The DIG CollectiveDoubleSpeak
It’s the night of the election and two people’s lives are about to change forever. Michael is in a million-dollar house in Thornbury, Dana is a million miles away from home in Spain. They tried to talk about it, they tried to do something, but somehow the words just got in the way. An experimental performance by The DIG Collective, DoubleSpeak deconstructs the language of public debate, politics and the difficult conversations we do and don't have. The work features a conversation between the two performers about their whereabouts on the night of the 2013 election. This conversation is repeated and retold through different perspectives and ways of public oration. In combination with a live perofrmance, DoubleSpeak features a public 'street talk' element in residence wherever the show is being performed. Locals are encouraged to visit the desk so that these difficult conversations facing contemporary Australia can be studied and listened too. Created by: Michael Fee, Dana McMillan and Alex Tálamo Directed by : Alex Tálamo Performed by: Dana McMillan Lighting by: Alex Talamo Fan design by: Emma Adinolfi after Arjuna Benson and Athan Vadiakas Dramaturg: Richard Pettifer Access Officer and Audio Describer: Joshua Lynzaat Audio Description Technician:Michael Kelly from MAK-TRACK Audio Outside Eyes: Jean Tong and Casey Gould Front of House: Christa Jonathan Photography by: Aaron Walker Seasons Anywhere Festival, Frankston 2015 Melbourne Fringe Festival, Metanoia Theatre @ The Mechanics Institute, Brunswick 2015 FCAC Call to Create Program, Footscray Community Arts Centre 2016Performance Studies International Conference (PSI2016), University of Melbourne Guild Theatre 2016. (An excerpt) D+NA
Meet Dana McMillan: her Data, her DNA, herself. In byte-sized versions. We are sitting at the cusp of the undeniable—yet mostly invisible—fundamental shift in the way we conceive of technological integration in our lives. For women’s bodies this means new sophisticated systems of surveillance and compliance. Based on real experiments, Dana McMillan poetically audits herself according to the billions of data points we’ve extracted about her. This performance of dissection explores the nature of being in a world constantly feeding your identity back to you. Focusing on a solo performer, the work delves into the complex relationship we have with Big Data and questions how our sense of self and the female body is reshaped in the face of this technological revolution. Created by: Dana McMillan and Alex Tálamo Directed by : Alex Tálamo Performed by: Dana McMillan Design Advisors: Corinna Berndt, Kellie Wells and Youjia Lu Outside Eyes and Script Advisors: Michael Fee, and Jean Tong Seasons D+NA, hillsceneLIVE Festival, Birdsland Reserve, 2017 D+NA Development Showing, Pankow Art Spring, Berlin, 2017 Moved reading at WITS (Women in Theatre and Screen) Festival Fatale, Eternity Playhouse, Darlinghurst, 2016. Women’s Circus, ‘A Room of One’s Own’ Residency and was undertaken in February 2017. Photography by: Alex Tálamo |
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