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THE SPIRIT OF THINGS

Stiff Gins: Liveworks Festival Sydney 2016, also at Yirramboi Festival Melbourne 2017.

 
 
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Producer contact: Narelle Lewis | Performing Lines narelle@performinglines.org.au | +61 (0)2 9319 0066 Commissioned for the 2016 Liveworks Festival, Spirit of Things explores the dispossession and spiritual repatriation of Indigenous cultural objects held in museum collections. The show developed over two years of residencies, research and creative development and seeks to awaken these objects, unlocking them through music, stories and performance to reconnect them with their communities and creators once more. For this tour the Stiff Gins will be joined by musical collaborator Syd Green, director Felix Cross and lighting designer Fausto Brusamolino. Spirit of Things will also feature the stunning original visual design by Lucy Simpson and Mic Gruchy. Spirit of Things: The Sound of Objects was presented by Melbourne Recital centre un association with City of Melbourne as part of Yirramboi Festival.

CREATIVE TEAM

Written and composed by Nardi Simpson and Kaleena Briggs, with additional music by Syd Green

Visual Design: Lucy Simpson

Video Design: Mic Gruchy

Lighting: Fausto Brusamolino

Musicians: Syd Green, Jonathan Zwartz, Tim Powles & Kane Denelly

REVIEW

Keith Gallasch: Stiff Gins, The Spirit of Things: The Sound of Objects

The Spirit of Things explores the dispossession and spiritual repatriation of Indigenous cultural objects held in museum collections. The show developed over two years of residencies, research and creative development and seeks to awaken these objects, unlocking them through music, stories and performance to reconnect them with their communities and creators once more.

For this tour the Stiff Gins will be joined by musical collaborator Syd Green, director Felix Cross and lighting designer Fausto Brusamolino. Spirit of Things will also feature the stunning original visual design by Lucy Simpson and Mic Gruchy.

The Spirit of Things: The Sound of Objects was presented by Melbourne Recital centre un association with City of Melbourne as part of Yirramboi Festival.