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In years gone by, the old criticised the young for being reckless and rude. Nowadays, the young stand accused of being over-sensitive and lacking resilience, too quick to take – and too scared to give – offence.
Should we resist a world of trigger warnings and no-platforming – or welcome it? Are we more sensitive to ‘micro-aggressions’ – or just less willing to tolerate them? YES NO BLACK WHITE takes these ideas to task from a uniquely Queer angle, teasing the audience and refusing easy answers. As an audio-visual, lo-fi spectacular the performances elevates clicking through a PowerPoint presentation to an art form, interrogating the nature of offence: What offends you? How? Why? Ultimately asking, how will you respond? Following the structure of a five-part sonata and choreographed to a pumping classical-electronic soundtrack, YES NO BLACK WHITE serves as a kind of ink-blot Rorschach test for your personal offense-taking mechanisms. This audio-visual, lo-fi spectacular won't tell you what to think or feel, but it will test your buttons. Prepare for a cognitive, moral, and sensory attack on your psyche. The piece is a continuation of my ongoing investigations on the dramaturgy of lists, musicality, and the exploration of strategies to problematize meaning-making processes. |