CHAINSAW SECTION –SAFETY STATEMENT 01/08/14

…On the performance night, during the final minutes of the first section of the performance, the stage manager will hand the 5 inactive chainsaws to Cathy (performer) who will deliver them to the stage one by one, and place them in a row. The final, sixth, chainsaw will be the saw with the active blade, which Cathy will operate herself.

 

Beginning at Midnight and ending at Dawn performers will become mediators and audience will become collaborators as we engage risk, intimacy and collective action to imagine a new future.

 

RUAIRÍ Ó Donnabháin

IN COLLABORATION WITH CATHY WALSH, JASSEM HINDI, Larry Arington, LOUISE TRUEHEART, RACHAEL DICHTER, MICA SIGOURNEY & Vivvyanne Forevermore

winner of the Tiger Dublin Fringe Judge's Choice Award 2014

“Freedom isn’t the act of shedding our attachments, but the practical capacity to work on them, to move around in their space, to form and dissolve them’ (The Impossible Committee, The Coming Insurrection).

This is an act of resistance. There is no crisis of economy, only a crisis of imagination. Zombies of immaterial labor roam freely fettered to a cycle of self production followed by self consumption, each and every human experience has become commodified.

“This uprising is not a form of judgement, but a form of healing” (The Uprising, Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi)

Imagine a world that operates differently to this one, what does it look like? A critically acclaimed international ensemble of Queer performance makers spread themselves across the public’s table for this overnight feast, setting into motion a vortex which pulls the spectator into action to dream a new future while the rest of the country sleeps comfortably in their beds.

This ambitious and experimental collaboration was developed with the support of Cork City Council Arts Office and Ponderosa Tanzland & Uferstudios (Germany). Developed at FRINGE LAB with the support of Tiger Dublin Fringe. This project was supported by and developed at MAKE; a residential workshop facilitated by Cork Midsummer Festival, Project Arts Centre, Theatre Forum and Tiger Dublin Fringe.

Presented at Dublin Fringe Festival, Counterpulse San Francisco and Zurich Moves

special thanks to Hazel Cullen; producer and production manager

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