STEPHEN BAIN
live performance maker
April 2024 - New videos for experimental dance music ensemble Fertility Festival, Smash Hit directed & edited by Stephen Bain, Desert Vision featuring Tejo van Shie both now live, listen and buy the album here.
Mar 2024 - FestivalOFA has announced dates (22 - 24 March), a community-based festival of experimental arts, images and video to come.
Mar 2024 - Wellington theatre writer David O'Donnell thoughtfully discusses The Drifting Room for The Theatre Times website.
Feb 2024 - The Drifting Room is at Performance Arcade in Pōneke Wellington from 22 - 26 Feb, including discussion with Melody Nixon about the project.
Feb 2024 - a new performance for wireless headphones premiered at the Aotearoa International Festival of Secret Sounds. This collaboration with Marija Dimitrijevic includes audience participation. Here's a short clip from the performance without transmitted sound (heard only through headphones), there'll be a longer video with sound coming.
Nov 2023 - The Null Island performance series at Auckland Old Folks Ass hall in Newton features a line-up of three duets performing together for the first time. Don't miss Everything I Inherited on 25 Nov.
Sept 2023 - One night only performance of Welcome to Null Island, a collaboration with artist Gabriel White, at Old Folks Ass hall in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
June 2023 - Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design & Space is now on. Visit The Drifting Room at National Gallery Prague 8 - 18 June. If you're in town book now to participate in a drift, or visit the exhibition page. For more information on The Drifting Room project, go to Art & Performance page.
Oct 2022 - Thanks for coming to the Pyramid Club show in Wellington recently. Gabriel White and myself will be presenting a new performance at Old Folks Hall in Auckland on 8 Dec - the evening will be shared with Belgian choreographer Meyhal Blanaru in her solo show Rain.
The beginning of the month we took The Drifting Room to be part in the Whangarei Fringe Festival.
New Videos out soon - I've been working with musician Jeff Henderson, directing and editing The Garrulous Sax working with animator Nestor Muresan, and Fertility Festival's aptly named SMASH HIT. Release dates immanent.