Deeply Hanging Out: Curious Glitch

In 2025, we held the first Deeply Hanging Out performance workshop, gathered under the banner of Push/Pull, where participants shared and explored ideas together on one day, and performed new performances the next day at our Deeply Hanging Out performance event.

To kick off 2026, we’re holding another Deeply Hanging Out performance workshop, immediately before our Collaborating with Machines event, offering an opportunity for some workshop performances to be shared.

Here are some of the questions that will guide us:

If we are already machinic, what programs are running in the background? What ideas, norms or assumptions might have been installed without our consent or knowledge - before we had the tools to question them? Can we find, in the company of others, a collective ritual for de-programming? Is it possible to unlearn our bio-algorithms, and perform a human reboot?

Participants can respond to themes around machinic consciousness, curiosity and the idea of more-than-humanity. We invite you to consider the body not just as a vessel, but as a system, and an interface. This is a space to prototype, rehearse, listen, glitch, collaborate, and see what emerges when bodies, sounds, and systems collide.

Feature Image: 'Push / Pull' – 'Deeply Hanging Out: Day 2 – Performance’ (2025), event documentation, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental. Photography by Morgan Sette.