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Not Thinking About the Circus, at the Circus
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"I am shiny, towing an absence of sound through a tunnel. Holding"
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2016...
2016
Not Thinking About the Circus, at the Circus
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Not Thinking about the Circus at the Circus
Gwen Tasker
(illustrator),
2023
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essay
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— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , July vol. 13 no. 1 2023; 'In April 2016 Gwenn Tasker and Angela Gardner went to a circus performance by Circa Ensemble called when one door closes at the Brisbane Powerhouse, during which Gwenn drew and Angela wrote. We sat in the front row and, as one reviewer wrote,2 it was a brutal, intensely physical show highlighting feminist opposition to domestic violence. In the audience it felt influenced by Antonin Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty as if by violent assault the work intended to shatter a comfortably false reality. As physical theatre, it was beautiful, disturbing and mesmerising, exhibiting moments of poise and balance, of pattern and repetition.' (Introduction) -
‘Not Thinking About the Circus, at the Circus’ by Angela Gardner
2016
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interview
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , July-September no. 19 2016;
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‘Not Thinking About the Circus, at the Circus’ by Angela Gardner
2016
single work
interview
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , July-September no. 19 2016; -
Not Thinking about the Circus at the Circus
Gwen Tasker
(illustrator),
2023
single work
essay
art work
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , July vol. 13 no. 1 2023; 'In April 2016 Gwenn Tasker and Angela Gardner went to a circus performance by Circa Ensemble called when one door closes at the Brisbane Powerhouse, during which Gwenn drew and Angela wrote. We sat in the front row and, as one reviewer wrote,2 it was a brutal, intensely physical show highlighting feminist opposition to domestic violence. In the audience it felt influenced by Antonin Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty as if by violent assault the work intended to shatter a comfortably false reality. As physical theatre, it was beautiful, disturbing and mesmerising, exhibiting moments of poise and balance, of pattern and repetition.' (Introduction)
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