ROARAWAR FEARTATA (Craig Peade/Benjamin Cittadini) Proposal

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THE GOOD LIFE/(Either) - Genius Is Random Trash - (Or) I Once Was Lost But
Now Ive Found Truth (Not Necessarily The Truth with a capital T but A truth
with a capital A) THE HOPE-FILLED PROMISE OF THINGS ONCE LOST
FUTURE HOPES DEPEND UPON FORGETTINGS/ FORGETTING (IS THE
FUTURES ONLY HOPE) -

To instruct is to either literally, explicitly or implicitly educate i.e indoctrinate another

within ones own perceived world-views or ideologies. For Platonic Socratism, the art of
philosophical rhetoric approaches, indeed accesses or contacts rather, the good life.
As such, this project will intend to implicity approach a critique of the the good life
Western or First World ethics inherited or evolved from Platonic Socratism and its
concomitant economies of capitalist materialism, secular transcendentalism, metaphysical
secularism, desire, excess, use-value, artificial and symbolic obsolescence, consumption,
commodity fetishism, a disposable globalized consumer culture, salvation and
redemption.

Instructions might include: -

1. Discover/find a discarded, forgotten or lost object that piques or captures your

interest/imagination.

2. Describe your response to it either in-situ via a post-it-note, lost or found notice or
on-line posting to a blog documenting the poject. I.e. what
was/is/would/could/should it be? - For, descriptions/representations intransitively
have a habit of phantasmagorically transforming/transfiguring things into other
 things. Include its origination whatever your understanding of this might mean
to you and the precise location of your discovery/find. Why might you be
attracted or interested? Imagine how or why it became lost and then found or
discovered.

3. Text your find/discovery to an assigned telephone hotline number allocated

specifically for this project with details of its precise location and notice of your
on-line post. A twitter account will also operate. Or alternatively
submit/dispatch/deposit it at a site for exhibition.

Ideally, a real-time gallery installation might exhibit these once were lost but now
found objects, images and postings at least for the Fringe Festivals duration or at a
later date. Durational ritualistic incantations might be performed in-situ.

Less a tour than a performative trail, journey or promenade might peripatetically

traverse a trajectory of these archaeological/ethnological/sociological/artefactual
discoveries or finds and enlighten or illuminate as much as obfuscate. For, suspended
between truth and fiction; myth and reality, the excess remainder of
detritus/waste/rubbish sub/unconsciously animates the imaginative and aesthetic use-
value of cities and its communities.

A workshop might oscillate around loss as Event the Becoming of an accidental

micro-trauma, a small, tiny, miniscule catastrophe rupturing the rationality of each
individuals reality. Loss and its ritualistic mourning not only informs the radical
singularity and alterity of each subjectivity, but that of collective communities, cities
or socius. As such, fetishized and ritualistically monumentalized, loss becomes a
sensus communis approaching Nietzschean active forgetting and upon this
anamnestic remembering, recall or recollection discovers the accumulation of an
aesthetic use-value for loss and mourning itself.

Participants might be asked questions oscillating around representations of their own

personal losses, habitual rituals of mourning loss irrespective of their perceived
(in)-significance i.e lost personal effects etc. Upon sharing this with others these
rituals might be intimately performed either privately or publicly at a personally
significant site to be documented at the participants discretion for their own personal
private record or upon the research blog to the public.
Benjamin Cittadini Curriculum Vitae

Casual Academic RMIT University (Design & Social Context)

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Education

2011 -2014 - PhD "Wasted Space: Performance, Public Space, Urban Renewal and Identity",
Victoria University

2009 - Masters in Arts (Art in Public Spaces), RMIT University

2004 - Bachelor in Arts (Performance Studies), Victoria University

Publications and Public Performances

2014 Wasted Space Victoria University Pop Up Shop and Footscray Arts Centre
2014 Fluid Fantasy - Telemachus mete and doles in the half-illumined search engines of
possibility Conduit Galler
2014 Emerging Writers Festival & Overland Literary Journal Launch - Rev It Up! The
Literary Late Night 100 Story Building & Reverence Hotel, Footscray
2014 Contemporary Publics International Symposium Art, Public Spaces, Public Spectacle
(Stories of the Real and the Real Story) Deakin University
2014 Spectres of Evaluation: Art/Community/Value Footscray Arts Centre
2013 Fixed Human Type I & II Top Shelf Gallery
2013 Little Ladybug Forty Five Downstairs
2013 Crow Returns Harvest Festival Collingwood Housing Estate
2012 - "Small Catastrophe's" - Live Art Seedpod, Old Fire Station, Bendigo
2012 - "Bunny" - World Theatre Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse

2011 - "The Crow Variations" - Coburg Train Station, Moreland Public Art Show

2011 - Wrote, Directed, produced "Bunny" - The Tuxedo Cat, Melbourne Fringe Festival

2011 - "Aura Project", Public Art residency at Collingwood Housing Estate, supported by Arts
Victoria.

