TERRAFORM

TERRAFORM is an Aerial Performance that was developed to embody the realities of dealing with systemic violations of womxn’s rights. This piece is a rebirth of horror. A re-imagination. To liberate taught contortion, is to place the body centrally. Gilded. Drenched in the light of a new day.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Joey is an aerial hoop artist and advocate who uses dance, form, movement and soundscapes to express the horrors of reporting sexual assault to a patriarchal justice system and the blind spots held within. She transports the viewer into the mind of a survivor navigating ‘fight or flight’ and journeys towards embodying her liberation.

“We dance for bodily orientated movement, deliberate placement to hear our bodies holding hurt, figure the truth in trauma and value its vulnerability. This is an exercise of freedom, to fly and transcend; The grounding, goldening, galvanizing of our autonomy."  

THE PROJECT

Through this work, we are rallying awareness and action to create systematic change to the lack of policy surrounding reporting sexual misconduct.

This Aerial dance choreographs a journey where the dancer surpasses the threat response 'fight, flight, freeze, fawn' makes it out reaching for help with no avail, ultimately resurrecting into an imagined world of female liberation. TERRAFORM as a dance seeks to mobilise, break out from scripted, paralysing movements and fight to transform these toxic systems into a safe environment where women are protected and free.

TERRAFORM is accompanied by an exhibition informed by the movements in the dance and paralleled by the horrors of navigating the corrupt system that someone reporting sexual assault may experience, expressed through the refuge of Art.  

“We have chosen each other and the edge of each others’ battles. The war is the same if we lose, someday women’s blood will congeal upon a dead planet. If we win, there is no telling we seek beyond history for a new and more possible meeting.”

-       Audre Lorde

WHY YOU'RE NEEDED

We are raising funds for our upcoming premiere at Auckland Fringe Festival. This piece will be filmed and photographed. The money raised with this Boosted campaign will go towards venue hire and materials to bring this piece to life.

Some of these costs include:

• Materials for costumes
• Props (home made rain machine)
• Aerial Apparatus
• Exhibition costs
• Draping for Photography
• Printing costs for the accompanying Exhibition and Zine to give out to the audience about actioning effective policy change around reporting sexual assault and accountability.

Any and all support would be so hugely appreciated in helping us bring this work to the festival.

All the digital content captured from this festival will be used to action for womexn's rights to be upheld and protected.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.