THE MIRACLE IN ISLE 6
[SDT does XMAS]
9pm Monday 28th December 2015
Secret Supermarket Location
Meet out front of fish & chip shop // 258 Smith St, Collingwood map
[SDT does XMAS]
9pm Monday 28th December 2015
Secret Supermarket Location
Meet out front of fish & chip shop // 258 Smith St, Collingwood map
LOLZ - LOOK AT THIS LOAD OF BALONEY SOMEONE WROTE UP ABOUT THE SHOW. NOTE: NO WORDS CAN DESCRIBE STD.
THE MIRACLE IN ISLE 6
THE MIRACLE IN ISLE 6 is a choreographic intervention into an anti-creative space. It is interested in inserting itself into professionally crafted places of pure non-art, places that artists are often complicit in experiencing on a regular basis (the hyper supermarket is one example).
THE MIRACLE IN ISLE 6 interrogates the ways in which anti-creative places achieve paradoxically similar results in the experience of time and space as do designated ‘art’ places. What is the difference between the supermarket and the gallery? Both institutions function by disrupting or destabilising the perception of the passing of time. Both are contained spaces that, when they function as intended and are experienced deeply, momentarily erase the memory of the existence of anything wholly outside of them – they demand total presence in a temporarily timeless void.
But unlike the gallery, which ideally aims to expand thought, the hyper supermarket aggressively contracts it. Why does the supermarket feel like a psychonormatively oppressive prison? And why is this dense and contained solution to the problem of the outside world so perversely addictive? It is here, in this poignant place where psychological vulnerabilities are expertly exploited, that THE MIRACLE IN ISLE 6 unfolds.
The work inserts an indeterminate moment into a repressive vacuum. The vacuum is disturbed and momentarily collapses – the security guards have been summoned but they aren’t sure whether and how to deal with this undecideable action.
The piece sees the confused man from the tram stop miraculously lifted towards an immaculate can of pure condensed milk that he is finally able to hold after repeated failures that have kept the coveted object out of reach. This isn’t the end however. The man puts the can back up on the top shelf and continues the struggle towards it. He can never have this. The realisation is followed by debauchery danced in the meat isle. Finally, the work is relocated to a space of salvation but the doors are closed. No matter, we dance on the outside oscillating through stillness and eruption.
