Every part of Australia is,
always was and always will be,
Aboriginal land.

As a community gathering-place, a festival of arts, cultural exchange and celebration and as a site for the sharing of ideas and stories, Ten Days on the Island pays respect to the Palawa/Tasmanian Aborigines – The original owners and cultural custodians - of all the lands and waters across Lutruwita/Tasmania upon which our Festival takes place.

With thanks to the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre for place names and other words in palawa kani, the language of Tasmanian Aborigines.

Ten Days on the Island presents

WE WILL SLAM YOU WITH OUR WINGS

By Joanna Dudley

Australia/International

When

9 MAR THURS – 11 MAR SAT
12PM – 8PM
12 MAR SUN – 19 MAR SUN
11AM – 5PM

Where

THE OLD MERCURY PRINT HALLNipaluna/Hobart

Tickets

FREE

Duration

22 mins

Show Accessibility

Language No Barrier
Language No Barrier

There is dialogue featured in this show, however, it is not essential to understand to content to meaningfully engage with the work.

Visual Content rating 50%
Visual Content Rating

This work is predominantly visual, with background dialogue.

Venue Accessibility

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Wheelchair Accessibility

This venue is accessible to people that use wheelchairs and has level access throughout. Please note that there are no accessible bathrooms available in this venue. The closest accessible bathrooms are in Wellington Centre, a 5 to 10-minute journey from the event site and accessible from both Argyle and Elizabeth Streets.

More information on The Old Mercury Print Hall here.

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Level Access

This venue is level access in its entirety.

Low Lighting 

This venue will feature low lighting throughout. A level of lighting will be provided to assist in moving around the space safely.

No Bathroom Access

This venue does not provide any bathroom access to the public. Please note that the duration of this event experience is estimated to be under 30 minutes. The closest bathrooms are in Wellington Centre, accessible from both Argyle and Elizabeth Streets.

Warnings

Suitable for all ages

Covid

Ten Days on the Island is closely following and implementing all restrictions and recommendations advised by National and State Governments regarding public gatherings and event venues, you can find the relevant government information here.

We, as well as the venue will be managing the risk of COVID-19 at our event venues in the following ways:

  1. Public availability of hand sanitiser at Festival venues.
  2. Patrons, staff, volunteers and artists are encouraged not to attend events if they are unwell.

In We Will Slam You With Our Wings, the hunted becomes the hunter, the tamed controls, and the dying beauty takes her own revenge. It’s time to sing the patriarchy into submission.

We Will Slam You With Our Wings is an operatic video and sound installation comprising seven portrait sized screens, each a 19th century colonial imperialistic portrait with one noticeable difference. Instead of powerful men, six young girls between the age of 8 to 16 stand in their regalia and hold their own stances of power. These young girls are the leaders, the army, the chorus, the pack, the collective and the future voice.

Joanna Dudley, the performer known for her ground-breaking collaborations with William Kentridge, is the chieftain and mentor, encouraging the girls to create the world afresh.

Dudley turns that quintessential 19th century form – opera – on its head: each girl proudly and unnervingly conquers as she recreates an operatic death scene representing the squirming heights of patriarchal fantasy. Rather than being destroyed as expected, they triumph. Patriotic speeches and declarations of war from the world’s male dictators are not left unscathed.

Credits

WE WILL SLAM YOU WITH OUR WINGS
an operatic video installation for an army of six girls and one war mistress

Creation and Sound Composition by Joanna Dudley
Collaborator & Projection Design by Catherine Meyburgh

Set and Installation Design by Rufus Didwiszus
Costume Design by Janosch Mallwitz

Performers and Co-creators
Beatrix Juno Dudley
Tabatha Howard
Kittu Hoyne
Esmé Olive Mcgrath
Ruth Alice McIlleron
Mpho Takane
with Joanna Dudley

Sound Design & Final Mix by Adam Howard
Digital Colouring by C.A. Van Aswegen

WE WILL SLAM YOU WITH OUR WINGS would like to thank our
Funding Archangel
Brenda R. Potter

The creation and presentation of this work has been generously
supported by the
Naomi Milgrom Foundation

Presented by arrangement with Arts Projects Australia

Director Ian Scobie AM
Director Lee Cumberlidge
Producer Daniel Vorrasi
Marketing Director Dani Ricciardi
Production Manager Mark Muller
Administrator Di Farrell 

Arts Projects Australia (APA) is an arts and event management company which operates as a producer and presenter of high quality contemporary performing arts and events.   

The title is based on that of Henry Darger’s painting We Will Slam Them
With Our Wings
© 2020 Kiyoko Lerner / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Image Credit: Dudley/Meyburgh

Watch the trailer

Partners

Presented by arrangement with Arts Projects Australia. Supported by Creative Partnerships Australia through Plus1

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