Genre-defying new solo performance – in a swimming pool – using movement, film, and sound.
Performed in a unique setting, Kilter, Matter and Ghosts embraces a breadth of artistic languages to present a story of wit and pathos about legacy, identity, transience, vulnerability and survival in an odd, chlorinated, urban womb.
Swimming pools have long held Bourke’s interest by virtue of their uniquely secluded, mixed-demographic, self-organising, intimate, real and surreal qualities. Years of reflective inquiry into physical and psychological states of suspension, institutional shaping, navigating a complex body and jumbled ancestral archive have prompted this, her most ambitious work to-date. KMG invites audiences to into a private world as Bourke draws from her roots and archive to ponder existential, scientific and esoteric themes with clownish, dark and dreamlike poeticism.
Natasha Bourke is a Cork-based interdisciplinary artist of Irish/Dutch descent with a fine art and extensive movement background. Her practice spans performance, film, photography, installation, archive, text, drawing and sound to contemplate themes in a surreal, playful and sincere way. She has created a large body of live/filmic works, including boat-based T.U.G! Litter Womb on Lough Foyle, Derry for EchoEcho 2021 and feature film Concrete Keys which had a sell out premiere at Cork International Film festival 2022.
Live performance and concept by Natasha Bourke.
Realised in collaboration with:
Parents voices / Text collaboration: Inge Nieuwstraten and David Bourke
Dramaturg / writing mentor: Jody O'Neill
Filmmaker / projection designer: Maximilian LeCain
Sound designer / engineer: Edan Ray
Lighting designer: Alan Mooney
Rigger / counterweighter: Tony Mahon
Second counterweighter: Conor McCague
Washing machine, plank & boat builder: Dave Nolan
Set design technician / stage hand: Richard Coghlan
Boat handler / stage hand: Marie Grandjean
Stage manager / Light & video operator: Chris Hopcraft
Chief LX and set up assistent: Louis Saoirse Ezra Ferris
Movement advisor: Cindy Cummings
Black suit costume maker: Francesca Castellano
Silver spoon prop maker: Elisa Gallo Rosso
Monochord maker: Brian Leach
Production assistant: Louisa Sloan
Video documenter: Dervla Baker
Photographic documenter: Enrique Carnicero
Social Media officer: Megan Cronin
Production Manager: Gavin McIntee
Project manager: Claire Ryan
Advisory Producer: Gwen Van Spÿk
Funded by:
Arts Council of Ireland
Cork City Council Arts
With special thanks to:
Cork Midsummer Festival
Cork City Council
Stephen Scully Head of Parks & Recreation
Leisureworld Management
The Gus Healy swimming pool staff
Circus Factory and Tom Campbell
Cork Film Centre
Firkin Crane
Grafitti Theatre Company
Loosysmokes and Elaine McCague
Meitheal Mara
Sample Studios
And anyone else who has supported Natasha and this work so far.
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