Praise!
Praise!
A performance created for Underbelly Arts Festival 2017 in collaboration with Eugene Choi and featuring the Polyphony choir (directed by Jack Colwell). Two ghostly figures in white dresses and a choir wielding wooden stakes congregate around a steel scaffold sculpture in a Church-like spectacle. With accompanying double bassists and an electronic track permeated by thick, dark drone, the performance becomes a sensually Gothic rendering of Christian ritual, taking inspiration from the Pentecostal service and Catholic Mass.
A new, hour-length iteration with five performers is being developed as part of Asia Topa 2020, commissioned by Next Wave.
Version 1 (Sydney)
National Art School, 7-8 October 2017 (dur: 20 mins)
As part of Underbelly Arts Festival 2017
Lead Artists/Performers: Eugene Choi & Marcus Whale
Composer: Marcus Whale
Scaffold Sculpture: Eugene Choi
Choir: Polyphony (conductor: Jack Colwell)
Double Bassists: Jacques Emery & Maximillian Alduca
Version 2 (Melbourne)
Brunswick Mechanics Institute, 19-22 February 2020 (dur: 60 mins)
As part of Asia Topa 2020 (forthcoming)
Lead Artists/Performers: Eugene Choi & Marcus Whale
Composer: Marcus Whale
Scaffold Sculpture: Eugene Choi
Performers: Mossy 333, Mohini Hillyer-Sharma, Arben Dzika