Temperance Hall

14/10/2025

If you are hoping to catch .rosenfeld while they are in Melbourne/Narrm, here is your schedule.

Wednesday 15 October, 6pm
Q***R PUBLICATIONS: APHIDs x Temperance Hall
Launch of João Florêncio and Liz Rosenfeld’s Crossings: Creative Ecologies of Cruising
Q&A with Berlin based artist Liz Rosenfeld facilitated by Frances Barrett
Location: Collingwood Yards Level 2 Perry St Building, studios 6, 7 & 8:
Tickets: Free, RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScafkDjmRxUgt2GBlptcGW5PSjzA9uIXbdm3KuDpn7YUS0PzQ/viewform

Friday 17 October, 7.30pm
I LIVE IN A HOUSE WITH A DOOR
A performance work exploring the material of flesh through a narrative of cruising, erotic potential, environmental futures and discursive time.
Created and performed by: Liz Rosenfeld
Friday's performance is followed by a Q&A with the artist facilitated by Brooke Stamp
Location: Temperance Hall, 199 Napier St South Melbourne
Tickets: $20-$25, via this link: https://events.humanitix.com/temper-2-liz-rosenfeld-presents-i-live-in-a-house-with-a-door

Friday 24 October, 6-9pm
TREMBLE
Flutter. Shutter. Quiver. Throb. Vibrations oscillate between all the holes and all the folds. Exposed under full house lights, a lone body trembles with the architecture of an empty darkroom.
Tremble is an immersive three hour performance, where audience are invited to roam, cruise around, come in and out, and tremble along with us if they are moved to do so.
Created and Performed by: Liz Rosenfeld and Narrm/Melbourne based performers to be announced
Location: Temperance Hall, 199 Napier St South Melbourne
Tickets: by donation: https://events.humanitix.com/temper-2-liz-rosenfeld-presents-tremble

Liz Bio

Liz Rosenfeld is a Berlin/ London based interdisciplinary artist and educator who works with performance,moving images, drawing and experimental writing practices. Liz addresses the sustainability of emotional and political ecologies, cruising methodologies, past and future histories in regard to the ways in which memory is q***red. Liz's work deals with flesh as a non-binary collaborative material, specifically focussing on the potentiality of physical abundance and excess, edging questions regarding the responsibility and privilege of taking up space. Embracing an auto- theoretical style, Liz's writing is rooted in questions that contend with how q***r ontologies are grounded in variant hypocritical desire(s.)

Image credit I live in a house with a door: Akseli Muraja
Image credit Tremble: Fenia Kotsopoula
Image credit Artist Headshot: Chirsta Holka

30/09/2025

Flutter. Shutter. Quiver. Throb. Vibrations oscillate between all the holes and all the folds. Exposed under full house lights, a lone body trembles with the architecture of an empty darkroom. The video component of this work was shot during the COVID-19 lockdown, in the shutdown darkroom of one of Berlin’s oldest gay cruising bars. Through tableaus of nuanced movement, the artist's body proposes an ambiguous future towards abundance and desire. Skin and flesh palpitate with unknown anticipation against porous materials soaked with stale fluids, ghostly utterances, and q***r potentials. This is not a memorial to what was once possible, but rather, a proposal to what this space can still become. Always an infinite hole. Always a threshold. The vibrant material of fat and flesh rock in service to ecologies and bodies not yet known.

Tremble is an immersive three hour performance, where audience are invited to roam, cruise around, come in and out, and tremble along with us if they are moved to do so.

CREATED AND PERFORMED by Liz Rosenfeld
Liz is calling for performers for this work – express your interest before Sunday 5 October: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeXEFvzxIgC0iyEfyiR5xlorTzwFG0BqOXPjtfPcR0rS9g-Ew/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=114048670017417178534

PERFORMANCE DATE
Friday 24th October 6-9pm

LOCATION
Temperance Hall, Main Hall
199 Napier Street, South Melbourne

CONTENT WARNING
Nudity, sexual content

ACCESSIBILITY
Wheelchair accessible

TICKETS
Ticket by donation: https://events.humanitix.com/temper-2-liz-rosenfeld-presents-tremble

Liz Rosenfeld is a Temperance Hall TEMPER Artist for 2025

TEMPER is supported by Creative Australia, the Australian Government's principal arts investment and advisory body.

