Branch Nebula
Established in 1999, Branch Nebula is a distinct voice in Australian performance culture. We have enjoyed international success and have been presented by major cultural institutions, yet our work resists easy consumption. We are driven by a deep dissatisfaction with the hierarchies that shape the world, the structures that rank and grade, the barriers that warp and constrain. We value the devalued, spotlight the marginal, and celebrate the clefts in the concrete where the weeds push through. And we have fun with this. In the windy space between the car park and the shopping mall, in the graffitied underpass, and in the piss-stained stairwell built then abandoned, we find pockets of paradise.
Exposure continues Branch Nebula’s investigation of the body under duress, exploring the vulnerability and endurance of the human subject and its capacity for resilience in an unstable atmospheric world. Elemental effects, natural materials and debris are all reconfigured in the design of this work to develop a physical terrain that the performers encounter and endure. Exposure represents a new collaboration with Latai Taumoepeau, whose faivā (body-centred practice) is from her homelands, the Island Kingdom of Tonga and her birthplace Sydney, land of the Gadigal. She brings her cultural knowledge, performance art methodologies and aesthetic to exchange with BN’s long-standing practice.
Creative Team Latai Taumoepeau Lee Wilson Mirabelle Wouters Mickie Quick Phil Downing Producer Jennifer Greer Holmes Supported by Create NSW, Creative Australia, Bundanon Trust and Cementa
Our work is about bodies: the special things they can do, their cracks and flaws, the spaces they inhabit: plazas, streets, parks.
