Subject Matter Object Pink
2016
Subject Matter Object Pink plays with shifting presence, how it moves and multiplies through body, material, and space like a morphing substance. Different physicalities and characters meet through pop and sci-fi undercurrents, transmuting story and emotion into familiar yet non-narrative other-worldlines.
Performed by dancers Alisha McLennan Marler (Touch Compass) and Georgie Goater, the work premiered in Tamaki Makaurau's Basement Theatre in 2016 as part of the triple bill, Sunset Affair with Zahra Killeen-Chance and Tallulah Holly-Massey.
"... melting vulva
silk sorbet
sunset skinpeel
dreamtime lava
liquid coral
rose shedding
petal bleed...
reveal: glow-eyed monstrous
hairy- face thing
enter: silver turban of the open-heart clantremoring priestesstammering, shimmeringis her
skin laughing
shifting va
like rain hits ocean
or something catches
alight"
- Tru Paraha
Choreographic direction: Georgie Goater
Performers: Alisha McLennan Marler, Georgie Goater
Sound design: James Risbey (tracks compiled by Goater)
Lighting: Paul Bennett
Costume & stage: Georgie Goater
Photos: Solomon Mortimer
Black & white photos: Shannon Esquilat
Video: Solomon Mortimer
Premiere: June 2016, Basement Theatre, Aotearoa
Performance: Old Folk's Association, July 2016
Selected for XDance Festival 2020 Finland (cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic)
"It is mesmerising and magical and I hope it goes on and on. Joined by Alisha McLennan, we witness two hauntingly articulate perspectives on a shared movement vocabulary."
- Sarah Knox, Theatreview, 2016