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EMOTIONOGRAPHY///////
Cutting edge text and piano explorations into the emotional
terrain of relationships in contemporary Australia
by
THE JANSSEN/HULLICK DUO
ABOUT EMOTIONOGRAPHY
On Australia Day 2008 at 5pm audiences of the 45 Downstairs Theatre in Melbourne will be treated to a cutting edge spoken text and piano examination of the Australian EMOTIONOGRAPHY- the emotional terrain of relationships in Australia. The show will be performed by the uncompromising text and sonic art duo THE JANSSEN/HULLICK DUO who have recently formed with the intention of recontextualising the spoken word and sound poetry mediums into internationally challenging sound art.
THE JANSSEN/HULLICK DUO:
text berni.m.janssen
piano james hullick
Australian Literature is noted for it's quirky insights and stories featuring a curious blend of the mundane and the unusual in the context of a rugged environment. Following along this track, Emotionoraphy charts absence, loss, pain in the creeks, billabongs, bush and plains of the Australian land. People die. Relationships founder, fail, are lost. Indigenous and non-indigenous Australians carry burdens of grief that shape their lives. Their dislocations form them. These textual evocations of absence and loss of the body, of the land recited and sited in the body of sound. Voice and piano ache poetry. Emotionography a valedictory re-sital; land, body, grieving.
THE JANSSEN/HULLICK DUO seek to draw the power of literary expression into the concert environment. How can the sound of our Australian emotional language be experienced as sonic art in it's own right?
EMOTIONOGRAPHY concert details:
where: 45 Downstairs, 45 Flinders Lane
when: Australia Day 26th January, 5pm
cost: $10 for everyone
IMAGES OF EMOTIONOGRAPHY
Photography by Gunther the Great
A REVIEW OF EMOTIONOGRAPHY
EMOTIONOGRAPHY PROGRAM BOOKLET
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2008