JERK | OPEN STUDIO

WEDNESDAY 8th DECEMBER | 3 - 4.30pm
Maroochy Sailing Club, Chambers Island
Free Event
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Curious about the process behind creating contemporary interdisciplinary performance?

Sunshine Coast performing artist Ruby Donohoe is hosting an Open Studio as part of the creative development of her new work JERK in collaboration with dance artist Jenni Large and sound artist Chucho Bruno. The Open Studio will be an insight into devising processes, interdisciplinary collaboration, and how this project collides together dance, sound, design, participatory practices, and verbatim text.

ABOUT THE WORK
JERK is an irreverent free-fall based on Ruby's experience of living with epilepsy. Shapeshifting between the autobiographical body and the abstracted body, JERK inhabits a performative space between the experiential and the named, the chasm between the body and the body explained, and all that happens between cornflakes for breakfast and when the lights go out (and nobody is home). JERK explores what it means to have an out-of- body experience for a species tethered to the notion of body as self. These real-life anecdotes become passageways to capture the defining experience of epilepsy: the body moved by another force distinct from the self. The work pursues the personal body as political, immutable, and essential to the possibility of transcending the physical in a reclamation of the body.

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Photo by Ruby Donohoe x Ignacio Sarraf

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Ruby Donohoe | www.rubydonohoe.com | IG: @rubybridgetdonohoe
Jenni Large | www.jennilarge.com | IG: @jenlarge
Chucho Bruno | www.bigotesmusica.com | @chuchobruno

This creative development of JERK is supported by Sunshine Coast Council and Arts Queensland through RADF Project Funding as well as Access Arts Queensland.