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Container or music series
Return
Wellington 2015
Mick Douglas
The last piece in Douglas’ trilogy of solo durational works for The Performance Arcade. Container Walk (2013) inspired reverie on the movement of a man walking on salt in a shipping container, the movement of ‘containerised’ global trade, and the movement of water and salt in the hydrological cycle. Carriage (2014) incited interruption to the circulation patterns of cardboard-boxed commodities and shipping containers, and to human patterns of thought, consumption and entertainment. Return (2015) invites audiences into an emergent field of human agency and the expansive time and force of all that is other than human.
THE CONTAINER SERIES
Mick Douglas works across performance, socially engaged art and video installation. His work has been presented in festival settings (including Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, New Zealand Festival of the Arts, the cultural festival of the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games, Zooming Festival Croatia); in galleries and theatres (including Tucson Museum of Art USA, Critical Path Sydney, Roehampton University London, RMIT Design Hub), and through collaborative platforms in India and Pakistan. He is known for socially engaged art projects including ‘W-11 Tram: an art of journeys’ (2006-2007); 'tramjatra: imagining Melbourne and Kolkata by tramways' (1997-ongoing); ‘livehouse’ (2007-2009); and ‘ride-on-dinner’ (2006-ongoing). He is artistic director of Performing Mobilities, the Australian contribution to the Performance Studies International globally distributed project of 2015
Assisted by Wil Campbell, Ceri Hann, Jordan Lacey, Tania Splawa-Neyman.
Supported by RMIT University & Massey University
