Wake Me When It’s Over was a 24 hour performance by Queer artists Tenfingerz and Unofficial Kerith Fan Club. The two artists attempted to sleep for 24-hours straight on the eve of the announcement of the same-sex marriage postal survey. The work seeks to highlight the cruel optimism of marriage equality: it is an exercise of endurance that prompts witnesses and performers alike to consider the potential violent outcomes of avoidance and complacency.
WAKE ME WHEN IT’S OVER
DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE
BY KERITH MANDERSON-GALVIN AND TENEILLE CLERKE
Wake Me When It’s Over is a subtle performance of extreme restraint that counters popular representations of Queer performance as celebratory or confessional.
It comes from place of real fear and exhaustion and asks,
“What will happen next?”
“What will we do tomorrow?”
COMPANY
Performance
Kerith Manderson-Galvin
+ Teneille Clarke
Producer
Tobias Manderson-Galvin
DATES
MELBOURNE
Second Story Studio
14-15 Nov, 2017
Artists
Tenfingerz is a multi-disciplinary time artist and creative producer with a focus on community engagement, collaboration, and community building through art-making and events. Tenfingerz creates unique small scale immersive experiences for Australian festivals inviting audience engagement through the unique experience of long-form immersive work.
Unofficial Kerith Fan Club is a performance maker and playwright whose work spans theatre, performance art, video, online content and movement. Kerith has a particular interest in capturing and inhabiting queer femininity in performance.