2011 - Performance, "OMFG" - Gertrude Contemporary Artspace

2010 - Performance, "I Luv Amanda Crowe 4 Eva", Liveworks, Performance Space, Sydney.

2010 - Performance, Karen Casey's Global Mind Project, with Jill Orr, Stelarc & Domenico
Di Clario,Federation Square, Melbourne.
2010 - Installation "Re-enactment", White St. Carpark, City of Greater Dandenong.

2009 - Collated, produced and published "Dandenong Book of Prayer", supported by the City of
Greater Dandenong

2009 - Group Exhibition, "Made in Italy", Area Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne.

2009 Performance "Genius is Random Trash" as part of The Interventionist Guide to

Melbourne, PlatformArtspace, Flinders St. Station, Melbourne

2008 Performance, "La Pieta e Spazzatura", Prato, Italy.

2008 Directed To have done with the judgement of God, Melbourne Fringe Festival

2007 Wrote, directed and produced Elmo, La Mama theatre, Melbourne

2007 Co-created and curated Multi-artform project Loose Connections, with Nick Beer,
White street project, Frankston.

2005 Wrote, directed and produced Bunny, at La Mama theatre

2003 - Directed, co-wrote and performed in Intensive Jobmaking Assistance, Centrelink,

BigWest Festival,Footscray.

2003 - Co-wrote, directed untitled as part of One night in the well at La Mama Theatre,
supported by ArtsVictoria.

2002 Multi-artform installation Obviously a Museum with David Keating, at the

MelbourneMuseum,Next Wave Festival

2001 - Articles "The evolution of joy" and "The Histories" published in "The Paper" (March,
October 2001).

2000 Multi-artform installation Museum, in collaboration with Breathing Space community

arts, MomentaArts Festival, Geelong

1999 Text based installation/performance "Words" developed and published on State Library of
VictoriaCyberpoets website

1998 - Performance/installation Words, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne.

1998 Founder, editor pauseState arts publication

1997 Performance/installation Wool mill chillybin, Kyneton Arts Crawl

Grants and Awards

2012 - Punctum Inc. Live Art Seedpod, Castlemain/Bendigo, ($2,000 as ROARAWAR

FEARTATA with Craig Peade).

2011 - Melbourne Fringe Festival Innovation in Theatre Award for "Bunny", presented by
Brisbane Powerhouse (inclusion as ROARAWAR FEARTATA with Craig Peade in the 2012
"World Theatre Festival Program" at the Brisbane Powerhouse and $2,000)

2011 - PhD Research Scholarship, Victoria University

2010 - Melbourne City Council Arts Grant ($6,800), "Lost in Transition", a series of Performance
Art and Public Space workshops for young people aged between 13 and 20, hosted by Signal
Youth Artspace, Flinders St. Station, Melbourne, commencing February, 2011.

2010 - Arts Victoria Grant ($70,000), "Aura Project", Public Art residency at Collingwood
Housing Estate.

2010 - Performance Space LiveWalk research grant ($1,000), site-specific project based in Mt.
Druitt, Sydney,commencing February 2011 and Liveworks grant ($2,000), performance "I Luv
Amanda Crowe 4Eva", November 2010 as ROARAWAR FEARTATA with Craig Peade.

2009 - Vice-chancellor's List for Academic Excellence Award, Master of Arts, RMIT University.

2009 - City of Greater Dandenong Support ($4,000), "Loose Connections", public art
residency,Dandenong.

2008 - "Outstanding Social Impact" Award, South-East Design Awards, "Loose Connections",
White Street Project, Frankston

2007 - Frankston City Council Support ($5,000), "Loose Connections", White Street Project,
Frankston.

2003 - Victoria University Student Union Grant ($3,000), "Intensive Jobmaking Assistance", Big
West Festival, Footscray.

2002 - Melbourne City Council Arts Grant ($5,000), "Obviously a Museum", Next Wave
Festival, Melbourne Museum.
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Education
2010/4 Masters-PhD Candidate, "Sublime Returns", Monash University Art and
Design Faculty
2006 First Class Honours Performance Research Project Le Petit Mort, Victoria
University
2003 - Bachelor in Arts (Performance Studies), Victoria University

