Curated by Sarah Tomasetti, this exhibition brings together ten established artists with diverse forms of practice that engage plants, video, sound, movement, painting, drawing and installation.

Artists are: Heather Hesterman, Adam Lee, Louise Weaver, Dominic Redfern, Harry Nankin, Chris Bond, Peter Ellis, Mark Newbound, Live Particle (Camilla Maling & Angela Clarke) and Sarah Tomasetti . These artists have been working together with an academic group on the project “Spiritual Understanding in a Secular Age: Engaging Art as Religious Ritual”, funded by the Templeton Religion Trust. Accompanying them were Yolngu artist Djirrirra Wunnumarra and emerging artist Uma Christensen.

We are also offering a public session

Soma Scores - somewhere between workshop and performance

Sat 11th March, 3-4pm
Engage in solo/group inquiry and composition with Live Particle using their unique sensory objects to generate embodied experiences within the gallery setting.

Take moving, sonic, tactile time with us to roam your soma & develop an embodied practice. Immerse in a live soundscape and play with embodiment tools, theory and processes. Inspire shape shifting & state shifting as you work at your own pace & tap the many dimensions of your embodied life.

Would you like to…

• Settle your nervous system?

• Spend less time ‘in your head’ and more time ‘in your body’?

• Improve your coordination and move freely?

• Experience how your voice can reach spaces you can’t touch?

• Activate your creativity?

• Have a break from projecting and worrying?

• Improve your sleep?

COST: $30 single class / $150 block of 6 classes
WHEN: Wed 26 October, 2022 - Wed 30 November 2022, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
WHERE: Live Particle Studio - Divine Dundas, 217 Dundas St, Preston VIC 3072

Join us for our in-person class (10 ppl max) Wednesdays 6:00pm - 7:30pm

The Mindful Art Project encourages participants to connect with artworks and the present moment in quiet, playful and imaginative ways to improve their mental health and wellbeing.

 3 OCT 2022 — 5 OCT 2022

The Mindful Art project invites you into playful happenings, imaginative possibilities, and silent exchanges with artworks. Encounters like these can uplift and improve your mental health and wellbeing.

Drawing on art therapy and facilitated by practising artist/educators Live Particle (Angela Clarke & Camilla Maling), this project will contribute to improvements in wellbeing, belonging and inclusion. The Mindful Art Project uses the RMIT cultural collections and pieces that resonate with mindful moving and meditation practices.

This is a co-curated event with 5 RMIT student collaborators. There are 6 public workshops during The Big Anxiety at the RMIT Gallery.

Art, play and mindfulness for a post-pandemic recovery. Public workshops run by artists during exhibition season.

19 Aug 2022 - 08 Oct 2022
FREE

The Children’s Sensorium is an interactive exhibition featuring light, colour, touch, sound, smell and taste to activates children’s curiosity, connect them to local Kulin country, and introduce strategies and techniques that support emotional resilience and wellbeing.
Part of The Big Anxiety Festival @ RMIT

Live Particle’s Public Workshop

MOVE, SOUND, TOUCH, PLAY
Live Particle use carefully selected sensory objects and tools as entry points into embodied play: moving, vocalising, imagining, mindful touch and tactile resistance. The strategies are experiential, often non-verbal and provide creative strategies to manage physical and mental wellbeing. 

Growing embodied awareness for deeper connections

Tuesday Mornings, Term 2, 2022
DATES: 18th May - 21st June
TIME: 7:15am- 8:00am AEDT

Take moving, sonic, tactile time with us on a weekly basis to roam your soma and develop an embodied practice. Shape a different kind of living and learning. Take time for self-care, step away from things for a short time and check-in with yourself - particularly during lockdown.

Do you want to…

• Settle your nervous system?

• Listen closely to your Intuition?

• Move more freely?

• Give yourself a break from projecting and worrying about what could happen?  

• Activate your creativity?

• Have more choice in how you pay attention and what you pay attention to? 

• Grow your mojo?

• Spend less time ‘in your head’ and more time ‘in your body’?

• Be less governed by time?

• Become absorbed in the things you love?

• Be able to actively shift your state anytime you like?

Embodied Practice is a visceral, mobile, sensory experience. It’s about paying attention, becoming absorbed and feeling more connected. We hold a loose structure, drop in ideas and offer physical tools to inspire some shape shifting and state shifting. You work at your own pace - move, sense, explore, sound, play and tap the many dimensions of your embodied life. 

Come join us - we look forward to spending time with you.

WHERE:
LIVE IN-PERSON & ONLINE
Live Particle Studio - 217 Dundas St, Preston 3072

WHEN:
Wednesdays 6.00-7:30pm

PRICE:  
Single: come as you please - $30
Block: 6 sessions - $150

“Embodied Practice has a key role to play in re-patterning values, beliefs and behaviours and consciously rebuilding connections. Paying attention, becoming absorbed and feeling more connected helps us to actively care for ourselves, others and our environments.” ~ Live Particle

Attention training for the multi-sensory human.

CANCELLED due to COVID-19 Crisis

Fortnightly on Friday mornings 10am - 12pm
Only 6 places per session - Must book in advance via email

Dates: 24th April, 8th May, 22nd May, 5th June, 19th June

Join us for a 2 hour session to learn and practise your sensory attunement capacity.

The LP attunement LAB Series is professional development for practitioners in the arts, sciences, health and education. Opportunities to train your multi-sensory intelligence are limited. Held at our Dundas Street studio, these performative experiences will be immersive and multi-modal. Through movement, sound and touch you will be supported in a safe environment to build multi-sensory skills that can be applied in your personal, professional and community spheres.

You are a creative Engine. Join us in this immersive performative experience. This compelling multi-sensory experience aims to cultivate your embodied intelligence. Play at the interface of art and education to resource your creativity, confidence and embodied dexterity through somatic practices, movement-based activities, improvisation techniques and physical learning tools.

Cultivate a heightened sense of awareness that is different to ordinary awareness.

Fielding concerns the role of sound in the greening of urban spaces and how this can impact the well-being of people, animals and plants in the urban environment.

Live Particle have a sonic work - From The Stillness, in a collaborative science project funded by an ARC Linkage Grant entitled Designing Green Spaces for Biodiversity and Human Well-Being. The project is conducted by scientist Sarah Bekessy and her team at Sustainability and Urban Planning RMIT University.

Clarke & Maling's work is part of Fielding - a sound art research collaboration between Catherine Clover & Jordan Lacey that forms the creative sonic component of Bekessy's research.

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There's still time to visit the installation:
RMIT University city campus. The Sunken Courtyard is on the east side of the campus, close to Russell Street and along north wall of the old Melbourne gaol. Accessible 24 hours, sound runs from 8am-9pm daily. Map to the courtyard here.

We are delighted to be presenting in this symposium on the art of embodiment at Abbotsford Convent...

Live Particle: Somatics and Creativity

Imagine learning as a live performative event… explore your poly-intelligence, attune to experience differently, inhabit different states, map your learning through the visceral, indulge creative impulses and perhaps even visit remarkable embodied dimensions. 

In this workshop, artists & educators Maling and Clarke explore the synergies between their work. Maling’s Adventures in the Field - a process of experiencing & mapping embodied intelligence meets Clarke’s PhD Wild Life: The lived experience of artistic creativity, and a new artistic enterprise ‘Live Particle’ has emerged.

Symposium details