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A Place Torrens Parade Ground Thurs 16 March Before entering the makeshift outside venue - simply made up of temporary fencing - two figures (Emma Cox and Nic Hempel) silhouetted against the backdrop of the white Torrens Parade Ground building move stealthily towards us. As they approach we gain entry to our seats, and on a stage made of red sand there sits an indigenous woman (Sylvia Neale) - against corrugated iron, motionless with arms and legs crossed. Curiously, to the right there stands a fridge. On the bitumen, before us a white woman (Anna Maclean) lays out squares of artificial turf on which she silently places cardboard models of houses in a ritualistic, near agitated manner. This custom continues across the sand until the urban spread reaches the still woman and awakening the sleeping spirit, momentarily angering her. More houses are then set in the fridge, Cox and Hempel join the setting and a modern city is born. 'A Place' effectively blurs the lines that are drawn between the unresolved integration of Anglo-settlers and our traditional land owners with a skilful mix of traditional and contemporary music and movements, as well as with fragmented quotes taken from both sides of this issue empathising that somehow in the grander scheme of history: past, present and future, we have all been displaced along the way, and that with a little understanding we can live together as one. A very powerful message, subtlety depicted in a non-confrontational, beautifully calming and positive manner.  |
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