TOTAL TRANSCENDENCE was a roaming and durational performance for Tropical Fruits ‘Bush Magik’ NYE 2023/24. Encouraging a shared moment to be present and in the body, TOTAL TRANSCENDENCE held space for human connection and gestures of care as mechanisms for transcending.
Shifting between performance and community building, the work gently combined the profane and precious to reveal new ways to connect and of course, the potential for cosmic enlightenment. TOTAL TRANSCENDENCE centred platonic intimacy and activated euphoric feelings associated with participation in ritual as an ironic response to commodified spiritualism. It was absurd, lighthearted and charged with bush magik.
There are many ways to transcend.
Transcendence temporarily exists within the energy we create together.
Are you ready to surrender?
The universe provides.
Say it with us: We bring energy to our body with every breath.
Hold on to your radical faith in magic.
Seek clarity, find mystery.
Magic loves the hungry. Magic never dies.
Contributors: Merinda Davies, Grace Dewar, Lewis, Laurie Oxenford and Bronte Naylor. Photography by Bronte Naylor.
Developed with support from Splendour in the Grass (2023) and realised as a roaming performance at Tropical Fruits ‘Bush Magik’ (2023), Widjabul Wia-Bal Country | Lismore NSW.
︎ COLLABOATIVE PLAYLIST – CLICK TO LISTEN ︎
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Creative Development: Splendour in the Grass – North Byron Parklands (2023)
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Shifting between performance and community building, the work gently combined the profane and precious to reveal new ways to connect and of course, the potential for cosmic enlightenment. TOTAL TRANSCENDENCE centred platonic intimacy and activated euphoric feelings associated with participation in ritual as an ironic response to commodified spiritualism. It was absurd, lighthearted and charged with bush magik.
There are many ways to transcend.
Transcendence temporarily exists within the energy we create together.
Are you ready to surrender?
The universe provides.
Say it with us: We bring energy to our body with every breath.
Hold on to your radical faith in magic.
Seek clarity, find mystery.
Magic loves the hungry. Magic never dies.
Contributors: Merinda Davies, Grace Dewar, Lewis, Laurie Oxenford and Bronte Naylor. Photography by Bronte Naylor.
Developed with support from Splendour in the Grass (2023) and realised as a roaming performance at Tropical Fruits ‘Bush Magik’ (2023), Widjabul Wia-Bal Country | Lismore NSW.
︎ COLLABOATIVE PLAYLIST – CLICK TO LISTEN ︎
Creative Development: Splendour in the Grass – North Byron Parklands (2023)
Creative development: Crystal Factory & Himalayan Salt Factory – Mermaid Beach (2023)
