"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second is not to trust anyone over the age of thirty. The third is to be guided by a great feeling of love."
Abbie Hoffman
resist
pvi collective
pvi collective invite you to join the resistance.
Armed with a 20 metre length of rope and a room full of freedom fighters, pvi collective resurrects the ancient art of tug-of-war in their physically interactive performance resist: the right to revolution.
resist is a participatory performance work seeking to construct or amend a country's constitutional rights using tug-of-war as a battleground to instigate revolution.
Developed as a split-site work, audiences enter a sparsely lit arena dressed in satin capes with the name of a famous revolutionary grafittied on the back and choose a side 'for' or 'against' the right to revolution.
During the course of the show, they are trained, tested and challenged on their true convictions. Two coaches take their teams through their paces and kick off the show with their own durational tug-of-war using shredded pieces of the national flag knotted into a make-shift rope. A revolutionary soundtrack is provided by guitar hero, with a playstation drum kit and two guitars installed in the space for audience members to step up to play their way through the show.
Fourteen champions are eventually selected, pvi warm them up, impart the tug-of-war rules and adjudicate as they battle to decide whether the right to revolution becomes enshrined in a bill of rights.
Meanwhile, hooked up via a video link and screened live into the performance space, a lone revolutionary mounts a guerrilla campaign on the city streets, searching for comrades with a revolutionary spirit to join them. Their mission is to infiltrate a state leader's workplace to deliver the results of the tug-of-war contest and hand over the mantle of champion of the people.
resist aims to test the notion of people power in contemporary society and imagines an alternative form of democracy that not only makes you want to stand up and fight but gives you rope burn
resist is both playful and drop dead serious in its intentions. It's time to make your mind up and pick a side.
Performance history
23-28 Nov 2009 AWESOME Festival, Western Australia Museum - Perth
For touring details please contact:
Fiona de Garis, Producer
Performing Lines WA
fiona[at]performinglines.org.au
P. +61 8 9200 6213
Armed with a 20 metre length of rope and a room full of freedom fighters, pvi collective resurrects the ancient art of tug-of-war in their physically interactive performance resist: the right to revolution.
resist is a participatory performance work seeking to construct or amend a country's constitutional rights using tug-of-war as a battleground to instigate revolution.
Developed as a split-site work, audiences enter a sparsely lit arena dressed in satin capes with the name of a famous revolutionary grafittied on the back and choose a side 'for' or 'against' the right to revolution.
During the course of the show, they are trained, tested and challenged on their true convictions. Two coaches take their teams through their paces and kick off the show with their own durational tug-of-war using shredded pieces of the national flag knotted into a make-shift rope. A revolutionary soundtrack is provided by guitar hero, with a playstation drum kit and two guitars installed in the space for audience members to step up to play their way through the show.
Fourteen champions are eventually selected, pvi warm them up, impart the tug-of-war rules and adjudicate as they battle to decide whether the right to revolution becomes enshrined in a bill of rights.
Meanwhile, hooked up via a video link and screened live into the performance space, a lone revolutionary mounts a guerrilla campaign on the city streets, searching for comrades with a revolutionary spirit to join them. Their mission is to infiltrate a state leader's workplace to deliver the results of the tug-of-war contest and hand over the mantle of champion of the people.
resist aims to test the notion of people power in contemporary society and imagines an alternative form of democracy that not only makes you want to stand up and fight but gives you rope burn
resist is both playful and drop dead serious in its intentions. It's time to make your mind up and pick a side.
Performance history
23-28 Nov 2009 AWESOME Festival, Western Australia Museum - Perth
For touring details please contact:
Fiona de Garis, Producer
Performing Lines WA
fiona[at]performinglines.org.au
P. +61 8 9200 6213