprajcer, Angelita Biscotti, Jesse Gall, Erin Hallyburton, Alexis Kanatsios, Daniel R Marks, Rajdeep Puri

Musical composition
Igor Klaczyński

Video documentation by SanaShoots