Commissioned a new performance by Jill Orr.
Through movement and costume, Laundry reflects on notions of personhood and place to examine the potential of human agency and its capacity to exceed repetitious patterns of behaviour.
Orr’s performative gestures articulated acts of fortitude, fragility and restraint throughout a cycle of thirty-minute performances anchored by a fifteen metre long costume that spilled out of the venue to connect interior and exterior spaces.
Presented as part of Temporal Proximities in the South Laundry at Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne, 1 – 3 March 2019
Presented a site-specific adaptation of this work by S.J. Norman, performed by Mykaela Saunders, Carly Sheppard and Naretha Williams
The River’s Children reflects on experiences of dispossession, displacement and servitude as well as personal and collective histories of violence and survival as they are entwined in the body, specifically in the bodies of Blak women. Repetitious acts of wringing, slapping and hanging interrupt a projected sequence of hand-written slides listing the names, dates and locations of every recorded massacre in Australian colonial history.
Presented as part of Temporal Proximities in the South Laundry, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne, 1 – 3 March 2019