Performance Art
Performance installation
Pumping Up Strength (2025)
Created and Performed By: Kathy Jin and Ian McCormack
An investigation of humanity’s respire. This performative piece is about displaying a live version of the inner workings of human lungs and the mechanism of inflation and deflation to mimic a similar method of inhaling and exhaling. Whilst using a pump to simulate this system, we buried the subject with a blank white sheet as they would contort, expand, and contract to reflect the motion of a breathing body. The performance was integrated with several participants’ breathing sequences hence resulting in a curated soundscape. As each sequence was edited with distortions and manipulation, the audio depicts the number of ways our embodied selves breathe in moments of emotions. Through the use of live projection, improvised coordination and sound, this time-based work emulated one breath at a time
(Keywords: Performance-based Installation , Mental Health, Movement work, Breathe-oriented Action, Durational piece, Live Projection, Somatic Practice, Soundscape)
Performance installation
Big Comfy (2024)
Co-Created and Performed By: Baird Duncan, Serena Masciotra, Ian McCormack, and Juliana Theodoropoulos
A durational installation piece tackling themes of nostalgia, haunting, mundanity, and remembrance. Blending the classic horror aesthetic with childhood nostalgia and the uncanny, “Big Comfy” acts as a spacial anomaly, distorting time as you sit down and watch TV. So join us for a birthday party as we celebrate the hands that lurk under you.
(Keywords: Puppetry, Performance-based Installation, Durational Piece, Horror Absurdism, Movement work, The Uncanny, Scenographic Curartion, Spatial Design)
Digital Performance
Amos (2021)
Written By : Darwin Parkes and Bee Goldgruber
Directed By: Darwin Parkes
Videography and Edited By: Ian McCormack
Performed by Bee Goldgruber, Ian McCormack, and Darwin Parkes.
Amos is a visual recording of the mental decline of a non-binary individual struggling with suicidal ideation and the expectations of society. The play follows Amos as they spiral further into disassociation, affecting those around them.
The script Amos was born out of conversations surrounding stigma around mental health and gender exploration, as well as the long path many nonbinary people take to find comfort in their lives and bodies. The script was written by two nonbinary people who had very different paths when it came to growing into themselves, but it in no way reflects the journey every nonbinary person will make. Diversity is what makes us beautiful.
(Keywords: Digital Theatre, Gender and Sexuality, Mental Health, Surrealist Cinematography, Exploration)
