Visual Arts & Film

FLAMES DANCED IN THEIR HAIR BUT DID NOT BURN THEM

A multi-channel video work made in collaboration with the cast of THE BACCHAE (2015).

  • Dates 26 Sep - 06 Oct
  • Time 11:00am - 5:00pm (Come and go as you please)
  • Venues Buxton Contemporary
FREE EVENT
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A person is sitting on an edge of a single bed. Their body is draped over their legs with their long auburn hair covering their face. The bed is in a metal bedframe. The bed is in front of a large projection of flames in a theatrically lit space.

Image Credit: Sky Davies

A person is sitting on an edge of a single bed. Their body is draped over their legs with their long auburn hair covering their face. The bed is in a metal bedframe. The bed is in front of a large projection of flames in a theatrically lit space.

  • Created by: Fraught Outfit

  • Presented by: Melbourne Fringe and Buxton Contemporary

  • Produced by: Performing Lines

FLAMES DANCED IN THEIR HAIR BUT DID NOT BURN THEM slides between documentary and fantasy, wild theatrical ritual and intimate conversation.

In 2015, Fraught Outfit premiered THE BACCHAE, a hypnotic, music-led performance that explored sexual objectification through a mythic and contemporary lens. Made with an ensemble of 13-18-year-olds, the result was a controversy-stirring production that prompted questions about the young performers' agency. Almost a decade later, the cast, now in their 20’s, reunite in collaboration with Kate Blackmore, Adena Jacobs, Aaron Orzech, Kelly Ryall, and Eugyeene Teh.

FLAMES is a reckoning with the past, a process of ‘coming down from the mountain,’ of witnessing one another again, and trying to grapple with the unnamable, sometimes beautiful, often treacherous experience of forming one’s sexuality in the real world, beyond the walls of the theatre.

This project received Cash to Create through the Fringe Fund. Supported by Michael Jankie and Vivienne Poznanski, and Jenepher Martin. Originally commissioned by The Substation, and supported by Creative Australia and Creative Victoria.

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  • Duration: Come and go as you please

  • Event Accessibility: Deaf or Hard of Hearing Rating: Fully Accessible

  • Age suitability: MA15+

  • Event warnings: Moderate Coarse Language, Both Sudden And Sustained Loud Noises.

  • Content warnings: Sexual References, Mental Health.

Film installation is approximately 37 minutes long. 

Please note that the installation plays on a loop. Gallery Staff onsite will be able to advise when the next video is due to start. 

 

  • Free Event

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Date Time Venue

Thursday, 26 September 2024

11:00am

Buxton Contemporary

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Saturday, 28 September 2024

11:00am

Buxton Contemporary

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Sunday, 29 September 2024

11:00am

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Thursday, 03 October 2024

11:00am

Buxton Contemporary

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Friday, 04 October 2024

11:00am

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Saturday, 05 October 2024

11:00am

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Sunday, 06 October 2024

11:00am

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