Remixing the Aftermath 2003
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Remixing the Aftermath was part of an ongoing series of works exploring attitudes and reactions, (or more often non-reactions) towards disasters or political, human and environmental situations. Created by Shagging Julie in 2003, the work was a sensory excursion that was presented in the Performance Space Galleries after 4 weeks in residence and six months of development.
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Images: Peter Oldham
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___ The first room contains a cardboard city-scape and is the ‘party’ room where the audience is received and given a glass of wine. Thus proceeds a bogus gallery opening, the performers playing the hosts.
Slowly the performers lose their ability to ‘deal’ with the situation and begin to perform strangely. Teik-Kim keeps excusing himself and disappearing, there is a smell of burning, Gavin approaches young men and leads them through a closed door into the next room, Michelle is stuck with a jug of water she can’t seem to pour even though it’s hot and people want water, Luke drinks water out of a vase and gives the audience flowers. After several young men disappear into the second room, the party music stops and the remaining audience are asked to cross the corridor into the second room – women and children first. The sound of machine gun fire and bombs dropping can be heard. Within this second or ‘Aftermath’ room are several raised installations that the performers interact with. Luke pisses in a bucket, Michelle laughs and laughs behind a wall of tissue boxes, Teik-Kim scrapes the burnt toast onto green grass and then bags and hangs up the ‘evidence’, while Gavin loses his identity as a be-suited office worker and sinks into lonely insanity. This room also contains the ‘QTVR’ booth where the performers are able to interact with video footage being controlled by Sam James. Additional Information & Selected Works About Shagging Julie Better than a Blow-Up Doll Kick the Bucket (2004) _ |