DoubleSpeak
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, 2015
FCAC Call to Create Program, Footscray Community Arts Centre, 2016
Performance Studies international conference (PSi2016), University of Melbourne, Guild Theatre, 2016.
Feature images by Aaron Walker Photography
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, 2015
FCAC Call to Create Program, Footscray Community Arts Centre, 2016
Performance Studies international conference (PSi2016), University of Melbourne, Guild Theatre, 2016.
Feature images by Aaron Walker Photography
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
Feature image by Alex Tálamo
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
Feature image by Alex Tálamo
Other Works by DIG
Snout - In Souliloquy (short film), by The Dig Collective and In Souliloquy, 2016
The Oddity, New Years on the Hill, The Hills are Alive and Mudfest, 2015
Airgirl (short film), dir. James Vinson, Patch Adams Productions, 2015
12x12x12, The Open Stage, University of Melbourne, 2015
Running Man, Tower Theatre, Malthouse Theatre, 2014
DIG Does Cabaret (Gigi Rhinestone and others), Monash University Container Festival, 2014
White Night White Night Swanston Street, 2013- 2014
Dig, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Lithuanian Club Ballroom and Harvest Festival, 2012
The Oddity, New Years on the Hill, The Hills are Alive and Mudfest, 2015
Airgirl (short film), dir. James Vinson, Patch Adams Productions, 2015
12x12x12, The Open Stage, University of Melbourne, 2015
Running Man, Tower Theatre, Malthouse Theatre, 2014
DIG Does Cabaret (Gigi Rhinestone and others), Monash University Container Festival, 2014
White Night White Night Swanston Street, 2013- 2014
Dig, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Lithuanian Club Ballroom and Harvest Festival, 2012
'Running Man,' Tower Theatre, Malthouse, 2014. Photography by Jack Richardson
Screenshot from 'Snout - In Soliloquy,' directed by Alex Talamo, produced and written by In Soliloquy
'DiG,' Lithuanian Club, Melbourne Fringe Festival, 2012
