Curly Fernandez is an Australian Performance artist with Indian and Portuguese ancestry. His work combines disruptive art with social experiments that are incendiary, experiential and provocative explorations of humanity. Initallly trained as an actor he has worked on soaps, as a tv presenter and online platforms. He has also trained in Performance Making in Site Specific Works at Swinburne University.
Curly leads the Artistic Body that is The Leftovers Collective. They have been commissioned by The Museum of Contemporary Art (2018), The Powerhouse Museum (2017), Mardi Gras (2018) and Sydney Opera House (2017). The company has won 4 awards last year from Suzy Go See in the avant-garde category for their site specific work Bluebeard in Bondi Mens Change room for 2017. Also the Sydney Morning Herald acclaimed Encounter My Heart as critics choice in April 2017.
The City of Sydney have commissioned 3 Experiments for 2018
His core philosophy with his arts practice is liberation from fear. All the works central themes are revolved around his personal, contemporary fears.
Audiences take on the role of the artist. It is a reversal of traditional structure of passive observation. You are given opportunity to be freed of your personal artistic expectation. The audience are the artwork and the 'show' begins once you leave the space, the conversations you have dissecting what you saw and felt. The works are participatory giving you a safe place to experience your true creative anarchy, exploring personal beliefs and values in a safe, supported non judgemental space, importantly regardless of societal moral norms.
The artworks created are participatory in lively and entertaining ways, with empowerment skewed towards the audience.
The works are dependent on the audience there are many possible thread narratives that can occur depending on your moral and political beliefs.
The Artists’s within the Leftovers Collective include identification crossing Race, Accessibility, Diversity, Binary and non Binary specificity, Age, Queer, Aboriginality, Acessibility as well as experience.
Curly’s influences are the Dadaist Movement (Dadisimo), Chiara Guidi, Mike Parr, Lurtja storytelling, Matthew Barney, Marina Abramovic, Jean Baudrillard, Charlie Chaplin, Krusty and Michel Foucault.
For Performance artistry | testimonials see TALK in navigation menu
As a teaching artist Curly is a specialist creator in hybrid drama techniques, weaving Literacy, leadership and visual arts for Young People to unleash creativity through Play Theory and Artistic Anarchy. Notably he works with young people with Refugee status, English as a second language, Indigenous youth and Queer youth, giving these young people confidence and freedom to penetrate the world regardless of societal rules and norms. This work has done through cultural youth institutes such as Australian Theatre for Young People, Poetry In Action, The Arts Unit, Bell Shakespeare and previously The Multicultural Playwrights course.
x All Hail Your Magnificence x
Curly leads the Artistic Body that is The Leftovers Collective. They have been commissioned by The Museum of Contemporary Art (2018), The Powerhouse Museum (2017), Mardi Gras (2018) and Sydney Opera House (2017). The company has won 4 awards last year from Suzy Go See in the avant-garde category for their site specific work Bluebeard in Bondi Mens Change room for 2017. Also the Sydney Morning Herald acclaimed Encounter My Heart as critics choice in April 2017.
The City of Sydney have commissioned 3 Experiments for 2018
His core philosophy with his arts practice is liberation from fear. All the works central themes are revolved around his personal, contemporary fears.
Audiences take on the role of the artist. It is a reversal of traditional structure of passive observation. You are given opportunity to be freed of your personal artistic expectation. The audience are the artwork and the 'show' begins once you leave the space, the conversations you have dissecting what you saw and felt. The works are participatory giving you a safe place to experience your true creative anarchy, exploring personal beliefs and values in a safe, supported non judgemental space, importantly regardless of societal moral norms.
The artworks created are participatory in lively and entertaining ways, with empowerment skewed towards the audience.
The works are dependent on the audience there are many possible thread narratives that can occur depending on your moral and political beliefs.
The Artists’s within the Leftovers Collective include identification crossing Race, Accessibility, Diversity, Binary and non Binary specificity, Age, Queer, Aboriginality, Acessibility as well as experience.
Curly’s influences are the Dadaist Movement (Dadisimo), Chiara Guidi, Mike Parr, Lurtja storytelling, Matthew Barney, Marina Abramovic, Jean Baudrillard, Charlie Chaplin, Krusty and Michel Foucault.
For Performance artistry | testimonials see TALK in navigation menu
As a teaching artist Curly is a specialist creator in hybrid drama techniques, weaving Literacy, leadership and visual arts for Young People to unleash creativity through Play Theory and Artistic Anarchy. Notably he works with young people with Refugee status, English as a second language, Indigenous youth and Queer youth, giving these young people confidence and freedom to penetrate the world regardless of societal rules and norms. This work has done through cultural youth institutes such as Australian Theatre for Young People, Poetry In Action, The Arts Unit, Bell Shakespeare and previously The Multicultural Playwrights course.
x All Hail Your Magnificence x