Gabriella Imrichova works with the medium of live performance across theatre, visual arts, and dance. Their practice is first and foremost concerned with performance as an epistemic form—investigating the conditions of live performance itself: what happens in the room between audience, performer, and situation before anything else is imposed. By stripping back and withholding the usual coordinates for encountering a live performance work, they explore how perception, attention, and meaning operate, and how these things can be manipulated on a structural level for the viewer.
Gabriella is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts with a BFA in Theatre (2019). Their work sits within the city’s lineage of critically rigorous experimentation and has been recently presented at Dancehouse, Performance Space (Sydney), Temperance Hall, and Gertrude Contemporary for Contact High, with residencies at Bundanon and the ATLAS scholarship at ImPulsTanz (Vienna). They are currently the Front Studio Resident at Temperance Hall, where their research extends into the symbolic order— exploring it as an infrastructural code to be mapped, hacked, and reconfigured for performance.