Photo by Fenia Kotsopoulou

23/09/2025

After a tremendous inaugural program in 2025, the Temperance Hall Front Studio Residency is returning in 2026.

Across the calendar year, Temperance Hall is pleased to offer six 2-month studio residencies in our newly refurbished Front Studio.

Thanks to generous seed funding from private supporters of Temperance Hall, as well as support from the City of Port Phillip, we will be offering six choreographic artists studio residencies across 2026, providing exclusive access to our Front Studio, in addition to a minimum* $2K stipend and photography documentation.

The Front Studio is a 5x7m private studio space with polished wooden floors and optional tarkett. Artists will be given a key to the building, and offered exclusive, unrestricted access 7 days/week for 2 months.

The residency will culminate in a public outcome self-determined by the artist in consultation with Temperance Hall. This will serve as an occasion to share your research, and gather community at Temperance Hall.

We are seeking to support independent choreographic/ dance/ interdisciplinary/experimental performance artists who will use the space to develop their practice. We encourage applications from First Nations, CALD, Deaf or Disabled, and LGBTQIA+ artists. Individuals and collectives can apply.

EOIs OPEN Tuesday 22 September
EOIs CLOSE Sunday 26 October, midnight
OUTCOMES mid-late November

We anticipate many more worthy applicants than the six spaces available.

Please contact [email protected] with any questions or access requests.

Submit your EOI: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf1VjCaZ6VSyZoRGqciqZQ9PAcHAFMHNAnXmT7M0cK9kk8Obw/viewformhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf1VjCaZ6VSyZoRGqciqZQ9PAcHAFMHNAnXmT7M0cK9kk8Obw/viewform

23/09/2025

TEMPER #2: Liz Rosenfeld presents I live in a house with a door

"I live in a house with a door" is a performance work exploring the material of flesh through a narrative of cruising, erotic potential, environmental futures and discursive time.

Rosenfeld explores their flesh as a collaborative material moving in its own time and space. Through dancing with breath and flesh, Rosenfeld culminates this experience with a science-fiction text, where they implicate themself in an erotic cruising scene with an invisible gas called the Shimmer. The Shimmer effects both the physicality and emotionality of their relationship to flesh as material, while also implicating bodies of flesh in questions of climate change, natural disasters, and q***r sexuality. Through this work, Rosenfeld arrives at the realisation of their non-binary identity through the materiality of their body, rather than through the marker of her gender. In a resistant relationship to metaphor, Rosenfeld collaborates and experiments with their own flesh and the possibilities it presents within its own autonomy and rhythm. In this dialogue with matter, they pose questions of assumption and responsibility regarding environmental shifts, while also offering a body of excess, their own flesh, as an alternative energy source for a future. The title for this work references the text, Time is a thing a body moves through by T Fleischmann.

CREATED & PERFORMED BY Liz Rosenfeld
With an excerpt from the short film " What's at the Bottom?" by Liz rosenfeld, featuring the voice of Jón Albert Méndez

PERFORMANCE DATE
Friday 17 Oct, 7.30pm

TICKETS
$25 Full
$20 Conc

Book here: https://events.humanitix.com/temper-2-liz-rosenfeld-presents-i-live-in-a-house-with-a-door

Image credit Akseli Muraja
rosenfeld

19/09/2025

08/09/2025

In the Mood for Deanne Butterworth's emerald precision.

A cinematic struggle of quick nerve fibres vs. Wong Kar-wai tableaux, captured by

Front Studio Residency showing of new work in development: "When it is Finished" at Temperance Hall, 5th September, 2025.

22/08/2025

Final night of Frankie No. 1 by Martin Hansen - for Temperance Hall’s TEMPER program.

Like feeling the texture of something through a glove, Frankie NO.1 frames the body as the imperfect and troubled mediator of emotions. Hansen acts as a conduit for a tentative offering, an unfolding of figures and fragments of dance, utterance, affect and tune.

Do not miss this richly textured work captured by

15/08/2025

Frankie NO.1 by Martin Hansen is showing for three nights only, next week at Temperance Hall

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

$15

Like feeling the texture of something through a glove

Book now!

Thursday night's showing will be followed by a Q&A facilitated by Sarah Aiken

08/08/2025

Current Front Studio Resident Deanne Butterworth presents "When it is Finished," a work-in-progress showing.

7pm, Friday 5th September.

