"NICOLA Gunn’s theatre is tantalising, entertaining, ridiculous and often bewildering in the best possible way.” Herald Sun
Nicola Gunn, Mobile States and Performing Lines present PIECE FOR PERSON AND GHETTO BLASTER
70 minutes Turbine Studio, Brisbane Powerhouse 15yrs+
What if in this room, all together, we created conflict?
Piece For Person and Ghetto Blaster is the story of a man, a woman and a duck. It dissects the excruciating realms of human behaviour in an attempt to navigate the moral and ethical complexities of becoming a better person.
A woman sees a man throwing stones at a duck. Threaded between observations and memories of this brief encounter with a stranger are philosophical musings about peace and conflict, moral relativism, the ethics of intervention and the very function of art.
In attempting to deal with an ethical dilemma, Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster resolves through an empathetic transformation from human to non-human, from irrational state to ecstatic state and towards a spiritual realm.
Accompanying the text is a rhythmic electronic soundscape by composer Kelly Ryall and choreography by Jo Lloyd that shifts from the unnecessary and incongruous to the strangely affecting. The culmination of these multiple layers is a work in perpetual motion, creating a hypnotic feedback loop.
Please note: delegates will be required to sign-up for this Showcase from Monday 22 February at the Information Desk.
Image: Gregory Lorenzutti
Meet the artist
Nicola Gunn / SANS HOTEL
A writer, director, performer and designer, Nicola Gunn combines text, choreography and visual art to make contemporary performance work in response to a self-generated impulse to tell a story or explore a form. She finds parallels between personal experiences and larger social realities, using subversive humour to explore the fragility of the human condition.
She has received critical acclaim for a genre of sophisticated performance, has toured to New Zealand, North America, Europe and throughout Australia, and has collaborated with local and international artists. Gunn is lead artist of performance, art and design collective SANS HOTEL, committed to site-specific and experimental work.
Contact:
- Nicola Gunn, Artist / Narelle Lewis, Producer - Performing Lines
- nicola@nicolagunn.com
- narelle@performinglines.org.au
- +61 424 706 821 / 02 9319 0066