Was a privilege to write about Kaz Therese's recent show 'Sleeplessness' a few weeks ago. Thank you to Carriageworks Journal for publishing this essay."Sleeplessness invokes many such questions around what it means to inhabit a traumatised and classed body. How can theatre and institutions be reworked and rewritten for these needs? These are persistent questions that the work is attempting to address through particular (in)formal devices – a means to redetermine the very structure of theatre as an alternative to a format, which is arguably engineered for the linear, teleological European patriarchal Master-narrative, underpinned by the cultural myth of having-it-together –an inherited format we still revere all too disproportionately to other modes of knowledge production.To perform one’s disrupted lineage of subalternity against the received template, as Kaz does, demands an ethical under-working of performance – potentially leading towards a prescient, bodily-led process of feeling over form. For rather than surrendering to the professional dictates or traditions of this tendency to contort one’s voice, corporeality, and identity, Therese and director Anthea Williams have retrofitted drama to work for them. An approach made apparent when Kaz interludes: “[Stage Manager] Anastasia is gonna help me tell the story. They have my back. Anastasia will operate the show and when I don’t want to talk about something they will sort it out for me, because sometimes, I don’t know…” In both the rehearsal and opening performance, Kaz relied on Anastasia to take over the narration (with a voice recording) during the section about Mel’s disappearance – a portion of the story that discloses an eerie mimesis of their grandmother Lenke’s plight; a wound that will probably never resolve."

Instrumentalising Your Desire; Effective Meditations Protocol® is an audio-visual program developed via the Social Practices Association (located on the 18th Parallel of Adminicity). SPA produces ‘effective meditational’ instructional modules which can be adapted to calibrate the employee-affect-relations (EARS) of nearly every industry.

Developed from Director James Hazel’s patented SURVEY-SCORE© technology, we turn to the realm of the sonic as a medium that can reveal employees’ deeper machinic-desires, both in and out of the work-play-space. This offers an innovative solution to the previous ocular-centric, market-based approaches to management and logistics.

"James Hazel and Elia Bosshard of ADSR ZINE invite you to our next archival exhibition, of works drawn out and extended from digital to material forms; a provisional library which includes texts of special value, from the personal collections our contributing artists; a space wherein we can spend long durations with those writers/thinkers that have influenced our thinking and practice. In building this library, we are interested in the ways a text might betray a sense of having been lived with and alongside;

notes / comments / folded pages / signs of wear and tear /of treasured and pleasured annotations; those intimacies and proximities that index the ways in which ideas and words never expire on the page, but permeate all facets of experiential syntax."

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JUNE: BRAND X/CITY OF SYDNEY
ADSR ZINE CREATIVE SPACE 12-MONTH RESIDENCY