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Better Than a Blow-Up Doll  2004

Are current events causing you anxiety? Are you increasingly concerned about the forthcoming apocalypse? Attend a demonstration of Shagging Julie’s space-age products to ensure your survival in the aftermath...
Images: Heidrun Löhr
"...Fortunately, there was other good work. Shagging Julie [sic] is a short piece for a small audience where you will discover the wonders of the Apoca-Lifestyle Corporation and it's oh-so designer Capsules for surviving whatever end-of-the-world is currently mandated. It's a 15-minute presentation in three flavours: of the two I saw, both the "pretending to work" cubicle drone and the future universal language based entirely on hair-care products provided stark and insightful comedy."

Stephen Dunne
Sydney Morning Herald
Jan 19 2004


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Key Collaborators



Selected Installation Sites



Supported By
__Michelle Outram, co-founder/director/performer     

Teik-Kim Pok, co-founder/performer      

Gavin Sladen, co-founder/performer



Lisa Mimmocchi, costume/design


Live Bait Festival, Sydney

Adelaide Cabaret Festival


Department of Performance Studies, University of Sydney
___ Better than a Blow-Up Doll was part of an ongoing series of works exploring survival in the aftermath. Created by Shagging Julie in 2004, it took place in a caravan that was set up as a ‘demonstration model’ fallout shelter equipped with the latest low-tech space-age gadgets. In the aftermath caravan, the performers were your ‘hosts’ from hell and you were the client.

Through sending up images of mid-to-late twentieth century apocalyptic paranoia and juxtaposing these with reactions to current events, Better than a Blow-Up Doll sought to highlight our mediatised society. The sales-pitch form of the work humorously emphasised the role of the market economy – the right to choose – in the formation of stratified society and its role in creating conflict.

Additional Information & Selected Works
About Shagging Julie
Remixing the Aftermath (2003)
Kick the Bucket (2004)


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