PIMPISA TINPALIT SILENCE #1.5
Thursday 4th Feb - Sat 27th March 2021

LIVE performance by Pimpisa Tinpalit + Yumi Umiumare 
Saturday 13 March 2021 at 2:00 pm.
Performance Silence #1.5:The Beauty in Death.

Death is not the end but a transformation to a new beginning. Not as a result of life's frustrations but as a transition from this life into the next. From mortality into immortality. This performance is a healing to those who regard death as the unlovable sting. Performance Silence #1.5 is a philosophical study of mindfulness that all metaphysical conditions co-exist, and that death can provide a beautiful insight to understand and appreciate life.

Free event but bookings are essential.

YUMI UMIUMARE
Born in Hyogo, Japan, Yumi is an established Butoh Dancer and choreographer and creator of Butoh Cabaret works.She has been creating her distinctive style of works for 30 years and her works are renowned for provoking visceral emotions and cultural identities. Yumi’s works have been seen in numerous festivals in dance, theatre and film productions throughout Australia, Japan, Europe, New Zealand, South East Asia and South America, and have received several Australian Green Room awards.Her own major production’s credits include DasSHOKU Butoh cabaret series (1999-2014), EnTrance(2009-2012) and PopUp Tearoom series and now creating a new show DasSHOKU TeaParTEA! .As a choreographer, Yumi has worked with many socially engaged theatre projects, with Australian indiginous communities, Asylum seekers and refugee communities, culturally diverse groups and inclusive dance and theatre companies. Yumi is a recipient of a fellowship from Australia Council (2015-16) and the winner of the Green Room Geoffrey Milne Memorial Award in 2017 in recognition of her outstanding contribution to Contemporary and Experimental Performance. Yumi is an artistic director of ButohOUT! Festival, activating local and international Butoh communities in Melbourne and teaches nationally and internationally.
www.yumi.com.au 

PIMPISA TINPALIT
A Thai-born Australian artist, Pimpisa works within mental and physical themes of captivity and freedom, Pimpisa challenges the notions of free will and determinism through her figurative artworks with a focus on sculpture and installation. Pimpisa explores and answers questions relating to a person's free will or at times, challenges what it is to have free will through the use of antonyms to suggest otherwise. Originally from Thailand, Pimpisa has a Master's Degree in Fine Art from Silpakorn University in Bangkok,Thailand and lectured for four years in Fine Art. With over eighteen years as a professional artist, Pimpisa has exhibited worldwide including Thailand, Japan, Singapore, USA, Korea, Hong Kong and Australia with her work held in public and private collections Arriving in Melbourne in 2009, Pimpisa has embedded herself into the Australian art scene with successful and widely acclaimed shows. In 2016 she founded BlackCat Gallery, Collingwood, where she is the current Director and curator www.pimpisatinpalit.com