Play at Being

Lit from

Within

by Play at Being


	Lit from Within by Play at Being offer an unsettling bricolage of image and sound at the Horsham Regional Art Gallery (Supper room Town Hall) on Saturday 18th October at 8pm. “Life isn’t even meaningless. It’s more than that…” Lit from Within explores the performance possibilities of a delicate white inflatable space, shadowplay and VJ software. What Play at Being have to say about why what is going to happen might happen: In this performance we have used the landscape of the Wimmera, the salt lakes and skies, to create the images of this show. These images are interwoven with fragments of texts and a narrative that take a playful look at human existence, and draw on existential philosophy and the absurd. One major influence for the performance aesthetic is the painting by Neil Douglas called ‘Alice in Australia’, hung in the Horsham Regional Arts Gallery. Inspired the painting, Lit from Within plays with the idea of the mind as a strange and wonderful landscape…a place for contemplation about the absurdity of life…a place to converse with our often incongruent, despotic, egomaniacal inner selves…..it may even be a place where go to make decisions. Play at Being is Anna Loewendahl and Greg Pritchard who live in Natimuk, Western Victoria, and are gaining a reputation for peculiar performances. Lit from Within is kindly sponsored by the Regional Arts Fund and Arkaos software and has been developed with the assistance of Punctum’s Live Arts Incubator, Castlemaine. The show, after further development, will be performed at the Horsham Regional Art Gallery in October for the Awakenings Festival. We would like to thank Jude Anderson and Punctum, Merle Hathaway, Adam Harding, Graeme Russell, Melissa Powell, Alison Myers, Regional Arts Victoria, Arkaos software, Helen Blandford (for making the cube) and the family of Neil Douglas.




		Reviews from Castlemaine Performance “Performance work like yours that deals with wonderment is rare” Jude Anderson “Playful and luminous” Dangerous Meredith “Alice moves from wonderland to never never land in this playful and intelligent interpretation of existential philosophy. Penelope Sell “