seven kilometres north-east is a new production from version 1.0 exploring the seduction of forgetting and the uneasy entanglement of place, tourism and atrocity. What is the price of peace?
presented by version 1.0 in association with Tamarama Rock Surfers
seven kilometres north-east is a new performance from version 1.0’s Kym Vercoe (perfomer) and Sean Bacon (video artist), exploring the discomforting entanglements of place, tourism and atrocity. The work was triggered by a visit to the famous Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 2008. Completed in 1571, this bridge forms an historical link between east and west, made famous in Nobel-prize winning author Ivo Andrić‘s novel The Bridge over the Drina. The nearby Vilina Vlas Spa Resort in Višegrad, was recommended in a tourist guidebook, and so Vercoe checked in. The visit was a great success, filled with tourist adventures and slivovitz-fueled conversations with locals. Upon returningRead more...
It’s June already! It’s all been go, go, go for version 1.0, with barely time to come up for breath. And our busiest part of the year is yet to come! Yes, we will be working on four different shows in six different cities throughout August. But more on that later.
RUCKUS ON THE ROAD
Since our last e news, version 1.0 has performed THIS KIND OF A RUCKUS in Adelaide and Lismore to great acclaim. The Adelaide Advertiser raved that “you probably can’t afford to miss this show”, and awarded it a four star rating. The blog Festival Freak said of the show:
“You can feel the physical power play taking place in front of you, and it’s uncomfortable […] It’s like those Jagermeister shots that don’t taste too bad going down, but kick you in the head later.”
The street paper Rip It Up was similarly enthusiastic, stating that:
“The performance itself was highly professional and energetic. This piece will certainly stimulate your thinking, but beRead more...
Well, it’s 2010 and we’re back in action, racing toward a huge year. Already, version 1.0’s Company Artists Kym Vercoe and Sean Bacon are in creative development at Sydney University’s Rex Cramphorn Studio for a new project seven kilometres northeast, a performance about geography, tourism and atrocity to premiere as part of Tamarama Rock Surfers’ 2010 Season at the Old Fitzroy Theatre in September/October. Stay tuned for more details. Next week, Company Artists Yana Taylor and Deborah Pollard go into the studio at Urban Theatre Projects for some R&D on the first installment of our Blue Sky program for 2010, investigating politics, media and memory.
But that’s only just the beginning…
THIS KIND OF RUCKUS: ADELAIDE AND LISMORE
In February, version 1.0 takes THIS KIND OF RUCKUS - an alcohol-fuelled, techno-beat driven work about sexual violence in contemporary culture - to the Adelaide Fringe Festival. It’s our first ever visit to Adelaide, and we’re very excitedRead more...
Deeply Offensive and Utterly Untrue has won the Special Panel Award for Innovation in the 2009 Drovers’ Awards at the Australian Performing Arts Centres Association annual conference in Port Macquarie. Despite a number of nominations, this is our first award and we are very proud.
