CRAWL ME BLOOD
An installation and adaption of The Wide Sargasso Sea inside a Botanical Gardens. Rum included.
An adaptation of Jean Rhys’ novel Wide Sargasso Sea –Crawl Me Blood is a sound and video installation that takes place in a Botanic Garden setting at night. This interpretation invites an Australian audience to unpack their own views on race and gender in the ferment of the on-going colonial project and its monopolisation of public spaces.
Adapted from the novel by Jean Rhys
Written and Directed by Halcyon Macleod and Willoh Weiland
Composition by Felix Cross
System design by Matt Daniels
Lighting design by Lucy Birkinshaw
Performed by Natasha Jynel, Zahra Newman, Halcyon Macleod and Willoh Weiland
Sound consultant – James Brennan
Supermassive Mentorships – Meg Wilson and Jasmin Salomon
Produced for Aphids by Claire Portek
Produced by Performing Lines by Narelle Lewis
Supported by Mobile States, Vitalstatistix, Salamanca Arts Centre, the Alcorso Foundation and Fresh Milk Artist Platform (Barbados) and ABC Radio National. Supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts and the City of Melbourne through its 2015-17 Arts and Culture Triennial Program.
