A 3am ride through loneliness, frenzy, banality and cliché. A performance you can watch, create, perform and control.
Thrashing Without Looking is an experiential work that combines performance and live cinema. Created by the audience, for the audience, it involves video goggles, champagne and a lot of loud music.
Aphids is an artist led cultural organisation creating collaborations across artforms and borders.
“It provoked all sorts of thoughts about the modes of disembodied communication we engage in now—televisual, internet—how trust and agency are still called upon and how intense and liberating is the sense of touch. I didn’t want to leave” Fiona Mcgregor, RealTime, Issue 101, 2011
“It makes me clearly realise that no matter how much my contemporary perception is shaped by the intricate, informative pixilation of technology, nothing in the world will ever replicate that unmistakably visceral exchange that happens simply by being tenderly held” Susie Hardgrave, Australian Stage, 2011
“The whole effect is disorientating, tender, a little scary, and utterly thrilling. The thoughts provoked linger with me long after we are gently ushered out.” Miranda McCallum, Rhum Media, 2011
Current dates
- Brisbane Powerhouse
25 - 28 July 2012 - Performance Space, Sydney
1 - 4 Aug 2012 - Darwin Festival
10 - 12 Aug 2012 - Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart
15 - 18 Aug 2012 - Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
22 - 25 Aug 2012
Touring history
- Arts House, Season 2
August 2011 - Performance Space, Live Works
2010
Toured by Performing Lines for Mobile States, with the support of the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and through the national performing arts touring program, Playing Australia.
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Circus, Cross-Cultural, Dance, Dance Theatre, Film, Hybrid, Indigenous, Live Art, Music, Music Theatre, Physical Theatre, Puppetry, Theatre, Visual Theatre, Youth
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International Touring, MAPS NSW, Mobile States, National Touring, Road Work