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The 24 Hour Experience

March 2014

  • Anna Snoekstra

Experience twenty-four entirely different perspectives of Melbourne within this living documentary of our city.

In conjunction with the Festival of Live Art is The 24 Hour Experience. Each hour, on the hour, the audience is led to a different location in Melbourne to experience a live art performance. From the underground toilets near Parliament Station, to the Old Magistrates’ Court, arrays of experiences are on offer. “It’s really the idea that audiences are taken on a journey in and out of different aspects of the city. So it’s almost like the audience are actually living a documentary portrayal of different perspectives of Melbourne,” explains Gorkem Acaroglu, the Executive Creative Director.

“People arrive just before midday and receive a survival pack, which will include their backpack, a carry stool, snacks and everything for wet weather,” she says. “We will be giving them meals within the pieces and there are works in the later hours, where they can lie down and let it wash over them. We are catering to the whole experience of 24 hours.”

The works are very diverse in form. There are the more traditional performances with actors, such as Aaron Peterson, who’s doing a one-man show at the Wesley Church, as well as some where the audience becomes the work. The festival also offers a peek into some lesser-known aspects of Melbourne. There is dinner at the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre where the audience is included in a meeting of the Catalyst Club, a secret women’s society in Melbourne that has been around for more than a century. The artist of this piece has constructed a recreated meeting based on a hundred years of minutes.

“At 4am the audience will be taken to the Institute of Forensic Medicine,” Acaroglu explains, running through some of her personal favourites, “they will be engaging with pathologists and forensic scientists that work there who will take them through the first 24 hours that happens to a body when it arrives. It’s quite a unique insight.

“Then there is Bathing Beauties at the city baths; a fully choreographed, synchronised swimming super soundscape about what it’s like to be an athlete as you progress through ageing.”

There are 24-hour passes available as well as, for the slightly less resilient, 12-hour passes on offer for this intimate experience of Melbourne.

The 24 Hour Experience runs from midday March 29 to midday March 30.

24hourexperience.com.au

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