Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Creative works and performances

Vigilante Performance

Jonathan Marshall — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:44:01 PDT

The critical review discusses contemporary issues of community policing, neighbourhood watch and a political culture of surveillance surrounding the PVI Collective’s performance art project Inform and its play on a form of cultural ambivalence between the pleasures of voyeurism and surveillance. It identifies the critical contemporary question concerning the political predominance of a national surveillance culture and its fragile balance between social dysfunction and responsible communal behaviour, and the potential for performance art to successfully negotiate and uncover these cultural problems.

Voyeurages

Cat Hope — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:39:19 PST

Voyeurages is a live performance installation featuring 10 participants, 10 video projectors and 10 mp3 players. As it currently stands, 10 separate 30 minute DVD and audio tracks were created by the artist, using material collected over the last ten years of travel. This is then projected onto each participants naked back, and the sound is produced from a small mp3 player connected to a speaker in each participant's mouth, The audience may move among the participants who are 2 m apart in a arrow formation, the point of which directs to the artist's home.

Facelift

Cat Hope — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:29:44 PST

Music performance : four bass instruments, semi improvised noise, chainsaw solo.