Pageant Moon
Presley Ziogas
Wednesday, 11 jun — 6:30pm (45mins) Moontime
Myers Park, Splash Pad
Pageant Moon is a sapphic spell—a moonlit ritual set to 80s ballads. It’s what the girlies get up to when the moon is full: run around in our underwear, cuddle, play mermaids, fight a little, and make out a lot.
Elise Sadlier
Fetū x Fetu’u
Moe Laga, in collaboration with cypris afakasi
Wednesday, 11 June — 8:30pm (60MINS) moontime
Basement Theatre
Ngl, oiling a machete while someone talks shit about what you stand for is a different kind of horny. Love the fearless fa’afafine energy throughout Fetū x Fetu’u which also has a kind of shameless tautalaititi energy to it reminding us that the forever ick is shame; from others, from ourselves, from our traditions, and institutions. This work has so many deep cuts and deep griefs and deep, dark, cackles to tease our deepest darkest desires out of the houses we’re born into so that we might inhabit the houses we build ourselves which, as Moe shares in one of her poems, is very “call me holy, maybe I’ll let you call me Mother.”
Amber Esau
BTM Voices of Vessels
Sung Hwan Bobby Park
THURSDAY, 12 June — 8:30pm (60MINS) moontime
Basement Theatre
NSFW, Bobby/Clay, Crack, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Except Its Karaoke, Voyeurism, A surprise Mariah Carey appearance, Porn with Feelings, Assless Chaps, Emotional Excretions (and actual excretions), Horny, but horny, like, for sculptures and consensual violence and vulnerability, BDSM
Who knew a garrote could be so sensual?
Arela Jiang 姜美淳
Queer Powerpoint
Xanthe Dobbie, Harriet Gillies & Thom Smyth
THURSDAY, 12 June — 6:00pm (90MINS)
Friday, 13 June — 10:00PM (90MINS) moontime
Basement Theatre
Of the powerpoints on the night I especially enjoyed Kaan’s powerpoint about the penultimate Cuntiest Font (graphic design IS my passion, love any opportunity to yell “CUNTY!” and always believe in abundant use of the ANTM elimination musical outro) and Jazzmine’s powerpoint on the inherent romance everywhere in nature (gave the vibe of wholesome short-form video that breaks me out of a morning doom scroll. maybe our Tiktok algorithms are the same…ladies is it gay to watch fish and bug content??). Queer PowerPoint celebrates the queer dream of forcing people to listen to your niche infodump, all while exemplifying how queer people can truly make anything queer. I wonder if .gif use has statistically higher usage in millenials or Australians but maybe my sample size is too small.
Nuanzhi Zheng 郑暖之
MDF (medium density fantasy)
SOFT.CO
Friday, 13 June — 8:30PM (60MINS) moontime
Basement Theatre
MDF (medium density fantasy) hits us with a reset of the bar, a vessel fizzing over, and over, and over: it will take up the space it takes, and we’ll move with it. Sharp, interrogative, and laced with wit, this work—with its dyads and its reinventions—constructs and deconstructs itself before our eager eyes, plank by plank, mirage by mirage, running horse invocation gag by running horse invocation gag.
Tate Fountain
Materiel World
Loren Kronemyer
Saturday, 14 June — 6:30PM (60MINS) moontime
Basement Theatre
Shoot copper back into the earth. Close the hole it was extracted from. Radicalise our material systems. Cut a cord with a cheese knife and split it with your teeth. What else is there in the inertia of talking about material circularity? Fire up the forge, create a bullet, steady the gun.
Micheal McCabe
Glory Whole
Grecco Romank & Copper MaeSteal
Saturday, 14 June — 8:30PM (60MINS) moontime
Basement Theatre
A Les Mills group fitness class as dungeon opera rave, art directed by Ryan Murphy in peak American Horror Story mode. Perfectly chaotic in its pursuit of perfection(?), morphing and morphing, until skin dripped from faces, strobes of sweat swung into water torture and gains gained the grade of holy grail. As missiles fall, timeless techno treadmills turnt us out.
Kaan Hiini
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