Single Channel Video

A performance project made in collaboration with Back to Back Theatre community members. (Geelong White Night 2018; Rising Festival, Melbourne 2022)

In a gallery space dominated by a floor-to-ceiling projection, a shifting showcase of everyday objects takes center stage. Narrated by an unseen voice, the work frames ordinary people presenting to camera what matters most to them - objects carefully held, described, and questioned for the stories they carry.

Single Channel Video is an evolving catalogue of banality: a DIY search for meaning in the totems of daily life. It is a power play between self, object, and viewer, oscillating between the heartbreaking, the curious, and the downright odd.

Like a disclosure from the deep recesses of the internet, the work unfolds as a flea market of backstories, a late-night infomercial of perpetual desire and non-fulfilment. This durational performance dismantles the surface to reveal the profound that hides in the banal. In every ‘thing’ we see ourselves reflected - appraised, discussed, and ultimately set aside.

Team:

Original Concept & Design - Jason Maling, Mark Cuthbertson, Bruce Gladwin, Lara Thoms 

Original Videography -  Rhian Hinkley

Set Construction & Realisation - Mark Cuthbertson

Co-Directors - Bruce Gladwin, Jason Maling, Tamara Searle, Lara Thoms

Hosts / Performers - Laura Beresford, Kristie Brocket, Robbie Croft, Chris Hansen, Erin Kearns, Simon Laherty, Sarah Mainwaring, Annette McGovern, Francesca Neri, Ben Oakes, Erin Pocervina, Scott Price, Tamika Simpson, Jasmine Swindells, Nicolas Walsh, Jessica Walker, Liam White

Sound Designer - Harry Covill

Lighting Design & Production Manager - Dans Maree Sheehan

Sound Operator & Engineer -Thomas “Soup” Campbell

Company Manager - Kirstin Honey

Producer - Margaret Bourke

Executive Producer - Tim Stitz

Guests / Collaborators -  Art Gusto, Arts Projects Australia, Create A, Jennings Street School, Theatre of Speed, (It’s No) Drama

Support roles in program / festival:

RISING Performance Program Manager - Ally Harvey

RISING Associate Producer - Chantal Wynter

RISING Production Manager - Paul Doyle