Experimental

  • Fringe Festival

Body of Knowledge

A powerful meditation on age and change

Against a bright pink background, two people sit on the floor with their back to the camera. One lies on their back, knees bent, with their hands holding their head up; the second sitting up straight. Each person's head is slightly tilted toward each other, but their faces are not seen.
In the foreground, two people stand close together under dim theatre lights. They are listening to something on a phone through a shared set of headphones. In the mid-ground, a person is speaking into her phone. In the background, a group of three people stand together in a discussion.
Past Event

Image Credit: Pier Carthew

Against a bright pink background, two people sit on the floor with their back to the camera. One lies on their back, knees bent, with their hands holding their head up; the second sitting up straight. Each person's head is slightly tilted toward each other, but their faces are not seen.
In the foreground, two people stand close together under dim theatre lights. They are listening to something on a phone through a shared set of headphones. In the mid-ground, a person is speaking into her phone. In the background, a group of three people stand together in a discussion.

  • Directed by: Samara Hersch

  • Presented by: Melbourne Fringe

  • In Association with: Creative Brimbank

This intimate and playful work, performed by teenagers who call into the theatre on mobile phones, is a powerful meditation on age and change: changes to bodies, changes in attitude, and changes to life.



Questions of boundaries, sexuality, pleasure, shame, pain, consent, ageing, grief, and death are all on the table as teens chat with the audience in real time from their bedrooms.



The intergenerational conversations that are set in motion forces us to rethink the multitude of ways in which knowledge is produced, acquired and shared. Power is re-organised and re-imagined. The teacher and the student, the adult and the child, the performer and the audience, begin to shift and entangle.



Together we are here, in this moment, trying to work it all out...



Body of Knowledge is a surprising, curious, and tender experience exploring how we pay attention (or not) to our own and others’ bodies existing across generations.



Associate Artist: Cass Fumi

Technical Manager: Tilman Robinson



Co-Programmed as part of Melbourne International Games Week

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