Issue 28: Movement
Wish You Were Here is a new work by Friends with Deficits (Amelia Wallin, Lisa Mumford and Maria White), which exists as an virtual score and a live performance.
Wish You Were Here blends the experience of the island as paradise with the island as prison. Found text from the letters of detained refugees creates a monologue of imprisonment, isolation, and torture. Certain phrases are echoed from an island paradise. The live performance extends this parallel dialogue through an embodied performance of communication across distance. Using the language of semaphore, two bodies spell out the separate messages finding unison and contradiction within the text.
Wish You Were Here was performed at Underbelly Arts Festival 2015.
Amelia Wallin, Lisa Mumford and Maria White are Friends with Deficits. Three emerging artists bring their varied interests and passions to this Sydney-based performance collective. Founded in 2009, the group has worked on site-specific projects and created work for theatre spaces around Sydney. Their collaboration began with a shared desire to make image-led feminist performance. Although this is still central to Friends with Deficits, these days their practice is situated somewhere between personal interactions and interdisciplinary spectacle. Friends with Deficits have presented work at Under the Radar, Underbelly Arts, PACT centre for emerging artists, BEAMS festival and the Old Fitzroy theatre. In 2014 the Friends curated NightTime ‘TALENT QUEST’ for Performance Space. Friends with Deficits intend to create work together until they are old and wrinkly but until that time they may be found in a two-dollar shop, probably in Marrickville.
Runway Journal acknowledges the custodians of the nations our digital platform reaches. We extend this acknowledgement to all First Nations artists, writers and audiences.
Runway Journal is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Runway Journal receives project support from the NSW Government through Create NSW.
Runway Journal acknowledges the custodians of the nations our digital platform reaches. We extend this acknowledgement to all First Nations artists, writers and audiences.
Runway Journal is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Runway Journal receives project support from the NSW Government through Create NSW.