Public Performances
2014 Wasted Space Victoria University Pop Up Shop and Footscray Arts Centre
2014 Fluid Fantasy - Telemachus mete and doles in the half-illumined search
engines of possibility Conduit Gallery
2014 Emerging Writers Festival & Overland Literary Journal Launch - Rev It Up! The
Literary Late Night 100 Story Building & Reverence Hotel, Footscray
2013 Fixed Human Type I & II Top Shelf Gallery
2013 Little Ladybug Forty Five Downstairs
2013 Crow Returns Harvest Festival Collingwood Housing Estate
2012 Sublime Returns Monash University Student Gallery
2012 Strange Wrestling With Badiou: From 9/11 to Bendigo, Australia and Suva, Fiji (A
Badiouian Recontextualization of ROARAWAR FEARTATA's Small Catastrophes
apropos 9/11)
University of South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.
2012 - "Small Catastrophes" Punctum Inc. Live Art Seedpod, Old Fire Station,
Bendigo
2012 Bunny Adelaide Fringe Festival
2012 - "Bunny" - World Theatre Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse
2011 - "The Crow Variations" - Coburg Train Station, Moreland Public Art Show
2011 - "Bunny" - The Tuxedo Cat, Melbourne Fringe Festival
2011 Hi God People with Slow Art Collectives Shelter, Ian Potter Gallery Mis-Design
Festival , McDonalds Collingwood Car Park
2011 Hi God People, Kings ARI
2011 Hi God People with Mexican audio visual artist Jorge Raminez
2011 Hi God People, Melbourne International Jazz Festival, Melbourne Town Hall
2011 - "Aura Project", Public Art residency at Collingwood Housing Estate, supported
by Arts Victoria
2011 - "OMFG" - Gertrude Contemporary Artspace
2011 Hi God People, Gertrude Contemporary Artspace
2010 - "I Luv Amanda Crowe 4 Eva", Liveworks, Performance Space, Sydney
2010 POPOCCCATEPTL. No Animals, Seventh Gallery
2010 Hi God People, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square
Melbourne.
2010 Hi God People, Melbourne International Jazz Festival
2010 Greater Than One CCC Inc...O0O.. (Special Deliverance), Monash
University.

2010 Karen Casey's Global Mind Project, with Jill Orr, Stelarc & Domenico Di Clario
Federation Square, Melbourne
2009 Loose Connections Greater City of Dandenong Prostrations
2009 Third Wave of Stupa Building Collaboration with Ieuan Weinman, Westspace
Gallery
2009 "Genius is Random Trash" as part of The Interventionist Guide to Melbourne,
Platform Artspace, Flinders St. Station, Melbourne
2009 Hi God People, Big Day Out, Flemington Racecourse
2008 Confess: Why Design? Design Research Institute RMIT

2008 Beyond Butoh Festival curated by Yumi Umuimare, Oki Do Centre

2008 The Uncle Vanya Project, Monash University
2008 The Impossible Shame CARNI, Preston
2008 Hi God People, Liquid Architecture, North Melbourne Town Hall
2008 To have done with the judgement of God, Melbourne Fringe Festival
2007 Reform with pvi collective. Swanston Street, Melbourne
2007 Elmo, La Mama Theatre, Melbourne
2007 - Loose Connections, White Street Project, Frankston
2007 John Cages Music Circus, BMW Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne
International Arts Festival
2007 Beyond Butoh Festival curated by Tony Yap
2007 Jill Orrs The Crossing, Mildura Arts Festival
2006 Le Petit Mort Victoria University Honours Performance Research Project,
Kindred Studios Yarraville
2006 Ghosts of the Uncivil Head, Bus Gallery
2005 Either/Or Territorial Paranoia, Victorian College of the Arts
2005 Consume with Headlines Theatre, Uniting Chursh Victoria
2005- tts:Australia with pvi collective, Gertrude Contemporary Artspaces
2005 Antonin Artauds To Have Done With The Judgment of God Strategies for
Migration Mythopeia, Angahook State Park, Airleys Inlet
2004 Phil Mintons Feral Choir, Federation Square, Melbourne International Arts
Festival
2004 Jill Orrs From the Sea , Warrnambool Victoria
2003 - Intensive Jobmaking Assistance, Centrelink, Big West Festival, Footscray
2002 Blight- No Land, No Movement Is Owned , RMIT Car Park
2002 relocated, Kensington Public Housing Estate
2001 Chunky Moves Arcade, Nicholson Building Melbourne

Grants and Awards

2012 - Punctum Inc. Live Art Seedpod, Castlemain/Bendigo, ($2,000)
2011 - Melbourne Fringe Festival Innovation in Theatre Award for "Bunny", presented
by Brisbane Powerhouse (inclusion in the 2012 "World Theatre Festival Program" at
the Brisbane Powerhouse and $2,000)
2010 - Arts Victoria Grant ($70,000), "Aura Project", Public Art residency at
Collingwood Housing Estate
2010 - Performance Space LiveWalk research grant ($1,000), site-specific project
based in Mt. Druitt, Sydney, commencing February 2011 and Liveworks grant
($2,000), performance "I Luv Amanda Crowe 4Eva", November 2010.
2009 - City of Greater Dandenong Support ($4,000), "Loose Connections", public art
residency, Dandenong
2008 - "Outstanding Social Impact" Award, South-East Design Awards, "Loose
Connections", White Street Project, Frankston
2007 - Frankston City Council Support ($5,000), "Loose Connections", White Street
Project, Frankston
2006 Certified Outstanding Achievement in Research for Highest 1st Class Honours
(90%) across the board of the whole entire Victoria University
2003 - Victoria University Student Union Grant ($3,000), "Intensive Jobmaking
Assistance", Big West Festival, Footscray