The Origin of the World
Rosana Cade and Will Dickie
Performance, 2016
The Origin of the World is a one off collaboration with Will Dickie, which took place at Tempting Failure in July 2016.
A 24 hour installation that contemplates beginnings and humanity through a giant lip syncing vulva. We chart a course through the broadest range of voices and ideas. Using lectures, sermons, documentaries, debates, songs, stories, and guided meditations to explore science, religion, history, myth, spiritualism and fantasy.
The performance takes place in a fully turfed room that has echoes of both a spiritual sanctuary and a scientific lab. Sound, light and video technology emerge from the earth. Two live tortoises roam freely across the floor. Audiences remove their shoes, carefully enter the space and take a seat on the lush grass.
The breadth of thought, extreme duration, cyclical structure, repetition, and magnified imagery creates a non-linear experience of time. In that space deeper thoughts are provoked and given room for contemplation.
The Origin of the World is a one off collaboration with Will Dickie, which took place at Tempting Failure in July 2016.
A 24 hour installation that contemplates beginnings and humanity through a giant lip syncing vulva. We chart a course through the broadest range of voices and ideas. Using lectures, sermons, documentaries, debates, songs, stories, and guided meditations to explore science, religion, history, myth, spiritualism and fantasy.
The performance takes place in a fully turfed room that has echoes of both a spiritual sanctuary and a scientific lab. Sound, light and video technology emerge from the earth. Two live tortoises roam freely across the floor. Audiences remove their shoes, carefully enter the space and take a seat on the lush grass.
The breadth of thought, extreme duration, cyclical structure, repetition, and magnified imagery creates a non-linear experience of time. In that space deeper thoughts are provoked and given room for contemplation.
