The DIG Collective
'DoubleSpeak,' 2015. Photography by Aaron Walker
I am a Co-Artistic Director and maker with live art collective, The DIG Collective. The DIG Collective are a group of artists committed to building politically responsible creative works and relationships. They are a queer, feminist and access-leading organisation with our own access officer and audio describer. Drawing from the slow dramaturgy philosophy, this allows us to gestate an idea over a long period of time, gather resources in a more environmentally friendly way, and train their bodies for specific physicalities for each performance.
This Is Not About Lee Miller
'This is Not About Lee Miller,' VCA, 2019. Photography by Elizabeth Tanter
This is Not About Lee Miller is a devised solo performance, presented at VCA for my BFA (Honours) in Theatre Practice. The performance uses my relationship (or obsession) to photographer, model and muse Lee Miller in order to explore the nature of queer feminine desire and the specifics of how this gaze operates in theatre. The work seeks to challenge the traditional male gaze by using models of feminist psychoanalysis and feminine aesthetics to create a queer feminine dramaturgy for performance making.
The performance incorporates live streaming with physical performance, verbatim text and poetry to explore the relationship between the self and other in a queer feminine relationship, which not only desires but is also able to see oneself within the object of desire.
The performance incorporates live streaming with physical performance, verbatim text and poetry to explore the relationship between the self and other in a queer feminine relationship, which not only desires but is also able to see oneself within the object of desire.
Planning Atlantis
'Planning Atlantis,' Melbourne Docklands, 2016. Photography by Lana Nguyen
Devised with Grub Theatre, Planning Atlantis has been presented at Mudfest 2015, Small and Loud, St Kilda Festival and as a site-specific performative tour of Melbourne's Docklands, 2016. The work uses an absurdist context of a real estate agency selling Docklands property to fish moving displaced from the Great Barrier Reef, in order to examine the corporate, environmental and community impacts of development on this site.
Gift Giver
Presented at the George Paton Gallery for Mudfest 2015, Gift Giver is an installation that presents a feminist re-telling of the myths of Prometheus and Pandora in Greek Mythology. The work used mixed media, combining poetry, video, audio and sculpture, to create a diverse range of access points to experience the work. This aimed to reflect the ways in which myths have been interpreted throughout history.
Writing
Writing on performance:
https://tonsofsense.com/2018/12/07/performing-the-norm/
https://tonsofsense.com/2018/12/07/performing-the-norm/