When it is Finished connects two periods of residency taken one year apart. It reflects upon a period of solo working at DESA Indonesia (April 2024) and material from the current Front Studio Residency at Temperance Hall. These two vastly different places allow for the emergence of a logic over time and a side-by-side display of embodied knowledge. It is both a review of stored material and dance emerging from the present moment.

There will be an installation of screen-based work in Front Studio, followed by a 30-minute performance in the Main Hall.

When: 7pm, Friday 5th September

Where: Temperance Hall, Main Hall

Free, booking required via link in bio.

Deanne Butterworth is a Temperance Hall Front Studio Resident for 2025.

The Front Studio Residency has been supported by the Neilson Foundation, the City of Port Phillip, the Palais Theatre Community Fund, private donors and the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

28/07/2025

Martin Hansen presents "Frankie NO.1"

Frankie NO.1 is the first iteration in a series on grief and the body. Frankie NO.1 thinks of choreography as speculation, an open question.

Like feeling the texture of something through a glove, Frankie NO.1 frames the body as the imperfect and troubled mediator of emotion. Hansen acts as a conduit for a tentative offering, an unfolding of figures and fragments of dance, utterance, affect and tune.

Looking at grief as taboo and as monstrous, Frankie NO.1 emerges in the body of the dancer, before etching a story of monstrous grief from the world of Romantic literature toward today. Resembling a Frankenstein lecture performance, an assemblage of effected parts is sewn together through association, through digression. Frankie NO.1 uses performance to search for a moment that is porous and leaky, where meaning can be complicated, unfinished, frayed, a conduit performance in hope of transgressions which may spill forth, come to, and awaken, again.

CHOREOGRAPHY & PERFORMANCE by Martin Hansen
SOUND by James Rushford

PERFORMANE DATES
7pm, Wednesday 20th, Thursday 21st, Friday 22nd August, 2025

Martin Hansen is a choreographer and artist working primarily in theatre and gallery contexts. In their practice, archives in the form of photography, film, video and GIF collections are used to critically explore memory and time, with ghosts recurring as generative figures upon which works are built. Since 2015, Martin’s solos and group works have been presented at venues such as Tanzfabrik, Sophiensaele, Radialsystem and Bärenzwinger (Berlin), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Rencontre Chorégraphique Internationales De Seine Saint Denis (Paris), Charleroi Danse and KANAL Centre Pompidou (Brussels), Hong Kong Arts Festival (Hong Kong), Dance Massive, Dancehouse, Frame Biennial (Melbourne), Aerowaves (Aarhus), and Carriageworks (Sydney).

TEMPER is a new program inviting 3 choreographic artists/collaborations to develop and show new choreographic work at Temperance Hall, while in residence on-site in the Apartment Studio.

TEMPER is supported by Creative Australia, the Australian Government's principal arts investment and advisory body.

25/07/2025

Announcing: TEMPER

Testing 1, 2, 3.

MARTIN HANSEN / LIZ ROSENFELD / JULIET WIDYASARI BURNETT & ISHVARA DEVATI

Come to Temperance Hall for 3 new experimental performance seasons by visiting artists, this August, October and November.

TEMPER is a new program inviting 3 choreographic artists/collaborations to develop and show new work at Temperance Hall, while in residence on-site in the Apartment Studio.

Bringing experimental, radical…
art/
work/
ideas/
experiences/
research/
perspectives/
practices/
dances
…from farther afield to share with local audiences at Temperance Hall.

TEMPER [Testing…]
#1 MARTIN HANSEN (MELBOURNE/BERLIN): AUGUST
#2 LIZ ROSENFELD (BERLIN/LONDON): OCTOBER
#3 JULIET WIDYASARI BURNETT (GOLD COAST) & ISHVARA DEVATI (JAKARTA): NOVEMBER

TEMPER is supported by Creative Australia, the Australian Government's principal arts investment and advisory body.

09/07/2025

THIS SUNDAY! Can you help us literally reassemble Temperance Hall?

Our Winter Working Bee will be focused on sprucing up the Apartment Studio, painting the Main Hall floors, tidying up the gardens and courtyard, and generally giving the place a once over.

How the day will run:
11:00-12:00pm — Registration + tea & coffee + assign team leaders & groups
12:00-4:00pm — "You Better Work"
4:00-6:00pm — Kick back and relax with a glass of mulled wine | Social Hour

Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSecFoMCu6PjkdFMP6ZdDAKIJdAr-syTiyGVvjJLplgYoPShXA/viewform

Or via link in bio.