Book Launch: Alexa Wilson's 'Theatre of Ocean'

Please join us for the launch of Alexa Wilsons’s ‘Theatre of Ocean: Stories of Performance Between Us’ on Thursday 24th November at Wine Cellar off of K-Road from 7pm.

Book Launch: Theatre of Ocean by Alexa Wilson
From 7pm
Thursday 24th November
Wine Cellar

Free entry, all welcome

Event will include introduction by 5ever books publishers Sasha Francis and Achille Segard, readings by Tessa Mitchell and Alexa Wilson, music by Vitesh Bava and a live music set by Scarlett Lashes.

Books will be for sale at the book launch.
Drinks available at the bar, with free nibbles provided.

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More about the book and author:

Theatre of Ocean is a memoir of out-takes from a performance artist moving backwards and forwards in space and time; it is a series of stories of art and experience that interweave performance, love, art, culture, gender and politics.

An established international performance and video artist, New Zealand choreographer Alexa Wilson based in Berlin, guides the reader through fragmented musings that traverse the spaces between cultures and identities at a digitally, politically and environmentally escalating time in the pre-pandemic early 21st Century.

The writing in Theatre of Ocean ranges from hyper-emotional prose-poem to film script to academic feminist critique to humour piece. Written largely in Berlin, the book expresses a feminism through a theatre of words; juxtaposing real stories with art works and musings performed, scripted, staged, or improvised, Theatre of Ocean reveals an artist clawing at the possibilities for socio-political change in the fabric of our world, in a dynamic triumvirate of settings: New York, Berlin, New Zealand.

Theatre of Ocean uses its central metaphor to connect everyone and everything through a relentless ocean of performances within frameworks of experience, often violent, offering the reader opportunities for engagement.

Ultimately, it is the opposite of an autobiography about an individual – it is stories of performance between an individual and her audience as well as those in her world, the collective forces that both affect and are affected by an individual, and what an individual can do to transform these forces.

https://cargocollective.com/alexawilson
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https://scarlettlashes.bandcamp.com/
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