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PERFORMANCE
BODIES OF WATER
WEDS 30 NOV - FRI 02 DEC, 8.15-9.30PM
EASTERN BEACH RESERVE, GEELONG
ALL SESSIONS SOLD OUT
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This event will happen in the evening under low outdoor light. It will involve a walk across sandy beach, listening to audio through headphones and optional swimming in cold water.
For accessibility enquiries, please directly contact us at hello@platformarts.org.au
Join 2022 LAB artists Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy + Sarah Walker (Triage Live Art Collective) for the premiere of their audio-based performance Bodies of Water.
Taking place at Eastern Beach, Bodies of Water explores our relationship with the sea, as a place of nourishment, danger and transcendence. Audiences follow the boardwalk and listen to audio as the sun sets. The ocean is the birthplace of humanity, of myth-making, an unseen world brimming with life; and now, a place deeply compromised by environmental degradation. Bodies of Water contemplates the echoes between our own bodies of water, and the ocean that we are drawn to immerse ourselves in.
This performance involves a communal night swim (optional). Dress warmly, and wear your bathers underneath, and bring a towel. If you’d prefer to swim in a wetsuit, please bring your own. Hot tea will be provided.
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Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy is the artistic director of Triage Live Art Collective, a company that creates immersive, intimate, and site-specific works for participating audiences. She has more than 25 years of experience as a director, writer, dramaturge, and actor trainer. Her work has been commissioned internationally and Triage has toured to festivals across Australia and Europe. Katerina is a recipient of the Australia Council two-year Theatre Fellowship in recognition of her exceptional arts practice and leadership. Her works focus on challenging ideas, and existential questions, leading audiences to contact their deeper desires, fears, to explore their vulnerability and the preciousness of their lives within the artistic encounter.
Sarah Walker is a Geelong-based artist, writer, and photographer. Her art practice uses comedy, narrative, and speculative fiction to create surprising encounters with tensions around death, disaster, and catastrophe. She works with immersive binaural sound works, video, and text-based installations. She has created work for major institutions including the NGV and Geelong Gallery, collaborated on theatre, live art and festivals, and worked extensively with communities across Australia and internationally. She has an MFA from RMIT. She is a Walkley-nominated critic. Her essay collection, The First Time I Thought I Was Dying, won the 2021 Quentin Bryce Award. She is particularly interested in art as a mode of engaging with future fear.
