Embittered Swish presents ‘Our Lady of the Flowers’: October 16-19th 2016 La Mama Courthouse

Trailer of Our Lady of the Flowers

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~based upon Jean Genet’s 1943 novel of the same name~

Devised and Performed by: Krishna Istha, Mick Klepner Roe, Mossy Pebbles, Bobuq Sayed and Cinnamon Templeton

Holding It All Together: Mick Klepner Roe

Holding Text: Cinnamon Templeton

Set Design: M’ck McKeague

Sound Design: Romy Seven (Scum Witch)

Costume Design: Rare Candy

Lighting design: Nathan Burmeister

Production Management: Betty Buckrich and Zakaria Shahruddin

Developments of ‘Estrogenesis’ (to be presented at Next Wave festival 2018)

Embittered Swish- Next Wave helix

First funded development at Punctum (Seedpod) May 2017: ‘The Creatures Creatures’: A performance about a viral outbreak, a bug chaser, an erotic terrorist…

listing on Punctum’s website

Glitch and other dramatic moments compilation

Key artists: Bobuq Sayed, Romy Seven Fox, Mick Klepner Roe. With last day arrival Mossy 333. Produced by Jude Anderson (Punctum) and Jai Leeworthy.

 

 

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Second development at Mechanics Institute: funded by Next Wave:

Glitch investigates the medical-industrial complex, shame and transformative liberation, imagining a world where trans people become state controlled cyborgs.
Embittered Swish is Bobuq Sayed, Mossy 333, Romy Seven Fox (music), and Mick Klepner Roe.

August showing of ‘Glitch’

The show is now called ‘Estrogenesis’ and we will post more about it soon!!

‘our lady of the flowers: refracted’ @ first draft gallery (SYD) Feb 2017

Embittered Swish talks with Frances Barrett for Art and Australia, following the exhibition

Listing at firstdraft

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our lady of the flowers: refracted …. was a further development of Embittered Swish’s stage show, Our Lady of the Flowers. Traces of past performances are considered in objects, altars, and debris devised and accumulated by participating artists, causing the ghosts of the immediate and more distant transgender past to resurface, confused.
Ghostly durational sound scape by Romy Fox. Possessed robotic hand Sculpture by Bobuq Sayed. Wooden Alter by Mossy 333. Hanging haunting dress by Rare Candy. With writing and holding by Ainslie Templeton and Mick Klepner Roe.
Noble Parts on Feb 11th 2017:
Ainslie Templeton and Jo Pol summoning the ghosts of medieval trammy insurrection
Shedding Muscles & Banishing Dust – An opera by Mossy, Mick and Romy
Filthy Mist on Feb 18th 2017:
Brian Fuata and Bobuq Sayed- induced dissociation, enmeshment and the radical intimacy of queer brown bodies terrorised and eroticised by the white space of the gallery/ gaze.
‘The last gay kiss’ by Toby (Beau Kirq) and Mick Klepner Roe
Mossy Pebbles a solo in the rain
Drowning and Drifting by Romy Fox and Okapi Neon- tension & time in intimate relationships.
Bobuq Sayed and Krishna Istha- Cultural practices surrounding birth, nourishment, nostalgia and (im)purity are interrogated by the two artists of colour, who conjoin rituals of the body with poetry that challenges the governing post-colonial myths of reconciliation and independence.

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