- Title
- Brazil : Antipodean Epic The III Manifestacao de International de Performance, Belo Horizonte Biennale
- Creator
- Orr, Jill
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Text; Artwork; Visual art work
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/181756
- Identifier
- vital:16025
- Abstract
- Humanity’s survival depends on seed, the ultimate container of life but as climate and consequently environment is changing, seed has become contested ground. Political, scientific, environmental and ethical debate surround both genetically modified seed and its reliance on the global monopoly of a few mega agri-businesses. This is starkly contrasted by localised heritage seed closely guarded for its untampered quality. Both forms of seed production are charged with the task of feeding populations as they grow exponentially into the future. Here lies part of our challenge. Antipodean Epic is a poetic journey that incorporates seed both in abundance and scarcity. The work utilises costume to create three characters, or creatures, as a means to ask: Are the creatures the end of their species, or the beginning of another? Are they displaced or transported viral creations? Are they unwanted interlopers within the seed stock? Are they the carriers of a potential future or remnants of a distant past, or both?
- Publisher
- Belo Horizonte Biennale, Brazil
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Subject
- 1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing
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