Two new Video Works: Brighter Future and Feature-Less

Press Release

TWO NEW VIDEO WORKS

Please note that the advertised times in the Fringe programme booklet are incorrect

BRIGHTER FUTURE
By Mike Ting
Friday 10th February
On wall Embassy Theatre
Majoribanks St side
9 – 12pm (5 min loop)

FEATURE-LESS
By Poppy Lekner
Saturday 11th February
Paramount Theatre
Courtenay Place
10.30pm (30 min duration)

Brighter Future: the King of Pop and New Zealands first State House in Miramar intersect in an outdoor video that is definitely not off the wall. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, so if you occupy the middle ground which way will you fall? Framed by a context of social change Brighter Future shows an endless rehearsal of moving backwards but looking forwards to a future perpetually just around the corner.

Mike Ting is a Fine Arts graduate from Massey University and is currently a PhD candidate at the European Graduate School in Saas Fee, Switzerland. He lives in Wellington.

Feature-less: Ever been curious about what you might look like on the big screen? This is an experimental participative work where the audience replaces the feature film. This “showing” challenges notions of the function of the audience in theatre. What happens when the film is removed from the cinema, and the spectator becomes both the object and subject of the gaze?

What does the screen demand of you, and what do pictures want?

Poppy Lekner is a Fine Arts graduate from Massey University and teaches photography at Wellington High School. She lives in Wellington.

ENDS

Thanks to Fringe, Kakano Funding and Creative NZ for their assistance.