Cat & Mouse, 06.05.2015 - 29.05.2015, participatory performance installation, dimensions variable.
The artist sets the scene. Machines offer prompts. The audience enter as players.
In this second iteration of Cat & Mouse, the gallery is given over to an immersive installation punctuated by projected instruction scores. The audience, suitably enveloped in costume and without shoes, enter the installation and into a self-directed, experimental performance.
Cat & Mouse offers, on one level, a light-hearted and playful experience framed as art. Audience-participants are encouraged to play, to discover, to improvise, to chase their curiosities. Underpinning this feel-good fun, Cat & Mouse asks its audience participants to pay attention to the often over-looked act of sensing. It asks – what frames and directs the act of sensing? How are sensations collectively experienced and shared?
Image credit: Alexander James
Supported by the Creative Practice Lab, School of the Arts and Media, UNSW.