by Harriet Gillies & Marcus McKenzie
Sat 4 June | Rising Melbourne
9am – 5pm | Schoolhouse Studios, Coburg
As per our last email re: optimising audience attendance
At close of play and the end of days, optimisation never ceases.
The world of Comic Sans reply-alls is taken offline in this experimental marathon performance by artists Harriet Gillies and Marcus McKenzie.
Clock-in with an expert team of life coach gurus, microdosing tech-bros, multi-level marketing scammers, and an intern paid entirely in exposure for this absurd capitalist phantasm.
As the performance spills from a CAPTCHAesque maze of queues and QR codes and into an absurd corporate seminar, bodies will rise en masse to break free from cubicles and bring to life the Casual Friday horrors of human production lines and infinte grind.
8/8/8: Work is the first in a series of three immersive durational performances examining the industrialised split of our lives into neat, equal slivers of work, rest and play.
Creative Team
Co-Creators
Marcus McKenzie & Harriet Gillies
Director
Lynsey Peisinger
Dramaturg
Lara Thoms (Aphids)
Performers
Eugene Choi, Mish Grigor, Amrita Hepi, Bec Jensen & Peter Paltos
Production Design
Romanie Harper
Composer/Musician
Nina Buchanan
Lighting Design
Addititve
Digital Design
Xanthe Dobbie
Technical Associate
Derrick Duan
Associate Artist
Roshelle Fong
Production Manager
Nick Glen
Assistant Stage Manager
Daniel Story
Producer
Thom Smyth / Unfunded Empathy
With big thanks to
Auspicious Arts
Show Info
Duration: 480 minutes (no interval)
Commissioned by RISING.
This project was commissioned through RISING’s A Call to Artists initiative, a program supported by Creative Victoria, City of Melbourne and Besen Family Foundation.
It is supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding anIt is supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body, and received development support through the GreenHouse National Artists Residency program, delivered by HotHouse Theatre in partnership with Albury City and Murray Arts; Melbourne Fringe and the Besen Family Foundation; and Vitalstatistix through Adhocracy, their national artists’ lab.
Unfunded Empathy 