Snow – transforms the Spiegel Tent – traditionally a cabaret venue – into a restrained, cold landscape. Developed from the artist’s desire to encounter a place and condition they had never experienced, the work constructs an imagined version of snow through texture, accumulation, and sensory disruption rather than representation.

Operating between contemporary performance and installation, Snow manipulates materials, sound, and mess to generate a storm-like environment. Audience participation is introduced as a collective action that redistributes agency and tests the ethics of spectacle, play, and control. What appears light or familiar is held in tension with duration, excess, and the instability of group behaviour.

“Snow’s high point is the ‘snowball fight’ that Gellmann orchestrates: the audience balls up paper into rounded clumps and goes for it with the abandon of several dozen primary school kids let loose in their thermals and mittens. Faint giggles, ripping paper and the thud of feet on the polished floor seep through the earplugs.” – Realtime Arts Magazine.

2015 GREENROOM AWARD NOMINATION, contemporary and experimental panel

Genres:
Contemporary Performance, Installation art, Circus/Physical.

Artist:
Skye Gellmann

Seasons:
Melbourne Fringe Festival.

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