JON ROSE – THE MUSEUM GOES LIVE – the Violin Museum that messes with your mind!
EXHIBITION
Thursday 27 October – 6 November 2016, 10am – 6pm
PERFORMANCES
Thu 27 – Sun 30 October 2016, 6:30pm featuring Jon Rose & Ensemble Offspring
Wed 2 – Sat 5 November 2016, 6:30pm* featuring Jon Rose, Tess de Quincey, Clayton Thomas, Robbie Avenaim and Alister Spence.
part of LIVEWORKS
PERFORMANCE SPACE at CARRIAGEWORKS
For the first time in Australia The Museum Goes Live is an exhibition and live performance series celebrating the distinctive, ground-breaking vision of audio pioneer, violinist, composer, artist, inventor and writer JON ROSE through his own Rosenberg Museum. Housing over 800 artefacts of violin iconography, it is a cabinet of curiosities highlighting violin stories that are musically perverse, historically twisted or culturally critical.
Amongst the collection is featured a robot violin played live by Wall Street Traders, a player piano transcription of a Las Vegas casino, a bowing machine, an automatic string quartet, a plethora of home-made instruments, a musical coffin, and violin iconography that is profound, humorous, bent, and often transgressively challenging.
BOOKINGS
Entrance is FREE but space is limited so BOOKINGS ARE ESSENTIAL for the eight performance nights (2 different shows) featuring an expanded Ensemble Offspring and dancer Tess de Quincey.
This project is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.
