Contemporary Performance

Future Tense

1995

Future Tense: Performance Texts for a Technological Age: Art and Working Life Performance Installations in Shopping Malls

BACKGROUND

The Love Addict

1995

Celeste is tormented by two forces: the love addict/monster that lurks within her, and her concerned blonde counsellor.

Sugar Sugar

1997

"Sugar Sugar" explores the intricately sticky links between female sexuality, erotica, addiction and the consumption of that sweetest of all substances, sugar. "Sugar Sugar" looks at it all - the craving/ the rush/ the lightheadedness of desire/ the longing for nectars of both metaphysical and manufactured varieties. "Sugar Sugar" includes a hint of post-colonial deconstruction as it presents the Southern Belle, perhaps the daughter of a rich plantation owner who is hooked on the very substance that has made her daddy rich.

The Marigold Hour

2000

Is it the smell of a Lily that makes it alluring before you have even laid eyes on it? The strong scent drifting towards you on the hot summer night air, making you no more than a sensual beast , drawn dumbly forwards to sniff it's nectar moist insides, to fondle it's pollen doused stamens?

Welcome to the monstrous gorgeous gardens of desire, home of assorted hot house flowers, delicate pansies, and the hardened succulents of the lesbian and gay underworlds. You might even meet the ghost of Don Dunstan! 

Bio Home: the Chromosome Knitting Project

2006 - present
BioHome: The Chromosome Knitting Project is a hybrid performance/installation incorporating live ‘wet biology’ practices in a contemporary biotech display home. The installation features video, interactive sound, live performance and text. ‘Wet biology’ procedures such as plant DNA extraction and live insect cell culturing are used to explore reproductive futures and biotechnologies.