Where: The Breakout at The Mill, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta
Cost: $10 (+ booking fee)
Note: Please arrive 15 minutes early to grab a drink. This event will be 1 hour (including a Q&A).
This showing and Q&A will be held in The Breakout. Please come to The Mill at 154 Angas Street, the bar will be open to grab a drink before we take you through to The Breakout.
Please arrive at 5:45pm for a 6pm sharp start.
This event will be 1 hour (including the Q&A).
Accessibility
Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, access the pedestrian ramp on the corner of Gunson St to get to our front door, which will be open.
The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.
If you have questions or would like to talk to one of The Mill team contact info@themilladelaide.com
Signal 2.0 is a new multidisciplinary work in response to the Hong Kong political climate.
This first stage development is led by Nicky T. Li in collaboration with Jamie Hornsby, under the mentorship of Valerie Berry and Joon-Yee Kwok. Hong Kong artists Vincy Chan, Lok. and Chris Siu have provided cultural consultation.
Signal 2.0 explores “how do we keep living without forgetting.” This work serves as a reminder that the revolution is not over, but simply, dormant.
This is a story for every person who has had their culture and identity suppressed, whether that is in the past, or now.
The work in progress will include elements of the work developed throughout this residency, followed by a short Q&A with Nicky and her creative team, hosted by The Mill CEO/Artistic Director Katrina Lazaroff.
Audiences will have the opportunity to ask questions about the development and provide feedback about the performance.
About the artists:
Nicky T. Li is a Kaurna-based Hong Kong artist with a passion for music theatre and experimental arts. She graduated from UniSA with a Bachelor of Arts in 2020. She developed and presented Signal: A Theatrical Mixtape through ActNow Theatre's MakeSpace Residency in 2022. Nicky was part of Nexus Arts’ 2023 Interplay cohort where she grew as a singer-songwriter. After receiving the Helpmann Creative Development Grant, she presented a sold out season of retro bilingual cabaret Leslie & Anita: Fallen Stars of Hong Kong in Adelaide Fringe 2024. Her work is highly endorsed by the local Hong Kong community and fellow Asian Australian artists. Through her work, she navigates through newfound identities and attempts to replant her heart in her heritage. In her performance, she speaks authenticity, in the hope of finding a community.
Being socially conscious, she provided cultural consultancy to RUMPUS, State Theatre Company SA and Australian Dance Theatre. Nicky became a published reviewer through ArtsHub’s Amplify Collective and Helpmann Academy InReview Mentorship.
In 2025, Nicky made her professional stage debut in Adelaide Festival’s international opera Innocence. Nicky is currently a Captain Starlight at the Starlight Children's Foundation, bringing joy to sick children and their families in hospitals.
Jamie Hornsby is an award-winning playwright, performer, composer, photographer and emerging screenwriter. He is the winner of two AWGIE Awards from the Australian Writers' Guild, including the prestigious David Williamson Prize for Excellence in Writing for Australian Theatre, as well as the Frank Ford Memorial Young Achiever Ruby Award.
His work has been seen nationally and internationally, most recently with his play Python being presented for three Off-Broadway readings as part of the 2024 Australian Theatre Festival NYC. He received his third AWGIE nomination in 2026 for We've Got All The Time in the World* (Terms and Conditions Apply).
He has been commissioned three times by Jopuka Productions, most recently for The Boys on the Bus, remounted in 2023 at ATYP’s Rebel Theatre in Sydney. He has written for ActNow Theatre/State Theatre Company South Australia’s Decameron 2.0, and he has been a finalist in the Shane and Cathryn Brennan Prize for Playwriting, the Stoddard Playwright Award, and the Australian Theatre Festival’s New Play Award.
Recent composing credits include The Glass Menagerie (State Theatre Company South Australia) and Four Quartets (Wounded Surgeon/Old Fitz, Sydney)
He is the cofounder of acclaimed independent theatre company Madness of Two, whose most recent production Starweaver premiered as part of the State Theatre Company South Australia’s 2024 STATESIDE Season to rave reviews. He is a graduate of Adelaide College of the Arts as an actor.
