seven kilometres north-east

Production Year:  2010-2012

Well-crafted with clever use of video and live song, Vercoe gives an engaging performance, building the show slowly to its emotional conclusion, prompting a few tears and plenty of after-show discussion in which Australian parallels didn’t escape notice.”  Jo Litson, The Sunday Telegraph

About

WINNER: THE PEACE TRUST AWARD 2012, ADELAIDE FRINGE FESTIVAL

NOMINATED: BEST INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION, 2010 SYDNEY THEATRE AWARDS

seven kilometres north-east is a performance work from version 1.0's Kym Vercoe (performer) 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 Pasa Sokolovic 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 Andric's novel The Bridge on the Drina.

The nearby Vilina Vlas Spa Resort in Visegrad was recommended in a tourist guidebook, and so Vercoe checked in. The visit was a great success, filled with tourist adventures and slivovitz-fuelled conversations with locals. Upon returning home, Vercoe discovered to her horror that certain facts about Visegrad had been omitted from the tourist guidebook. The travelogue shifts, turning to a darker reflection upon how places bear traces of the atrocities that occur within and around them, the unspeakable and unbearable acts that current residents are only too happy to see erased or obscured. Drawing upon journal notes, the writings of Ivo Andric, tourist guidebooks, correspondence with guidebook editors, and transcripts from the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, seven kilometres north-east is an evocative and deeply personal political performance.

Performance History

22 February - 4 March 2012
Main Theatre, Adelaide College of the Arts
Adelaide

April 20 - 21 2011
MESS Festival
Sarajevo
Bosnia

September 29 - October 16 2010
The Old Fitzroy Theatre,
Woolloomooloo

Production Credits

Devised and performed by: Kym Vercoe
Video artist: Sean Bacon
Dramaturgy: Deborah Pollard
Musical Director: Sladjana Hodzic
Singers: Sladjana Hodzic, Mirsada Muratovic & Eneida Bagaric
Original Lighting Design: Emma Lockhart-Wilson
Set/props contstruction: Erth Visual and Physical Inc.

version 1.0 inc and Tamarama Rock Surfers are supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and by the NSW Government through Arts NSW. This project is also assisted by the Sidney Myer Foundation and the Department of Performance Studies at the University of Sydney

 

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