Estado De Asamblea (State of Assembly)

The Biennale of Sydney is on the look-out for volunteer female and gender-non-confirming participants for a performance assembly. More than just an audience, the participants of Argentine artist Gabriela Golder's Estado De Asamblea (State of Assembly), taking place 1-4pm 7 June 2026 at Marrickville Town Hall, are invited to witness, contribute, and engage with a lively political debate grounded in feminist perspectives touching on some of the most significant global issues of our times.

Golder’s project is part performance, part civic ritual; bringing together an assembly of women and gender-non-conforming people to critique systems of oppression, primarily as they relate to women and gender diverse folks’ political sovereignty and autonomy, and collectively vision a better future.

The assembly requires democratic participation including audience members taking the floor and responding to items in the discussion, as well as voting on the resolutions put forward by the collective. Whilst everyone is welcome to attend the artist respectfully requests contributions to discussion and votes on resolutions to be reserved for women and gender-non-conforming folks.

Topics of discussion include but are not limited to:

Territory, Colonialism, and Sovereignty
Patriarchal Violence and Control of Bodies
Labour Rights, Precarity and Cost of Living

Volunteer participants are simply required to attend on the day (1pm, 7 June 2026) ready and willing to engage with the Assembly. No prior preparation is required.

Gabriela Golder and the Biennale of Sydney would love to hear from you. Please register your interest below for updates and to help shape the topics the assembly will discuss.

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Estado De Asamblea (State of Assembly) will be a structured assembly comprised of a series of discussions of key topics. Each topic will be allocated a set time and introduced by a key speaker before contributions are opened to the assembly floor.

The assembly will be guided by a professional moderator and contributions recorded by an official notary. Between discussions the topics will be punctuated by performances of feminist protest music sung by the Sydney Philharmonia Choir.

In the spirit of collective action the assembly will also put forward motions to be voted on by the collective.

Why do you want to participate in this Assembly, and what concerns or issues would you bring to the Assembly for discussion?

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Please attach a short video (30 - 60 seconds maximum) outlining a topic or concern you feel should be addressed in the Assembly.* (Optional)

*Video contributions may be included in a compilation video created as part of the assembly. Whilst the Artist will review all video submissions we cannot guarantee all submissions will be integrated as official topics of the Assembly.

If you are having trouble uploading a file, please link here to your video submission outlining topics you feel the assembly should discuss.* (Optional)

*Video contributions may be included in a compilation video created as part of the assembly. Whilst the Artist will review all video submissions we cannot guarantee all submissions will be integrated as official topics of the Assembly.

Women & Gender-Non-Conforming Performance Context

Estado De Asamblea (State of Assembly) is a feminist performance project responding to the social conditions created by patriarchal society. The Assembly acknowledges the importance and necessity of men as comrades in the struggle for justice and welcomes men as audiences to the Assembly, however in light of the feminist focus of the event, the Artist requests that contributions to discussion and votes on resolutions be made exclusively by women and gender-non-conforming folks in the audience.

Code of Conduct

Estado De Asamblea (State of Assembly) is a forum for robust debate and collective inquiry. We encourage active and engaged participation and, understand listening as a political responsibility. Within this framework all attendees/participants must adhere to a basic code of conduct. All attendees/participants of the Assembly are therefore expected to conduct themselves in an appropriate manner when interacting with others. Within this framework we acknowledge that disagreement does not automatically equal disrespect, but maintain a zero tolerance policy for hate speech, bullying, and harrassment.

The Biennale also maintains a zero tolerance policy towards discrimination, including discrimination on the grounds of race/ethnicity, socio-economic background, religion, medical condition, disability, sero-status, gender, sexual orientation, age, parental or carer responsibilities, marital status, industrial activity, union participation, criminal record and pregnancy status.

Filming of the Assembly

The Assembly will be filmed with a live feed of audience and participant reactions projected onto a screen in the space. This means there is a high likelihood of all people present in the space being periodically, briefly captured on camera.

In attending the Assembly volunteer partipants must consent to being filmed as part of the event.

Content Warning: Estado De Asamblea (State of Assembly) will likely include strong language, course language, and discussion of adult concepts including but not limited to sexual harrassment, sexual violence, and intimate partner and family violence.

Please submit your Expression of Interest by 11:59pm Sunday 31 May, 2026.