SKIN: THE PERFORMANCE

“AN ARTISTIC FIREBRAND”- THE AGE. “A PERFORMER WELL WORTH EXPERIENCING”- ARTSHUB. A ONE NIGHT ONLY EVENT NOT TO BE MISSED THIS MIDSUMMA.

Critically acclaimed artiste, performer and journalist Jessi Ryan returns to the Midsumma Presents program in an anarchic one night only performance art ritual which delves headfirst into childhood memory framed by the cartographic language of collective queer bodies, climaxing in a live tattooing amid the haze and lasers.

Featuring a soundtrack brimming with "music to sweat to", SKIN: THE PERFORMANCE transports its audience to a crowded dance floor- the birthplace of so many queer histories. Performed in eight inch pleasers- Ryan here embraces and centres the stories and images of SKIN's community participants. In SKIN: THE PERFORMANCE, Ryan’s unique methods of community documentation shines and in clear eyed vision exposes the faultlines in discourse that seek to erase us.

Not only do the stories and images of SKIN's community participants feature- written responses to the themes of “pride, power, permanence” will be tattooed to Ryan’s body live on stage by collaborator and “black collar worker”- tattoo artist Dani V.

In SKIN: THE PERFORMANCE, Ryan asks “how can one truly create a work of permanence, whilst honouring legacy- within the fluid and often fleeting world of theatre”.