"I am an Island" Part 1 - photographic series (above)
"I am an island" Part 2 - performance opera
Micro Parks
Performance Space
Sydney Festival 2013
Director, concept and libretto: Jess Olivieri
Composer: Marcus Whale
Performer: Zoe Drummond
Performer: Deepka
Performer: Ariele Jemsik
“Because Australia is an island, regardless of where on the coast-line setters stood when they pondered the inland, they all looked toward one ultimate point of convergence – toward the centre – the endpoint of the spiral.”
Ross Gibson (1992)
I am an Island takes cues for the many island films that use ‘high art’ musical forms of song such as choral and opera are used as metaphors for the pure and civilized. No matter the circumstance this music calms the nerves of castaway minds lost on islands on the brink of a breakdown between one world and another. This Performance was park of Micro Parks curated by Performance Space as part of the 2012 Sydney Festival.
Photo credit: Lucy Perkhina
"I am an island" Part 2 - performance opera
Micro Parks
Performance Space
Sydney Festival 2013
Director, concept and libretto: Jess Olivieri
Composer: Marcus Whale
Performer: Zoe Drummond
Performer: Deepka
Performer: Ariele Jemsik
“Because Australia is an island, regardless of where on the coast-line setters stood when they pondered the inland, they all looked toward one ultimate point of convergence – toward the centre – the endpoint of the spiral.”
Ross Gibson (1992)
I am an Island takes cues for the many island films that use ‘high art’ musical forms of song such as choral and opera are used as metaphors for the pure and civilized. No matter the circumstance this music calms the nerves of castaway minds lost on islands on the brink of a breakdown between one world and another. This Performance was park of Micro Parks curated by Performance Space as part of the 2012 Sydney Festival.
Photo credit: Lucy Perkhina