Theatre of Ocean Book Launch by Alexa Wilson with 5ever Books
Schedule
Thu, 24 Nov, 2022 at 07:00 pm
Location
The Wine Cellar | Auckland, AU
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Book launch for Theatre of Ocean, written by Alexa Wilson as the first in a series on each element published by 5ever Books (Pōneke-based). The evening includes an intro by Sasha Francis and Achille Segard from 5ever Books, readings by Tessa Mitchell and Alexa Wilson, music track by Vitesh Bava and live music set by Scarlett Lashes.
Books for sale at the book launch.
Free entry.
To order a copy online please email [email protected]
Book description:
Theatre of Ocean is a memoir of out takes from a performance artist moving backwards and forwards in space and time; it is a series of stories of art and experience that interweave performance, love, art, culture, gender and politics. An established international performance and video artist, New Zealand choreographer Alexa Wilson based in Berlin, guides the reader through fragmented musings that traverse the spaces between cultures and identities at a digitally, politically and environmentally escalating time in the pre-pandemic early 21st Century.
The writing in Theatre of Ocean ranges from hyper-emotional prose-poem to film script to academic feminist critique to humour piece. Written largely in Berlin, the book expresses a feminism through a theatre of words; juxtaposing real stories with art works and musings performed, scripted, staged, or improvised, Theatre of Ocean reveals an artist clawing at the possibilities for socio-political change in the fabric of our world, in a dynamic triumvirate of settings: New York, Berlin, New Zealand.
Theatre of Ocean uses its central metaphor to connect everyone and everything through a relentless ocean of performances within frameworks of experience, often violent, offering the reader opportunities for engagement. Ultimately, it is the opposite of an autobiography about an individual – it is stories of performance between an individual and her audience as well as those in her world, the collective forces that both affect and are affected by an individual, and what an individual can do to transform these forces.
https://cargocollective.com/alexawilson
https://www.5everbooks.com/
https://www.instagram.com/5everbooks/
https://scarlettlashes.bandcamp.com/
https://feedthewounduponthetomb.bandcamp.com/releases
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Where is it happening?
The Wine Cellar, St Kevin's Arcade, 183 Karangahape Road,Auckland, New ZealandEvent Location & Nearby Stays: