Panel Discussion: Meme Girls
19 April
Post // Love
Theatre
8 Apr - 2 May
Beckett Theatre
60 minutes
Post // Love
Theatre
8 Apr - 2 May
Beckett Theatre
60 minutes
Meme Girls / construct their identities in real time – and demand an audience.
Experience the sort of post-gender, tongue-in-cheek spectacle that has made Ash Flanders a counter-culture hit. In Meme Girls, this pop-culture addict points his satirical sense of humour squarely at the desperate voices crying out for attention in our online neighbourhood.
Packed with the LOLs of a great cat video, this non sequitur performance embraces the YouTube world, where life is ‘click-bait’ and views, shares and likes equate to happiness. Blurring the lines between performance art, drag and cabaret, Flanders presents a love letter to the bizarre and addictive women of YouTube who / broadcast their lives to an online abyss.
Any time Flanders puts his rhinestones in the spotlight, it’s as much a satire as homage … Flanders again proves himself an obscenely funny and enviably talented performer.
Photography / Pia Johnson
Photography / Pia Johnson
Photography / Pia Johnson
Photography / Pia Johnson
Photography / Pia Johnson
Photography / Pia Johnson
Photography / Pia Johnson
Photography / Pia Johnson
Photography / Pia Johnson
Photography / Pia Johnson
Photography / Pia Johnson
Photography / Pia Johnson
Photography / Pia Johnson
Photography / Pia Johnson
Photography / Pia Johnson
Created by / Ash Flanders, Stephen Nicolazzo and Marion Potts based on an original idea by Ash Flanders
Direction / Stephen Nicolazzo
Set & Costume Design / Eugyeene Teh
Lighting Design / Katie Sfetkidis
Sound Design & Composition / THE SWEATS
Cast / Ash Flanders, Art Simone
Preview
Wednesday 8 April, 7pm
Opening night
Thursday 9 April, 8pm
Time to Talk
Tuesday 14 April, 7pm
Ash Flanders is a 2015 Independent Artist in Residence.
Key Image Photography / Andrew Gough
Image Treatment / The Sisters Hayes
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