Projects
2012
THRASHING WITHOUT LOOKING
A 3am ride through loneliness, frenzy, banality and cliché
A performance you can watch, create, perform and control. THRASHING WITHOUT LOOKING is an experiential work that combines performance with live cinema. It is a textured and disorienting journey that considers the agency of the audience in a mediated space.
“It provoked all sorts of thoughts about the modes of disembodied communication we engage in now – televisual, internet – how trust and agency are still called upon and how intense and liberating is the sense of touch … I didn’t want to leave.” – Fiona McGregor, RealTime.
“It makes me clearly realise that no matter how much my contemporary perception is shaped by the intricate, informative pixilation of technology, nothing in the world will ever replicate that unmistakably visceral exchange that happens simply by being tenderly held” – Susie Hardgrave, Australian Stage.
CREDITS
Creators – Martyn Coutts, Lz Dunn, Tristan Meecham, Lara Thoms, Willoh S. Weiland
Sound Designer – Alan Nguyen
Thrashing Without Looking has been supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body and was developed at Arts House with the support of a CultureLAB residency and then at Liveworks at Performance Space in 2010.
Brisbane Powerhouse
25 – 28 July 2012
Performance Space, Sydney
1 – 4 Aug 2012
Darwin Festival
10 – 12 Aug 2012
Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart
15 – 18 Aug 2012
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
22 – 25 Aug 2012
Images Bryony Jackson