Bargain Garden
Performance Space presents BARGAIN GARDEN with Theatre Katanka and Ensemble Offspring in Track 5, Carriageworks. Carlos Gomes, the director and conceiver of this project tells us: This performance installation seeks to examine the urge we all share ‘to have it all’, and to explore how we use ‘stuff’ to present our identities. We wanted to investigate the process by which objects transform us into fashion icons, experts, gods and goddesses, equipped for any eventuality. All this, despite the high environmental price. We sought to examine the techniques of marketing and product promotion in this consumer’s paradise, and to reflect…