John Laws/Sade: a confession

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Title John Laws/Sade: a confession
Creator Organisations
Abstract/Description In John Laws/Sade the world is colder, the genitals sit tight. We are in densely occupied territory. The telephone rings, the radio is always on. • a drowned hero emerges from the bathwater of history to strut and splash his hour upon the stage • the orifices of the body turned upside-down in a series of intricate surrenders • a City-to-Surf of Sadean excesses The performers find themselves unsure of the boundaries of their own bodies. The world traverses them without obstacle. This is no longer the traditional obscenity of what is forbidden or repressed. Rather, it is the obscenity of the visible, of the all-too-visible, of the more-visible-than-the-visible. It is the obscenity of what no longer has any secret. Please note that no member of the audience will be spat upon. - Press Release for John laws/Sade, 1987 John Laws/Sade: against the background of the disembodied voice a visceral and sado-masochistic exchange between bodies makes voyeurs of its audience.
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Publisher Artfilms
Date Created 1987
Language English
Citation The Sydney Front, John Laws/Sade: a confession, Artfilms, 1987
Resource Identifier 51517
Dataset AusStage