Exposure

A world nearing breaking point.

Tarps down, goggles on and gloves off, two women wade through deep pits of domestic detritus, as toxins ooze and whitegoods crash and bedframes scrape. Acclaimed performance artists Latai Taumoepeau and Mirabelle Wouters plunge the ageing female body into a landscape of waste, labour and collapse.

Exposure is an ugly-beautiful endurance work interrogating the body's relationship to systems of power, extraction and environmental instability. A visceral theatrical experience that is impossible to look away from.

Following developmental showings at PACT, and the Melbourne premiere at Rising Festival, Festival of Dangerous Ideas proudly presents the Sydney premiere of Exposure, produced by Branch Nebula. Exposure was commissioned by Vitalstatistix. Image credit: Jamie James.

Latai Taumoepeau: born in 1972 in Gadigal Ngura/Sydney, she makes live art as an expanded Indigenous practice merging cultural, political and formal concerns, grounded in Tongan doctrines of fonua, tauhi fonua, faiva and vā. In 2023 she received the Creative Australia Emerging and Experimental Arts Award.

Mirabelle Wouters: a Belgian/Australian performance maker, set and lighting designer living on Gadigal, and Co-Artistic Director of Branch Nebula. A two-time Helpmann Award winner and Green Room Award recipient.

Sessions: Saturday 22 August, 7:00pm; Sunday 23 August, 6:00pm. General Admission $35. You must attend a minimum of 3 different Festival sessions to complete the Festival Multipack (save 15%).