Blue Oyster Performance Series 2012 Dunedin Fringe Festival
A Blue Oyster Performance Series
Presented in association with the 2012 Dunedin Fringe Festival
I Have Never & Canker Audrey Baldwin
The Line Holly Aitchison
2 But Not 2 Clare Fleming
Further Reductions on Retail Jokes Oscar Enberg
The Untold Project Alex Lovell-Smith and Damian Smith
Hereafter Free Theatre
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Audrey Baldwin I Have Never (Saturday 17 March 2012, 5.15pm for 5.30pm)
Audrey Baldwin's first performance on Saturday 17 March 'I Have Never' takes the popular drinking game and turns it on its head. Audrey will sit at the front of a crowd of strangers who will have written a number of 'I have never...' statements. Audrey will go through and read each one, if she reads a ‘I have never...’ that she has in fact done she will then drink from a bottle of wine. A confession / interrogation that will acquaint the strangers with Audrey’s most intimate secrets, resulting in an extreme over exposition.
Holly Aitchison The Line (Monday 19 March 2012, 5.30pm)
On Monday 19 March Dunedin artist, Holly Aitchison, will engage in an ongoing act of empathic endurance in The Line as she tattoos cherry blossoms on herself in tribute a close friend who has been suffering from a terminal illness. The act of covering up, and of making visible the pain and trauma usually felt in private is both cathartic for the performer and somewhat disturbing for those watching - through this performance an unresolved state of discomfort is created.
Clare Fleming 2 But Not 2 (Tuesday 20 March - Friday 23 March, 11am - 2pm every day)
Dunedin artist Clare Fleming's 2 but not 2 exposes unseen connections between people. Present in the gallery from 11am - 2pm between Tuesday and Thursday, Fleming will be sewing devices into participant’s clothing, so those who would like to take part are encouraged to bring a jacket into the gallery. Fleming will be working in intimate space that invites conversation and contemplation of sameness and difference.
Hana Aoake Fall (Tuesday 20 March 2012, 3.30pm)
In a performance of sheer endurance Hana Aoake will fall down, graze her knee, and get up. She will repeat this again and again.
Oscar Enberg Further Reductions on Retail Jokes (Tuesday 20 March 2012, 5.30pm)
Sitting comfortably, Oscar Enberg will regale the audience with tales of interior decoration and the necessity of accessorising in Further Reductions on Retail Jokes. Enberg’s performance is kindly supported by Dunedin McKenzie and Willis.
Alex Lovell-Smith and Damian Smith The Untold Project (Wednesday 21 March 2012, 3.00pm)
Dunedin performers Alex Lovell-Smith and Damian Smith reach deep into their boyhood pasts to rake up tales of heroes, villains, dastardly plots and unbelievable escapes. Just how long can one stay tied to the traintracks in the face of a steaming train?
Audrey Baldwin Canker (Thursday 22 March 2012, 5.15pm for 5.30pm)
Audrey Baldwin’s second performance combines endurance, excess, and exposure as she will attempt to lick her way out of a prison made of toffee. Naked and trapped within the dodecahedroid Baldwin will be forced to indulge in an almost obscene amount of toffee, the consumption of which will leave her tongue covered in canker-sores. The escape then, becomes double-edged, a situation where excess becomes necessary. Canker is proudly supported by the Otago Polytechnic Schools of Hospitality and Art and McMeeking Manufacturing.
Free Theatre Hereafter (Temple Gallery, 29 Moray Place, Wednesday 21 March 8pm, Thursday 22 March 8pm, Friday 23 March 8pm)
Free Theatre’s Hereafter exposes the audience to the interior chaos of Wolf ‘Sexmachine’ Bold, whose life is thrown into disarray when he wakes to find the mother of his child and his mistress dead and he is considered the number one suspect for the murders.
