Dependent Independents is a work of performance-in-research that calls out not only the performative tropes of research but also those of any independent practice at large, both of w/c deploy & are immersed in the vocabulary of administration.
A 3-week creative-research residency at Campbelltown Arts Center in Australia is spent filling up the 3-week duration w/ exchanges among artist-administrators that unveil the very conditions that sustain & make possible such a 3-week residency among various residencies in the world of variable durations w/c subsist on a growing economy of cultural exchange & the accumulation of social capital.
In residency is Filipino choreographer-curator Donna Miranda, joined by Filipino poet-critic Angelo V. Suarez, to discuss w/ Australian dance artists Dean Walsh, Nikki Heywood, Matt Day, Sam Chester, & Alexandra Harrison the material conditions that necessitate the construction of a site of/for art-making that characterizes itself as "independent"--a process that inadvertently produces new modes of dependence on institutions that project themselves as less institutional & more nomadic.