Where: The Breakout at The Mill, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta
Cost: $10 (+ booking fee)
Note: Please arrive 15 minutes early to grab a drink. This event will be 1 hour (including a Q&A).
This showing and Q&A will be held in The Breakout. Please come to The Mill at 154 Angas Street, the bar will be open to grab a drink before we take you through to The Breakout.
Please arrive at 5:45pm for a 6pm sharp start.
This event will be 1 hour (including the Q&A).
Accessibility
Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, access the pedestrian ramp on the corner of Gunson St to get to our front door, which will be open.
The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.
If you have questions or would like to talk to one of The Mill team contact info@themilladelaide.com
Good Mourning is a physical theatre work exploring grief through the relationship between the body and objects of support, examining how adornment and material forms become physical and symbolic appendages that bear the weight of the grieving body.
In unveiling the relationship to these sculptural supports, this work-in-development will also trace the body’s bond to an absent object, and how the physical experience of being supported, restricted, or transformed can leave an embodied residue.
The showing will be followed by a short Q&A with Marcus and their collaborative team, hosted by The Mill CEO/Artistic Director Katrina Lazaroff. Audiences will have the opportunity to ask questions about the development and provide feedback about the performance.
About the artists:
Marcus Louend is a dancer, performance artist, and choreographer seeking to decentralise their movement and art practice through collective organisation. Using equitable social models, their ambition is to help educate individuals seeking deeper connection and understanding to movement and its radical potential physically, emotionally, and socially.
Marcus currently works as a tutor and guest performer with Restless Dance Theatre, Australia's leading company working with neurodiverse and disabled artists. This partnership continuously offers the opportunity to inclusively work with the broader community—artists and non-artists—making movement accessible to everyone, and diversifying future practices.
As a mentor, creator, and performer, their work seeks to innovatively dismantle personal, social, structural, and systemic barriers, in order to recalibrate somatic experiences into a sustainable practice.
Nat Penney (b.1991) is an artist based in Tarntanya (Adelaide). Combining processes from timber furniture making and metal fabrication with found and formed objects, she considers the sensory desires in things, looking for subconscious object impulses. She’s driven by an obsession and confusion over psychological and emotional states and their reciprocal exchange with our relationships, environments, and the objects we engage with.
Recent works are drawing from experiences of loneliness and how they are shaped not only by absence, but by conditional presence. Looking into the atmosphere of familial domesticity she searches for pleasing points of interconnectedness between the familiar and the eerie; for absurdist moments that engage themselves through futile motion and maybe make you smirk.
Her practice often incorporates materials weighted heavily in nostalgia, such as tiles from her renovated childhood bathroom or her parents’ wooden tennis racquets, embedding personal histories into sculptural objects. These materials act as communicators and carriers of memory, yet memory and nostalgia themselves are malleable, untrustworthy, and sometimes irresponsible, reshaping perception and altering what we take to be truth.
Paige Neis-Beer (she/her) is an artist and stylist with over seven years of experience in the fashion industry, across London and Kaurna Land. Her practice spans styling, costume-making and product design.
Working between fashion and wearable art, and more recently with silicone as a core medium, her practice draws on the surreal and the strange, fusing the grotesque with the beautiful. Paige has an ongoing fascination with visceral materials and explores unconventional approaches to making. Her work often explores themes of identity, whether as the observer or the observed.
In February 2025, Paige undertook a 2.5 month residency at Household Gallery, where she collaborated with tattoo artist Hasini Wisna and developed a collection of wearable art pieces that mimic flesh-like forms and second skins.
The residency marked a turning point in Paige’s practice, introducing new materials and sculptural processes that now sit at the centre of her work.
Paige is continuously interested and passionate about collaboratively working with artists across different disciplines, to create space for conversation, exchange and connection.
