pH

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Event pH
Venue Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW
First Date 11 August 1992
Opening Date 11 August 1992
Last Date 15 August 1992
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description Programme: 'dumb type' are a Japanese performance group from Kyoto whose performances are a direct evaluation of contemporary Japanese society. In their performance 'pH', the all-consuming shopper comes under scrutiny on a stage set with female dancers and mechanical toy pigs. Their performances utilise technological objects and the body is understood in sculptural terms.

Reviewer: "A series of seemingly random but nevertheless carefully co-ordinated, contrived and designed events that the audience must observe, co-ordinate, assimilate and categorise all at once. The piece is about technology and society...the ways and formats in which controls are asserted
on society by technology."
Description Source Other
Primary Genre Other
Secondary Genre Performance Art
Avant-garde
Organisations
Resources
Text Nationality Japan
Production Nationality Japan
Further Information Devised and staged by dumb type, a Kyoto based performance collective. The contributors for this production are unavailable. Discrepency between dates. Performance Space Programme has 11-15 Aug, 1992. Original post had 8-16 Aug, 1992.
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Performance Space Database
Australian & New Zealand Theatre Record August 1992
Event Identifier 16427
Dataset AusStage