CONCEPT AND PERFORMANCE / TAMARA SEARLE

Solo performer and solo spectator in pursuit of radical intimacy.

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i’m glad i’ve seen you –
can we make a time to meet?
call me.

In the absence of sunlight is an original one-on-one live art event, drawing inspiration from Australian writer Marjorie Barnard’s short story The Persimmon Tree, where a woman recovering from illness lives vicariously through her neighbour – secretly watching her live life outside while she is destined to remain within. What might happen when the ill woman meets this neighbour after closely observing her for so long?

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“As private as reading, as intimate as a first date" - HERALD SUN

Created and performed by Tamara Searle 

Collaborators Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy, Dayna Morrissey, Danny Pettingill and Xan Colman