She Rested

She Rested is a concert and a ritual, a story and a song.

Drawn from her real-life experiences of motherhood, She Rested is a work by performer-composer Aimée Falzon, with collaborators S. Shakthidharan and Eddie Abd. 

She Rested remembers that the parent is also born with the child. It reveals how ushering in and nurturing a new life also become acts of obliteration, transformation and rebirth for the parent — whether they like it or not. 

Bearing witness to this transformation, the work blends mythology with domestic life, live music with storytelling, contemporary feminism with the goddesses of all our pasts. She Rested documents the rite of passage new mothers go through, which is too often unrecognised or made invisible. This performance-ritual welcomes the new person that emerges through the fire.

Residency: 12-23 August 2024

Aimée Falzon will be developing the work in a residency at Utp that culminates in a showing.

DEVELOPMENT SHOWING

Date: Friday 23 August

Time: 2-4pm (including post-show conversation) 

Location: RS1, 5 Olympic Parade, Bankstown

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Artist Biography:

Aimée Falzon (she/they) is a composer, singer, music producer and performer. Aimée mixes Maltese, Scottish and Libyan blood. She grew up amongst the hills of remote NSW, singing to cattle, getting lost in the bush and riding her horse across the gullies to her grandparents' – where she would sing in their madrigals choir and learn to play piano. 

Aimée now calls Wangal land home – Western Sydney. She misses the wild. Her voice grew out of those hills and now, you can almost taste the yearning and longing for that home in her voice.

Aimée was raised by the bush, a misanthrope and a space alien and now that Aimée has made some small humans with her body and discovered she’s actually neurodivergent she is understanding and learning much.

Aimée’s music has been described as haunting, fervent, cinematic and ethereal. Her varied experience in the arts brings a holistic and intersectional approach to her music making.

Aimée is currently developing her debut full-length album, featuring collaborating musicians from Australia and Singapore, which will launch late this year.Aimée’s musical composition/performance and sound design credits include: Karim for National Theatre of Parramatta in 2024, 宿 (stay) for Sydney Festival 2022, Juxta EARTH interactive installation in Bankstown Biennale, Nothing for National Theatre of Parramatta in 2023, Sex, Drugs and Pork Rolls with Utp and Sweatshop for Sydney Festival 2021, When The Tide Comes In (2016), a series of audiovisual performances at Carriageworks, Riverside Theatres and then online; Rizzy’s 18th Birthday at Carriageworks, which was adapted into feature film Riz that premiered at Sydney International Film Festival (2015); and outdoor live art work The Other Journey at Parramasala Festival and Ten Days on the Island Festival in Tasmania (2013). In the latter three works she was also the production designer and visual artist. 

PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERS

This project is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.