Rapture Bathtub is a live, visceral, intimate, epic, solo work performed in the salon and bathtub of internationally acclaimed environmental scientist and gothic glamazon Moira Finucane. Part watery grave, haunted house, and floating world; Rapture Bathtub immerses audiences in a waking dream of extinction, hope, penguins, propaganda, mass mortality and melting ice. Nosferatu, fairy tales, plague history, her journey to Antarctica, expedition scientists and one hundred years of propaganda – Das Sturmer to Facebook – inform the work, accompanied live by composer Rachel Lewindon on grand piano, theremin and Finucane’s Antarctic field-recordings.
The Rapture Suite was Commissioned by Mesto Zensk (Slovenia) and Climakaze Festival (Miami). Winner Climakaze Award for Outstanding Work in Climate Justice. Acclaimed from China to Antarctica. BYO penguin.
Time 24 May, 6:20pm AEST
Rapture Bathtub is a live, visceral, intimate, epic, solo work performed in the salon and bathtub of internationally acclaimed environmental scientist and gothic glamazon Moira Finucane. Part watery grave, haunted house, and floating world; Rapture Bathtub immerses audiences in a waking dream of extinction, hope, penguins, propaganda, mass mortality and melting ice. Nosferatu, fairy tales, plague history, her journey to Antarctica, expedition scientists and one hundred years of propaganda – Das Sturmer to Facebook – inform the work, accompanied live by composer Rachel Lewindon on grand piano, theremin and Finucane’s Antarctic field-recordings.
The Rapture Suite was Commissioned by Mesto Zensk (Slovenia) and Climakaze Festival (Miami). Winner Climakaze Award for Outstanding Work in Climate Justice. Acclaimed from China to Antarctica. BYO penguin.