frances d'ath dance for obsessive-compulsives


artists

dancers — bonnie paskas, frances d'ath, gabrielle nankivell, gala moody, lily paskas, luke george
video/audio — emile zile
lighting — john dutton
sound — agoraphobic nosebleed, vampiros lesbos, jacula, khanate, sunn O)))
costume — danielle harrison
film & photos — paul williams

support — arts victoria, moriarty's project, dance works

background

hell was developed at first at Tanzhaus Wasserwerk in Zürich for 12min.max. in November, 2005 with dancers Corneila Lüthi and Radovan Vladic. In January 2006, hell was rehearsed and performed at Dance Works Studios in Melbourne.
hell is a study on models of death (the accident, catastrophe, 'natural' death, etc) in contemporary society, using Jean Baudrillard's text Symbolic Exchange and Death as the literal structure into which the work descends, and using Chinese and Taiwanese mythology and demonology, and Death Metal as the basis for the visual and aural aesthetic.

details

" "We do not die because we must, we die because it is a habit, to which one day, not so long ago, our thoughts became bound" – Raoul Vaneigem.
"To the Gods, death is only ever a prejudice" – F.W. Nietzsche."
"Like so many others, the mad, children and the old, have only become 'categories' under the sign of the successive segregations that have marked the development of culture. The poor, the under-developed, those with sub-normal IQs, perverts, transsexuals, intellectuals and women all form the basis of an increasingly racist definition of the 'normal human'. It is not normal to be dead." – "Symbolic Exchange and Death — Jean Baudrillard.

hell was blogged on supernaut


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